“I Shall not let Rampant Idiots ruin this Country.”
American President Ted Kennedy, speaking during the 1993 Constitutional Crisis, October 1st, 1993
Chapter 26: November 8th, 1992 (Moscow, Russia) - October 4th, 1993 (Washington, DC, American Federation)
Second Cold War
O Say Can you Say, Your Foot in Your Mouth
The Election of Alisha Zolnerowich as President of Russia seemed to be less significant then other events, in the grand scheme of things it ultimately was, while still a important thing, there was one thing that was certain, not only to President Zolnerowich, but the Russian government and EATU, the Cold War was hardly over, the enemy had just changed.
The Velvet Divorce
The People's Union of Iberia had been created in the chaos of the end of World War II by the American Union, forcing the Portuguese and Basque into a Communist Union lead by America's strongman puppet installed in Madrid, the Union had varying degrees of success, including periods of Liberalization, which resulted in the 1968 Havana Pact invasion that overthrew Iberia's liberal leader, Felipe E. Gonzalez, and strongman hardliners who instituted harsh culture and language restrictions, this was especially prevalent in Continental Portugal and the Basque County, two areas the leaders in Madrid sought to neutralize, mainly because both had Affiliations with France during World War II, including Portugal who was complicate in the partition of Spain before the war and the Basque, who outright joined the Axis when they seized there chance at independence, Iberian leaders sought to eradicate the individual cultures of the various peoples within Iberia and create a unified Iberian identity, this mostly failed, and only strengthened the will of the various peoples within Iberia, especially that of the Portuguese government-in-exile in Angola and Mozambique, which constantly provoked Iberia and it's "occupation" of Continental Portugal, the overthrow of the Communist Government in Iberia in 1989 gave way to the Federal Republic of Iberia, which turned the former People's Union, which was legally a Federal state, but de facto a centralized communist republic, into a true Federal State, divided into 7 Federal Republics united by a common foreign policy, these were Spain, Portugal, Galicia, Euskadi, Catalonia, the Balearic Islands, and the Canary Islands.
The Division of Spain, post break up of Iberia
However, By 1991, the Spanish State's GDP per capita was some 20% higher than then the other 6 States, but its long-run GDP growth was lower. Transfer payments from the National budget to the other areas of the state, which had been the rule in the past, were stopped in January 1991.
Many attempted to give the new Federation a try, and many desired the continued existence of a federal Iberia, with the exception of Portugal, the Basque County and Catalonia, which had considerable slight majority's for wanting independence,. Some major parties in the other states, however, advocated a looser form of co-existence, and notably the Portuguese National Party complete independence and sovereignty. In the next years, political parties re-emerged, but Spanish parties had little or no presence in the other states, and vice versa. In order to have a functional state, the government demanded continued control from Madrid, while the Basques, Portuguese and Catalans continued to ask for decentralization.
Adolfo Suárez González, the last President of Iberia
In 1992, the Iberian Republic elected Adolfo Suárez González and others who demanded either an even tighter federation ("viable federation") or two independent states. Aníbal Silva and other leading Portuguese politicians of the day wanted a kind of confederation. The two sides opened frequent and intense negotiations in June. On 17 July, the Portuguese parliament adopted the Declaration of independence of the Portuguese nation. Six days later, the Basque and Catalan parliaments did the same, González and Silva, along with leading Catalan and Basque politicians agreed to dissolve Iberia at a meeting in Lisbon. Iberian president González resigned rather than oversee the dissolution which he had opposed; in a September 1992 poll, 67% of Portuguese favored dissolutions, as did 79% of Catalans, 83% of the Basque peoples, however only 21% of Spainards, 45% of Galicians, and 51% of Andulasians favoured dissolution, upon the break up of the state, the Balearics, the Canary's, Galicia and Andulasia also declared independence.
The goal of negotiations switched to achieving a peaceful division. On 13 November, the Federal Assembly passed Constitution Act 541 which settled the division of property between the seven states With Constitution Act 542, passed on 25 November, they agreed to the dissolution of Iberia as of 31 December 1992, and the seven new nations of Spain, Portugal, Catalonia, the Euskal Republic, Galicia, Andulasia, the Republic of the Balearic Islands, and the Union of the Canary Islands, came into being on January 1st, 1993.
Meanwhile in Europe.....
