Schwikau Union Republic

Not to be confused with Schwikau (city) or Schwikau Consituent Republic The Schwikau Union Republic (Dnestrian: Швикойская Cоюзная Pеспублика | Shvikojskaya Soyuznaya Respublika | Commonly stylized in old form as a national insginia - ШСЬ | New form - ШСP), is a transcontinental country that spans the majority of the landmass of Kommir. A flagship communist state, it is nominally a federal union comprising 9 top-level republics; in practice, both its government and its economy is built on a highly centralized system, sometimes called "the schwikauan system", centered around it's capital and a distributed computerized planning network by the name of KomNet. It is a monolithic government state with a principle of no party, only people's government, with the city of Schwikau serving as the capital of both the federal government and the Schwikau FCSR, which is its largest and most populous republic. Other major cities in Schwikau includes Voilingrad (Schwikau FCSR), Shyiv (Shyiv CR), Dorszym (Pripolonska CR), North-Wedau (Werdau CR), Chornitz (Werdau CR), and Zhelonogorod(Schwikau FCSR). It is the 2nd largest country in the world by land mass, and the largest on the continent of Kommir.

The Schwikau Union Republic saw it's origins in the 1905 February revolution, when the Kommuniks, a far-left millitant organization lead by Valerij Kuznetsov, effectively overthrew the government of the Dnestr Federated Union Republic in several major cities across the country. Due to the Spread out nature of the revolutionary activity, several cities around the country established their own, smaller socialist Republics, Namely the Alexandrgrad (now Schwikau), Shyiv, and Werdau SRs, Named after their respective capitals. On the 27th April 1905 the Treaty on the Establishment of a Unified World Socialist Republic was signed in the city of Schwikau, and the Schwikau Union Republic as we know it today was born. The Revolution quickly escalated tensions already built up within both the revolutionary left and the Libertarian right wing, and sparked the Dnestr Civil War, which lasted roughly from Februrary 1905 to 27th of December 1907, when the last major city still still held by the Capital forces,Norlinsk, capitulated.

The immediate Post-war period saw the introduction of sweeping collectivization in all aspects of the economy and state. Private property rights were abolished with the declaration of the Republic itself but would not be seen enforced untill the war was over. The People's kommisariat of State Planning (N.K.G.P, now MINGOSPLAN) was established in 1906, initially to plan the economic aspects of the war effort, and would oversee the transfer of private property into the hands of the Worker's government and introduce sweeping reform to the country's industry and agricultural sector. During this period industries were largely organised and incorporated into People's commisariats (now Ministries) responsible for legislation, coordination, and planning of their respective industries, while being under N.K.G.P for economy wide coordination. This overall system remains to this day with the notable inclusion of KomNet as an inter-agency tool.

Holy Empire of Dnestr
Established in 1142, During the "holy union" of the Family of Kvashinin (Kingdom of Schvikoii) and House of Bad-Karnhof (Kingdom of Werdau), the Holy Empire of Dnestr was officially joined,with Emperor Varfolomei I as its leader, becoming the largest single country in the known world, and one of the most powerful countries with influence on the Kommir continent. Not much is known about the early history of the empire, a significant amount of historial records from roughly 1000-1500 have been either lost or purposefully destroyed, and most historiography of this period relies on secondary sources and mentions in other historical texts. What is known about this period however was a brutal conquest and expansion of the empire, commonly refered to as the "first period of expansion". The Grand Duchy of Shyiv was occupied in 1198, Kingdom of Pripolonia in in 1222, The far west of Kommir, with an even lesser understood history is assumed to have been completely occupied by the 1260s. This period is also marked by a royally sanctioned campaign of cultural genocide, which ultimately lead to the homogenising of much of the northern half of the country.

