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Peace for our children and children's children is also our desire. There is indeed no viable alternative to peaceful coexistence with respect for each others' differences in the approach of problems we are facing.

Respect for other countries' sovereignty is a principle we consider holy. Apart from unfortunate mistakes, our armed forces will not cross the borders of other countries unless upon invitation from or explicit request by the legitimate government of said countries.

Rüdiger Zimmermann, Demissionary Minister of Foreign Affairs and Demissionary Vice-Chancellor
 

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FUTUREVOLK'S NEW SINGLE "PANZERHAUS" SELLS OVER 150.000 COPIES ON iOSTMUSIK

Ostwave phenomenon has been recently studied by the National People's University of Wien.

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WIEN (OSTMARK) - Futurevolk has confirmed its role as leading project and pioneer of the Ostwave Sound phenomenon with its latest single track Panzerhaus. The track, which has been approved by the Ministry of People's Enlightenment and Propaganda and released immediatly afterwards, has already climbed to the top of the music charts and sold over 150.000 copies on iOstmusik according to music magazine Ostwave Underground Collective.

The Ostwave phenomena has been recently studied by a team of sociologists of the Nationale Volksuniversität Wien. The sociologists claimed that Ostwave's popularity amongst the youth is given by the natural and genuine message of happiness, fun and promotion of social interaction provided by the music genre and the subculture that developed around it "Its unique atmosphere dominated by revolving mirror balls, spinning laser lights, fog machines and flickering neons, is an irresistible invite to take part to celebrations and forget everyday's sorrows and stress" said Dr. Rupert Schaumann quoted by Ostwave Underground Collective.
 
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Random Eiffelloretalian 40somethinger: "Wow, this brings back good memories to the 1980s. What an era, also musicwise. That is something the new Ostmarker regime has understood very well."
 

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OSTMARKISCHE MOTOREN WERKE REVEALS OMW-19

"Tens of thousands of citizens will finally get access to a private means of transport" said Volkskanzler Horst Grasser.

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WIEN (Ostmark) - Car manufacturer Ostmarkische Motoren Werke announced the completion of a new model today, and it will be available for sale by second week of January, 2019. The OMW-19 "Arbeiter" has been developed by OMW engineers and technicians to meet the demand of the working class, and provide the citizens of Ostmark with a cheap yet reliable vehicle. The OMW-Arbeiter is powered by a 500cc Two-Stroke engine. It is equipped with a radio, conditioned air, and an adjustable driver seat aswell as two front airbags. Its price is set at 9.500.000 OstMarks and OMW announced a partnership with the People's Central Bank of Ostmark to grant zero-interest loans for customers who lack liquidity to afford this marvellous vehicle.

Volkskanzler Horst Grasser praised the efforts of Ostmarkische Motoren Werke to provide the people with an affordable means of transport "This astonishing product proves how efficient and reliable Ostmarkische Motoren Werke is when it is tasked to meet the needs of the working citizens who wish to achieve more freedom and autonomy by purchasing a car. The OMW-Arbeiter represents a chance for tens of thousands of men and women to visit the beautiful landscapes and monuments scattered across our People's Republic, in times when public transportation is struggling to meet national demand." said Volkskanzler Grasser in a press conference.
 

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*The national flag and the flag of the National-Syndicalist People's Party are fluttering in a clear sky over the logo of Television Broadcasting of the People's Republic of Ostmark. People's Chancellor Horst Grasser, sitting behind the desk in his office at the top floor of the Palace of the People's Republic, fades in. .*

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Dear Citizens of the People's Republic of Ostmark!

Dear friends and comrades!


It is a pleasure for me to extend to you the heartiest greetings of the Central Committee of the National-Syndicalist People's Party, and of the Office of the Chancellorship and the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Ostmark, on the occasion of the end of year 2018. The strenght and commitment you have shown in the past months is a persuasive affirmation of the working classes of our republic to peace and National-Syndicalism. I can also say, I am sure, that it is an affirmation by the youth, the People's Defense and the National-Syndicalist People's Party. Yes, dear friends, your contribution at this festive hour is an unmistakable sign of the victory of National-Syndicalism, and the end of the Days of Sorrow, for peace, friendship, and anti-capitalist solidarity.

