A summit of the third kind

Kadriorg Palace, Kuressaare
April, 2019

The summit wasn't really publicised in the press, as the authorities didn't really want the Council of the North to feel that Virumaa, as the newest adition to the alliance was forming external bonds to a series of nations that weren't part of it, and while they were part of the 3rd position, they were as thoroughly conservative and clerical as the Council of the North. A day before, in the late evening, the delegation from Ostmark, led by no one else but Horst Grasser and the joint delegation of the Vaquero Free State and the Tapenagá Republic, led by Venustiano Mendoza and Aapo Vicente have arrived at the Kuressare International Airport and have been driven by motorcade, the Ostmarkers to Hotel Boreal, where the delegation has been given the topmost floor, and the Westerners to Hotel Viimsi, each being given a floor, with the Vaquero the top one and the Tapenagá the one underneath.
The next morning, they have arrived at the Kadriorg Palace, situated on the eponymous hill in the northern part of the city, over viewing downtown Kuressaare and the Gothic Sea. It was said that in the clearest of days, even Gunnland could be seen from there. The palace was build in a classicist Virunian style, surrounded by a flower garden. Even if it was mid april, temperatures were still close to zero or even negative during the night and they were expected to go up to only 3 or 4 degrees during the day, even if there were no clouds to be seen.

The summit was to take place in the council room of the Palace. Kadriorg was probably the smallest of the administrative buildings that held such an important position in all of Europe. Officially it was the royal palace of Virumaa, but as in the last 60 years, the country lacked a king, the government was moved there. Mihkel Vaino, wearing civilian clothing, even though he held the position of Marshall and Supreme Commander of the White Army, was welcoming the delegates, with Koit Sokk, to his right and Einar Saar on his left. There will be many comments on their positioning, thought Vaino, as the press will start gambling on it. Of course, the journalists from Haal Pohja were present and were the only ones allowed to take photos. Vaino, a man in his mid 60s, very tall with pale skin, dark green eyes and short white hair, wearing a short moustache too, was a pragmatic, but controlling man. He was a perfectionist and all the stress of always trying to be in control put strong pressure on his body as he had frequent health problems. On his right, Koit Sokk was young, being only 33. He was usually a taciturn man with a military background, like many of the higher ups of the National People's Action. He was wearing civilian clothing and had very short blonde hair, with his face clean shaven and blue eyes. While much of the international press was presenting him as the head of the more liberal faction of the party, it wasn't a position that he advocated for, but rather, criticising more conservative policies while keeping political and economical comments to a minimum, pushed him into this position. On his left, Einar Saar was the General and commander of the White Guard, the elite units of the Virunian Army, functioning mostly as a parallel institution for defence. He was wearing the black uniform of the Guard. Compared to the other two, he was shorter, his hair, once pitch black, graying as he was in his early 60s but his body was showing what a life of military style fitness meant as it was felt that he was much more energetic than the State Elder, though they were of similar age.

The council room was furnished to give a sense of the Virunian north, with pine wood from the taiga and traditional nordic decorative motifs. Vaino and the others invited the guests into the room, as they entered through the main door guarded by two soldiers from the White Guard. They had a label on the table, in front of each of them, first in Virunian and on the second line in their languages. Horst Grasser was seated behind the label named Idamärk Rahvavabariigi and underneath, Volksrepublik Ostmark. The westerners were seated behind the labels saying Karjane Vabariik/Vaquero Estado Libre and Tapenagá Vabariik/Republica Tapenagá. The table was a round one, with each representative having behind them a smaller desk where translators were seated.

"Gentlemen, honoured sirs, your excellencies, I am happy to see that you have honoured our invitation. I do hope that this meeting will only be the first one of many. The scope of this meeting isn't as much as to create far reaching bonds between our nations... not yet, that is, but to rather create at the beginning a sense of understand that we do have common goals and that we should forward them, first towards our peoples, as we are their servants but also their guides and secondly to reach out to potential allies," started his speech, Mihkel Vaino, the State Elder, but he was interrupted by a cough attack. He managed to calm it down by drinking some water and then he continued.

"I for one, want to congratulate both Caudillo Ramon Ignacio Reyes of the Vaquero Free State and Chancellar Horst Grasser of Ostmark for managing to defeat the forces of capitalism and marxism-feudalism and thus pushing their countries on a path of glory, economic prosperity and also of moral cleanliness. I want, your excelencies, for you to understand that while the Council of the North is the premier alliance of nations politically positioned on the 3rd way, it is sometimes hard to see faraway nations like yourselves joining it, but, I must state, that Virumaa will forever be your friend and ally. That is why I want to also welcome härra Vincent Aapo from the Tapenaga Republic in our midst.

