Veltmeria
19-04-2006, 14:50
OOC: Continuation of 'A New Decade of Social Strengthening' (See signature).
Victory Over Enemies Camp No. 1, twenty miles south of Farcinez
16:42, April 12th 1990
Gerov Fredislomev witnessed the procession with pride. All around him, men were crawling over cold mud, jumping through hoops of barbed wire, firing at stationary targets of sandbags and practicing brutal hand-to-hand combat against concrete walls destroying their knuckles, among other grueling activities. The Camp Commanders words were a distant muffle as Gerov stared, smiling, at the very best the Veltmerian army had to other as they trained to enter the Special Forces, the Intelligence Agencies Covert Directorates and the training camps for overseas groups. This was to be the first of four camps nationwide, this site being selected five months previously; it was located almost in the middle of nowhere and was already half-built, a former town from the Vyshemiv era abandoned decades ago.
The Commander's voice gradually rose in coherence again "...Of course, at this time the camp is only partly complete. Once the new facilities have been constructed we will be at full strength and will be able to train ten thousand men a year."
"Not good enough." Gerov interrupted.
"Sorry, sir?" The Commander asked, confused.
"This is both a war against Capitalism and a race against time. I've been to Western camps that can train twice as many in that amount of time. Make it twenty five thousand." Gerov ordered.
"And...may I ask...if we do not reach that number by that time?" the Commander asked fearfully.
"Then," Gerov replied, "You will be looking for a new job...and a new set of finger." Gerov replied calmly.
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The idea of a Revolutionary Guard Corps, set out by Vlagishimoshov four months earlier, had been quietly dropped. The reason being was that if the Special Units were kept in the Veltmerian People's National Military Forces, they could keep a check on the Normal Units of the Military Forces more easily. These newly organised Special Units were now being assigned to their bases, with particular emphasis on the Savjadia Special Administrative Area. The SSAA had formerly been a Republic of its own right. However, after WWII and the defeat of Nazi Germany forces in the country, the Veltmerian forces turned its attentions on the country itself. Vychemiv, interested in the access to the sea, the population levels, industrial base and mineral wealth, ordered the annexation of Savjadia. By the end of 1947 the country was part of Veltmeria and was declared a Special Administrative Area, which allowed the Central Government to exercise more control over it than other regions. Over the years, Savjadians dared not fight back or criticise the men in power. This changed in 1981 when the CIA began to actively target Savsjad. Rebels were armed and trained, opposition groups were funded, propaganda was broadcasted calling for the Savsjadian people to fight for their freedom. The first murder by these agitators was in 1984, of a particularly brutal, off-duty and unwitting VIS special agent. The violence slowly but steadily grew, riots became more violent, murders become more frequent, attacks became more deadly. The fact of a disintegrating Eastern Bloc getting into the minds of the insurgents worried the hell out of Party, Military and Intelligence Higher-Ups. The idea of the Special Units was essentially born out of that fear as well as the threat of other groups rising up against the Central Government.
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The Veltmerian Intelligence Service was ecstatic, to say the least, of the new powers granted to them by Vlagishimoshov and applied them to their very fullest. People purely suspected of collaborating against the Government was arrested at midnight and disappeared to one of the five most worse prison camps: Camp Unity, Camp Prosperity, Camp Justice, Camp Liberty and Camp Freedom, where they went under the long, humiliating process of "Truth Extraction" and either "Re-Education" or "Permanent Incapacitation". Every school, workplace, community and street had at least one informant and heavily-armed police officers roamed the streets in greater numbers, beating those who got in their way or putting up huge, romanticised posters of both Vychemiv and Hosekov, the Great Socialist Nation of Veltmeria and the Glorious Second Republic. The entire nation lived in fear of the knock of the door in the middle of the night and no one had a clue of the upheaval of power outside their borders. Hosekov was most pleased - his grip on power had never been greater and there was extremely little chance of any major uprising occuring with every source of information with under their control or compromised completely and the public brainwashed in believing that the only choice given to them was Vlagishimoshov or death. Nothing would spoil the Status Quo of the Ruling Elite for years. Hosekov and the three new ministers of the consolidated Supreme Council, all of whom family members whose loyalty was assured, could not wipe the grin off their faces.
