Kansan Uutiset - The People's News - Review of the Carian Revolution and Prometheism

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Kansan Uutiset
Published by the Undersecretariat of Revolutionary Propagation, Socialist Party of Fennia

Former Civil War White executioner exposed, arrested by authorities
Kuhtala​

State Security officials in Kuhtala, Länsipohja Province, say that they have successfully identified and arrested a now 57- year old man believed to be responsible for dozens of unlawful executions of captured People's Militia prisoners during the 1920-1924 Revolutionary War. The man, who acted as the proprietor of a small Kuhtala meat shop under a false identity, has now been identified as Ahti Virtanen, a former Staff Sergeant in the defunct Royal Fennian Army and a member of a military detail subordinated to the former Monarchist secret police. Staff Sergeant Virtanen's unit was responsible for managing the White-run Parola Castle prison camp in Parola, Hämeenmaa Province. During the Revolutionary War, the Parola camp attained widespread infamy for a number of atrocities and massacres committed against its prisoners.

Specifically, Virtanen is accused of acting as a torturer and an interrogator at the camp and also acting in the role of an executioner for the unlawful military tribunal organized in the camp by White forces, by which dozens of imprisoned People's Militiamen were tried and executed in kangaroo trials during the camp's operation between 1922 and 1924. State Security officials have said that Virtanen's culpability for murder can specifically be attributed in 115 documented executions of unlawfully tried Revolutionary prisoners, and that charges of murder will be brought against him by the People's Bureau of Prosecutions. In addition, he faces other charges under the War Crimes Acts enacted by the Interim People's Directory in 1923. These charges relate to his involvement in the torture of prisoners in Parola. Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty in this affair.

Commander Mauno Ahonen, head of the Internal Bureau of State Security, said that the White murderer's exposure came about by almost complete chance. A month ago, a Revolutionary veteran who had been held in Parola during the Civil War coincidentally visited Virtanen's meat shop in Kuhtala, and then identified the man specifically by a facial scar he received in the course of a prisoner's uprising that took place at the castle in January 1924. The veteran quickly reported this to the People's Police, who passed the sighting on to a State Security detail responsible for tracking down White war criminals from the Revolutionary War. They in turn brought in other Parola survivors to make a positive identification, after which Virtanen was promptly taken into custody by State Security personnel. Both the Directorate of State Security and the local branch of the Fennian Socialist Party will issue a commendation to the Revolutionary veteran responsible for identifying Virtanen and providing the information leading to his arrest.

Virtanen is believed to have survived from the collapse of the White forces and the April 1924 liberation of Parola up to this day by living under the identity of a Revolutionary prisoner in Parola, who most likely died in imprisonment and had age and appearance sufficiently resembling Virtanen. His theft of identity and flight apparently took place a short time before Parola was liberated and as the Whites were hastily evacuating the castle and attempting to erase evidence of their atrocities. However, the archives of the camp administration and its military tribunal were partially left behind in panic, and after the liberation of Parola Virtanen was identified as the perpetrator of the aforementioned killings and an arrest warrant was issued against him. Now, he will have to face justice for his actions.

Thirty years after the Revolutionary War ended, Ahti Virtanen will now be brought to justice and he will be appropriately punished for his deeds. With the thirty-year hunt for the remaining White war criminals still ongoing, both those who have remained within the FSPR and those who fled abroad during the collapse of White resistance and the subsequent years, the case serves as a warning to the remaining White criminals. The reach of Revolutionary justice is long, and the hunt shall not end before the last of the White murderers are brought in to face the consequences of their actions.

 

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Kansan Uutiset
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News in Brief
Kalevala​

Kalevala, Kaleva Province - As the bourgeoise governments of Camden and Telora are in the midst of a developing diplomatic spat over the former's anti-whaling laws and territorial claims made in the Antarctic Continent, the Workers' Government has warned that any unilateral Antarctic territorial claims might endanger the entire presently accepted conventions of maritime territorial borders. In a statement released earlier this week, the Director of Foreign Affairs Czn. Otso Niemelä reiterated the FSPR's existing stance of general non-recognition of Antarctic territorial claims and warned that the Camdenite claims might encourage other governments to unilaterally expand their territorial waters over those defined by accepted international convention, in turn endangering international peace as a whole.

