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On behalf of the All Burgundian National Congress and the people of Bourgogne I wish to extend my deepest sympathies at the passing of such a great man, whose tireless work to liberate the people's of the world from tyranny has light a beacon that shall burn till the end of time, a symbol to all those striving for a better world. I would consider it a great honour to attend the state funeral as a representative of the Burgundian people.

Yours in everlasting friendship
Provisional Chairman Bertrand Murat.

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The Honorable Vujadin Mihajlovic
Vice-Secretary of the Central Committee
The People's Federal Socialist Republic of Kadikistan
Ivar, Kadikistani Union

Dear Vice-Secretary Mihajlovic,

I write to you today to express the condolences offered by the President of the Republic, Bartolome Ordenes, and indeed the entire people of Auraria. First Secretary Moravscik was a fine leader for the People's Federal Socialist Republic and his lost will surely be felt by generations to come.

As always, the Republic stands prepared to offer whatever assistance it can for the Kadikistani during this difficult time.

All the best,

Matteo Renoldo
Ambassador to Kadikistan[/div]

The JCWP cries the loss of this great man. the party, united, extends its condolences to the people of Kadikistan.
First Secretary Moravscik was an extraordinary man. There are many who will deeply mourn his passing, may he rest in peace.

The Nethian Revolutionary Association mourns the loss of the greatest leader of humankind in the last half a century. Sergei Moravscik has been not only a leader of the Kadikistani, but a real beacon for us all and an icon showing us that politics isn't all about racist oligarchies but rather about the people and about working to create the equitable, communist society of tomorrow.

We nothing but heartbroken by the news of the loss of Comrade Moravscik and we will send a delegation to the funeral. The memory of Moravscik is what will keep us still strong in fighting against the racist and imperialist regime from Faras, so that we can liberate not only the Benue Nethians from southern Nobatia, but them all from colonialism and imperialism. The day of liberation is coming soon and Nobatia, the Dune Sea, Port Stanley, Loago, Nzadiland and even racist Sylvania will all burn.

Signed
Simba Sibanda
Chairman of the NRA

The People's Federal Socialist Republic of Kadikistan and its Proletarian Government are deeply moved by the condolences and shows of support issued from around the world. It is true that whomever is elected by the representatives of the people of the All-Union as the new First Secretary and leader of said State and Party has incredibly big shoes to fill. We ensure that the Kadikistani Union will continue to serve as a beacon of freedom, liberty and equality through the combined teachings of Karl Marx, Andrej Rurik, Nikolai Leninov and Ratko Salatic. Those attending the funeral ceremony tomorrow in Ivar will experience great comfort at the expense of the All-Union and will always have a loyal friend in us.

Signed,

PETAR KUJUNDZIC
People's Commissar for External Affairs
People's Federal Socialist Republic of Kadikistan

Foreign Ministry General Dispatch
Government Quarter
Avalon

January 7, 2020
5:50 Justosian Time

On behalf of Her Imperial Majesty Annabella Sofia Francisco I, the Continental Empire of Justosia is praying for & offering its profound sympathies to the Kadakistani people at this time.

Foreign Ministry

Aussenministerium — Ministero degli Esteri — Ministère des Affaires Étrangères
Trier, Eiffelland-Retalien — Treviri, Eiffellandia-Retalia — Trèves, Eiffellande-Rétalie


On behalf of Government, Parliament and People of Eiffelland-Retalia, we offer our condolences to the people of the kadikistani Union for the loss of His Excellency First Secretary Moravchik. The flags at the Eiffelloretalian embassy and the Eiffelloretalian consulates in the Kadikistani Union will be flown half-mast during the official period of mourning.

Gianluigi di Gravesano-Carone, Minister of Foreign Affairs

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Zentralkomitee der Kommunistischen Partei Eiffellands
Trier, Eiffelland-Retalien — Treviri, Eiffellandia-Retalia — Trèves, Eiffellande-Rétalie

It is a great shock to us to hear about the passing away of First Secretary Comrade Moravchik. He was a great and wise man who led the Kadikistani Union with care and enlightened the world with the torch of Marxism-Leninovism. Now somebody else will have to take the torch. On behalf of the Kommunistische Partei Eiffellands, I extend our condolences to the people of the Kadikistani Union, especially the First Secretary's family and friends.