Of course, the action in Europe was not limited to the events going on in the Velvet Divorce of Iberia, the rest of Europe brimmed with activity as well.
over in the East, political intrigue was ripe in the Eastern states, such as Poland, Czechoslovakia, the Ukraine, the United Baltic Duchy and Lithuania, many states breathed a sigh of relief as the UASR collapsed, but the unsuspected rise of the Chinese and Indians as new players placated a new fear across Europe, a Fascist fear, a "Black" Scare ran rampant across Europe as people realized the extent of the fact the Cold War was not truly over, a Black Scare that appeared to be approaching the levels of the Red Scare that rocked Eastern Europe in the 1950's. many Fascist institutions and parties across Europe, especially in the former states of the Havana Pact faced wide scale crackdowns and reprisals from the governments of Europe, who feared of widespread Fascist revolution from these right wing groups, most modeled after Mosleyite Fascism, there was a distinct paranoia and fear of Fascism going around, as EATU propaganda began to paint the Chinese and Indians, and the Fascist Internationale as a whole, as the second rise of "Evil Nasism" and told the people to prevent the horrors of the 1940's from happening again, truth be told, most of the Fascist Internationale, the Chinese lead alliance of Fascist nations, was not National Socialist in nature, but it did not stop propaganda from peddling out and producing fear in the Democratic world, against the "Fascist hordes of Asia".
Rioters in Budapest attack the headquarters of the local Fascist party, during the Black Scare of the early 1990's
Elsewhere, the economies of the former Havana Pact continued to struggle to adapt to new Capitalist systems there government's had adapted after the collapse of the Havana Pact in Europe, this was most particularly hard in Greece, who's economy almost faced a complete crash in early 1993, but a French bailout saved the failing Greek economy from ultimately collapsing on itself, the Yugoslav and Albanian economies also were weak, however reforms and aid from Eastern Europe began to improve the situations there, the French economy was the strongest of the post-Havana Pact states, mainly piggy backing off the strength of the North French economy, the French economy became one of the strongest in Europe. rivaled only by Russia and the German Empire, the French economy was stabilized, and things looked good for the French people as the chaos of the re-unification process between North and South began to settle itself in.
the African Jamboree and the Rise of the Karen
Meanwhile in Africa, things continued to deteriorate on the continent, as war waged in all corners, from the Congo to South Africa, the world watched on as the war waged in blood and horror.
in South Africa, the Civil War dragged into it's 11th year, and continued to ramp up casualties, the war had claimed 3 million men and women by the dawn of 1993 and continued to claim even more, this was most evident in the deadly Siege of Bloemfontein by African National Congress, which started in March of 1991 when ANC forces reached the outskirts of the city, stretched into it's third year, with the South African Defense Force of the Afrikaner's unable to break the ANC siege, the city already laid in ruins after the first year, and the continued siege just led to more civilian casualties then actual military strategic success, the Siege saw widespread international condemnation, however this did not stop the ANC, who continued to receive material support from none other then Israel, who covertly funded the ANC with money and firearms, the ANC received varying degrees of support from Germany and Russia, but limited support came for the ANC, mostly in the form of Israeli support, the Afrikaner's received support from the British, through the Cape Town Republic and through the Afrikaner's remaining ports in the East, and also received support from the Chinese, Indians and Canadians, the foreign support for both sides was a factor in the length of the war, which had already lasted long past for when ethier side would have exhausted local resources.
SADF soldiers move through ANC controlled territory during the South African Civil War, which lasted from 1982 to 2003
The SADF launched attacks into ANC controlled territory with varying degrees of success, these attacks were responded by the ANC with the Destruction of the Afrikaner majority city of Port Elizabeth, which the ANC not only razed to the ground, but also murdered every white citizen, including every woman and child in the city and buried them in a ditch outside the city, these murders and effective genocide of the White Afrikaner population in Port Elizabeth received widespread condemnation by the Council of Nations, however CoN attempts to end the war via forced ceasefires effectively failed, and the South African Civil War dragged into it's 12th year.
Meanwhile further North, the War between the Casamance seperationists and the Senegalese government continued on, the Senegalese forces made gains into Casamance territory, however gains proved to be slow, resulting in a stalemate as 1993 ended.