Regardless of some speculation in the rest of Europe, we were confident that our people, on the basis of their own experiences, could reach no other decision but to embrace National-Syndicalism, to which the future of our Vaterland belongs. Our party, our government, will of course do everything in their power, in cooperation with the workers, the farmers and the intellectuals, to realize the election program of the National-Syndicalist People's Party of Ostmark in the interest of the prosperity of the people, in the interests of peace everywhere. There is no one in the world who can keep us from furthering the great revolutionary process of transformation in the first National-Syndicalist state of Europe.

We all know that the workers, the farmers, the members of the intelligentsia, the young generation of our nation have hard work and resolute struggle behind them. But today, in the last day of year 2018, we can proudly see that all the labor has paid off. With the growth of our republic, National-Syndicalism has taken permanent footing on Ostmarkian soil. We are ready to work and to defend peace together to guarantee that this process continues.

You, dear friends, have already accepted the torch from those who in October, on the occasion of the election of the National-Syndicalist People's Party, swore to stand by this republic, because it is a republic of the working people, a republic of the youth. Since then our republic has changed for the better, thanks to the strength of our people, the strength of the youth. On the ruins left us by the Days of Sorrow, developed everything that today surrounds us, what during the last three months has been accomplished everywhere in the Volksrepublik Ostmark, what each who visits us can see. You were part of it, and you will carry the banner of the National-Syndicalist revolution over the threshold of the next decade.

With pride we see that our republic is among the major industrial nations of the world, a nation mastering the demands of the scientific-technological revolution. We have combined the advantages of National-Syndicalism with those of modern technology, and we are day by day producing more with less labor. Here there is no unemployment. Here the scientific-technological revolution is carried out while maintaining full employment. The best of it all is that here one can buy something for one’s efforts, for one’s wages, and that the time will soon come in which a good apartment will be available for every young person who begins a family. Yes, dear friends, the social justice and equality for which we struggled so long, for which the Ostmarkian workers movement gave so many sacrifices in the struggle against capitalism and oppression, has developed successfully in the People's Republic of Ostmark on a firm foundation. It has proven itself a stable pillar of peace in Germania.

Naturally we are not content with what we have accomplished. Our industrial and agricultural progress, our scientific potential enables us, step by step, to move forward. The prosperity of the people will reach a level that many today can scarcely imagine. You, dear friends, with your upright support of the ideals and values of National-Syndicalism are a living guarantee that that which has been accomplished cannot be destroyed by those in the world who do not yet stand on the side of peace and cooperation, of equality. We are alone in this world, but our beliefs come out of a genuine desire for peace and progress.

Dear friends!

You are an active participant in the developed National-Syndicalist society of our nation, a participant in the formation of a new Ostmark. You will finish the work of National-Syndicalism on Ostmarkian soil, this noble work of creative labor for the benefit of the people and for the happiness of humanity, for a secure peace.

People of Ostmark, the days of sorrow are over!

*The camera slowly zooms out. The flags of the People's Republic and the National-Syndicalist People's Party fade back in on the screen, accompanied by the last stanza of the national anthem.*
 
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VOLKSARBEITSDIENST WORKER STUMBLES INTO SEVEN CENTURIES OLD FINDINGS

"An astonishing discovery that will provide unvaluable insights on the history of Ostmark" says Professor Steiner.

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By Heinrich Obenaus

WIEN (Ostmark) - When Wolfgang Werner uncovered the sealed chest from the mud, nobody imagined what its content consisted of. During an excavation operation in the outskirts of Wien, on the construction site of new residential buildings which are part of the None Shall Freeze, None Shall Starve plan, a worker of the People's Labour Service uncovered, almost by accident, a sealed chest which according to historians and archeologists of the People's State University of Wien dates back to the late XIV-Mid XV century. According to Professor Steiner, the mud and lack of oxygen preserved the chest for at least seven centuries, in a site where an ancient post station presumably stood. Scholars of the People's State University of Wien have carefully removed the lock and unveiled its precious and unvaluable content: dozens of documents that cover the story of the establishment of an Elbener trade outpost and fishing village on the eastern border of Germania ("Ostmark" is german for "Eastern Border").

