NationStates Jolt Archive

It was March 2nd 1975
The Warsaw Pact was still in active. the USSR was still together. Bulgislavia was still under the Harsh rule of the "Comrade President" Provoçe.

Though back then Provoçe was a young 45 yearold and had been in charge or Bulgislavia for only 13 years.

(OOC: for those of you who have read quite a bit of Bulgislavian RP's you will have read about the massive 1975 Terevesti Earthquake in a few of them. This is an RP of what actually happened in the 1975 Terevesti Earthquake)

Bulgislavia back in 1975 was a backwards country though it was not as bad as it was now in 2008. Back in 1975 power was not rationed. shoratges werent so severe. Food was not rationed. cars were not such a rarity (they started to die out in the 80's) and the General Architecture of the country was mainly very anctient and old buildings from the 1700's and 1800's. the oldest reported building being a City Hall in Plethece which was built in 1480.

During the Great Patriotic Liberation war (WW2) a lot of architecture was destroyed and some stalinist apartment blocks started going up. though not on the scale of post earthquake Bulgislavia

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Provoçe was gathering his aides in the Bulgislavian Peoples Parliament
(An old building which was the nations Parliament building. it was built in the 1800's) He was standing in his lavish office.

"Contact our Comrades in Bulgia, we really must schedule a state visit sometime. We have to expand relations with all out neighbors" he said

Provoçe was due to inspect a factory in a newly modernized industrial city of Timescu which before the 70's was just a small village surrounded by farm land. His private Helicopter was already prepped to take him out of the city and across the country. It was also planned that he would view the national dance by the citizens in national costume.

Terevesti had quite a disorderly city plan. its roads would snake, curve and wind about like a maze. It only had one Public square which was called "Workers Square" next to the Peoples Parliament.

The Post War stalinist apartment blocks only occupied one section of the city that was actually flattened by the war.

It was now 12:00 pm..........................................................................

The Helicopter landed in a field on the outskirts of Timescu. with the factory situated in the background. Over 1,000 citizens were organized wearing the national costume waving red flags and chanting "Provoçe! Provoçe! Provoçe!"

Provoçe gave a wave to the people surrounded by his body guards and aides. Some small children walked up to Provoçe and handed him boquets of flowers, red roses which he would hold, pat the children on the head then hand over to his aides to take away.

Next he was scheduled to speak to the new factory workers where he would lecture them on the best way to do thier jobs, tell them to work harder give 100% etc. Camera crews were capturing the moment to put on the one government TV channel

1:12 pm Terevesti, the capital city...........................................................................

The massive earthquake hit. the citizens felt the floor move, buildings shake and wooble. immediatly the oldest buildings instantly collapsed. small decaying flats built in the 1800's were the first to go in the "Pomnuist District"

In the post war "Lenin District" 3 blocks of the stalinist apartment blocks collapsed. Mekov Avenue ruptured and the administrative buildings along the roadside crumbled down ontop of the Avenue crushing parked and moving vehicles.

The Earthquake's epicenter was located just at the outskirts of Terevesti.
Every Balkan nation felt the effects of the earthquake.

Unfortunatly Bulgislavia and its larger northern Neighbor Bulgia felt the biggest effects.

Terevesti was the most severly damaged city out of the whole of Bulgislavia. next Plethece experienced some collapsed flats on the northern side of the Dobrok River with some other buildings only just surviving though people were quick to evacuate the dangerous buildings.

Craasi was the next badly effected city with a poorly constructed hospital collapsing with over 1200 people inside.

Creçea the city closest to Terevesti surprisingly had little amound of damage compared to the other cities probably becuase the architecture was better earthquake proof though somke old temples and church's collapsing as well as an old monument to national soveriegnty.

Meanwhile in Timescu. there was a gasp from the people. they all felt the ground move underneath there feet. it made them all feel a bit dizzy. then it got violent. a large crash could be hear. that was the towns library which just collapsed.

Provoçe's body guards and aides panicked. they escorted Provoçe quickly away to his helicopter where they sat him inside it. Provoçe had no intention of leaving.

.....................that was the Bulgislavian experience in the first initial moments...............


(OOC: now any other Balkan nation may can put down thier experience of the earthquake but it can only be during the first 1:12pm moment. nothing further then the initial experience. until I or Bulgia initiate the next phase. for example dont advance to far in time when we are still behind and havnt even felt the earthquake yet. so Bulgia its your turn. And ALSO dont forget the earthquake has mainly effected Bulgislavia and Bulgia)

Immediate Photographs of the earthquake in Terevesti

http://www.ici.ro/romania/images/bucuresti/oldb25.jpg Some old 1800's flats. one side has collapsed across the street

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/1977_Biserica_Ienei_foto_5.jpg/250px-1977_Biserica_Ienei_foto_5.jpg
An old temple near the outskirts of Terevesti that collapsed in the first moments of the earthquake

http://iisee.kenken.go.jp/net/saito/web_edes_b/images/Damage%20Photo.JPG
some more ruined flats

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/start-world-war-2-9.jpg a shot of anothe collapsed building

Cetch, Dictatika é Cirisie, Revolutionary Year 31
(Cetch, Dictatorship of Kargrazia, 1975)

Premier Rem Bahui was soaking in his pool on the roof of the Communist Party's General Offices, enjoying the first clear, sunny day of the Kargrazian year. Temperatures weren't far above twenty degrees, but Bahui seemed comfortable.

