Dra-pol
05-08-2004, 07:01
Preamble from the Beth Gellen state-funded publication-
A modern work now found in every collective, factory, office, and barracks around the Choson People’s Republic of Dra-pol, Student of the Kuro Revolution has at last become widely available abroad. The Central Directorature in DaKhiem, capital of the CPRD, has now authorised Beth Gellen and Chinese publication of the little book documenting the philosophy resulting from Hotan’s experiences as a communist statesman and a general in the field. Other state media organisations and private publishers are invited to negotiate the right to print their own editions of the Comrade Secretary-come-Director’s work.
About the work-
Student of the Kuro Revolution is perhaps the Drapoel equivalent to that little red book known to revolutionaries elsewhere in Asia, and to other revolutionary communistic works produced by variously famous and infamous statesmen and warriors.
The book, though short, gives advice to the Kurosite adherent in Dra-pol or revolutionary hopeful abroad. It is primarily a collection of quotations from the author, many remembered from exceptionally difficult moments in the Republic’s recent past and some given as if mantras.
Student of the Kuro Revolution is thought to have become compulsory reading for Drapoel school children, and is carried by all self-respecting officials and military officers, as well as being apparently the most widely available text in the entirety of the CPRD.
It is believed that several versions are in circulation in the CPRD, with frequent updates being printed, and this is just one version that Portmeirion was able to acquire.
About the man-
Though it is assumed not to be his birth name, Hotan is known by no other name besides his various official and ceremonial titles. A fanatical devotee to his mentor Director Kurosian I The Greatest Leader, Hotan served the Republic as Secretary of the Communist Party for untold years, and also fought as commander and soldier during the Crusader War.
That conflict, generally said to have been simply the result of a terrific clash of cultures, saw the isolationist and backwards Republic –then still practising a largely Suloist system of collectivist subsistence-heavy economics- invaded by a vast coalition of first world powers. The war killed over three million Drapoel as the People’s Army gave a heroic account of itself against vastly superior technology, often pitting sixty year old rifles against modern tanks and helicopter gunships. Comrade Kurosian II*, son of The Greatest Leader and hard-line Suloist, chose during his short-lived Directorship to assign Comrade Secretary Hotan command of a large Red Bamboo** division in the field. Hotan ensnared an entire Raysian airborne assault force in an audacious trap that used DaKhiem itself as bait. Hotan captured thousands of capitalist soldiers and then surprised the world by escorting them out of the Republic and granting them freedom rather than execution. Following his return to power Kurosian I also handed-over his son, wanted by the attackers on charges of war crimes.
Even these things did not suffice in the eyes of Dra-pol’s corrupt capitalist and fanatical Christian attackers, and an attempt was made on the life of the heroic Secretary. Hotan was badly wounded and forced to recover in China. His three attackers –believed to have been Quinntonian backed- were less fortunate, the gunmen killed by a Secretary armed only with a silver letter opener, so the story goes. Kurosian I was successfully assassinated while on a diplomatic mission to the PR China, and his killers were never found.
After Hotan’s recovery and the end to fighting in the Crusader War (which came with the ceding of Hamhung and Hungnam to the Quinntonians) the Secretary proclaimed Koshiako Kurosian the new Director. Koshiako was Kurosian I’s bastard son, hidden from the world and the Republic. This decision to refrain from snatching power for himself won Hotan yet more admiration from his comrades.
Koshiako’s Suloist sympathies would eventually be his downfall as Hotan’s Kurosite ambition refused to lie down. The desire to reunify the Korean peninsula and to liberate Hamhung was born of Kurosian I, but as his protege Hotan could not let these dreams fade under the Suloist doctrine that called for ruralisation and a return to the very start of civilisation.
The possibility of Kurosian II being returned by the enemy to destabilise Dra-pol was presumably what lead to Koshiako’s disappearance- it is widely believed that Hotan, or other Kurosites perhaps of the Banat (Sho Cheiy being a possible suspect) had Koshiako killed or arrested. Some say the young Director was exiled to the New Tiamatian badlands, for Hotan could not bear to kill the son of his old friend.
Today Hotan is Director, and he leads the Kurosite industrialisation of Dra-pol and the communisation of territory captured from the Republic of Korea in the recent War For Korean Unification.