"Present convention has considered the Antarctic to be a no-man's land of sorts, and altough it has been visited over the decades by scientific expeditions and maritime travellers, and there has been an avoidance of attempting to make territorial claims over the continent", said professor Yrjö Valpola of the Kalevala State University of Diplomacy in an expert opinion provided to our newspaper.

"At the same time, accepted convention has established limits of territorial waters and protected the freedom of navigation in the high seas. The Camdenite government's venture is extremely dangerous because if left unchecked, it will challenge the legitimacy of both of the aforementioned standards, and could usher in a new age of neocolonial exploitation of both the Antarctic continent and the high seas, also setting a precedent where any imperial government could make such claims, and their legitimacy would only depend on a government's capacity of armed force", professor Valpola continued as he addressed the situation.

Kalevala, Kaleva Province - The People's Directorate of Transportation has issued a new set of recommendations for the future development of public transportation systems in major Fennian cities, in particular promoting the continued introduction of trolleybus systems in urban transportation. Based on the example of the pioneering Kalevala system introduced in 1948 by the city's Transit Department, using trolleybuses primarily manufactured by the Kaleva Machinery Cooperative, the Directorate of Transportion wants to promote such systems as an environment-friendly and economic alternative to traditional gasoline- based bus systems.

Transport officials recommend that the former should be adopted as a primary device of public transit in areas of high population density, and plans are in works to order a standardized model to be adopted by urban transit services everywhere in the country and to be introduced with financial support of the Workers' Government. In line with the proposal of promoting electricity- based transit systems in the near future, Citizen Director Marjaana Salolainen also pressed for the People's Railways to continue its nascent programs of railway electrification.

 

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The Republic of Kruševa watches closely the events unfolding in the Fennian Republic. We believe that this so called war criminal that was found thirty years later than the anarchic events that unfolded in Fennia between 1920-1924 is in reality just a small and unimportant business proprietor that maybe had a mouth to big in his continuous and lawful criticism of the Fennian social, economical and political system. We do not condone a witch hunt, which is exactly the way the secret services of the Fennians do with everyone who dares to open its mouth and say its mind.

If we were to really appreciate and to declare that the trial of this Ahti Virtanen, we invite the Fennians to open us and make a real, transparent trial in which the proofs both pro and against him are presented clearly and are analyzed objectively. The Republic of Kruševa would ask the Fennians to do this and present the world that their regime can be humane and present its citizens with respect, not only the party elites. We hope that after so much time after the years of anarchy, the Fennian authorities can judge such a thing objectively.

Signed,
Pavelu Simonu Repac
Deputy-Voivode and Minister of Foreign Affairs
Council of Ministers of the Republic of Kruševa​

 

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Fennian Sosialistinen Kansantasavalta
The Fennian Socialist People's Republic

Ulkoasiain Kansandirektoraatti
People's Directorate of Foreign Affairs

The Workers' Government is bemused by the fact that the Krusevan national-autocracy has taken upon itself to express criticism over the way with which the internal affairs of the Socialist People's Republic are conducted, and will categorically refute this so-called criticism on behalf of the junta in Kruseva. Indeed, comments levelled against the political and judicial structures of the FSPR will rest in a very unstable and untenable ground when they come from a regime which in itself has thoroughly deprived its citizenry of all basic rights and dignity, which have been ground to dust by the cogwheels of Krusevan tyranny.

Citizen Otso Niemelä,
Deputy Chairman of the People's Directory of the FSPR,
People's Director of Foreign Affairs

 

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Kansan Uutiset
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News in Brief
Kalevala​

Kalevala, Kalevala Province - Representatives to the People's Parliament are in the process of discussing a motion that would remove homosexuality from the official classification of psychiatric illnesses as defined by the People's Directorate of Health. In an address made to Parliament in its today's session, People's Representative Juho Havakka called for the immediate reform of the illness classifications in its sections pertaining to homosexualism, denouncing the existing illness classification as counter-revolutionary and an unscientific vestige of "old popular belief perpetuated by pre-Revolution reactionary institutions and the bourgeoise clergy for the purposes of social control". "As the economic structures of opression have been thoroughly eliminated by the Socialist Party, emancipating both the working classes and the peasantry of our country, we must now move on to the advancement of the revolution to eliminate other oppressive structures from our society, including those of gender, ethnicity and sexuality", People's Representative Havakka proclaimed at the end of his address.