Amongst them, archeologists uncovered a golden seal of the Kingdom of @Elben dated back to the XIV century. When the first elbener merchants and farmers settled on Ostmark's southern coast around year 1350AD, they brought with them books and souvenirs in an attempt to preserve their cultural ties. Faced by hostile slavic tribes and the inhospitable landscape, it is estimated that thousands of said farmers and settlers either perished or decided to return to their homeland. The permanent nucleus of individuals who decided to stay and face the harships posed by their new uncomfortable home, eventually gave birth to the modern nation of Ostmark. Professor Steiner restored a manuscript with the lyrics of an ancient ostmarkian folk song , known until now as "Ostenlied" or "Song of the East". The song is a tale about the efforts and challenges of early Ostmarkians who attempted to establish a permanent settlement in the area around Wien and their resolute will to defend what they considered their new home.
The Song of the East said:
The border watch who held in the east, and stood so long against the foe,
Today has the last post turning back to the Fatherland.
Weary and decimated in faithful knighthood,
The best are staying but we others lost our strength.

But we bring back our banner, that waved before us in battle,
From eastern bloody field, with all of its honor.
The battle-scarred flag has failed, and bows to the enemy,
And yet, as always, it points the way to the east.

The storm rushes there to admonish its forefather’s spirit,
Despite all past trouble and hardship, it calls a German future.
We became strangers to you all, oh brothers of the Reich,
From the west, south, and north, the banner remained the same.

Whether we are destroyed here, it doesn’t bother you,
To bequeath the flag is our final duty.
I may no longer hesitate, soon you will be forced to decide,
To carry it back to Eastern land, its where it wants, where it must go.
To carry it back to Eastern land, its where it wants, where it must go.

The People's Ministry of Culture announced that all the manufacts retrived from the exavation will be exposed in the People's National History Museum of Wien and will soon be available for the public. In addition, the Ministry extended invitation to their Elbener counterparts aswell as Prince Leopold and Princess Mireille to examine first hand these unvaliable findings that undeniably testify the cultural ties between the two nations.
 
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Accepting with gratitude the permission of Ostmark, a team of experts from the University of Orel will be assembled and dispatched in the coming weeks to examine these artifacts from our shared history. Prince Leopold and Princess Mireille's duties will be keeping them at home for the foreseeable future, but they look forward to traveling again to Ostmark someday.
 

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HORST GRASSER OPENS FIRST NSVP CONGRESS

"We took over a nation in ruins and transformed it in a diamond" said Comrade Grasser.

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WIEN (Ostmark) - Volkskanzler Horst Grasser opened the with a moving address to the members of the Volksrat, the representatives of youth organizations, the armed forces and the People's Labour Service, and reminded them of their role as guardians of the national revolution. Comrade Grasser reminded them of the necessity to continue on the path envisioned by the Grasserist Idea to further develope a society founded on proletarian solidarity, equality and social justice.

During the speech, Comrade Grasser listed the achievements of the government in the past months. Tens of thousands of jobs have been created by nationalizing key sectors of the national economy, the collectivization of farms, food production, natural resources and the expansion of the Volkswehr. He also praised the efforts of the Volksarbeitsdienst, the People's Labour Service, in their commitment to provide the poor and the homeless with cheap yet modern apartments as part of the None shall freeze, None shall starve plan announced in early October.

The congress will provide a chance to discuss doctrine, economy and society, aswell as foreign policy for the near and long term. For the first time in three years, the National-Syndicalist People's Party is gathered in the Palast der Volksrepublik, previously the seat of a corrupt capitalist regime, and now voice of the proletarian masses of Ostmark.
 

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23 DEAD AND 9 INJURED IN EXPLOSION AT OSTMARKISCHE MOTOREN WERKE
Wien's Feuerwehr fights against time to save trapped workers.

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WIEN (Ostmark) - Wien's Fire Brigade is fighting against time to reach dozens of workers trapped in the burning Facility No. 3 of Ostmarkische Motoren Werke, after an explosion killed at least two dozen people and injured nine. As many as seven firetrucks, two ladders, ten ambulances, and a Mass Disaster Management vehicle have been dispatched by city authorities to the scene of what many are describing as the deadliest disaster in the history of Ostmarkische Motoren Werke. The People's Police and the Fire Brigade are already investigating on the causes of the explosion in the struggle to contain fire and transport the injured to safety.