Heinrich Liebknecht, First Secretary of the Kommunistische Partei Eiffellands

"Organisation of 'Democratic States' threatens the Pax Germanica"
First Secretary Ivan Mladzic speaks out against the aggressive expansion of the ODS and warns for a repeat of 2018

Ivar - For the first time since the conclusion of the historic our freshly elected First Secretary and former Chairperson of the All-Union People's Assembly Ivan Mladzic spoke publicly. This time his speech took place on the Internationalist Square of the Ivar Capital District in the presence of a few hundreds loyal supporters, All-Union press agencies and sanctioned international media. The First Secretary's speech was broadcasted on a giant screen projection on the magnificent Internationalist Building, home of the International Association of Communist Workers' Parties and in the centre of the embassy district, and broadcasted live on all state media channels. The growing crowd cheered during Ivan Mladzic's fiery speech where he condemned the self-proclaimed 'Organisation of Democratic States', which is ironically a gathering of nations run by the dictatorship of capital. The ODS or more accurately the 'Military Organisation of Capitalist States', was founded only very recently on the 11th of January, but negotiations between the founding members, the union State of Eiffelland-Retalia, the Grand Duchy of Lars and the Confederate States of Johnston Isles date back as early as August 2019.

These negotiations can be seen as a continuation of the Lars Agreements between Eiffelland-Retalia and Lars except with a extra-continental component. According to Party analysts the true origins of the ODS lay not in the Lars Agreements, but in the Trier Concordat that indirectly preceded it. The latter was a military alliance between several Gallo-Germanian states in close cooperation with the now defunct Grand Duchy of Burgundy and the Pelasgian Empire across the Long Sea. The expansionist greed of the Trier Concordat eventually led to its destruction by the hands of the Rurikgrad Pact Combined Armed Forces and Political Consultative Bureau. There are many similarities between what became the prelude of the Seven Days War and the developments revolving around the ODS. First Secretary Ivan Mladzic was justified in saying: "Clearly the West has not learned its lessons from the Seven Days War."

Like the Trier Concordat the ODS has an increasingly dominant military component while the economic segment seeks to further undermine working class struggles and develop more efficient labour exploitation methods. Also like the Trier Concordat the ODS seems keen on gaining rapid expansion with the extremely young international organisation allowing several 'Observer members'. Among those allowed in the halls of the ODS is the radically anti-communist Continental Empire of Justosia. The latter recently gaining the attention of the All-Union when claiming all established socialist states, friends of ours, were illegitimate and must be overtaken by the reactionary forces. While such statements from known belligerent states set on external destabilization may not officially come from ODS spokespersons they are associated with it due to their diplomatic proximity. Far worse is the military component which is nothing short of an act of aggression directed against the Free East with the sole purpose of undoing the great progress made in the Pax Germanica.

"The ODS is following the disastrous legacy of the Trier Concordat. This doesn't come as a surprise as it was Eiffeland that took up a leading role in the crushed defence initiative. Now a similar initiative was forced upon the world. An initiative shared not only by those obviously seeking to re-establish long lost glory, but also by the Rogue Nation of Lars. A nation that has refused to sit at the table along with the other nations of the region at a time when the hand was reached to establish a lasting peace and stability in Germania. In fact Lars now desperately seeks to undermine the achievements of the Pax Germanica, being nearly two years of peace and reduced tension.", the First Secretary stated with great determination before issuing a clear warning to the West, "Our glorious All-Union does not wish to repeat the bloody lesson of the Seven Days War, but if we must we will re-educate."