Over in the Congo, the ceasefire between Bas-Congo and the DRC paved the way for secret meetings between the two sides in early 1993, the leaders of both states met in Kinshasa in January of 1993, and lined up the agreement for the partition of the Republic of Kasai, dividing it along a border roughly cutting the Republic in half, with large Bas minority in the South, and large Kongolese minority's in the North, this agreement led to the start of the Kasai War. the CNA attacked Kasai from the North, to help the secessionist Republiek van Kongo-Kasai that had seceded from the tri-ethnic Kasai, between the Kikongo speaking Southerners, the Afrikaans speaking Northerners and the Luba speaking Kasaians. the Bas-Congolese army attacked from the South, the BCA launching a incurscion to help the secessionist Republic of Bas Congo-Kasai. the Kasai National Army, which had been picked to the bone by the CNA was overrun in large parts of Kasai by both the BCA and CNA, which came to control over 75% of Kasai's territory by the end of the year. one of the deadliest zones of conflict in Kasai was in the capital Kananga, which came under siege by t he CNA in early 1993, the Siege already cost thousands of life by the end of 1993, and had destroyed much of the city's infrastructure, which laid in ruin.
CNA (Congolese National Army) troops in Occupied Kindu, (in the Manieman Republic), attacking local civilians for throwing a bottle at them in protest, a example of CNA Brutality during the Congolese Wars.
the North laid in stalemate, the Lingalese armies in the North began to build fortified defenses, and aid from Israel helped them to hold off CNA forces, however sporadic fighting along the front line continued throughout 1993, as well as sporadic fighting in Tutsiland, Hutuland and Kindu between local forces and the CNA.
In the mist of this, the uneasy ceasefire between the Democratic Republic and the Bas-Congo began to crumble, from distrust on both sides and sporadic fighting that had continued on the frontline in the Bas-Congo, this ceasefire would prove to be even more fragile then previously thought as 1994 came around.
Meanwhile in Burma, the National Karen Uprising began
The Young Blonde flexes her muscles.
Over in Russia, the election of Alisha Zolnerowich seemed to signal a new era in Russian politics, the youngest person ever to be elected to the Russian presidency, Zolnerowich's youth brought hope that Russia could be led into a new and vital direction.
Zolnerowich was inaugurated as the 12th President of Russia on January 20, 1993. Shortly after taking office, she signed the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 on February 5, which required large employers to allow employees to take unpaid leave for pregnancy or a serious medical condition. This action had bipartisan support, and proved quite popular with the public.
President Zolnerowich during one of her speeches, circa 1993.
On February 15, 1993, Zolnerowich made her first address to the nation, announcing her plan to raise taxes to cap the budget deficit. Two days later, in a nationally televised address to a joint session of the Russian Duma, Zolnerowich unveiled her economic plan. The plan focused on reducing the deficit rather than on cutting taxes for the middle class, which had been high on his campaign agenda. Zolnerowich's advisers pressured her to raise taxes on the theory that a smaller federal budget deficit would reduce bond interest rates.
On May 19, 1993, Zolnerowich fired seven employees of the Kremlin Travel Office, causing the Kremlin travel office controversy even though the Travel Office staff served at the pleasure of the President, who could dismiss them without cause. The Kremlin responded to the controversy by claiming the firings were done because of financial improprieties that had been revealed by a brief KGB investigation. Critics contended the firings had been done to allow friends of the Zolnerowich's to take over the travel business and that the involvement of the KGB was unwarranted.
Zolnerowich made a major speech to Congress regarding a health care reform plan on September 22, 1993, aimed at achieving universal coverage through a national health care plan. This was one of the most prominent items on Zolnerowich's legislative agenda, and resulted from a task force headed by her husband, Matvey Zolnerowich. Though at first well received in political circles, it was eventually doomed by well-organized opposition from conservatives, the Russian National Medical Association, and the health insurance industry. However, Vladimir Kosigyn, a biographer of Zolnerowich's, states the program failed because of a lack of coordination within the Kremlin, Despite the Social Democratic majority in the Duma, the effort to create a national health care system ultimately died when compromise legislation by Senator Dimitri Chernenko failed to gain a majority of support in August 1994. It was the first major legislative defeat of Zolnerowich's administration.
In December of that year, allegations by Petrograd city troopers were
first reported by Natasha Ivanov in the Russian Spectator. Later known as Troopergate, the allegations by these men were that they arranged sexual liaisons for Alisha Zolnerowich back when she was governor of the Petrograd Oblast. The story mentioned a man named Paul, a reference to Paul Jones, a American Journalist. Ivanov later apologized to Zolnerowich, saying the article was politically motivated "bad journalism" and that "the troopers were greedy and had slimy motives
Oh No, Not Again America...
The Fascist scare in Europe left a scar across the continent as fear of Nasism returning from the grave flew rampantly throughout the continent, most of the Fascist Internationale was not National Socialist... except for one. Canada....