Victory Over Enemies Camp No. 1, twenty miles south of Farcinez
16:42, April 12th 1990
Gerov Fredislomev witnessed the procession with pride. All around him, men were crawling over cold mud, jumping through hoops of barbed wire, firing at stationary targets of sandbags and practicing brutal hand-to-hand combat against concrete walls destroying their knuckles, among other grueling activities. The Camp Commanders words were a distant muffle as Gerov stared, smiling, at the very best the Veltmerian army had to other as they trained to enter the Special Forces, the Intelligence Agencies Covert Directorates and the training camps for overseas groups. This was to be the first of four camps nationwide, this site being selected five months previously; it was located almost in the middle of nowhere and was already half-built, a former town from the Vyshemiv era abandoned decades ago.
The Commander's voice gradually rose in coherence again "...Of course, at this time the camp is only partly complete. Once the new facilities have been constructed we will be at full strength and will be able to train ten thousand men a year."
"Not good enough." Gerov interrupted.
"Sorry, sir?" The Commander asked, confused.
"This is both a war against Capitalism and a race against time. I've been to Western camps that can train twice as many in that amount of time. Make it twenty five thousand." Gerov ordered.
"And...may I ask...if we do not reach that number by that time?" the Commander asked fearfully.
"Then," Gerov replied, "You will be looking for a new job...and a new set of finger." Gerov replied calmly.
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The idea of a Revolutionary Guard Corps, set out by Vlagishimoshov four months earlier, had been quietly dropped. The reason being was that if the Special Units were kept in the Veltmerian People's National Military Forces, they could keep a check on the Normal Units of the Military Forces more easily. These newly organised Special Units were now being assigned to their bases, with particular emphasis on the Savjadia Special Administrative Area. The SSAA had formerly been a Republic of its own right. However, after WWII and the defeat of Nazi Germany forces in the country, the Veltmerian forces turned its attentions on the country itself. Vychemiv, interested in the access to the sea, the population levels, industrial base and mineral wealth, ordered the annexation of Savjadia. By the end of 1947 the country was part of Veltmeria and was declared a Special Administrative Area, which allowed the Central Government to exercise more control over it than other regions. Over the years, Savjadians dared not fight back or criticise the men in power. This changed in 1981 when the CIA began to actively target Savsjad. Rebels were armed and trained, opposition groups were funded, propaganda was broadcasted calling for the Savsjadian people to fight for their freedom. The first murder by these agitators was in 1984, of a particularly brutal, off-duty and unwitting VIS special agent. The violence slowly but steadily grew, riots became more violent, murders become more frequent, attacks became more deadly. The fact of a disintegrating Eastern Bloc getting into the minds of the insurgents worried the hell out of Party, Military and Intelligence Higher-Ups. The idea of the Special Units was essentially born out of that fear as well as the threat of other groups rising up against the Central Government.
******************************
The Veltmerian Intelligence Service was ecstatic, to say the least, of the new powers granted to them by Vlagishimoshov and applied them to their very fullest. People purely suspected of collaborating against the Government was arrested at midnight and disappeared to one of the five most worse prison camps: Camp Unity, Camp Prosperity, Camp Justice, Camp Liberty and Camp Freedom, where they went under the long, humiliating process of "Truth Extraction" and either "Re-Education" or "Permanent Incapacitation". Every school, workplace, community and street had at least one informant and heavily-armed police officers roamed the streets in greater numbers, beating those who got in their way or putting up huge, romanticised posters of both Vychemiv and Hosekov, the Great Socialist Nation of Veltmeria and the Glorious Second Republic. The entire nation lived in fear of the knock of the door in the middle of the night and no one had a clue of the upheaval of power outside their borders. Hosekov was most pleased - his grip on power had never been greater and there was extremely little chance of any major uprising occuring with every source of information with under their control or compromised completely and the public brainwashed in believing that the only choice given to them was Vlagishimoshov or death. Nothing would spoil the Status Quo of the Ruling Elite for years. Hosekov and the three new ministers of the consolidated Supreme Council, all of whom family members whose loyalty was assured, could not wipe the grin off their faces.