*Kurosian II took power as part of a scheme, concocted by his father, which was intended to placate the invaders of the Republic by creating the impression of Kurosian I’s death. Unfortunately, the son proved a traditional Suloist and resisted his father’s return to power when the plan failed- the loyalty of the Banat (secret police) to the Kurosite cause was sufficient to bring-down Kurosian II.
**The Red Bamboo is the elite branch of the People’s Army. The force has fielded entire divisions of crack troops and more normally provides experienced and unforgiving officers to less well-trained regular formations. The organisation came in time to experience rivalry with the Banat Combat Corps, a branch of the secretive and feared Drapoel secret police. Lately the withdrawal of RB units has been documented, and it appears that an ideological rift between obsessive Kurosites backed by the Banat and traditional Suloists backed by the Red Bamboo has resulted in the collapse of the latter force.
Student of the Kuro Revolution
Comrade Director Hotan, Secretary of the Communist Party of the Choson People’s Republic of Dra-pol
Part I Suloist to Kurosite
The Choson People’s Republic of Dra-pol remains, as it has been for several thousand years, one of the world’s most misunderstood and feared enclaves. Ruled in abject isolation by a series of tyrannous feudal dynasties the brave and ancient Drapoel people fought off invasions by some of antiquity’s greatest military powers while living in a perpetual state of abject poverty and absolute ignorance of any alternative. The dark skinned race was utterly pure but small of stature after such suffering as had created in them a strength of character and endurance of spirit unparalleled anywhere beyond the Korean peninsula.
Revolution was inevitable once the masses came to understand their subjugation. Comrade Sulo provided the spark, igniting Dra-pol’s revolutionary tinder, but Sulo was a man akin to the monarchs before, a cousin to no less than Emperor Wiman himself.
From 1931 to 1938 the Suloists fought the ancient order as if meeting Japanese or Mongol invaders generations earlier, overthrowing the monarchy on the second of February in the last of those years.
Though today we Drapoel continue to commemorate that day, we no longer accept the politics of Sulo, who was no less a tyrant than Wiman before him. What his radical Suloist thinking gave us was the notion of change in the Land of Morning Calm (Choson, the Drapoel empire, so to speak).
“De mortuis nil nisi bonum.”
–The late Comrade Director Kurosian I to Comrade Secretary Hotan on the former’s lasting popularity despite his widely believed death at the time.
At the height of the Crusader War; despite his believed death and the apparent weakness of his position; my mentor, Kurosian I The Greatest Leader, remained strong in the hearts of his beloved people. He was thus able to restore the proper course of the revolution and to halt the Christian invaders outside Hamhung.
Part II Let the paper-tigers know, they have awakened a true wildcat in the Choson People’s Republic!
*The imperialists have several times underestimated our revolution’s strength of arms and of devotion, it would be ordinary that they not make the same mistake again. We must strive, then, to over-take their estimation yet again, and always through Kurosite Progress to advance beyond weak imperialist expectation
*As with the crippling of the ROKA –and even its former recruits can tell us this- we must remember and carefully plan and prepare to wipe-out the enemy’s effective strength before employing the obvious resource and strength of the masses. The liberation of the south is a good example of Kurosite thinking in dramatic action, the debacle at Hamhung illustrates the bygone notions of Suloist thought
*Better to be hated than to be scorned by ants.
Part III The masses themselves are the real revolutionary heroes...
"We must have faith in the masses and we must have faith in the party!"
-Comrade Director Sulo, Father of the Republic. In some respects, as we have discussed, the Suloists did lay important groundwork before our own great struggles began.
*Disruption of the Directed mass line attacks the spirit of our salvation and our national heroes
*Beware this disruption for it takes but one lazy or playful fox-cub to distract the set with snakes about
*Sulo held that ten good revolutionaries could do the work of any machine and would demand none of its expense. Ten good revolutionaries need work no less hard on ten revolutionary-built machines, and as such ten Kurosite revolutionaries may do the work of a hundred Suloist
*With our attackers divided left and right let our strength be the unbreakable bond between masses through the Directorature
*It has been seen that the masses can defeat any tyrant as Wiman or that Christian God. So then, it is clear that the masses can not be lead against their will. This proves that the Kurosite Directorature is our proper beacon
*Through observing the masses and their established ways we can learn the proper order of things and then apply it throughout the revolution and help the masses to refine their liberation and the happiness of revolutionary progress
*The experiences of the masses, the mood of the masses, and the over all and specific conditions of the masses; to these things must Directoratures local and Central pay close and serious attention
*Heroes are not made lightly. He or she that has not exerted his or her spirit, body, and mind to the utmost can not be counted revolutionary, or a really good communist
Part IVTrue strength comes from within...