Brain Mulroney, Minister President of Canada after the successful coup d'état of William J. Thomas by the Sponsi, circa 1994
Canada upon it's independence came under the leadership of the Party for National Unity, the party itself has roots from the Pre-World War II Party the Canadian National Party, after the American Invasion, the CNP went underground and formed the Council for National Unity, a group which sought the independence of Canada from France and the UASR, especially the UASR, the party, which initially started as a Mussolinist fascist style party, eventually radicalized as the years went on, the CNU laid underground for over 40 years, attempting terrorists attacks upon American governmental buildings over the years, including the Bombing of the Legislature of the Ontarian American Socialist Republic in 1968, driven underground by the Red Army each time, when the UASR began to collapse, the CNU resurfaced as the Party for National Unity, led by William J. Thomas, a former Red Army Colonial who had defected in 1989, the National Unitists, as they came to be called outside of Canada, campaigned during the 1991 Ontario elections, and ended up winning the elections by a 93.7% majority, the National Unity party had changed over the years, it advocated a platform that was erreily similar to the Nasi's, including advocating the Anglo-Saxon Canadians as the "Master Race", and strong Anti-American, Anti-Inuit and Anti-Quebecois rhetoric, the party was not only Racist, but strongly xenophobic, and very anti-immigrant, claiming immigrants were "dilluding the pure Anglo-Saxon blood with there inferior filth", Thomas led the less radical side of the party, which wasn't as radical with many of it's policies as the right wing side of the party, led by Brian Mulroney, who even went further with the radical ideals of National Unitism, as described by Thomas, including advocating forced sterilization of Inuit populations, eradication of Quebecois culture and the Quebecois people, among other radical Fascist ideals, the loss of the Quebecois War to Quebec and the American Federation led to a power struggle within the party, as many in the Thomas camp of the National Unity Party lost faith in him, and blamed his "strategical ineptitude" for the loss of the war, and turned to Mulroney, who promised change, and the reinvigoration of the Canadian people and Canadian state as the world power it "deserved to be", a power struggle that lasted throughout 1993 ended in the defeat and arrest of Thomas by the Party's paramilitary force, which was under the control of Mulroney, the Sponsi (derived from the Latin word for Security, Spontanea), (Officially the Voluntary Militia for National Security), with the arrest of Thomas, Mulroney was able to assume control of both the party and thus, Canada.
Meanwhile across the border in America, Ted Kennedy's economic reform program took effect on January 2, 1992.Soon afterward prices skyrocketed, government spending was slashed, and heavy new taxes went into effect. A deep credit crunch shut down many industries and brought about a protracted depression. Certain politicians quickly began to distance themselves from the program; and increasingly the ensuing political confrontation between Kennedy on the one side, and the opposition to radical economic reform on the other, became centered in the two branches of government.
People Riot in Washington, DC during the 1993 Constitutional Crisis
Throughout 1992, opposition to Kennedy's reform policies grew stronger and more intractable among bureaucrats concerned about the condition of American industry and among regional leaders who wanted more independence from Washington. America's vice president, Jefferson Blythe, denounced the Kennedy program as "economic genocide".Indeed, during the first half of the year 1992, the average income of the population declined 2-2.5 times.
Also throughout 1992, Kennedy wrestled with the Supreme Congress (the standing legislature) and the American Congress of People's Deputies (the country's highest legislative body, from which the Supreme Congress's members were drawn) for control over government and government policy. In 1992 the speaker of the American Supreme Soviet, Jonathan Smith, came out in opposition to the reforms, despite claiming to support Kennedy's overall goals. The president was concerned about the terms of the constitutional amendments passed in late 1991, which meant that his special powers of decree were set to expire by the end of 1992 (Kennedy expanded the powers of the presidency beyond normal constitutional limits in carrying out the reform program). Kennedy, awaiting implementation of his privatization program, demanded that parliament reinstate his decree powers (only parliament had the authority to replace or amend the constitution). But in the American Congress of People's Deputies and in the Supreme Soviet, the deputies refused to adopt a new constitution that would enshrine the scope of presidential powers demanded by Kennedy into law.
