The National Assembly almost unanimously decided: they would call up the militia. The Trotskyist Defend the Revolution clubs answered the call.
Hundreds of fully armed militia took over the next train to the LSSR's capital. With them were two collaborators, protester sympathizers who happened to be visiting and were willing to work with the SRM's militia.
They rode off on the day long train-ride, singing songs of solidarity all the while.
"So we got to Zvezda, and there was, like, a huge crowd out the train. Captain Yun went out first to see what was going on. Apparently there just was a new law temporarily banning travel without an official purpose, so the protests moved to the train station. They were blocking the station guards from even getting close to the train.
We left the train and asked the closest protesters to let us through. Before we knew it, they were shouting that 'the free republic is here!' The chant spread through the station and the guards fled. We managed to safely get everyone off the train and together, but the Russians were already reorganizing.
We eventually managed to break through the crowd and headed for the capital building. They started shooting at us with handguns, firing through the windows! We took cover behind nearby buildings, and my squad went onto a roof. We threw molotov cocktails into their building, one after another, and those pigs ran right out.
It was easy shoot-out from there, with almost all of them surrendering. Never did get Perminov though. Slippery capitalist.
Afterwards? Well, the protesters called us heroes, of course. We helped the city hold makeshift elections so the bigwhigs actually had people to negotiate with. Practically an entire party. Great people, really."
-Radio broadcast story by Emin Zeitunlian, a militia member.
After the invasion of the LSSR, some proposed combining the republics into one nation. Quick elections in Zvezda (containing almost half the LSSR's population) made a small council specifically to create a new government. They are split on whether or not to integrate into the SRM, or to form their own republic.
Of course, the National Assembly could also simply refuse to integrate.
[] Allow integration of the republic into the SRM.
[] Stay as allied sister-republics.
If you do integrate, they will require some concessions, and you can have your own red-lines as well. As the LSSR has a higher population than the SRM, many are against an immediate full integration.
Plan vote, separate from above, include both your requirements and concessions you are willing to give. Requirements are things the LSSR's council probably doesn't want but you might, concessions are things they probably do want.
Requirements:
[] All industry managers and bureaucrat pseudo-capitalists are unable to vote or hold office.
[] Delay integration of each town as a commune until they prove that they are established following the laws and conventions of the SRM.
[] Write-in
Concessions:
[] Previous administration of the LSSR are unable to vote or hold office.
[] Allow special autonomous zones for towns that don't wish to comply.
[] Make joining the SRM a referendum across all the LSSR. (Note: the current councilors are former protesters, the LSSR as a whole is not as pro-SRM.)
[] Make a new federal union between the two republics rather than an annexation, allowing local laws to stay but a unified front to external nations and a slow integration of the economy.
[] Write-in
