Polesia
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Analysis: Polesia descends into dictatorship
AP Midweis
Over six months since the end of the Seven Day War, the mood in Amstov is unrecognisable.
The city, which was rapidly emerging as a tourist hotspot and commercial hub, had been a beacon of optimism and hope in a region marked mostly by stagnation and authoritarianism. Amstov was far more socially liberal than its peers in heavily Catholic Elben and Gunnland, while a surge of investment from Eiffelland, Retalia and Burgundy had created thousands of higher paying jobs.
Yet now Amstov feels like a fortress under siege, despite the conflict ending half a year ago. Kadikistani soldiers man street corners, red flags fly from every building while public announcements are never ending.
According to sources in the ex-Trivodnian government, it wasn't meant to be this way. President Meier Lauterpacht, who continues to serve as head of state in the new Polesian People's Republic, reportedly negotiated a relatively soft peace settlement with Kadikistan. "Of course there would be territorial losses and total disarmament but the understanding was Trivodnia would have a bit of wiggle room," says a former presidential aide.
But the truth is Ivar is not driving the Polesian revolution. The radical transformation taking place is the creation of one man: the hitherto unknown Yaakov Zilberfarb, premier of the Polesian People's Republic.
Believed to be a junior officer in the Trivodnian Free State Intelligence Bureau before defecting in his twenties, Zilberfarb is said to have resided in Kadikistan until the Seven Day War. Little personal information is available publicly on the Premier and and official biographies are vague, with small references to a military career and political activism.
Through his attacks on Jewish religious attire, the Zionist movement and support for population transfers with Crotobaltislavonia and Kadikistan, described as ethnic cleansing by some, Zilberfarb has achieved international notoreity.
At home he has secured near total power, with President Lauterpacht rarely seen. The head of a nominal national unity government, Zilberfarb is the face of an increasingly authoritarian regime backed up by aggressive propaganda.
Scores of people are declared Zionist terrorists or agents of the government-in-exile monthly, with many executed. News is heavily censored, huge swathes of the economy have been nationalised while ethnic Slavians are being forced out as Jews are imported in. Access to foreigners is near impossible, with only aid workers and diplomats allowed in and even then with travel restrictions.
"[Polesia] is a giant open air prison camp," a Bergenheimer official says.
AP Midweis
Over six months since the end of the Seven Day War, the mood in Amstov is unrecognisable.
The city, which was rapidly emerging as a tourist hotspot and commercial hub, had been a beacon of optimism and hope in a region marked mostly by stagnation and authoritarianism. Amstov was far more socially liberal than its peers in heavily Catholic Elben and Gunnland, while a surge of investment from Eiffelland, Retalia and Burgundy had created thousands of higher paying jobs.
Yet now Amstov feels like a fortress under siege, despite the conflict ending half a year ago. Kadikistani soldiers man street corners, red flags fly from every building while public announcements are never ending.
According to sources in the ex-Trivodnian government, it wasn't meant to be this way. President Meier Lauterpacht, who continues to serve as head of state in the new Polesian People's Republic, reportedly negotiated a relatively soft peace settlement with Kadikistan. "Of course there would be territorial losses and total disarmament but the understanding was Trivodnia would have a bit of wiggle room," says a former presidential aide.
But the truth is Ivar is not driving the Polesian revolution. The radical transformation taking place is the creation of one man: the hitherto unknown Yaakov Zilberfarb, premier of the Polesian People's Republic.
Believed to be a junior officer in the Trivodnian Free State Intelligence Bureau before defecting in his twenties, Zilberfarb is said to have resided in Kadikistan until the Seven Day War. Little personal information is available publicly on the Premier and and official biographies are vague, with small references to a military career and political activism.
Through his attacks on Jewish religious attire, the Zionist movement and support for population transfers with Crotobaltislavonia and Kadikistan, described as ethnic cleansing by some, Zilberfarb has achieved international notoreity.
At home he has secured near total power, with President Lauterpacht rarely seen. The head of a nominal national unity government, Zilberfarb is the face of an increasingly authoritarian regime backed up by aggressive propaganda.
Scores of people are declared Zionist terrorists or agents of the government-in-exile monthly, with many executed. News is heavily censored, huge swathes of the economy have been nationalised while ethnic Slavians are being forced out as Jews are imported in. Access to foreigners is near impossible, with only aid workers and diplomats allowed in and even then with travel restrictions.
"[Polesia] is a giant open air prison camp," a Bergenheimer official says.
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