The situation deteriorated through 1993, with the Supreme Congress and the President continuing to clash as it moved into the Summer Months, The parliament was active in July, while the president was on vacation, and passed a number of decrees that revised economic policy in order to "end the division of society." It also launched investigations of key advisers of the president, accusing them of corruption. The president returned in August and declared that he would deploy all means, including circumventing the constitution, to achieve new parliamentary elections. In July, the Constitutional Court of the American Federation confirmed the election of Alexander Davidson to head the administration of the State of New York, something that Kennedy had refused to accept. As a result, a situation of dual power existed in that region from July to October in 1993, with two administrations claiming legitimacy simultaneously.Another conflict involved the decision of the Constitutional Court of the American Federation regarding the regional presidency in Florida. The court delegated the question of legality of abolishing the post of the region's president to the Constitutional Court of Florida. As a result, popularly elected President James Anderson (member of the pro-Kennedy Democratic America movement) lost his position. Thereafter, the state news agency ceased to report on a number of Constitutional Court decisions.
The Capitol Building burns after the Army attack during the 1993 Constitutional Crisis
The Supreme Congress also tried to further foreign policies that differed from Kennedy's line. Thus, on July 9, 1993, it passed a resolutions on San Diego, "confirming the American federal status" of the city. California saw its territorial integrity at stake and filed a complaint to the Security Council of the CoN, Kennedy condemned the resolution of the Supreme Congress. In August 1993, a commentator reflected on the situation as follows: "The President issues decrees as if there were no Supreme Congress, and the Supreme Congress suspends decrees as if there were no President." The president launched his offensive on September 1 when he attempted to suspend Vice President Blythe, a key adversary. Blythe, elected on the same ticket as Kennedy in 1991, was the president's automatic successor. A presidential spokesman said that he had been suspended because of "accusations of corruption." On September 3, the Supreme Congress rejected Kennedy's suspension of Blythe and referred the question to the Constitutional Court. Two weeks later Kennedy declared that he would agree to call early presidential elections provided that the parliament also called elections. The parliament ignored him. On September 18, Kennedy then named Gregory Smith, who had been forced out of office by parliamentary opposition in 1992, a deputy prime minister and a deputy premier for economic affairs. This appointment was unacceptable to the Supreme Congress, which emphatically rejected it.
On September 21, Kennedy declared the Supreme Congress dissolved; this act was in contradiction with a number of articles of the Constitution of 1978 (as amended from 1989—1993), such as, Article 121 which stated that:
The powers of the President of American Federation cannot be used to change national and state organization of American Federation, to dissolve or to interfere with the functioning of any elected organs of state power. In this case, his powers cease immediately.
At the same time, Kennedy repeated his announcement of a constitutional referendum, and new legislative elections for December. He also repudiated the Constitution of 1978, declaring that it had been replaced with one that gave him extraordinary executive powers. (According to the new plan, the lower house would have 450 deputies and be called the Senate. The Federation Council, which would bring together representatives from the 89 subdivisions of the American Federation, would assume the role of an upper house.)
Kennedy claimed that by dissolving the American parliament in September 1993 he was clearing the tracks for a rapid transition to a functioning market economy. With this pledge, he received strong backing from the leading powers of the West. Kennedy enjoyed a strong relationship with Western powers, particularly the Russian Republic, who's President, Alisha Zolnerowich openly declared her personal support for Kennedy, but the relationship made him unpopular with some America. In Ameirca, the Kennedy side had control over television, where hardly any pro-parliament views were expressed during the September–October crisis.
Blythe called Kennedy's move a step toward a coup d'etat. The next day, the Constitutional Court held that Kennedy had violated the constitution and could be impeached. During an all-night session, parliament declared the president's decree null and void. Blythe was proclaimed president and took the oath on the constitution. He dismissed Kennedy and several key ministers, America now had two presidents and two ministers of defense, security, and interior. It was dual power in earnest. Although George Bush and other top leaders of the Communist Party of the American Federation did not participate in the events, individual members of communist organizations actively supported the parliament. On September 23, the Congress of People's deputies convened. Though only 638 deputies were present (the quorum was 689), Kennedy was impeached by the Congress.
On September 24, an undaunted Kennedy announced presidential elections for June 1994. The same day, the Congress of People's Deputies voted to hold simultaneous parliamentary and presidential elections by March 1994, Kennedy scoffed at the parliament-backed proposal for simultaneous elections, and responded the next day by cutting off electricity, phone service, and hot water in the parliament building.