This brings me to the first subject that I want to present, and that is the recreation of the Corporatist Brotherhood; the organisation set up by our forefathers such as Koit Sisask in the 1950s, when the National People's Action was called National-Syndicalist Party, before the 1985 reform of the government of Virumaa. Through this organisation, the Virunian National Syndicalists used to invite and come together all corporatist, nationalist or any other form of political group whose tenets included the resistance against anarchic egalitarianism, apocalyptic atheism or marxism-feudalism. While the organisation was disbanded in 1985 because of the lack of members, the government of the Kingdom of Virumaa has decided to push again for its recreation, this time sharing it with you. The difference between the first Brotherhood and the second that we want to create is that the current one needs to be secret. The Kingdom believes that Europe stands in a precarious balance between three main groups, the Engell Civilisation on one side, the Post Delegationist Non-State States on the other and the Communist Block, on the other side of the red barrier. We do believe that if we publicly acknowledge the existence of this second brotherhood, we will do nothing but trip the balance and make more problems than we should.

As currently we do not intend to invite others to is, similar to the First Brotherhood, we wish to set up a fund, which will be created through donations from corporatist countries, corporations, political parties and even simple civilians which would be redistributed, as loans of development, interest free, to countries like yourselves. Those funds can help for a better stabilisation of the integralist government in the Free State, a better setup of the Tapenaga Republic and for the final push to see the end of the consequences of the capitalist anti-austerity measures that plagued the people of Ostmark so much... too much," said the State Elder, waiting afterwards to see the reaction of the guests.

In response to State Elder Vaino, Volkskanzler Horst Grasser stands up from his chair and clears his throat "I want to thank State Elder Vaino on behalf of the People's Republic of Ostmark for the invitation to this summit. On this occasion we are given the chance to show Europe that the old 'there is no alternative' mantra has been finally debunked. For decades the dominant political classes of the East and the West presented us a distorted worldview in which the only two possible systems were Marxism and Capitalism. An unhealthy competition which soon translated in war and competition among workers, rather than genuine political beliefs and theories. While Marxism denies the full realization of individual aspirations, Capitalism redirects individual aspirations to satisfy the needs and the prerogatives of the markets, thus transforming free citizens in enslaved consumers whose lives are dictated shaped by the market itself.

Breaking the chains of capitalist consumerism and political polarization is difficult, and the revolution against the dual tyranny of the right wing devoted to money and the left wing devoted to capitalism becomes a struggle. In our world, slaves love their chains. Moreover, the slaves are willing to fight in defense of their chains. Today we have a job-insecure and at the same time manipulated mass of slaves who, in theory, would have every reason to overturn the world order class that keeps them in chains. Instead they defend this world, meek submissive slaves, as if it was the best of all possible worlds, if anything, attacking anyone who promises them alternative happiness. This was one situation, however, not only Ostmarkian but global. The slave-master dialectic today has been revived in the form of a class massacre by a master against a servant who is dominated and subordinated. Dominated because he is being taken away everything, even the most basic rights. Subordinated because ideologically integrated in the dominant ideological orders. This is the tragic situation in which we live.

The Ostmarkian National Revolution did not prevent the disaster tho. I must mention the thousands of suicides directly caused by economic hardship. The exponential rise in infant mortality rates. The collapse of our healthcare system which was estimated to be the direct caus of death of hundreds of patients, many of them being children, and the complete lack of empathy between the previously dominant liberal establishment and the national working classes.

Our National Revolution, a bloodless one, was, in fact, a reaction to a disaster. Only when the enslaved, malnourished and impoverished working masses of Ostmark lost hope in the previously ruling free-market capitalism system, they realized an alternative to that system had to be found. We found our alternative in Ostmarkian National-Syndicalism, a system that many erroneously associate with Marxism-Leninovism. Ostmarkian National-Syndicalism does not deny the existence of the individual. It does not deny individual aspirations and does not sacrifice them in the name of collectivism. Instead, the People's Republic of Ostmark coniugates the desires of the individuals with the necessary cooperation among the members of society to cooperate and assist each other in order to bring about the moral and material progress of the nation against capitalist exploitation, globalism and socialist internationalism.

In recent months, Europe has witnessed the rise of a new political system, namely Post-Delegationism. Virtually the equivalent to a societal collapse, Post-Delegationism denies the necessary People's Community ideal that allowed the first human communities to thrive and evolve, survive the many challenges posed by evolution and history. I must mention the recent incident in the Commonwealth of Pohjanmaa which resulted in a lack of assistance by authorities to face the environmental disaster caused by an explosion in a chemical plant - the justification of the 'non-government' was the rejection of delegation, blaming the locals for attempting to delegate their issues to someone else. This ideology is the quintessence of a political degeneracy that i often label as the natural enemy of Ostmarkian National-Syndicalism. These forces are devoted to free market capitalism as much as the so-called "liberal left" whose members, more than anyone else, have betrayed the proletariat and the working classes by rushing in the defense of capitalism and all the inequalities it promotes.