The flames are spreading to nearby facilities where OMW's fire fighting squads are cooperating with Wien's Feuerwehr in an attempt to contain the flames. People's Chancellor Horst Grasser is on the scene assisting in the coordination of rescue efforts and actively contributing in the management of firefighting operations. "It is an unprecedented disaster, i have no words to describe this. I call upon the citizens of Wien to reach the nearest hospital to donate blood for the injured comrades who are fighting for their life as we speak. This is a sad day for the People's Republic, but we must stay lucid, united, and concentrate all our energies to save the workers who are still trapped in the facility" said Volkskanzler Grasser in a brief statement.

According to OMW management, over one hundred workers were attending the night shift when the explosion occured. The Fire Brigade said that at least seventy workers are still trapped in Facility No. 3, and more Feurerwehr squads have been summoned from nearby townships, including the Volunteer Rural Firebrigades.
 

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We are shocked while seeing the images of the fire at the OMW-factory. We are prepared to give assistance when needed. The burning wound centres and traumatology centres of the university hospitals of Lüneburg, Marburg and Trier are willing, able and prepared to accept patients for acute treatment. Furthermore, the blood banks of Eiffelland are willing to provide blood products. Should one of the injured people have a rare blood group that is not available in your blood banks, and we have blood products that those people can use, we are willing to send them.

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AIR AMBULANCE TRANSPORTS SEVERELY INJURED OMW WORKER TO MARBURG'S TRAUMATOLOGY CENTRE
Death toll raises to 39. 45 injured. 8 still missing.

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WIEN (Ostmark) - A 34 years old technician of Ostmarkische Motoren Werke has been reportedly transported to Marburg's Traumatology Centre after brief talks between the governments of the People's Republic of Ostmark and the Kingdom of Eiffelland-Retalia led to an unprecedented show of cooperation between the two countries. The young man, who suffered third degree burns on 75% of his body after the explosion at OMW Facility No. 3, is now under the care of Marburg Hospital's medical staff. Meanwhile, in Wien, Feuerwehr squads have successfully extinguished the largest fires, with only a few ones resisting firefighting operations due to the collapse of three pipelines used to transport chemical fluids across the factory.

The death toll raised to 39, while 45 workers have been injured. According to a spokesperson of the emergency medical services, at least four are in serious conditions. Eight workers are still missing, but efforts to dig under the rubbles and extinguish the last fires have carried on non-stop since yesterday evening "It is a fight against time to reach the last workers trapped in the facility. Rescue dogs have identified a human presence over a specific area. We will keep digging." said a spokesman of Wien's Feuerwehr.

Volkskanzler Horst Grasser expressed profound gratitude to the government of the Kingdom of Eiffelland-Retalia and the medical staff of Marburg's Traumatology Centre for this unexpected yet appreciated show of generosity "Despite the deep differences between our countries, which promote two different societies, pragmatically opposed on all ideological grounds, the government of the Kingdom of @Eiffelland - Retalia was the first to respond, without any exortation by our side, and offered assistance in a very sad day for our nation and our people. On behalf of the People's Republic of Ostmark, i express profound gratitude to Kanzler Roland Rheinfeld, and i would love to meet him here in Ostmark with the medical staff of Marbug's Traumatology Centre, to receive an award on behalf of the People's Republic of Ostmark" said Comrade Grasser in a statement.
 
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We thank Volkskanzler Grasser for his kind words. Of course we accept the invitation. Before that, we will do what the Hippocratic Oath sworn by us orders us to do.

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I thank Volkskanzler Grasser for his kind words. Also I accept the invitation. We will travel to you as soon as the patient will travel back to Ostmark.

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VOLKSMARINE TO RESUME NAVAL EXERCISES AND OPERATIONS IN NATIONAL WATERS

"It is necessary to reaffirm our sovereignty over our national waters and guarantee the safety of marine traffic" said Volkskanzler Grasser.

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WIEN (Ostmark) - Volkskanzler Horst Grasser announced in a press conference that the People's Navy will resume naval exercises and patrol operations in Ostmark's territorial waters amid tensions between the Long and Hamar seas. Earlier in the morning, frigates "Ludwig II" and "Ostmark" accompanied destroyer "Wien" in the first naval exercise since 2013. The move comes as tensions between Gallo-Germanian nations and Justosia escalate over the naval deployments of the southern pariah state.