*A good communist provides for his or her own defence and does not drain the state or plead to the foreign bourgeois for protection
*Questions are a burden for others
*Answers are a prison for oneself
*It is well always to know oneself intimately, and better than could the enemies. This is especially true following change –such as the removal of Suloist influence- lest the enemies understand new conditions before the hard-pressed revolutionary has time to consolidate his position
*No matter how long our great peace may last we must not lose sight of what truly preserves it. Though we may perhaps go many long years without attack, others, we shall see, will continue to suffer at the hands of the imperialists. If -as in the War For Korean Unification- we be spared invasion of our secure homeland, we must remember that it is only because we are strong of ourselves and together. We must not lose to complacency our great strengths of Drapoel and revolutionary character – Long live the Kuro Revolution! Long live the Directorature! Long live the Unified People’s Army! Long live the Choson People’s Republic!
Part V New Directorates...
*Each collective beyond Type 3 shall dedicate one room to the repair of bicycles, allowing the Red Bamboo smooth transit throughout the entirety of the Republic
*Henceforth, un-Directed hoarding of any resources, no matter how slight, must be reported and the offender shall, until such time as he or she has recovered his or her revolutionary spirit, be remanded to Facility 10 or its local equivalent
*Local Directors shall be held responsible for the assessment of civilian comrades in their locale as pertains to placement in Kuro Student Defence League, Working Women’s Home Brigade, United Worker’s Militia, or People’s Rear Defence Organisation. Judgement shall be based upon the physical and mental state and the condition of each comrade’s employment in terms of vital specialisation. Local Directors shall be accountable on a Regional level should errors of judgement or indulgence of corruption occur
*Comrades shall collect from their Co-operative’s headquarters or, in the cities, from their local police station or Directorature, one Party badge depicting either:
-Comrade Director Secretary Hotan, the Heroic Leader
-Comrade Director Kurosian I, the Greatest Leader
-The Drapoel wheel of unity and revolutionary progress
A modern work now found in every collective, factory, office, and barracks around the Choson People’s Republic of Dra-pol, Student of the Kuro Revolution has at last become widely available abroad. The Central Directorature in DaKhiem, capital of the CPRD, has now authorised Beth Gellen and Chinese publication of the little book documenting the philosophy resulting from Hotan’s experiences as a communist statesman and a general in the field. Other state media organisations and private publishers are invited to negotiate the right to print their own editions of the Comrade Secretary-come-Director’s work.
About the work-
Student of the Kuro Revolution is perhaps the Drapoel equivalent to that little red book known to revolutionaries elsewhere in Asia, and to other revolutionary communistic works produced by variously famous and infamous statesmen and warriors.
The book, though short, gives advice to the Kurosite adherent in Dra-pol or revolutionary hopeful abroad. It is primarily a collection of quotations from the author, many remembered from exceptionally difficult moments in the Republic’s recent past and some given as if mantras.
Student of the Kuro Revolution is thought to have become compulsory reading for Drapoel school children, and is carried by all self-respecting officials and military officers, as well as being apparently the most widely available text in the entirety of the CPRD.
It is believed that several versions are in circulation in the CPRD, with frequent updates being printed, and this is just one version that Portmeirion was able to acquire.
About the man-
Though it is assumed not to be his birth name, Hotan is known by no other name besides his various official and ceremonial titles. A fanatical devotee to his mentor Director Kurosian I The Greatest Leader, Hotan served the Republic as Secretary of the Communist Party for untold years, and also fought as commander and soldier during the Crusader War.
That conflict, generally said to have been simply the result of a terrific clash of cultures, saw the isolationist and backwards Republic –then still practising a largely Suloist system of collectivist subsistence-heavy economics- invaded by a vast coalition of first world powers. The war killed over three million Drapoel as the People’s Army gave a heroic account of itself against vastly superior technology, often pitting sixty year old rifles against modern tanks and helicopter gunships. Comrade Kurosian II*, son of The Greatest Leader and hard-line Suloist, chose during his short-lived Directorship to assign Comrade Secretary Hotan command of a large Red Bamboo** division in the field. Hotan ensnared an entire Raysian airborne assault force in an audacious trap that used DaKhiem itself as bait. Hotan captured thousands of capitalist soldiers and then surprised the world by escorting them out of the Republic and granting them freedom rather than execution. Following his return to power Kurosian I also handed-over his son, wanted by the attackers on charges of war crimes.
