16 Mai 1954
State Security Division
Exactly a year and a month has passed since the Saaremaa that we knew as a free and liberal state has died. For this to happen only five signatures were necessary. Five generals that met in Raasiku in April 1953 and decided that they can't simply stand to see how the elections can go swiftly as they always went for a century and a half and decided to declare that they, as military men deserve more merit than the simple citizen and declared that they will create a new Saaremaa. They succeeded. They managed to destroy the old Saaremaa and created a new one. They destroyed its economy, they destroyed its democratic institution, they destroyed its cultural traditions and its historic continuity. They called this abomination a National Revolutionary State. No more than two months have passed that this monstrous creation started to die from the inside. The hardliners of the military clique, led by Paavo Laht and Kalev Soosaar were sacked, the two of them were also kept in prison until recently. What were called the as a Reformist faction came to power, led by Mihkel Vaino and Jaak Raud. They have amended the NRS constitution so that not only the military was ruling, but candidatures were open to men who graduated a university. Even so, in power remained the same clique of generals.
Even if the international press and governments were fooled by the rhetoric of Vaino and his government, the Saaremaa people were not. While protests from the outside started to die off, the junta was more and more repressive. Students who were organizing demonstrations were swiftly arrested and sent to labor camps in the coal mines near Imavere or even worse, to work at the Vendra-Imavere Railway in the north. There is a constant threat around that the secret police is hearing and watching you. What we called before a as being private life, now its a mockery in front of the most basic human rights. The local press does nothing but to adulate the so called government that saved the country. The clique destroyed our economy. They destroyed factories and companies that were efficient and sent into unemployment a huge number of people. Even if the regime's rhetoric seems very populist, their actions are showing that they support corporations over their own people.
In the first part of this open letter I have presented the current status of Saaremaa. We have decided to publish this letter when we received the plans for the "19th of July Protocols". We want to see the dictatorship end. We want a return to democracy and for this we are warning the world against the imperialism and colonialism that the current dictatorship in Saaremaa fosters. We ask the world to protest against any move of the dictatorship. We ask the government of [MENTION=1664]Bangala[/MENTION] to break any relations between the government of Saaremaa and Keskpank on one side and their government on the other side.
Three days ago, the State Security Division has received the plans for the 19th of July Protocols. The operation is aimed against the Kingdom of Bangala and if it is to succeed, it will end in the country being annexed to the NRS of Saaremaa and also Saaremaa's first colony in Himyar. The plan is based in making the Kingdom of Bangala dependent on the state of Saaremaa, in a number of steps:
We have decided to risk our lives by publishing the plan because we do not want another country to be destroyed in the same way Saaremaa was. We ask the governments of the free world to continue their protests against the dictatorship, we ask the government-in-exile led by Anna Sepp to return from Alderburgh. We would have not done this if we didn't observed that the glass is nearly filled and the people will not stand for this any more. It is our duty now to clean after us before other peoples will suffer at the hands of this cabal.
Signed,
Friends of the Saaremaa Democracy
State Security Division
Exactly a year and a month has passed since the Saaremaa that we knew as a free and liberal state has died. For this to happen only five signatures were necessary. Five generals that met in Raasiku in April 1953 and decided that they can't simply stand to see how the elections can go swiftly as they always went for a century and a half and decided to declare that they, as military men deserve more merit than the simple citizen and declared that they will create a new Saaremaa. They succeeded. They managed to destroy the old Saaremaa and created a new one. They destroyed its economy, they destroyed its democratic institution, they destroyed its cultural traditions and its historic continuity. They called this abomination a National Revolutionary State. No more than two months have passed that this monstrous creation started to die from the inside. The hardliners of the military clique, led by Paavo Laht and Kalev Soosaar were sacked, the two of them were also kept in prison until recently. What were called the as a Reformist faction came to power, led by Mihkel Vaino and Jaak Raud. They have amended the NRS constitution so that not only the military was ruling, but candidatures were open to men who graduated a university. Even so, in power remained the same clique of generals.
Even if the international press and governments were fooled by the rhetoric of Vaino and his government, the Saaremaa people were not. While protests from the outside started to die off, the junta was more and more repressive. Students who were organizing demonstrations were swiftly arrested and sent to labor camps in the coal mines near Imavere or even worse, to work at the Vendra-Imavere Railway in the north. There is a constant threat around that the secret police is hearing and watching you. What we called before a as being private life, now its a mockery in front of the most basic human rights. The local press does nothing but to adulate the so called government that saved the country. The clique destroyed our economy. They destroyed factories and companies that were efficient and sent into unemployment a huge number of people. Even if the regime's rhetoric seems very populist, their actions are showing that they support corporations over their own people.
In the first part of this open letter I have presented the current status of Saaremaa. We have decided to publish this letter when we received the plans for the "19th of July Protocols". We want to see the dictatorship end. We want a return to democracy and for this we are warning the world against the imperialism and colonialism that the current dictatorship in Saaremaa fosters. We ask the world to protest against any move of the dictatorship. We ask the government of [MENTION=1664]Bangala[/MENTION] to break any relations between the government of Saaremaa and Keskpank on one side and their government on the other side.
Three days ago, the State Security Division has received the plans for the 19th of July Protocols. The operation is aimed against the Kingdom of Bangala and if it is to succeed, it will end in the country being annexed to the NRS of Saaremaa and also Saaremaa's first colony in Himyar. The plan is based in making the Kingdom of Bangala dependent on the state of Saaremaa, in a number of steps:
- Step 1: The closure of the Cross Bank was the greatest opportunity to put this plan into practice. Step 1 was already completed, as the Keskpank has bought the actives of the Cross Bank, becoming one of the largest banks in the Kingdom.
- Step 2: The buying of land. This step is currently in progress. Alvar Kallas, the CEO of the largest corporation in Saaremaa working in the field of agriculture has shown interest in the buying nearly half a million hectares of land in Bangala. Even if the plan was disrupted by the Bangalans when they offered to work the land themselves and only export the produces, it is believed that the responses coming from [MENTION=295]Seneca[/MENTION] and [MENTION=228]Brazul[/MENTION] regarding the acquisition of the Cross Bank, has set Bangala into an isolating trend, the mission of Jaak Raud, minister of external affairs, is to show the Bangalans their dependence on the treaties with Saaremaa, presenting our country as their only friend, compared with the hostility coming from the western hemisphere.
- Step 3: The false flag attacks. After the land is bought, the government plans to organize a false flag attack on the people who work the land of the newly bought land plots. They will try to condemn the Bangalans for the attack but they will also state that everything can end well if they let soldiers from Saaremaa to be based on their lands.
- Step 4a: The protectorate. Isolated and with Saaremaa soldiers on their lands, the government of Bangala will be presented with an alliance treaty that will make the Kingdom no more than a vassal of Saaremaa.
- Step 4b: If the alliance treaty is declined, the soldiers based in Bangala are to enter the capital and arrest the king and the government and put a puppet government in place.
- Step 5: The government of Bangala is to declare on the 19th of July that they wish to be part of the NRS of Saaremaa, the Kingdom being effectively annexed.
We have decided to risk our lives by publishing the plan because we do not want another country to be destroyed in the same way Saaremaa was. We ask the governments of the free world to continue their protests against the dictatorship, we ask the government-in-exile led by Anna Sepp to return from Alderburgh. We would have not done this if we didn't observed that the glass is nearly filled and the people will not stand for this any more. It is our duty now to clean after us before other peoples will suffer at the hands of this cabal.
Signed,
Friends of the Saaremaa Democracy
