Iberian Union Events

One Peninsula iberia.1 · dlc016

The rising pan-nationalist sentiment spreading across … has made its way to …. Dynastic unionists and internationalist radicals alike have come to call for the unification of … under their preferred form of government.

"The union of Spain and Portugal is advantageous for both countries: it is natural, it is just, it is legitimate, it is necessary—indeed, we shall say more, it is inevitable. Anything that works against this union is harmful to both peoples; anything that strengthens it is beneficial. The difficulty lies only in finding the means to realize this great idea in a spontaneous, free, and honorable manner for both." —Fernández Cuesta

Iberian Sunrise iberia.2 · dlc016

As the stones impacted the surface of the Douro, they sent up a great gout of water that soaked the barge-men to their skins. Clouds of silt and disturbed fish boiled up from the river-bottom, staining the water around the craft a cloudy green-brown. In a week, they hoped, the pile would extend three meters above the water. In a month, five more would join it, each connected to their brothers by a lattice of support beams. By year's end, this would be a bridge, one of a dozen new constructions spanning the former border. Wearily, triumphantly, the barge-men watched the stones settle, and picked up their poles anew.

All Men Are Brothers iberia.3 · dlc016

Through the unification of …, we seek to form a new society upon the principles of proletarian internationalism. The constructed language of Esperanto, popular amongst Iberian socialists, may serve as a suitably international language of administration.

"It will be difficult," began the speaker. "We will need to embark upon a great endeavor to teach the language. Reactionaries will stubbornly cling to the old national languages, and camouflage themselves behind the masses who have not yet learned Esperanto. But the Revolution was also a great endeavor, was it not? And we did not cower from it because of the opposition we faced. I urge you, councilors, allow us to make this contribution to the course of the Revolution, and the dissolution of the old society. In the coming years, let our children say—proletoj de la mondo, unuiĝu!"

One Peninsula iberia.11 · dlc016

With pan-national sentiments rising across …, the government of … has declared unification of the peninsula to be official policy. With …'s position made clear, we must declare our own.

"The union of Spain and Portugal is advantageous for both countries: it is natural, it is just, it is legitimate, it is necessary—indeed, we shall say more, it is inevitable. Anything that works against this union is harmful to both peoples; anything that strengthens it is beneficial. The difficulty lies only in finding the means to realize this great idea in a spontaneous, free, and honorable manner for both." —Fernández Cuesta