We reject this, and we reaffirm our belief in a system in which workers do not compete but cooperate, and in which goods and services produced and offered by said workers are meant to improve our quality of life and satisfy our material needs. Never again the People of Ostmark shall be held hostages by the West or the East, never again Ostmark shall sacrifice workers' rights and proletarian solidarity in the name of consumerism and capitalist exploitation. We believe in a system in which the economy is subjected to the State, and therefor the working classes, and never the other way around. We will defend our system, our National Revolution, as far as humanely possible" Horst sits back on his chair, waiting for the response of Caudillo Reyes.

Venustiano Mendoza stood up to address the room, a gaunt hatchet faced man in his mid forties, clad in the deep bottle green of the
Unión Nacional Integralista, Mendoza looked less like a politician and more like an undertaker.

" Regrettably The Caudillo could not attend this meeting but I as Foreign Minister and Vice President have the honour of speaking for him and the people of the Vaquero Free State and I would like to thank State Elder Vaino for his hospitality and friendship. It is with no small amount of pride that I say without the Unión Nacional Integralista the Free State would still be a backwater wallowing in its own inadequacy, ruled over by petty corrupt men, now thanks to the guidance of the Caudillo and the Integralist ideology we are an eminent power in Occidentia, all the wrongs and humiliations of the past have been undone.

We have restored the Vaquero Free State to its rightful place as a great power, We have brought godliness and discipline to the nation and have given its people a newfound sense of purpose. The Vaquero are a faithful people of strong convictions however for too long they have been ruled by men who were corrupt both spiritually and morally, now that the Unión Nacional Integralista has come to power the Free State has come into its own as a nation.

However even in our moment of victory we must be vigilant, for the Free State is surrounded by enemies from within and without. Everywhere we are beset, from the pagans to the south, to the decadent and corrupt remnants of the old regime and the Atheistic Engelkin to the north. We watch as Gallo-Germania descends into red barbarism, decadent and corrupt liberalism and whatever in gods name Post Delegationism is meant to represent. The Vaquero Free State can not sit idly by as the world falls into decay for we of the Unión Nacional Integralista like all of those gathered today possess the wisdom and the strength to create a better future and we owe to our respective nations to unite for the benefit of our peoples.

Where Venustiano Mendoza was tall, angular and sharp his counterpart from the Tapenagá Republic was anything but,a short round man Aapo Vicente looked more like a grocer than a politician. " I would like to apologize for my president Álvaro Gutierre, the Tapenagá Republic is still in its infancy and he felt that in this crucial period he would be of better use to his people remaining in the country and as such I am here in his stead. Now as I just mentioned the Tapenagá Republic is in its infancy, thanks to our friends in the Vaquero Free State we have at last emerged from the tyranny of the Mazidian Dominion and much of the infrastructure and industry in our nation has damaged and we have much to rebuild. The Republic has a wealth of Mineral deposits in its territory but currently these are not being exploited to their fullest extent, foreign expertise and support will be needed for the Republic and its people to prosper".

Mihkel Vaino listened to his guests patiently. He was a bit irked that no one said anything on his proposals regarding the recreation of the old Corporatist Brotherhood, but now, with this newcomer on the scene under the form of the Tapenaga Republic, he might manage push for it again and maybe even exert some influence too with it.

"Your excellencies, that is why we need to stand together. We have risen against global capitalism but at the same time we haven't followed the line class struggle, which is false and destroyed the moral fabric of the people, let alone the state that provides for the people. For this, I would like for us to come together in the regenerated and revived Brotherhood. Sixty years ago, my predecessors have set up the Corporatist Brotherhood. It was disbanded in 1985, but today, I would say that the time is ripe for it to return. I do not wish to make it public, as I feel that it would attract too much attention, but we should set it up and become its founding members.

The main feature of the Brotherhood was its fund, to which we all contributed and from which different organisations or governments could get loans with no interest to further our cause. I consider that it would be best to see it brought against to life and probably see Ostmark and Tapenaga as the first recipients of aid from this fund, to further their development," said the State Elde, after which he too a sip of water as he could feel another coughing crisis incoming.

" This proposal certainly has merit, each of our respective nations while strong and capable could become much more prosperous if we align our economies more closely together, a reduction on tariffs for certain goods would encourage the economies of our respective nations and this brotherhood as you call it could certainly be a force for change in the world, championing a new path or should I say a new set of paths for while our beliefs are all similar there are certain distinctions that we should be mindful of.

Now the question of funding arises, I take it that in the spirit of our newly declared brotherhood that we all must reach a consensus on which nations and movements to fund, I would suggest the economic development of Tapenagá and Ostmark take president although the emergence of the Kingdom of Neustria I feel is too much of an opportunity to miss, Neustria is a nation in the heart of Gallia and if such a nation could be swayed then it would a tremendous victory for our brotherhood ".