Post by Deleted on Jul 19, 2022 0:07:23 GMT -5
The typewriter jammed again.
Semyon sighed as he delivered a slap to the side of the machine, mechanical parts moving about and leaving an ink blot where the last letter had been typed. He sighed again, pulling the paper out and correcting the mistake before resetting the typewriter to continue writing. You stand with the sons and daughters of freedom who will die, fight and kill to protect Ouhiri. He was nearly done with the tabloid he had been working on since he came home from his tenure in Kumosenkan. Only through the blood, sweat and steel of unity can our world emerge from the quagmire and guild itself in gold, and thrust itself into a modern era of peace. For how long the tabloid was, it was incredibly vague. Previous drafts were less-so, but Semyon knew better than to put his true thoughts in writing. This modern era begins with the toppling of Mestria's abhorrent ascendancy. The way forward between our nations begins with your admission of guilt, there is still hope for your people to understand liberty. He had no doubt that, once sent to Kumosenkan to ensure it fit their standards, it would be heavily edited and be much more inflammatory.
May Light and Sword Guide You, Semyon Kuzmin. He let out a breath as he finished the last keystroke. Semyon pull the draft out of the typewriter, gave it a thorough read, and picked up his red pen. He began marking down spelling and grammar mistakes, but found no other issues with his writing. Reaching the bottom, he crudely and hastily wrote in red ink 'FINAL DRAFT', before grabbing a nearby envelope and folding it neatly inside.
With the Kumo embassy still in construction, as to the specifications given, the ambassador was currently housed within the capital's starfort itself. He quickly rushed up the stairs of the building, approaching the door leading to an air conditioned room, furnished well with furniture fit for such an important ambassador. Outside of the room was a small mailbox, a small slit on it's front face for intake. Semyon slid the letter within the intake.
Little more than a week later, on his way to work in the early morning, Semyon chose to stop by a public house on his route to work. He entered, waving to the bartender and placing a quick drink order. As he waited for the bartender to mix his drink, he investigated the newspaper of a middle-aged man, who was passed out face-first onto the bar, a glass in hand half full. On it's front page, plastered in large, bold text;
'KUKILOV ANNOUNCES HIS STANCE ON MESTRIA!'
In a recent tabloid published by Semyon Kuzmin, Maij of Foreign Relations... "He Just Doesn't Kiss Me Anymore!" Worry not, try Arium lipstick today... Kuzmin openly decries the Confederation of Mestrian States... Reportedly, it was reviewed and edited by Kumosenkan officials... Are you man enough? Join the Pomaz United Armed Forces for a brighter tomorrow... Read the Maij's tabloid below, first exclusive to the Sarakhov Times!
Our world hangs in an unstable balance. Evil festers and corrupts the only last bastions of liberty and freedom within their grasp. Defiantly, a few stand in face of this injustice. Kumosenkan, for example, and many others have stood in solidarity against these threats. Verak's anger grows by the day as these kind nations reach down into the gutter of those less fortunate and, as one, pull an entire people out of the greatest depression of their lives, asking nothing in return but the loyalty entrusted to such close allies. Such a threat that has been shown the might of freedom and justice has been the Confederation of Mestrian States, an autocratic alliance that, in Pomazanniki's time of need, during the world's greatest economic downturn in all of recorded history, turned their backs towards the world and declared their own interests greater than the sum of their neighbors. Semyon Kuzmin, Maij of Foreign Relations and author of this tabloid, addresses this message to the Confederation on behalf of the Free Republic of Pomazanniki.
No map can be considered a work of art while your pitiful nation stains it's parchment. Your disunited Confederation violates the sovereignty of the eyes of every nation you curse with your existence, you rob your people of the freedom that they so deserve and rob your neighbors of any and all possible gifts your landfill of a nation could possibly offer them. The few republics you have within your borders are put under the yoke of authoritarianism, their good will corrupted by the twisted purview of the Confederation's overlords. The stench of your treachery reaches from Gaelia to Amali, to Roskana and Arema. Comparing your backwards state to Touli would be an insult to those who live on the continent.
Kumosenkan has shown us your wickedness as of late, in between the shipments of resources and subsidies to finally stabilize our economy, they have shown us many classified reports of your nation. After a short discussion and debate with my fellow academic colleagues, we elected to advise you as a neutral party to submit yourself to the will of international justice. Your people should not suffer for the mistakes of the ruling caste. If you stand defiant to liberty, you will find that the armies of those who truly believe in freedom can, and will, grind your nation into a fine powder.
