Francisco Cojuanco
Sometime traitor to his class
- Location
- Arizona
Based on Temeraire's SW game TL about a Russia where Yeltsin dies just before the 1993 constitutional crisis:
Circa mid-1997
The Government Parties
Reform Bloc of Women and Labor: yeah, yeah, I know, two separate (corruption-tainted) parties, but in practice they seem lock step on a lot of things, except perhaps that Christ the Savior Cathedral kerfluffle and Washicko droning on on OTV about how he wants to restrict abortion to be more like France, as if President Savitskaya would actually let the Orthodox Church actually anywhere near power. Anyway, they're finally saying they're going to send in troops into Chechnya, to restore international confidence in Russia, because apparently after Chechnya, in theory a constituent entity of Russia, has gone through, what, 3 rounds of secessionist civil disorder, now is the time to send VDV and the police in...
Agrarian Party: Bless their hearts, between Helping Hands, actually trying to court the Church before it was cool, and trying to actually give practical aid to the agricultiral sector, they seem to actually think governing Russia is about good governance. Pity that won't last.
The Others
Communist Party: I never thought I'd say this, but given their record of competent if controversial municipal governance, plus their whole "Computer Governance" thing actually working, they might actually square up to be a real challenger in the next general election. Now if only they'd stop having an orgasm every time Stalin's name is mentioned, and remember that Russia actually supports Belgrade not opposes it, that would be good too.
Liberal Democratic Party: The Libdets, three lies for the price of one, like the Germans say. As usual, ranting on every talk show about how Russia ignoring a bunch of Chinese policemen on an unoccupied island in a place even more godforsaken than Uryupinsk is proof of the government being a foreign puppet actually gives it a boost in the polls. Albeit given Chechnya, the government has little room to complain. Still, vaguely anti-Semitic, ultra-nationalist and generally nasty people (what else can you call them after their attempt to poach Nazbol voters?)
Marxist Workers Party: As usual, saying that they can bring back true Leninism to Russia by the Power of Rock. One gets the feeling that people vote for them as a fuck you to whichever gormless bureaucrat or former officer is in government this month. Like, I mean half their voters seem to turn up because Girin is hip and edgy and Russian unlike Michael Jackson. I suppose it could be worse, but then again you can say that about literally anything in this country.
Russian Choice: Oh, look, the remnants of Boris Yeltsin's corpse, if it had a bastard child with Maggie Thatcher! Yeah, yeah, Moscow Miracle, yadda yadda Ustinov is not a Bratki, but come on, do they even have any voters outside Moscow or Piter? I suppose so, they do have more than two Federal Councilmen, but still, every miner I've met uses the words "Russian Choice" as a boogieman to keep his children from pulling any bullshit.
National Bolsheviks: Ah, the party who looks at parliamentary immunity and shits all over it because Jewish Pizza Hut conspiracy or something. Like of all the places to firebomb, they go after an overpriced American pizza chain just because Gorbachev decided he would shed the last remnants of his dignity with them? There are rumore the other parties want to ban them by the 1999 election, and if so, may that day come soon. The country that spent the most blood fighting the Nazis having 4 practical neo-Nazis in parliament is a fucking scandal.
Circa mid-1997
The Government Parties
Reform Bloc of Women and Labor: yeah, yeah, I know, two separate (corruption-tainted) parties, but in practice they seem lock step on a lot of things, except perhaps that Christ the Savior Cathedral kerfluffle and Washicko droning on on OTV about how he wants to restrict abortion to be more like France, as if President Savitskaya would actually let the Orthodox Church actually anywhere near power. Anyway, they're finally saying they're going to send in troops into Chechnya, to restore international confidence in Russia, because apparently after Chechnya, in theory a constituent entity of Russia, has gone through, what, 3 rounds of secessionist civil disorder, now is the time to send VDV and the police in...
Agrarian Party: Bless their hearts, between Helping Hands, actually trying to court the Church before it was cool, and trying to actually give practical aid to the agricultiral sector, they seem to actually think governing Russia is about good governance. Pity that won't last.
The Others
Communist Party: I never thought I'd say this, but given their record of competent if controversial municipal governance, plus their whole "Computer Governance" thing actually working, they might actually square up to be a real challenger in the next general election. Now if only they'd stop having an orgasm every time Stalin's name is mentioned, and remember that Russia actually supports Belgrade not opposes it, that would be good too.
Liberal Democratic Party: The Libdets, three lies for the price of one, like the Germans say. As usual, ranting on every talk show about how Russia ignoring a bunch of Chinese policemen on an unoccupied island in a place even more godforsaken than Uryupinsk is proof of the government being a foreign puppet actually gives it a boost in the polls. Albeit given Chechnya, the government has little room to complain. Still, vaguely anti-Semitic, ultra-nationalist and generally nasty people (what else can you call them after their attempt to poach Nazbol voters?)
Marxist Workers Party: As usual, saying that they can bring back true Leninism to Russia by the Power of Rock. One gets the feeling that people vote for them as a fuck you to whichever gormless bureaucrat or former officer is in government this month. Like, I mean half their voters seem to turn up because Girin is hip and edgy and Russian unlike Michael Jackson. I suppose it could be worse, but then again you can say that about literally anything in this country.
Russian Choice: Oh, look, the remnants of Boris Yeltsin's corpse, if it had a bastard child with Maggie Thatcher! Yeah, yeah, Moscow Miracle, yadda yadda Ustinov is not a Bratki, but come on, do they even have any voters outside Moscow or Piter? I suppose so, they do have more than two Federal Councilmen, but still, every miner I've met uses the words "Russian Choice" as a boogieman to keep his children from pulling any bullshit.
National Bolsheviks: Ah, the party who looks at parliamentary immunity and shits all over it because Jewish Pizza Hut conspiracy or something. Like of all the places to firebomb, they go after an overpriced American pizza chain just because Gorbachev decided he would shed the last remnants of his dignity with them? There are rumore the other parties want to ban them by the 1999 election, and if so, may that day come soon. The country that spent the most blood fighting the Nazis having 4 practical neo-Nazis in parliament is a fucking scandal.
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