PRAVDA: October 1942 Issue

[conmcb25]

Originally posted by El Awrence
Forgive me, Comrade Marshall, for I have dispatched all those reporters from Pravda to fight for the Rodina and I have remained alone to run the paper of the Party! News is forthcoming, from all fronts!

Hurry Im thinking of running a poll on whether we should begin collecting extra blankets for you!

[Dr. Nick]

PRAVDA- Oktober 1941 Edition

STAVKA:

Comrade Marshall Stefanovich Knapowsky on holiday, Comrade Pavlov takes over as deputy

All workers should salute the toil of our Comrade Marshall Stefanovich Knapowsky! Since the leave of our former Marshall, and the untimely demise of Comrade Mashall Kleshnikov, may Marx keep him forever in his glory, Comrade Marshall Knapowsky rose to the occasion. His leadership and direction has indeed drawn the workers from their lack of a directed effort and, despite the power of the fascist enemy that our workers face, he has shown his ability to bring about great efforts in the Great Patriotic War!

In Comrade Marshall Knapowsky's absence, Comrade General Pavlov will be undertaking the burden of directing the concerted effort of the Soviet Union in defeating the fascist pigs. May his leadership in our struggle be a successful one.

And a good holiday from Pravda to our Great Comrade Marshall, may the vodka flow plentily in your holiday home! Nasdrovye!

BALTIC FRONT:

Leningrad pounded, Red Army Mans Trenches
The Red Army stationed around Leningrad never expected the 40 cm shell that came crashing down like fire and brimstone from hell itself, cruising through the darkened skies. Indeed, no commander ever expected to ever encounter shells of this size, but it has become known now that the fascists have brought forth the most demonstrative show of German power: a 40 cm gun nicknamed 'Karl' which continued to bombard the city that bears the namesake of our most glorious Revolutionary forefather for three days, before being located by a stranded member of our Glorious Red Airforce. The pictures brought back home by the pilot reveal the omnipresence of the gun, rumoured to be manned by almost two thousand men, taking almost an hour to reload. But the location of the huge gun gave our glorious men time to prepare a raid in anticipation, and under the cover of night, serveral artillery brigades sortied from Leningrad and opened fire upon Karl most valiantly. It took the Germans till dawn to located our gunners, but their shells had fallen with accuracy. By the time our guns were pounded by the Luftwaffe, Karl had been silenced and severely damaged. Glory to the workers, and their perseverance against all odds!

Meanwhile, Wermacht units continue to pull up outside Leningrad, and Red Army units scramble to the defence of the city, which by providence of the iron will of our workers should hold!

MURMANSK FRONT:

Road to Murmansk Closed, Fighting Reported Outside Kandalashka!
Once again, the fascists and their Finnish lapdogs have threatened the vital convoys from Murmansk that reach our Rodina from our allied, and a new Fino-German offensive into the Kola has forced the temporary closure of the road between Murmansk and the mainland. Already it is rumoured that a counteroffensive is being mounted and that, despite attempts from the Fascists to frustrate our defence, the brave Red Airforce has scrambled from its bases and in their tiny Polikarkovs, have attacked Finnish artillery and infantry and, in support of Red Army incursions, have crushed the enemy and frustrated his plans to cut us off from our allies!

UKRAINIAN FRONT:
Kiev Surrounded, Red Army Hunkering Down
More news comes from Kiev, this is expected to be our last reports from that stage of operations, as the Germans continue to pound Russian defences. Aided by the treacherous Ukrainians, the Hun continue to advance and crush our desperate units, attacked on all sides by Germans and Ukrainians alike who have turned against their brothers in assistance of these foreigner fascists! Kiev is reportedly surrounded by Wermacht forces, and Red Army units caught in the envelope are hunkering down to prepare for a desperate defence of the city. In all respects, the situation is deemed hopeless, as the brave soldiers of the Rodina are attacked by lack of supplies, hunger and by treacherous Ukrainians. However, thousands of civilians, true fighters and great workers for the cause managed to mobilise and flee of their own accord from the city, and thousands of refugees have fled east, so that they may continue the fight at the Urals! Glory to the workers and their determination!