Comrade Horst Grasser immediatly contacted @Eiffelland 's Chancellor Rheinfeld to inform him of the ongoing operation and reassure him the decision comes as a deterrent against foreign hostile vessels, and to not be perceived as a move against the Kingdom "Our deployment must not be seen or perceived by other Gallo-Germanian nations, in particular the Kingdom of Eiffelland-Retalia, as a hostile act, but merely as a defensive deterrent in light of recent developments. The Volksmarine is ready to cooperate with the navy of the Kingdom of Eiffelland-Retalia to guarantee the safety of cargo and passenger ships in the area. We believe it is necessary for the People's Republic of Ostmark to reaffirm, amid recent tensions, the sovereignty over its national waters. We are committed to peace, and our efforts are aimed to maintain peace in the region and guarantee the safety of marine traffic in our waters." said People's Chancellor Horst Grasser in a statement.
 

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We fully understand the reasoning behind the naval exercises. We will cooperate with the Ostmarker and Pelasgian Navy to uphold the safety in the Long Sea and the westernmost part of the Hamar Sea (especially the parts of the Hamar Sea surrounding our islands).

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VOLKSRAT APPROVES NEW NATURAL PARK

“This is a huge step forward for the protection of the endangered Brown Bear” said Deputy Mangold

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WIEN (Ostmark) - The People's Assembly has approved a proposal to turn , a prime brown bear habitat in the country’s north-western mountainous region on the border with Eiffelland-Retalia, into a Nature Reserve. Under this designation, only traditional economic activities such as livestock grazing that aren’t harmful to nature will be allowed, while mining, construction, and hunting will be prohibited. The Brown Bear Trust expressed its gratitude and appreciation to the People's Assembly, and in particular to Volksrat Deputy Mangold who led a parliamentary delegation with four fellow members who championed the proposal.

“This is a huge step forward for the protection of the endangered Brown Bear”, says deputy Peter Mangold, “This Reserve will be a bridge between two existing protected areas and the resulting landscape will be one of the world’s largest continuous protected Brown Bear habitats”. The government will now appoint a working group consisting of members of several relevant government agencies to work out the specifics of the new Hirschfelden National Park, including its precise boundaries.
 

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NSVP ANNOUNCES YOUTH WING REFORMS

"The new youth wing of the NSVP will form and educate the workers, fathers and mothers of the future" said Vizekanzler Ludwig Bohmer

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WIEN (Ostmark) - The National-Syndicalist People's Party will bring timely changes to the country's education system, said Vizekanzler Ludwig Bohmer during a press conference. The first act includes the reform of the Grasser Jugend (Grasser Youth), the Party's youth organization, with the establishment of the Jugendbund der National-Syndikalistische Volkspartei (Youth League of the National-Syndicalist People's Party).

The organization will be mandatory for all children from the age of 6 up to the age of 21 and will provide vocational training to form the workers and the soldiers of the future and help the youth of the People's Republic of Ostmark to become responsible and reliable adults
"We must teach the importance of responsibility and reliability to our youth. A skillful and educated citizen is by definition a precious member of our society. The children of today will be the pillars of the future of our Vaterland. We must enable the youth to become successful, and provide them the means and the know how to contribute to the moral and material progress of the Volksrepublik. Throught labour, husbands and fathers will provide bread for their families, and with that, true freedom and happiness will be achieved. Labour, Bread, Freedom. This is our motto, this is our mission." said Vizekanzler Bohmer.

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(Ostmarkian Girls League) which will work as a sub-division of the Jugendbund der National-Syndikalistische Volkspartei within the frameworks of the Grasser Jugend "Girls are the most precious members of our society, for they will be the mothers and wives of the future. Protecting women and providing them vocational training is our duty, and a key goal of the National-Syndicalist People's Party. Few weeks ago the Volksrat approved a law that guarantees equal pay for women and men, and today, with the establishment of the Ostmarkian Girls League, we will also provide young girls the means to become valuable citizens who can contribute, on an equal ground with men, to the moral and material progress of the Nation. On this matter, the National-Syndicalist People's Party reaffirms its commitment to crush patriarchal and machist heritages, handed down to us by the corrupt consumerist society which led us to the Days of Sorrow. Today, the Days of Sorrow are finally over, but our mission still stands. Never again mothers shall be abandoned by institutions, never again a girl shall lack the means to become a mother, or feed her children. We will defend infancy and maternity as far as humanely possible, and the Ostmarkian Girls League will provide our girls the skills, and the know how, to become free women in a free society founded on equality and proletarian solidarity" added Vizekanzler Ludwig Bhomer.
 
