NATO - Warsaw Pact conflict

**seireikhaan** · 09-06-2007, 18:03

Originally Posted by Derfasciti

Anyone know if Greaterkhan is still around? We've got some Balkans to conquer

Still here. Been waiting for a certain someone to get back.

**King Kurt** · 09-07-2007, 16:18

Tran - Can't post until Monday - still waiting for PM replies - will post come what may on Monday.

**Tran** · 09-07-2007, 22:27

No problem, it's Monday for Turkey (and whoever you PM). The rest still have to send decisions by Sunday

**Derfasciti** · 09-07-2007, 23:24

Sure thing, Tran. Out of curiosity, will you be sending an updated list of casualties and troop positions, and what not by then?

**Tran** · 09-09-2007, 00:40

The following players haven't sent decisions:
- All Warsaw Pact states
- UK (long absence)
- Italy (didn't send previously)
- Greece (didn't send previously)

If I haven't received orders until late Sunday, I'll just make the troops stay where they are (or relinquish control to other players like already to some states). I don't understand, but you can always inform here of your absence of reason for delay?

As for any additional info, request them by sending PM to me.

**Marshal Murat** · 09-09-2007, 02:38

Italian Prime Minister's Speech:
People of Italy. These are trying times, as our foes the Yugoslavians, they cross our borders. They do not seek our aid, nor do they offer us peace. They bring war, and violence, and bloodshed. They bring the fight to our soil. Our homeland. They are attacking not just the NATO forces in Greece and Turkey. They are attacking us. We are one nation, one people. I say to you, remember Rome. Remember the fierce Gauls who assaulted the homes of our ancestors and forebearers. They who killed so many a Roman, they who stood on our soil and took our women and the precious relics we had. I tell you know, Italians, that the same blood that conquered the Gauls and the Spaniards, the same blood that gave us Julius Caesar, runs in us.
We are to be proud of our heritage, people of Italy. From the Piedmont of the Alps, to the bright beaches of Sardinia and Genoa, Venice and Naples. I tell you, this is our land, and to stand with the invader is to stand against Italy. You are surrendering the lands of the Romans, the lands of your parents and grand-parents. I stand against these Yugoslavian communist. I stand against these aggressors. Italy's soldiers, they stand with me. Many Italians, they stand with me today, in fighting the aggressor. They stand, they fight, and they shall drive the Yugoslavians and their allies back from the soil of Trieste. They shall stand, they shall fight. We shall drive the Yugoslavians back from our borders, and we shall keep them from our homes and our cities. Our ports and our culture.
Italy implores you to defend her honor and her lands. I commend the protests of the students and people. It is in the most Republican traditions that you stand for what you believe in. I ask you, who are you brothers and sisters? Who are your parents, you relatives, your ancestors? Are they Soviets? Are they Yugoslavians? Are they Poles, or Czechs, or Germans?
The forebearers of this land were not Soviets, nor Czechs, nor Yugoslavians. They were Italians. They were people who brought us Vergil, Cicero, Caesar, Pompey, Crassus, Scipio Africanus, and Tacitus. Ovid and Augustus are your grandparents. Nero and Claudius, Marcus Aurelius, they are your uncles. They are Italians. Romulus, Numa Pompilius, they are your brothers.
I ask you to defend the lands of your brothers and uncles. Defend the lands that are now being threatened by the Yugoslavians. Defend the lands of your ancestors, like the Horatii at the bridge. I ask you to stand, and fight. I will stand and fight. The Venetians, they will stand and fight. Will you stand and fight, Italians? Will you stand and fight, or will you only bow to the invaders, sons of Aeneas? Fight for Italy, my brothers. Fight!

**seireikhaan** · 09-09-2007, 03:27

Josip Tito's address to the Italian public:

People of Italy,
We come not to conquer, only to liberate. We do not force a yolk upon those we conquer, we instead give them true freedom, that which is currently deprived of many of you. People of Italy, how many of you suffer from poverty and destitution? How many of you struggle to live paycheck to paycheck, while your employer lavishes in extravagance? What right is it of theirs to exploit your hard labor and only pay a pittance of their income in return? We come to offer that which every human being deserves: an honest living, an equivalent income which surpasses the destitution so many in capitalistic societies are forced into.

I commend those who recognize their government's corruption and inequality. I hope that all will soon recognize that all human beings have base rights and needs, and that Socialism will provide said needs and rights to all. Your president claims he has the military in his support. The same military which so blatantly disregarded the rights and wishes of the people of Austria. People of Italy, how much longer will it be until the current government disregards your own wishes as well? How long before your president uses the military to strong-arm the common man into following his whim? Italians, throw off the yolk of your oppressors, and create your own socialist society, where the common man can live with ease, not having to fight for his family's economic survival on a daily basis! It is not right for the few wealthy persons to dominate the rest of society, and horde society's wealth for themselves! People of Italy, I can guarantee that all of you work much harder and longer hours than the heads of the corporations who seek to exploit your labor! Take what is rightfully yours!