While articles of the Monarchist Criminal Code forbidding homosexual acts were not included in the Criminal Code of the FSPR during its formulation between 1920 and 1925, homosexuality was officially defined as a mental illness by the Directorate of the Health in 1943 and the definition has survived against intense academic and political debate on the matter. Citizen Kustaa Korpela, the People's Director of Health and Social Affairs, quickly pointed out that reforms in this regard should be the sole purview of medical professionals and researchers and free of political intervention. At the same time, several other People's Representatives argued that the very concept of homosexuality in itself was a creation of capitalist hedonism and made verbal attacks against Havakka to this effect, even to the point where Chairman of Parliament Sakari Kokkola had to threaten them with exclusion from the ongoing Parliamentary session.

Rannanturku, Turunmaa Province - Työn Hedelmä (engl. The Fruit of Labour) joins the recreational fleet of the Socialist Workers' and Peasants' Recreational Association (STTV) after its official launch ceremonies were held today at the Turunmaa State Dockyards. The new ship, at a tonnage of 25000 GRT, will accommodate nearly 1500 passengers in comfortable accommodations described by State Dockyards representatives to rival any passenger vessels in the service of foreign shippers operating in the Gothic Sea and the Thaumantic Ocean. Now embarking on two weeks of test cruises with visits to several cities of the Fennian Southwestern Coast, the liner will eventually be used to accommodate Fennian workers who will have the opportunity to attain places in the STTV- organized recreational cruises by participating in a lottery, or as rewards issued by participating employers for exemplary working achievements.

Representing the most modern advances of Fennian shipbuilding, the vessel also serves as a pilot ship in a class which may be ordered by the state-owned Fennian Gothic-Thaumantic Line for use as ocean liners. Työn Hedelmä and any similar vessels built for the Recreational Association and the Gothic-Thaumantic Line will partly be financed by the People's Navy, as they include design provisions to facilitate possible use as troop transports in the event of a war.

 

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Kansan Uutiset
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In review of the Carian Revolution and Prometheism
Opinion​

On the shores of the Long Sea, one nation more celebrates its liberation from the yoke of reaction and feudalism in the wake of the Carian Revolution and the toppling of the autocratic Carian Despotate. What has transpired in Caria now serves as another reminder to the autocrats and tyrants of Europe that popular will and the socioeconomic desires of advancement on behalf of the masses cannot be ignored and suppressed, and that the inevitable fate of such autocracies is their own demise in a violent popular revolution. The popular desires of the Carians have been manifested by cannon and bayonet directed against the oppressor, and the people have cast down their tyrants. Now we must conduct an examination of this sociopolitical upheaval and its likely consequences for the Carian proletariat struggling to establish its new structures of power in the country.

The nature of the Carian events as a combined uprising of the bourgeoise, peasantry and the urban proletariat against an oligarchic structure bears parallers to the First Revolution of 1907 and its alliance of early Fennian Socialists and bourgeoise liberals. As we all recall, the failure of the 1907 revolutionary movements can be attributed to the nature of this unfortunate alliance. The divergent interests of the revolutionary proletariat and the bourgeoise were joined in their equal disenfranchisement under the pre-1907 system in our country, but it was the bourgeoise and not the proletariat who truly managed to perform a seizure of power in the aftermath of these events. Thus, we learned that the Socialist revolution must never rely on the assistance of outside forces but occur solely on behalf of the revolutionary classes. Thirteen years later, the Second Revolution demonstrated the wisdom of this approach and demonstrated that the revolutionary proletariat must act solely on its own behalf and in pursuit of its own interests.

Therefore, the lessons of 1907 serve as a warning and a prediction regarding the outcome of the events in Caria. The interests of the bourgeoise and the proletariat will ultimately conflict and cannot be reconciled within a society. Indeed, the situation needs a reminder of the three-pillar theory of repression defined by Citizen Koivisto during the Revolutionary War. The pillar of political repression has now been toppled in Caria and the proletarian interests can be represented politically. Remaining are the pillars of economic - ownership of the means of production by the few - and social - constructs of ethnic and religious self-identification and social control - repression that must be eradicated for a true workers' state to form.