Life was good. Bahui had ridden-out the troubled times of eight years previous and secured Kargrazia's place in the Soviet bloc. He may have been called revisionist in 1967, but turning the hardliners' attention to a trumped-up Titoist threat had allowed the leader, in power since the closing stages of the Great Patriotic War that forged The People's Dictatorship, to continue unmolested since then, 'selling milk and wine' in order to secure relative luxuries from the USSR, GDR, and the like. So far as Bahui was aware, that upstart Bexhi had lost all credibility and wasted his energies fighting imaginary Titoists, and wouldn't trouble the establishment again any time soon.

The Premier did not even notice when, just before quarter past one in the afternoon, the ripples on the surface of his pool caused by the prevailing wind began to be crossed by a second pattern moving in a contrary direction.

At 1:17 Bahui's soak would be interrupted by a Commissar from the Information Bureau reporting a major geological event in the east.

Rem Bahui raised an eyebrow and lifted himself awkwardly from the water. This at least merited some investigation. The last thing he wanted now was for some natural disaster to get the moody villagers up in arms again.

Besk, People's Republic of Bulgia, 02/03/1975

The capital of the People's Republic was a fairly striking city, especially given the unremarkable nature of the rest of the country. Here hundreds of archaic buildings had been lost to the Great Patriotic War, fire sweeping through narrow wooden streets ahead of first Fascist and then Stalinist armies, and then, more recently, countless makeshift hovels had been cleared and the capital transformed into a territorially vast settlement characterised by wide parade-friendly streets and huge, clean public spaces; parks and squares as far as the eye could see. Buildings only broke the horizon at considerable, even intervals, and the population was much reduced in number.

Tremors here had little immediate impact, though several fountains stopped their flow and electric lighting flickered in what few public buildings had need of it in daytime.

None the less, Bulgian Communist Party officials reacted with alarm, and the military would soon be placed on alert.

At this time, Bulgia's leadership was far less clearly concentrated than was the case in many of its Balkan neighbours, with the Party changing Secretaries often several times a year, and effective Premiership switching between short-lived Secretaries and almost equally short-lived Presidents each time one or the other rose or fell. Most of the PRB's energies went into internal political balancing acts, and a national disaster was either the last thing that the nation wanted, or exactly what it needed...

Buhalin, 7km from the Bulgislavian frontier

Unlike the capital, most of Bulgia's villages, where the bulk of the populace still made its homes, were architecturally unscathed by the war. Cottages, farmhouses had stood in many cases since the fourteenth century, and those who -due to population growth in the Communist era- could find no historic residence to call their own made do with shaks and stone huts erected on land that had become public after the Communist triumph.

Buhalin was just one of more than twenty villages to collapse utterly, leaving not a single structure without critical damage, but owing to its remoteness from any significant infrastructure and isolation in a wooded valley, it was doomed to be the least noticed.

Of 207 official residents, 204 were present at the time of the quake. One elderly goat herder and his grandson were above the valley when it struck, and one young woman had gone to Besk to apply for a marriage licence along with her beloved, a young man from the next village several hours walk distant- who was on national service in the Bulgian People's Liberation Army and expecting a week's leave to start at 2pm...

1:45pm Timescu............................................................................................

Provoçe was on an old satalite phone to the high ranking party members in Terevesti

"Whats the situation!? how much or the city is in ruins? what is the mood of the people?" he asked.

He was still at the helicopter.

The police in Timescu were escorting people out of the surviving flats for fear any aftershocks might make them collapse. normal civilians were already making thier way out of the city though Provoçe's aides had instructed the police to block the citizens from getting too close to Provoçe
(Everytime Provoçe meet with citizens they had to be quarentined for 48 hours incase they gave him an illness. Provoçe was very paranoid like this)

Terevesti........................................................................................... ....................

Terevesti was in ruins. large areas of the city were just rubble. some buildings did survive but they were evacuated immediatly for fear the aftershocks would finish them off. The army was instructed to move into the city to help aide people.

There were some unused barracks located on the outter ring of Terevesti that had survived the earthquake that were currently empty

(These barracks were used everytime there was a parade that involved many civilians. thousands of Peasants from the countryside were always brought into Terevesti in cattle trucks to perform in parades the next day and were housed in these cramped barracks)

The army was ready to be transported into the city
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