Yuslevakia
26-02-2008, 20:14
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Above: Ethnic divisions within the Armed Republic of Yuslevakia, located in South East Haven.
Kaugrade, The Armed Republic of Yuslevakia
It was a sunny winter day in Yuslevakia: the birds were chirping, the children were playing, and three quarters of the country was on the brink of seceding. Following the death of High Marshal Leonas Kito, the fascist strongman who had kept the fierce, centuries' old ethnic tensions between the different Yuslevak ethnic groups on the backburner for the past fifty years, things blew up quite rapidly. While in Yuslevakia proper the dreaded Svarinti, the secret police, kept things well under control, there were severe problems arising in regions were the Slev people were in the minority: anti-government activity was growing more and more prevalent, and morale within the Badrumas, the regular army, was on a sharp decline.
The High Marshal's successor, Juozas Vytautas, was far younger than and not nearly as experienced as the Old Man, as he was known to the Yuslevakian people. While immensely popular amongst the ethnic Slevs that dominated the government of Yuslevakia, the same could not be said of the others: among the Slovedonians, the Ulbonians, the Chruatians, and others, and opportunity for independence was sighted. While the last independence movement had been brutally crushed by Kito in the 70s, the recent lack of cohesion among Badrumas units would potentially make such a lopsided destruction of a rebellion impossible. Things would be different this time.
The Slev-dominated officer class was now very fearful of potential mass-desertions, a problem previously kept in check by embedded Svarinti officers. Dozens of trouble makers had already been sent to the gallows; this however only made things worse. Ethnic tensions were boiling over worse than anyone had seen in the last sixty years. Rioting was on the increase.
Among the elite Kadukas, the Republican Guard, however, this problem was non-existent. An entirely Slev formation, they instead took on a siege mentality when positioned in non-Slev areas. Perhaps their only problem was the fact that they were few in number: in fact, there were only six Kadukas regiments in service, with one of these precious formations (the Juriska Regiment) being located far to the north, in Ulbonian-dominated land.
The other five regiments were being repositioned: anticipating escalating troubles, Vytautas moved them into Slev-dominated lands and assigned them to guard the bases of the Karines, the Yuslevak Republican Air Force. He did not want his best troops to be caught off-guard, nor did he want anything threatening his greatest tool against any rebellion: air power.
Strangely enough, the feeling within the capital was one of anticipation: local Badrumas reserve units had been placed on full alert and entrenchments were being dug all around the capital: machinegun nests, anti-tank emplacements, even minefields were being built at a shocking rate. Surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery emplacements had tripled in number nearly over night, as had the amount of tanks and soldiers seen in the streets. City officials assured their citizens that this was part of a routine exercise and had nothing to do with the large enclaves of Harovenians and Kocobars within fifty miles of the city...nothing at all.
Above: Ethnic divisions within the Armed Republic of Yuslevakia, located in South East Haven.
Kaugrade, The Armed Republic of Yuslevakia
It was a sunny winter day in Yuslevakia: the birds were chirping, the children were playing, and three quarters of the country was on the brink of seceding. Following the death of High Marshal Leonas Kito, the fascist strongman who had kept the fierce, centuries' old ethnic tensions between the different Yuslevak ethnic groups on the backburner for the past fifty years, things blew up quite rapidly. While in Yuslevakia proper the dreaded Svarinti, the secret police, kept things well under control, there were severe problems arising in regions were the Slev people were in the minority: anti-government activity was growing more and more prevalent, and morale within the Badrumas, the regular army, was on a sharp decline.
The High Marshal's successor, Juozas Vytautas, was far younger than and not nearly as experienced as the Old Man, as he was known to the Yuslevakian people. While immensely popular amongst the ethnic Slevs that dominated the government of Yuslevakia, the same could not be said of the others: among the Slovedonians, the Ulbonians, the Chruatians, and others, and opportunity for independence was sighted. While the last independence movement had been brutally crushed by Kito in the 70s, the recent lack of cohesion among Badrumas units would potentially make such a lopsided destruction of a rebellion impossible. Things would be different this time.
The Slev-dominated officer class was now very fearful of potential mass-desertions, a problem previously kept in check by embedded Svarinti officers. Dozens of trouble makers had already been sent to the gallows; this however only made things worse. Ethnic tensions were boiling over worse than anyone had seen in the last sixty years. Rioting was on the increase.
Among the elite Kadukas, the Republican Guard, however, this problem was non-existent. An entirely Slev formation, they instead took on a siege mentality when positioned in non-Slev areas. Perhaps their only problem was the fact that they were few in number: in fact, there were only six Kadukas regiments in service, with one of these precious formations (the Juriska Regiment) being located far to the north, in Ulbonian-dominated land.
The other five regiments were being repositioned: anticipating escalating troubles, Vytautas moved them into Slev-dominated lands and assigned them to guard the bases of the Karines, the Yuslevak Republican Air Force. He did not want his best troops to be caught off-guard, nor did he want anything threatening his greatest tool against any rebellion: air power.
Strangely enough, the feeling within the capital was one of anticipation: local Badrumas reserve units had been placed on full alert and entrenchments were being dug all around the capital: machinegun nests, anti-tank emplacements, even minefields were being built at a shocking rate. Surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery emplacements had tripled in number nearly over night, as had the amount of tanks and soldiers seen in the streets. City officials assured their citizens that this was part of a routine exercise and had nothing to do with the large enclaves of Harovenians and Kocobars within fifty miles of the city...nothing at all.