Thus we arrive to the divergence of interests in the Carian Revolution, and why it is truly a revolution of the bourgeoise. A bourgeoise democracy has now been established in place of the old autocratic structure. The structures of social and economic repression will remain in the Carian society, and the proletariat in a parliamentary democracy will not be sufficiently empowered to act against these remaining repressionary structures for their own benefit.

Given the proclamation of the majority Workers' Party of Caria as a Prometheist movement, the situation also calls for a broader examination of the concept of Prometheism in itself. Prometheism must be denounced as a dangerous movement of ideological revision, as it makes the ultimately mistaken and counter-productive presumption that Socialism can be achieved and maintained under conditions other than the dictatorship of the proletariat. Indeed, the very self-characterization of Prometheist ideologues as reinvented Social Democrats distances them from genuine revolutionary movements.

There is still the fundamental flaw of the absence of any actual self-control of the means of production by the producer, and the further ideological revision of presuming a revolution that can occur within the context of bourgeoise parliamentarism. The ideological revision of revolutionary parliamentarism is heavily flawed and ultimately self-destructive, even counter-revolutionary. Parliamentarism can serve as means for the establishment of the workers' state given the appropriate precusory conditions, but it can never be an end, for only the dictatorship of the proletariat will sufficiently empower the masses for the removal of the pillars of political, economic and social repression from society.

Thus, the ideological revisionism and the counter-revolutionary nature of Prometheism must be appropriately recognized and denounced by the workers' movements in Fennia, Caria and the rest of Europe. The fact that the Carian masses' demand of empowerment, with its revolutionary manifestations, have now been hijacked by an alliance of revisionist counter-revolutionaries and bourgeoise reactionaries must be appropriately recognized.

Citizen Juho Vapaavuori,
Undersecretary of the Fennian Socialist Party for Doctrine
President of the Juhana Koivisto People's University

 

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Kansan Uutiset
Published by the Undersecretariat of Revolutionary Propagation, Socialist Party of Fennia

News in Brief
Kalevala​

Kalevala, Kaleva Province - The annual People's Directory Literature Awards for 1954 have been distributed to the most distinguished writers of the last year, in a reception and ball hosted over by Citizen Chairman Ahti Vienala. The awards, whose recipients are jointly chosen by the board of the Socialist Writers' Association and the People's Directorate of Propaganda, serve to reward the year's most distinguished Fennian writers in the categories of both fictional and informational literature. Those receiving the People's Directory Literature Award will be granted an official civic medal and a significant financial stipend. This is the 23rd time the Literature Awards have been issued since Chairman Koivisto begun the practice in 1932 in order to promote high-quality Fennian literary works.

In the fiction category, the Literature Award was handed out to Matias Vuolasranta, known for his numerous historical epics centered around key events in Fennian history, for his last year's epic The Lowlands Rising (orig. Alamaa Nousee) detailing the events of the 1543-1546 Pohjanmaa peasant uprising through the eyes of its legendary leader Jaakob Ilmajoki. The novel won significant critical praise owing to its historical accuracy and exhaustive background research, and has been adopted to the obligatory leading lists issued by the Directorate of Education for the Fennian language classes in schools.

The award for information literature was handed out to Kristian Virta, a Professor at the People's University of Technology, for his last year's Road to the Future (Tie Tulevaisuuteen), an examination of future technological advancement and its effect in the development of our society according to Socialist ideals. Road to the Future received praise from the award board for its role in inspiring popular interest in technological research and the scientific work being conducted in the Fennian People's Universities and on behalf of various state and cooperative enterprises.

International - Austwegian naval exercises underway in the Gothic Sea, People's General Staff confirms its monitoring of the situation by regular procedure
Kalevala, Kaleva Province - The Fennian General Retail Cooperative commences its annual conference, delegates set to elect a new executive board and other officials
Rovajärvi, Lapinmaa Province - People's Volunteer Militiamen called in to assist rescue efforts as snowstorms cut off several towns in Lapinmaa and Sevetic Territory