Even these things did not suffice in the eyes of Dra-pol’s corrupt capitalist and fanatical Christian attackers, and an attempt was made on the life of the heroic Secretary. Hotan was badly wounded and forced to recover in China. His three attackers –believed to have been Quinntonian backed- were less fortunate, the gunmen killed by a Secretary armed only with a silver letter opener, so the story goes. Kurosian I was successfully assassinated while on a diplomatic mission to the PR China, and his killers were never found.
After Hotan’s recovery and the end to fighting in the Crusader War (which came with the ceding of Hamhung and Hungnam to the Quinntonians) the Secretary proclaimed Koshiako Kurosian the new Director. Koshiako was Kurosian I’s bastard son, hidden from the world and the Republic. This decision to refrain from snatching power for himself won Hotan yet more admiration from his comrades.
Koshiako’s Suloist sympathies would eventually be his downfall as Hotan’s Kurosite ambition refused to lie down. The desire to reunify the Korean peninsula and to liberate Hamhung was born of Kurosian I, but as his protege Hotan could not let these dreams fade under the Suloist doctrine that called for ruralisation and a return to the very start of civilisation.
The possibility of Kurosian II being returned by the enemy to destabilise Dra-pol was presumably what lead to Koshiako’s disappearance- it is widely believed that Hotan, or other Kurosites perhaps of the Banat (Sho Cheiy being a possible suspect) had Koshiako killed or arrested. Some say the young Director was exiled to the New Tiamatian badlands, for Hotan could not bear to kill the son of his old friend.
Today Hotan is Director, and he leads the Kurosite industrialisation of Dra-pol and the communisation of territory captured from the Republic of Korea in the recent War For Korean Unification.
*Kurosian II took power as part of a scheme, concocted by his father, which was intended to placate the invaders of the Republic by creating the impression of Kurosian I’s death. Unfortunately, the son proved a traditional Suloist and resisted his father’s return to power when the plan failed- the loyalty of the Banat (secret police) to the Kurosite cause was sufficient to bring-down Kurosian II.
**The Red Bamboo is the elite branch of the People’s Army. The force has fielded entire divisions of crack troops and more normally provides experienced and unforgiving officers to less well-trained regular formations. The organisation came in time to experience rivalry with the Banat Combat Corps, a branch of the secretive and feared Drapoel secret police. Lately the withdrawal of RB units has been documented, and it appears that an ideological rift between obsessive Kurosites backed by the Banat and traditional Suloists backed by the Red Bamboo has resulted in the collapse of the latter force.
Student of the Kuro Revolution
Comrade Director Hotan, Secretary of the Communist Party of the Choson People’s Republic of Dra-pol
Part I Suloist to Kurosite
The Choson People’s Republic of Dra-pol remains, as it has been for several thousand years, one of the world’s most misunderstood and feared enclaves. Ruled in abject isolation by a series of tyrannous feudal dynasties the brave and ancient Drapoel people fought off invasions by some of antiquity’s greatest military powers while living in a perpetual state of abject poverty and absolute ignorance of any alternative. The dark skinned race was utterly pure but small of stature after such suffering as had created in them a strength of character and endurance of spirit unparalleled anywhere beyond the Korean peninsula.
Revolution was inevitable once the masses came to understand their subjugation. Comrade Sulo provided the spark, igniting Dra-pol’s revolutionary tinder, but Sulo was a man akin to the monarchs before, a cousin to no less than Emperor Wiman himself.
From 1931 to 1938 the Suloists fought the ancient order as if meeting Japanese or Mongol invaders generations earlier, overthrowing the monarchy on the second of February in the last of those years.
Though today we Drapoel continue to commemorate that day, we no longer accept the politics of Sulo, who was no less a tyrant than Wiman before him. What his radical Suloist thinking gave us was the notion of change in the Land of Morning Calm (Choson, the Drapoel empire, so to speak).
“De mortuis nil nisi bonum.”
–The late Comrade Director Kurosian I to Comrade Secretary Hotan on the former’s lasting popularity despite his widely believed death at the time.