The live broadcast of the speech was followed by an unscheduled spontaneous demonstration organized by the Radical Youth League in over a dozen cities. The gathered youth raised hundreds of thousands of All-Union flags and shouted slogans like "To the Thaumatic!". In the Belgarsk SR all batteries of the 67th Field Artillery Regiment showed their support by each firing seven shells in the direction of the West, one shell for every day of the Seven Days War.

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Aussenministerium — Ministero degli Esteri — Ministère des Affaires Étrangères
Trier, Eiffelland-Retalien — Treviri, Eiffellandia-Retalia — Trèves, Eiffellande-Rétalie

What the government of Justosia says about socialist nations, it says on its own behalf and not on the behalf of the ODS. Let that be clear. Apart from that, the leaders of socialist nations are generally quite harsh on economic systems that do not comply with what they consider the ideal system. From that perspective, it is not more than logical that the socialist nations sometimes get some rhetoric back.
Furthermore, it is especially the seven days war that makes countries like Lars and Eiffelland-Retalia look for more allies. The fact that the Radical Youth League is chanting "To the Thaumantic" and that batteries in the Belgarsk SR are firing shells to the West is nothing else but a confirmation that the decision to look for allies was the right one.
I also want to point at the fact that there are friendly contacts between Lars and Crotobaltislavonia, and that the Eiffelloretalian market is open for Ostmarker products. It should not be forgotten, either, that the university hospital in Marburg treated an Ostmarker citizen for free after he was severely injured during the explosion at the Ostmarker Motoren Werke last year. These thing happen between ODS member countries despite the fact that Lars and Eiffelland-Retalia consider its social market system the best economic system in the world while Crotobaltislavonia considers the marxist-leninovist system the best system in the world and Ostmark considers syndicalism the best system in the world. In other words, we do want to show the world that our system is the best, but we do not seek to impose it upon anyone.
And finally, the ODS does not force countries to become oberver states. Pelasgia, Justosia and Friuli asked us to become observer states, and did so on their own initiative. Even one of the socialist countries applied for observer status.

Gianluigi di Gravesano-Carone, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Extraordinary Ambassador of the Italophone minority in Eiffelland-Retalia

OOC: For that fire in the factory of the Ostmarker Motoren Werke:

Home Office

We fine the tone of the First Secretary to be loud, bellicose, and attempting to strike the 'hardline' Kadikistan principle that the world has come to see from various times. Statements such as "Clearly the West has not learned its lessons from the Seven Days War." and "Our glorious All-Union does not wish to repeat the bloody lesson of the Seven Days War, but if we must we will re-educate.", show precisely the demeanor of the Rurikgrad pact and why it is vocal against the ODS.

ODS is needed to protect the free and democratic states of Germania and Gallia from the oppressive boots of the Rurikgrad pact. If a defense clause in the alliance is viewed as an "act of aggression" against Rurikgrad states, than it is only because it threatens to be an obstacle in their goal of complete and utter domination of Gallia and Germania, what is the excuse kadikistan uses for keeping several divisions in its satellite states if they are truly as "free" as claimed? It can't possibly be the threat of military retalliation, as the ODS is as said a new alliance and yet these divisions have been there for years. It surely couldn't be because the Grand Duchy of Lars poses a significant military threat to the "Free East", when its population is barely larger than the standing armed forces of the Kadikistani Union.

No, those divisions are in the satellite states to keep their governments in line with Ivar. To pose as a menacing image to the true free countries of Germania, essentially saying "Your next at the dinner table". The ODS isn't the aggressor, the Rurikgrad pact however is, just as it was during the Seven Days War when it struck first. Ivar just doesn't like the idea of its potential meals being organized to collectively defend themselves against it, that is the threat, the threat of being able to beat back the hounds when they come knocking from further encroaching westwards.

The world can be the judge of history again, but First Secretary Mladzic, we don't read the propaganda piece of history books that Ivar tries pushing down its own citizens. The world can see which side is truly more menacing and threatening, we won't reach to the levels of Ivar and poise our troops, we won't flinch at a move made to intimidate and scare us into a further escalation to attempt and justify the game you play.

