Have you ever felt it was perhaps the same way for us? I'd welcome a relax on repression at home and an increase in the substantive level of democracy more than anyone. But it will be politically untenable without a detente.
Your sentiments are valid, even admirable, but it is America that must work towards Detente. As seen in Germany, it is Socialism, with its internationalism, that is an agressive doctrine by nature. The League of Nations is a force for peace, but will not budge on issues in which we are in the right for the sake of detente. In addition, while better relatiosn with your country will benefit us all, we will not abandon our support for the Mujihadeen and other groups in India.
If your government would let the German situation go, then perhaps we would have a road to peace instead of Cold War.
We will perhaps withdraw our recognition of the German government in exile as part of a prospective peace deal. We cannot, however, speak for Russia.
The peaceful changing of governments, however, is. Also, unlike our unfortunate Maoist comrades in India, we don't interprate the phrase "threat to socialism" too broadly.
Certainly you are more fortunate than they. I admit that progress in America is possible internally. This is why we are not sponsoring American freedom fighters. The Mexican case is a special one.
It was the British Raj that made a democratic regime impossible in India. We all have our part to share in the blame for the India situation.
True, but one cannot pin the crimes of the Bose regime on a hundred years of British rule. People commit crimes, not centuries. In any case, succesful democracies have grown from the British Empire and remained in the Commonwealth, like Malaya and Zimbabwe Rhodesia.
Why wouldn't we punish someone severely for murder or espionage? Even so, we're not in the business of summary exectutions here. We have no death penalty, and we offer defendants a trial with defense.
True, but people suspecte dof connections to our Mexican friends can end up in camps in Montana which are hardly the Assam Penitence Centre but hardly a picnic either.
Both our nations possess large conventional militaries. We have them, just as you do, to support our allies who might be under the threat of military invasion by their neighbors. Like Israel or the Congo or now Germany, for example.
I believe that the situation in the Middle East could have been resolved earlier if not for American involvement. In the 50s, Egypt and Israel were willing to cut a deal and tell Syria t stuff it until America gave the Zionists the impression they could have it the cake of peace by American protection and eat the cake of Jerusalem.
I imagine many German Jews will arrive soon, now that the Kaiserreich's ban on Aliya has been lifted. this will complicate the situation enormously.
Well, would you really trust me if I was in the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs?
Fair point.
We fought racism and homophobia at home, even during times when security was vital. Well I admit their were many misteps, and the Communist Party's lack of emphasis on the problem were what contributed to its eventual downfall, but we still accomplished it. There is no reason why Britain cannot do the same. Our Foreign Secretary is looking for detente, even with the Germany situation.
Valuable as detente would be, a sure way to derail the peace process is to try and put purely internal matters on the table. We will arrive at a British solution to a British problem.
I was arrested at a protest to the war in Vietnam in my youth. I know the limits of dissent here just as well as anybody. But we're still making progress, in spite of problems.
That's true. Nevertheless, a sure way to make progress and institutionalise it is for citizens to broaden their horizons, which right now requires some illegal reading.
Do your parliamentary parties let everyone know their deliberations about which candidates to field?
Not all, but anyone who can raise the necessary resources can run in a constituency.
OOC: If the OP doesn't mind, some news. I'm imagining Russia as a constitutional monarchy with a Tsar who is, on paper, strong but not at all 1905 strong. However, the energetic young Tsar has heavily subverted democracy while maintaining its appearence. "Malorussia" has a very strong local identity but is as Russian as Moscow.
Russian Tsar appears before Duma with German "Kaiser"
Today, Piotr IV, returning from his lightning tour of Malorussia to celebrate Malorussian hero Bohdan Khmelnystky, which culminated in a televised speech in Kiev in which several were injured by the crowd, adressed the Duma in company with "Otto V", recognised by Russia as the Kaiser of Germany.
To frenzied cheers and waving of Russian and German flags, he announced that "Our nation was born when the hardy Slavs made their way north to escape the ravages of the Mongols. For a thousand years, the loyalty and determination of our people has been the shelter for civilisation amid storms of barbarism. When the second Rome fell, it was to us to be the third and preserve Christianity in the darkest times. When Napoleon overran Europe, we, in alliance with the armies of German liberty, came to its rescue. And now, just as two hundred years ago Russia and Germany stood together against a foreign tyrant, we will stand together against a German one!"
Otto then tried to give a speech through an interpreter, but was forced to cut short when notorious Primorskii MP Mariya Paskevich stirred the government benches into an impromptu rendition of "God Save the Tsar". Vladimir Ligachev of Kaluga, one of the few Social Revolutionary members still attending the Duma, claims he was assaulted by Ghazaras Janikyan of the Armenian Loyalist federation. Janikyan has apologised, claiming it was an accidental collision in the excitement of the moment.
Chairman of the German People's Soviet Karl Eberstark commented: "That Citizen Hapsburg was unable to be heard over Russian imperialists baying for blood is emblemetic of the situation here. He is, we regret to say, no longer welcome in the land of his birth."
The speech generated a ripple in international relations. The French government, previously wavering, formally announced its recognition of Otto. The Ottoman Empire criticised the "insensitive" reference to Constantinople at a time when the two empires seemed close to a settlement over Bulgaria.
The speech marks a new focus on Germany in Russia's policy. Shortly afterwards, Russian diplomats quietly approached their Japanese counterparts. Japanese officials claimed that a deal had been which would drop Russian claims to the Kurils and establish a condominium on Sakhalin/Karafuto whereby Russian and Japanese settlers at each end of island would retain their citizenships while being resident in a semi-independent "joint protectorate", and that negotiations were in progress. Russia refused to comment, possibly fearing that important Far Eastern supporters of the Tsar such as Ms.Paskevich and General Lazutkin, the colourful Ataman of the Ussuri Cossacks, would be alienated by a raproachment in the Sea of Okhotsk.