To the fellow free nations of Ouhiri, hear the words we speak of this abominable administration lying as a tumor upon the Old World. We ask you not to stand idle while Mestria oppresses her own people. Embargo and disavow this puppet of Verak in all but name, deny the cancers spreading across our world a valuable peninsula. Additionally, we ask you to reconsider your assumptions about Kumosenkan and accept her as a friend. Kumosenkan may hail to the Empress alone, and they may lack a parliament, but there is good intention within them. Pomazanniki holds the viewpoint that while Kumosenkan stands as an empire, she chooses to uplift the less fortunate the world and cares for her people dearly, for they are no stranger to helping the working class, ensuring all who live within her borders are fed and sheltered.
If Kumosenkan was as wicked as most say, wouldn't they have supported the wretched Tsar and his forces during the 1917 Revolution? Would they not care and tend to the needs of the downtrodden Elenrians? If they were truly malevolent, there would be more blood than this world has seen in it's lifetime. The claims of Kumosenkan's evil start and end at the biases of the nations that expose them. Kumosenkan would openly and happily support the claims of true evil in this world, such as Verak, if it were to be as diseased as some would expunge in their rhetoric. Kumosenkan has muddied their hand and reached into the great unknown in kindness to pull Pomazanniki out of the rut that true evil had put it into. Most nations that which criticize Kumosenkan are guilty of the same crimes themselves. Of all people on Ouhiri, who is absolved of sin?
And to the paragons of evil in this world, to the truly wicked and cancerous nations that spread like wildfire across the continent, destroying all that is good in their path, we recommend sleeping with an eye open. To those who stand defiant against these monolithic towers of oppression, know you do not stand alone. You stand with the daughters and sons of liberty who will kill, fight and die to protect the freedom of Ouhiri. Only through the blood, sweat and iron of unity can our world emerge from this Dark Age and guild itself in silver and gold, and propel itself into a modern era of peace and prosperity.
This modern era begins with the destruction of Mestria's abhorrent ascendancy. Lay down your authoritarian ways and walk the path of liberty.
May Light and Sword Guide You,
Semyon Kuzmin.
Edited and approved by the Kumosenkan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Semyon sighed as he delivered a slap to the side of the machine, mechanical parts moving about and leaving an ink blot where the last letter had been typed. He sighed again, pulling the paper out and correcting the mistake before resetting the typewriter to continue writing. You stand with the sons and daughters of freedom who will die, fight and kill to protect Ouhiri. He was nearly done with the tabloid he had been working on since he came home from his tenure in Kumosenkan. Only through the blood, sweat and steel of unity can our world emerge from the quagmire and guild itself in gold, and thrust itself into a modern era of peace. For how long the tabloid was, it was incredibly vague. Previous drafts were less-so, but Semyon knew better than to put his true thoughts in writing. This modern era begins with the toppling of Mestria's abhorrent ascendancy. The way forward between our nations begins with your admission of guilt, there is still hope for your people to understand liberty. He had no doubt that, once sent to Kumosenkan to ensure it fit their standards, it would be heavily edited and be much more inflammatory.
May Light and Sword Guide You, Semyon Kuzmin. He let out a breath as he finished the last keystroke. Semyon pull the draft out of the typewriter, gave it a thorough read, and picked up his red pen. He began marking down spelling and grammar mistakes, but found no other issues with his writing. Reaching the bottom, he crudely and hastily wrote in red ink 'FINAL DRAFT', before grabbing a nearby envelope and folding it neatly inside.
With the Kumo embassy still in construction, as to the specifications given, the ambassador was currently housed within the capital's starfort itself. He quickly rushed up the stairs of the building, approaching the door leading to an air conditioned room, furnished well with furniture fit for such an important ambassador. Outside of the room was a small mailbox, a small slit on it's front face for intake. Semyon slid the letter within the intake.
Little more than a week later, on his way to work in the early morning, Semyon chose to stop by a public house on his route to work. He entered, waving to the bartender and placing a quick drink order. As he waited for the bartender to mix his drink, he investigated the newspaper of a middle-aged man, who was passed out face-first onto the bar, a glass in hand half full. On it's front page, plastered in large, bold text;
'KUKILOV ANNOUNCES HIS STANCE ON MESTRIA!'