At the height of the Crusader War; despite his believed death and the apparent weakness of his position; my mentor, Kurosian I The Greatest Leader, remained strong in the hearts of his beloved people. He was thus able to restore the proper course of the revolution and to halt the Christian invaders outside Hamhung.
Part II Let the paper-tigers know, they have awakened a true wildcat in the Choson People’s Republic!
*The imperialists have several times underestimated our revolution’s strength of arms and of devotion, it would be ordinary that they not make the same mistake again. We must strive, then, to over-take their estimation yet again, and always through Kurosite Progress to advance beyond weak imperialist expectation
*As with the crippling of the ROKA –and even its former recruits can tell us this- we must remember and carefully plan and prepare to wipe-out the enemy’s effective strength before employing the obvious resource and strength of the masses. The liberation of the south is a good example of Kurosite thinking in dramatic action, the debacle at Hamhung illustrates the bygone notions of Suloist thought
*Better to be hated than to be scorned by ants.
Part III The masses themselves are the real revolutionary heroes...
"We must have faith in the masses and we must have faith in the party!"
-Comrade Director Sulo, Father of the Republic. In some respects, as we have discussed, the Suloists did lay important groundwork before our own great struggles began.
*Disruption of the Directed mass line attacks the spirit of our salvation and our national heroes
*Beware this disruption for it takes but one lazy or playful fox-cub to distract the set with snakes about
*Sulo held that ten good revolutionaries could do the work of any machine and would demand none of its expense. Ten good revolutionaries need work no less hard on ten revolutionary-built machines, and as such ten Kurosite revolutionaries may do the work of a hundred Suloist
*With our attackers divided left and right let our strength be the unbreakable bond between masses through the Directorature
*It has been seen that the masses can defeat any tyrant as Wiman or that Christian God. So then, it is clear that the masses can not be lead against their will. This proves that the Kurosite Directorature is our proper beacon
*Through observing the masses and their established ways we can learn the proper order of things and then apply it throughout the revolution and help the masses to refine their liberation and the happiness of revolutionary progress
*The experiences of the masses, the mood of the masses, and the over all and specific conditions of the masses; to these things must Directoratures local and Central pay close and serious attention
*Heroes are not made lightly. He or she that has not exerted his or her spirit, body, and mind to the utmost can not be counted revolutionary, or a really good communist
Part IVTrue strength comes from within...
*A good communist provides for his or her own defence and does not drain the state or plead to the foreign bourgeois for protection
*Questions are a burden for others
*Answers are a prison for oneself
*It is well always to know oneself intimately, and better than could the enemies. This is especially true following change –such as the removal of Suloist influence- lest the enemies understand new conditions before the hard-pressed revolutionary has time to consolidate his position
*No matter how long our great peace may last we must not lose sight of what truly preserves it. Though we may perhaps go many long years without attack, others, we shall see, will continue to suffer at the hands of the imperialists. If -as in the War For Korean Unification- we be spared invasion of our secure homeland, we must remember that it is only because we are strong of ourselves and together. We must not lose to complacency our great strengths of Drapoel and revolutionary character – Long live the Kuro Revolution! Long live the Directorature! Long live the Unified People’s Army! Long live the Choson People’s Republic!
Part V New Directorates...
*Each collective beyond Type 3 shall dedicate one room to the repair of bicycles, allowing the Red Bamboo smooth transit throughout the entirety of the Republic
*Henceforth, un-Directed hoarding of any resources, no matter how slight, must be reported and the offender shall, until such time as he or she has recovered his or her revolutionary spirit, be remanded to Facility 10 or its local equivalent
*Local Directors shall be held responsible for the assessment of civilian comrades in their locale as pertains to placement in Kuro Student Defence League, Working Women’s Home Brigade, United Worker’s Militia, or People’s Rear Defence Organisation. Judgement shall be based upon the physical and mental state and the condition of each comrade’s employment in terms of vital specialisation. Local Directors shall be accountable on a Regional level should errors of judgement or indulgence of corruption occur
*Comrades shall collect from their Co-operative’s headquarters or, in the cities, from their local police station or Directorature, one Party badge depicting either:
-Comrade Director Secretary Hotan, the Heroic Leader
-Comrade Director Kurosian I, the Greatest Leader
-The Drapoel wheel of unity and revolutionary progress