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"THE CLERGY LACKS THE MORAL AUTHORITY TO CRITICIZE OUR FAMILY POLICIES"
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WIEN (Ostmark) - People's Chancellor Horst Grasser firmly rejected the theories of Father Pawel Jablonski of @Elben 's Institute of Christian Family Life, who recently compared Ostmark's law on equal pay and the reform of the youth organizations to "a path to social ruin". Father Jablonski stated that Ostmark's reforms are empowering women "to not need men at all, except what is necessary to father a child" and implicitly blamed the decline of marriage and male income on Ostmark's policies. Volkskanzler Grasser replied in a press conference.

"In order to understand the many dynamics that regulate most aspects of everyday's family life, one should at least be a husband, a wife, a father or a mother. Father Jablonski, who quickly dismissed and criticized our reforms, is unlikely an expert on the hardships faced on a daily basis by Gallo-Germanian families. This is particularly true in catholic and capitalist countries, where the noble and just values of Christianity - and i pragmatically say this as a non-religious person - are often put aside by the consumerist-capitalist hegemony which the Church, pursuing the "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" logic, is openly supporting in the hope to push its anti-communist agenda.

It is true that social ruin and decline of marriage, and of the birth rates, are an important issue in Gallia-Germania. Father Jablosnki, however, fails to address the main factor that contributes to such decline: this factor is, in most cases, the lack of financial resources and the lack of a stable job. How can a young couple marry and have a baby if both of them work part-time, with a temporary occupation, and with virtually no assistance from state institutions? How can individuals become fathers and mothers, if they lack the financial resources which are undeniably necessary to pursue such desires? While it is possible to build a family, make a baby and marry another individual even during times of economic scarcity, it is also true that such situations usually lead to a life of deprivation and poverty. Not everyone is willing to accept such a life, and it is the duty of the State to provide citizens equal possibilities and equal assistance.

The 'barely above poverty line' are, today, the largest masses of Gallia-Germania. It is an army of disheartened citizens who survive on a daily basis, unless Father Jablonski wants me to believe that anywhere in Gallia-Germania, except in the People's Republic of Ostmark, all individuals live well above middle-class standards and nobody lacks the financial means to live an honourable existence.

In countries ruled by a capitalist system, the poor are often neglected, abandoned by institution and ignored by the rest of society. In said countries, private charity is the only institution that struggles to cope with the inequities and unfair individualism promoted by free market capitalism and consumerism. I wonder how many golden rings and nannies wear the episcopal authorities, while thousands are abandoned by institutios and, in the best cases, live under a bridge. Why isn't Father Jablonski suggesting the sale of Church properties to fund a charity mission with its main task being the assistance of the poor? Because at the end of the day, the Church perfectly embodies in the individualistic, consumerist society promoted and enforced by free market capitalism.

But in the People's Republic of Ostmark, the main provider of services and assistance is the State. The State solemnly and diligently guarantees the welfare and the well being of its citizens, the sick, the disabled, the poor, and women, who for decades have suffered horrifying discriminations and lived as second class citizens, in a capitalist society that promoted machism and mysoginy. We reject this kind of society. Our society is based on solidarity and compassion for the sick, the poor and the weak - such concepts are, ironically, much closer to the doctrine of Christianity than the turbo-capitalist and individualist, machist and sexist theories of Father Jablonski.

Father Jablonski also stated that empowering women will most likely lead them to reject marriage. With this statement he implies that love between a man and a woman does not exist, and that a woman will marry his partner only for mere economic gains. This is a ridicolous claim, and it somehow implies that Father Jablonski's view on women is that women should be in fact dis-empowered, oppressed and denied the right to work, or receive an equal pay, in order to force them to marry a richer man and basically sell their bodies to a partner they do not really love, in exchange for a roof and a hot meal. This is absoloutely barbaric, and i am surprised that a man of the Church supports such theories.