BIELLORUSSIAN FRONT:
Soviet Salient Holds, Hun Repelled
Great news flooded Stavka headquarters over the past few weeks, with continued reports of repulsion after repulsion of fascist incursions into the Bielorussian Salient which has proved impenetrable so far for the enemy troops. Once again, with poor resources and overwhelmed numerically, through their bravery and determination the workers and soldiers of our Rodina have shown the superiority of Communism over the pettiness and punyness of our enemy! Reports state that Smolensk and Vitebsk have been garrisoned, and vital land bridges outside the cities are secure and in Soviet hands! Countless reports of failed German advances continue to be cheered, as the Hun marches his troops and tanks into ambush after ambush. It thus stands demonstrated that the people shall prevail! Glory to the people!

[conmcb25]

Well done Comrade.

Now when you get a chance post some screen shots of the limits of the different fronts.

Thats part of the Propoganda Ministers job.

And yes I had lots of Vodka, and one real big headache!

[conmcb25]

You could do a quick news bit on the heroic defense of Leningrad under the leadership of the Hero of Leningrad, myself of course and also the heroic last ditch defense of Gomel and Minsk. Both cities only held of course because of my masterful repositioning of forces in that theatre.

[Dr. Nick]

Of course! We worship the ground on which you step, Comrade Marshall! Hero of the People!

[conmcb25]

Spoken like a TRUE patroit of the people!

[Jamski]

Hey! We have a PRAVDA too in the Alpha Centauri Democracy Game. Greetings Comrades! Come and visit any time with the time-space-machine in my signature.

-Jam

[Dr. Nick]

What is this? You come from the future you say? In peace?

*hides time travellers from STAVKA*

Give me your secrets, I beg thee! I can pay you in Roubles and pretty Russian peasant girls.

[Jamski]

OK, the Germans win, and everyone has to eat sausages for EVER

/me takes the peasant girls and scarpers back to 2190AD

-Jam

[Dr. Nick]

A, vell, vell, in zat case I vill begin to practice my Deutsche.

Too bad ze dictatorship of ze Proletariat von't vork out.

[Iron Chancellor]

Bah, defeatist! I'm sure Mr. War will kindly explain that the future he inhabits is one which only will come about if we fail to sacrifice ourselves fully to the task at hand...right?

[Dr. Nick]

Of course, he fell down the wrong leg of the trousers of time.

[Bossy20000]

There is a (peaceful) change of regime, and suddenly we here people speaking about the defeat of Communism. And we here this from the editor of Pravda! It seems that our new Marshal will have some work to do, to purge the Rodina of these traitors! To the Gulag with them, I say! (Unless of course this all seems to be some elitist kind of jokin, in which case we have to make sure that this gets wiped out. After all, we are the country of the workers, and not of some intellectuals )

I was coming to your offices to have you make some announcements for the Politburo-under-construction, but now I need to go to comrade Beria, to let him send some of his Checkists, and warn the Taman-guard (I don't really know if these existed at that time) of the Kremlin to be aware of defectors!

[Dr. Nick]

*sirens go off in Pravda*

Get him! He's criticising the government!

[Bossy20000]

Who is criticsing the governement here!!!!!!!!!!!
I shall retrun with some guards, to educate you and your so called journalists! Pravda must be the voice of the people, not of some defaitists. We are going to have a Politburo election soon, and afterwards we are going to clean out this country, and get rid of all it's enemies! There is still a lot to do in the Gulag archipel. Maybe we can send them some reinforcements!

We MUST go back to a more pure form of communism, everybody must follow the party guidelines! No more talking about losing the war! We are winning, we have been winning and we will continue winning this and every other war!