In a recent tabloid published by Semyon Kuzmin, Maij of Foreign Relations... "He Just Doesn't Kiss Me Anymore!" Worry not, try Arium lipstick today... Kuzmin openly decries the Confederation of Mestrian States... Reportedly, it was reviewed and edited by Kumosenkan officials... Are you man enough? Join the Pomaz United Armed Forces for a brighter tomorrow... Read the Maij's tabloid below, first exclusive to the Sarakhov Times!
Our world hangs in an unstable balance. Evil festers and corrupts the only last bastions of liberty and freedom within their grasp. Defiantly, a few stand in face of this injustice. Kumosenkan, for example, and many others have stood in solidarity against these threats. Verak's anger grows by the day as these kind nations reach down into the gutter of those less fortunate and, as one, pull an entire people out of the greatest depression of their lives, asking nothing in return but the loyalty entrusted to such close allies. Such a threat that has been shown the might of freedom and justice has been the Confederation of Mestrian States, an autocratic alliance that, in Pomazanniki's time of need, during the world's greatest economic downturn in all of recorded history, turned their backs towards the world and declared their own interests greater than the sum of their neighbors. Semyon Kuzmin, Maij of Foreign Relations and author of this tabloid, addresses this message to the Confederation on behalf of the Free Republic of Pomazanniki.
No map can be considered a work of art while your pitiful nation stains it's parchment. Your disunited Confederation violates the sovereignty of the eyes of every nation you curse with your existence, you rob your people of the freedom that they so deserve and rob your neighbors of any and all possible gifts your landfill of a nation could possibly offer them. The few republics you have within your borders are put under the yoke of authoritarianism, their good will corrupted by the twisted purview of the Confederation's overlords. The stench of your treachery reaches from Gaelia to Amali, to Roskana and Arema. Comparing your backwards state to Touli would be an insult to those who live on the continent.
Kumosenkan has shown us your wickedness as of late, in between the shipments of resources and subsidies to finally stabilize our economy, they have shown us many classified reports of your nation. After a short discussion and debate with my fellow academic colleagues, we elected to advise you as a neutral party to submit yourself to the will of international justice. Your people should not suffer for the mistakes of the ruling caste. If you stand defiant to liberty, you will find that the armies of those who truly believe in freedom can, and will, grind your nation into a fine powder.
To the fellow free nations of Ouhiri, hear the words we speak of this abominable administration lying as a tumor upon the Old World. We ask you not to stand idle while Mestria oppresses her own people. Embargo and disavow this puppet of Verak in all but name, deny the cancers spreading across our world a valuable peninsula. Additionally, we ask you to reconsider your assumptions about Kumosenkan and accept her as a friend. Kumosenkan may hail to the Empress alone, and they may lack a parliament, but there is good intention within them. Pomazanniki holds the viewpoint that while Kumosenkan stands as an empire, she chooses to uplift the less fortunate the world and cares for her people dearly, for they are no stranger to helping the working class, ensuring all who live within her borders are fed and sheltered.
If Kumosenkan was as wicked as most say, wouldn't they have supported the wretched Tsar and his forces during the 1917 Revolution? Would they not care and tend to the needs of the downtrodden Elenrians? If they were truly malevolent, there would be more blood than this world has seen in it's lifetime. The claims of Kumosenkan's evil start and end at the biases of the nations that expose them. Kumosenkan would openly and happily support the claims of true evil in this world, such as Verak, if it were to be as diseased as some would expunge in their rhetoric. Kumosenkan has muddied their hand and reached into the great unknown in kindness to pull Pomazanniki out of the rut that true evil had put it into. Most nations that which criticize Kumosenkan are guilty of the same crimes themselves. Of all people on Ouhiri, who is absolved of sin?
And to the paragons of evil in this world, to the truly wicked and cancerous nations that spread like wildfire across the continent, destroying all that is good in their path, we recommend sleeping with an eye open. To those who stand defiant against these monolithic towers of oppression, know you do not stand alone. You stand with the daughters and sons of liberty who will kill, fight and die to protect the freedom of Ouhiri. Only through the blood, sweat and iron of unity can our world emerge from this Dark Age and guild itself in silver and gold, and propel itself into a modern era of peace and prosperity.
This modern era begins with the destruction of Mestria's abhorrent ascendancy. Lay down your authoritarian ways and walk the path of liberty.
May Light and Sword Guide You,
Semyon Kuzmin.
Edited and approved by the Kumosenkan Ministry of Foreign Affairs.