It is Father Jablosnki's view that promotes social ruin, not the view of the National-Syndicalist People's Party. If Father Jablosnki is really the man he says he is, a man who supports traditional families and promotes the institution of marriage, then he might aswell ask his episcopal authorities to provide apartments and financial resources to young couples. I am sure the church does not lack said resources, but i also fear that when it comes to charity and christian values, in the case of the Church these ideals mostly serve as propaganda, rather than a real, tangible mission." said Volkskanzler Grasser.
 

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PROLETARIAN SOLIDARITY TRIUMPHS AS OSTMARK AND SERENIERRE SIGN TRADE AGREEMENT
"We have broken the chains of consumerism and capitalist exploitation" said Volkskanzler Grasser

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By Heinrich Obenaus

VILLESEN (Serenierre) - The People's Republic of Ostmark and the People's Republic of Serenierre have signed an historic trade agreement that will enhance the bilateral cooperation and strenghten economic ties between the two countries. Volkskanzler Horst Grasser met Premier Elisabeth Martinique at the Chatueu de Charbonne to discuss a new economic partnership and agreed on a series of import-export activities that will benefit our respective peoples in this authentic show of proletarian solidarity.

Volkskanzler Horst Grasser thanked the government of the People's Republic of Serenierre and revealed the detail of the agreement during a press conference. According to the text of the , Ostmark will export Steel, Coal and Wood to the People's Republic of Serenierre, which in return will export food and pharmaceutical products to our nation. The move comes as the National-Syndicalist People's Party reaffirmed its promises to further advance the electoral program during the First Congress of the National-Syndicalist People's Party. Vizekanzler Ludwig Bohmer recently called for broader cooperation and efforts in the mission to eradicate poverty and malnourishment from the outskirts of Wien and the rural areas.

Ostmark secured also an investment by Serenierre's financial institutions to further develope Oil Drilling and Exploration activities, and in return agreed to send five thousand workers of the People's Labour Service to assist with reconstruction efforts in the Protectorate of Occitania. Workers who will accept to move to the Protectorate will be granted special privisions upon their return to the People's Republic of Ostmark.
 
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VOLKSRAT APPROVES FAMILY WELFARE REFORM
"We put the people at the center of our political and economic agenda" said Volkskanzler Grasser

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By Heinrich Obenaus

WIEN (Ostmark) - The People's Assembly approved with a unanimity vote the much anticipated reform of family welfare, reverting the previous regulations considered by Volkskanzler Horst Grasser as "a shameful heritage of the capitalist and individualistic past of our nation". According to the text of the new law approved by the comrade deputies of the People's Assembly, mothers of newborn babies will be granted a 24 months maternity leave, and a provision sufficient to ensure the child and the family an honourable existence.

For each newborn baby, the State will supply 800.000 OstMarks. Families with three or more children will receive an una-tantum supply consisting of 2.900.000 OstMarks. Fathers in families with two or more children will be given priority in the recruitment lists of the Volksarbeitsdienst as new infrastructure projects are approved by People's Labour Service Director-General Vizekanzler Ludwig Bohmer. For new couples who plan to begin a family, the People's Central Bank will grant a 140.000.000 OstMarks zero interest loan to buy a new apartment in the recently inaugurated residential neighborhoods in the outskirts of the capital city. The law says that all provisions granted by the People's Ministry of Welfare and Family Policies will be wired to cash cards assigned to family units. The money must be spent according to the real needs of the family and with said cash cards it will not be possible to obtain goods such as liquors, cigarettes, magazines, and any good specifically forbidden by the new regulations. Violators will risk from 3 to 9 years in jail.

People's Chancellor Horst Grasser celebrated the approval of the reform with a televised address on Fernsehen der VRO "Dear Citizens of the People's Republic of Ostmark! As promised, the National-Syndicalist People's Party puts the people and all the working citizens at the center of its political and economic agenda. For the first time in our Nation, the State becomes the main provider of welfare and assistance for your children and your families. Many nations in the world are recklessly pouring public money in the construction of new armaments and new tools to unleash havoc and suffering upon the people of Europe. The People's Republic of Ostmark, firmly rejecting war as a means to settle international disputes, reaffirms its commitment to provide relief and restore hope in our Volk by enabling women and men to live an honourable and free existence. " said Comrade Grasser.
 
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