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Welcome to the Czech Foreign Ministry and Information Ministry.Czechoslovakia is currently following a moderate but pro-Russian Leninist ideology. We are interested in maintaining good ties with Germany and Russia, but welcome cooperation with any other interested parties.

News: None just yet.

OOC: Leninist? Please elaborate on Czechloslovakia's definition of Communism. FYI, Russia and Germany are Social Democracies with Market Socialism.

OOC: Lenin died in a coup attempt and the Communist Revolution followed a rather different path (more Socal Democrat then Leninist). Ask the Russian player for details.

OOC: Lenin died in a coup attempt and the Communist Revolution followed a rather different path (more Socal Democrat then Leninist). Ask the Russian player for details.
I was just about to mention this as a matter of fact.

Lenin, Stalin, Molotov, and a few other Bolsheviks were shot for treason in 1911 on Trotsky's orders, following an attempted coup d'etat in Moscow at the beginning of the Russian Civil War.

In 1913, the first head of state for the new Russian government was Aleksandr Kerensky, and his Commissar of Economics was Nikolai Bukharin (who succeded Kerensky as Premier a couple of years ago).

The main differences between the Union of Social-Democratic Republics and the historical Soviet Union are as follows:

There are multiparty parliamentary elections at least once every five years. Theoretically the socialist parties could be voted out of power at any time. Theoretically.

The state owns only key strategic industries (like oil production and arms manufacturing). The economy is a mix of private, public, and co-operative enterprises, with strong state interventionism but little (though increasing) central planning. Agricultrual land is privatized, most industries are worker-owned collectives, and the market is free within limits.

These policies are endorsed by the Socialist Revolutionary Party and the Labor Party. The Social Democratic Party, despite their name, are much harder Left, and there is some tension. As yet the Right-leaning political parties have been kept out of power.

Industrialization has begun much earlier, but has also proceeded more slowly, and has concentrated mainly on modernizing agricultural production, building infrastructure, and arming the military.

As moderate as it is, the Union still has been tarred with the name "Communist" by its enemies, and sometimes uses the word to describe its own ideology. Officially the Union Basic Law mandates the workers' ownership of the means of production and contains the phrase "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs," and explicitly does not protect any form of property rights other than "socialist property" (which is not defined), though acts of the legislature may do so.

Germany is a little different. Harder Left politically (they fought a much uglier Revolution), less democratic and more centralized, but its businesses and its military are more Centrist. Otherwise it's pretty similar.

(OOC: Leninist describes my ideology even if he got shot, since I intend to do much of the same things as he did IRL...)

OOC: So wait, now we have Kerensky Martinis?

Yeah, I'm a n00b to Communism, so VP runs my show that way. We're gonna unite soon anyways.

OoC: Actually, the Molotov Cocktail is being invented right now down in Kosovo by Serbian and Macedonian ethnic militants who are using them against Albanian ethnic militants. I'm not sure what it'll end up being called.

"Leninism," in this context, can mean a number of things, but it most likely refers to "Democratic Centralism," the doctrine of a one-party state in which debate is allowed prior to the decision of the government but not after.