

Of course, people’s exact reasons for opposing socialism are varied. Blanket opposition to socialism as a movement with some legitimately worrying elements makes it a lot easier to avoid addressing its actual contents. Conservative groups in Poland, not least the National Coalition, see themselves as a successful bastion against socialism, not the outdated relic the left would depict them as.

After all, the reason those other countries are so far “ahead” in terms of social(ist) policy is because their broader voting rights have given the reds that much more influence. The so-called Social Democratic Party is disrupting the Sejm from within, but the other parties know perfectly well that, at least right now, any voting reform would not appease the reds but only make them stronger.

Poland is perhaps not authoritarian enough to use the level of violence that could actually put down these movements (even temporarily), but neither is it democratic or humble enough to compromise with them. Slav civilians have started feeling scared to enter many parts of the Bremen and Vienna Voivodeships, which of course is exactly what those rebel scum want. The Crown’s policing, anti-militia and weapon stockpiling laws have been decently effective at preventing a rehash of the Hungry ‘40s – or worse – but small-scale terror attacks, protests turned riots and generally heightened tensions are a regular headache. At the same time, many liberals, communists and separatists alike are getting impatient with the state’s intransigence and turning to more violent means to enact their preferred solutions by force. An end to the clunky Commissions system and properly expanded voting rights public education, already embraced by most surrounding countries and with tangible benefits to the state and the abolition of child labor and other practices harmful both to the children themselves and everybody else. angrily demanded and bluntly refused – are the same that they’ve been for several decades. As the year 1004 begins in the Slavic Calendar, the main reforms being debated in millennial Poland – i.e.
