News Media of Istkalen

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The Citizens' Voice: Ultranationalist newspapers Our Istkalen, Eesti Päevaleht, Die Presse shut down for collaboration with fascism

The ultranationalist newspapers Our Istkalen, Eesti Päevaleht, and Die Presse have been forcibly closed as a result of their collaboration with fascism. The three publications attempted to foment a rebellion as to overthrow the present government and replace it with the fascist government of Josephine Areai - a fraud and a perpetrator of genocide who now sits in a detention facility in Reitzmag. The woman they claim to have been Areai has been found; she is but a woman they kidnapped for their own uses.

Known for perpetrating virulently anti-Western and anti-syndicalist material - not illegal per se but in this case prohibited as a result of their extremity - the newspapers have long been condemned. Ten years ago, they inspired such anger that the paramilitary of the Labor Organization , then active, stormed their offices before performing violent acts upon those involved in the publication of the newspapers, as the public cheered on.

Now, however, the state can no longer tolerate them. The papers went too far in calling for the recreation of the old fascistic state; of calling it "free." They were, in their rhetoric, trying to call for a revolt which would rob people of civil freedoms and replace them with a single duty - that of constant adulation of their so-called "High Mediator." There is no freedom in that; no freedom in such oppression.

They dehumanized; their rhetoric followed that of the old fascists, who we must never allow to return. Calling for the killings of those they disagree it, calling for the creation of a new movement all for one person, a new movement in opposition to all that is outside of it. A totalitarian movement, in essence, one that wished to remove all that was different and replace it all with an unending and uniform praise, terrible praise, for a single, conceited and reactionary, individual.

How would such a life be? No meaning to life but praise, praise of one individual; no direction but that individual. The person, the mind, would be lost. There would be nothing but that one person; no life, no thought, nothing. The thought is terrifying.

In 1946, the state passed a law to prevent such a thing, the horrors of the forty-six years of oppression, from repeating themselves, prohibiting what is described as being "collaboration with fascism" - that is, active support for fascism, defined quite strictly, too strictly according to some. This law is now applied, ensuring that these three newspapers may no longer spread their hateful words.

Istkalen by no means is perfect. But it is at the very least free; its citizens and peoples able to do as they wish - to speak, to create, to express themselves in their entirety with total freedom.

But it is clear, now, that this freedom is too easily lost. It must be defended; the reality of the Forty-Six Years, of the dictatorship of Areai, returns otherwise,.