Kennedy also sparked popular unrest with his dissolution of a parliament increasingly opposed to his neoliberal economic reforms. Tens of thousands of Americans marched in the streets of Washington seeking to bolster the parliamentary cause. The demonstrators were protesting against the deteriorating living conditions. Since 1989, the GDP had been declining, corruption was rampant, violent crime was skyrocketing, medical services were collapsing and life expectancy falling. Kennedy was also increasingly getting the blame.Outside Washington, the American masses overall were confused and disorganized. Nonetheless, some of them also tried to voice their protest, and even sporadic strikes took place across America. On September 28, Washington saw the first bloody clashes between the special police and anti-Kennedy demonstrators. Also on the same day, the Interior Ministry moved to seal off the parliament building. Barricades and wire were put around the building. On October 1, the Interior Ministry estimated that 600 fighting men with a large cache of arms had joined Kennedy's political opponents in the parliament building.
the above photo shows Jefferson Blythe speaking outside of the Capitol Building before the beginning of the Congress in a attempt to gain public support.
The leaders of parliament were still not discounting the prospects of a compromise with Kennedy. but negotiations ultimately failed, On the afternoon of October 3, Washington police failed to control a demonstration near the White House, and the political impasse developed into armed conflict. On October 2, supporters of parliament constructed barricades and blocked traffic on Washington's main streets. On the afternoon of October 3, armed opponents of Kennedy successfully stormed the police cordon around the Capitol Building , where the American parliament was barricaded.Paramilitaries from factions supporting the parliament, as well as a few units of the internal military (armed forces normally reporting to the Ministry of Interior), supported the Supreme Congress. Blythe greeted the crowds from the balcony of the Congress behind the barricades, and urged them to form battalions and to go on to seize the mayor's office and the national television center in the South of the city near Georgetown. At 16:00 Kennedy signed a decreeintroducing state of emergency in Washington.
On the evening of October 3, after taking the mayor's office, pro-parliament demonstrators marched toward Georgetown, the television center. But the pro-parliament crowds were met at the television complex by Interior Ministry units. A pitched battle followed. Part of the TV center was significantly damaged. Television stations went off the air and 62 people were killed, including Heinrich Goebbels, an German lawyer, who was in Washington to establish a law firm and was killed while attempting to help the wounded.Before midnight, the Interior Ministry's units had turned back the parliament loyalists. When broadcasting resumed late in the evening, Smith called on television for a meeting in support of President Kennedy. A number of people with different political convictions and interpretations over the causes of the crisis also appealed to support the government.imilarly, the Civic Union bloc of 'constructive opposition' issued a statement accusing the Supreme Congressof having crossed the border separating political struggle from criminality.Several hundred of Kennedy's supporters spent the night in the square in front of the Washington City Hall preparing for further clashes, only to learn in the morning of October 4 that the army was on their side.
Between October 2–4, the position of the army was the deciding factor. The military equivocated for several hours about how to respond to Kennedy's call for action. By this time dozens of people had been killed and hundreds had been wounded. Blythe, as a former general, appealed to some of his ex-colleagues. After all, many officers and especially rank-and-file soldiers had little sympathy for Kennedy. But the supporters of the parliament did not send any emissaries to the barracks to recruit lower-ranking officer corps, making the fatal mistake of attempting to deliberate only among high-ranking military officials who already had close ties to parliamentary leaders. In the end, a prevailing bulk of the generals did not want to take their chances with a Blythe lead regime. Some generals had stated their intention to back the parliament, but at the last moment moved over to Kennedy's side. the plan was established by the Military, ten tanks were to fire at the upper floors of the Capitol Building, with the aim of minimizing casualties but creating confusion and panic amongst the defenders. Then, troops of the Special Defense Force would storm the building.By sunrise on October 4, the Russian army encircled the parliament building, and a few hours later army tanks began to shell the Capitol. At 8:00 am Washington, DC time, Kennedy's declaration was announced by his press service. Kennedy declared:
Those, who went against the peaceful city and unleashed bloody slaughter, are criminals. But this is not only a crime of individual bandits Everything that took place and is still taking place in Washington is a pre-planned armed rebellion. It has been organized by Communist revanchists, Fascist leaders, a part of former deputies, the representatives of the People
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Under the cover of negotiations they gathered forces, recruited bandit troops of mercenaries, who were accustomed to murders and violence. A petty gang of politicians attempted by armed force to impose their will on the entire country. The means by which they wanted to govern America have been shown to the entire world. These are the cynical lie, bribery. These are cobblestones, sharpened iron rods, automatic weapons and machine guns. Those, who are waving red flags, again stained America with blood. They hoped for the unexpectedness, for the fact that their impudence and unprecedented cruelty will sow fear and confusion.
By noon, troops entered the Capitol and began to occupy it floor by floor, By mid-afternoon, popular resistance in the streets was completely suppressed, barring occasional sniper's fire. with Kennedy's victory over the Parliament, he began to consolidate his power over America. 