Serazinists bring Gallia on the path to war
"We will defend every inch of Rurikgrad Pact soil until the last man" says First Secretary Ivan Mladzic

Ivar - Our nation was shocked today as the crypto-catholic Martinque regime of Serenierre unilaterally and without any form of consultation broke all ties with the All-Union and the Rurikgrad Pact. After 70 years of close cooperation on various levels, from scientific research, engineering to economy and politics Villesen hit the final nail in the coffin that was the Pact of Steel. Over 40,000 All-Union citizens currently residing in Serenierre are being deported to the border with the Burgundian People's Republic, their belongings confiscated and those who had established families were forced to abandon them. First Secretary Ivan Mladzic warned the treacherous regime in Villesen that "harming even a single hair on a Kadikistani head will result in an immediate and total escalation of the crisis."

Economic specialists have predicted a significant loss for the All-Union economy in the first quarter, but remain confident that the yearly growth will continue, be it less than originally projected. Due to the long standing former partnership almost all of the major economic sectors will be affected. The Economic Planning Bureau is currently assembling in an emergency session to determine how best to digest this downright attack upon the All-Union economy. Because the latter is also the engine behind industrialisation and thus the development of the working class, this was an attack against socialism.

The Party has reacted with pure outrage, issuing the deportation of all Serenierrese citizens who have not established families within our territory. Those who have married and/or taken up parenthood with a Kadikistani spouse will be given the option to renounce there Serenierrese citizenship and become All-Union citizens or live out their days under the crypto-catholic yoke of Villesen. Companies owned by the Serenierrese State or any of their instruments will be confiscated in reaction to their own seizure and as compensation for this economic declaration of war. All ships heading for Serenierre were told to return to the fatherland.

First Secretary Ivan Mladzic stated that the All-Union will stand with its allies in the region and will step-up its already elaborate support and solidarity programs. Reports have reached us confirming that the Rurikgrad harbour is very active at the moment with many heavy freighters being loaded and sailing West under escort of the Gothic Sea Fleet. Roughly 30% of the Western Direction is being mobilized. We will bring you more news as it develops, but one thing is certain. Villesen must pay for their betrayal.

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Red Guards and Militsiya interrogate over 6,000 for suspicion of serazinist activity
While the bulk of those interrogated were released several hours later, 429 remain in custody

Ivar - Nearly two weeks after the vile crypto-catholic regime in Villesen unilaterally and without any form of warning severed all ties between itself and the nations of the Rurikgrad Pact law enforcement forces from the Militsiya conducted a nation-wide search and detain for suspects of serazinist activity. They were assisted in doing so by the State-sanctioned Red Guards of the Radical Youth League's Anti-Reactionary Committee. The operation was kept classified until the last minute and an impressive example of the efficiency of the Militsiya and the benefits of co-operation with the Red Guards. A total of 5,379 households were involved in the operation with no less than 6,124 being robbed of their freedom and taken in for thorough questioning. With incredible efficiency displayed the people's guardians managed to finish most of the interrogations within the first 12 hours after which 5,695 people were released. A local correspondent in Sbrevika managed to intercept one of the suspects at the moment of his release. The 46-year old local stated that he was treated well, the Militsiya acting very professionally. The man concluded by stating his support for these raids, the treat of serazinist spies can not be understated.

Most of those brought in for interrogation were in one way or another linked to the formerly deep and long-standing economic and technologic partnership between the All-Union and Serenierre. The man our local correspondent in Sbrevika managed to interview for example was formerly employed by a state-run 'bridge company' that facilitated Serenien petroleum investments in our country. While the interrogations provided State and Party services with valuable information, most of the people brought in were blameless for the crimes committed by the crypto-catholics and could not be found guilty of simply doing their job. For a total of 426 of those people the situation is different as the Militsiya, assisted by other law enforcement and military security branches, has provided significant evidence of collaboration with the Serenien enemy prompting further investigation. In an official statement the Militsiya said that during the following weeks and with the new evidence provided they will build their case and present it to the All-Union People's Tribunal. Most cases are likely to lay bare acts of high treason.

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