In 1621, under the command of Emperor Lyudovik VI, the "second period of expansion" was spurred on by the promise of great riches in foreign lands. The Navy of Dnestr, at this time one of the largest in the world, and more importantly a well established private mercantile class, spread west and east, enslaving and massacring native people's on every island and beach they landed on, and establishing an intricate system of colonies spread across much of the known lands, yet struggling to maintain a foothold in the elusive "new world".

This second period of expansion did not last forever. The 1700s were a century marked by prolonged conflict as the empire of Dnestr struggled to keep hold of their new world colonies, in particular against the Empire of Leanshire, the long time arch enemy of Dnestr, and growing internal unrest. Their central role in the Global slave trade, and control of untold wealth overseas by the Mercantile class lead to a popular movement of anti-monarchism, disguised under a veil of "Enlightened Liberalism", and given great confidence after the sucsess of the Avalonian Revolution, this class conflict came to its climax in 1821 with the Admirals Coup.

Admirals Coup and the Dnestr Republic
Main Article The Admirals Coup

The Admirals Coup, Contemporaneously referred to as the Great Revolution, was a Bourgeoisie revolution which lead to the dethroning of Emperor Lyudovik VIII, and the establishment of the Second "republic" in Kommir. It has later been revealed that the admirals coup was very likely spurred on with help from Leanshirean nobles, in the hopes of removing a competetor from the world stage. It established a De Jure democracy, the Dnestr Federative Union Republic. The first election was held in 1827, only land owning men over the age of 40 were allowed to vote, and the first president of the Dnestr, Hans Krystian von Pappen, representative of the Liberal Conservatives Party won with a 52% percent of the vote. With the empire gone, the mercantile class, now the bourgeoisie was able to expend their vast riches as they pleased, and the period of the Dnestr Federation lead to massive expansion of industry and rapid urbanization of much of the country, sometimes referred to as the "third period of expansion". This period was also notably relatively peaceful, at least at home turf. With the exeption of the 10 year war (1840-1850). Futhermore, during this period the extent of material riches at home became aparrent. Massive deposits of gold, coal, and other rarer elements were discovered and large wealthy city centres were established all across the country. In 1873 the city of Zhelonogorod in the far west surpassed the capital, Aleksandrgrad (now Voilingrad) in population, partly as it served as a major hub for trade in the western hemisphere. By 1890 the country was practically completely interconnected by rail.

However, all was not well. with growing industrialization comes growing discontent with the capitalist class. A number of events in the coming decades would show the proletariat of the world that violent action could lead to positive results: The Couronne Commune (1851-1853), the failed Gzrsestin Revolution (1851), Troubles in Cuan (1847-present), Prigorian Republic (1872-1907), and growing unrest in much of the world, It was clear that the coming decades would be decades not of rivalling imperial powers, but rivalling classes.

Revolution and the Schwikau Union Republic
By the 1880s there was no doubts in the minds of the Dnestrian proletariat about the state of their contry. Valerij Kuznetsov, Revolutionary leader and the only head of state of the Schwikau Union Republic wrote in 1892; "The thin veil of Liberal Democracy in Dnestr had been pulled away mere moments after it had been put on. The people who stood by the admiralty against the boots of the emperor were quick to realize that it their so called "revolution" would be nothing more than a change of boot, and importantly it would not be theirs." This sentiment was wide-spread by the time this was written, labour organizing had been actively fighting the ruling class since the first "Original Strike" of 1855, and Many of the larger cities had well established workers unions by 1890. Unrest over terrible working conditions, low pay, and the state of life in many corporate towns had lead to the failed revolution of 1900, in which protestors in several large cities had gathered to occupy the offices of government and demand representation in parliament. It is now known that the admiralty (common designator of the ruling class at the time) had infiltrators in the mass of protesters, and were used as agitators to force crossfire between the protestors and government forces, and give the protestors a bad reputation. The exact death toll of 1900 is unknown, this same strategy was used in several incidents that year, but suspected in the mid thousands.

Class antagonisms overflowed in 1905. that years harvest was the lowest ever recorded, Famine was at the door, the Nordlisk mine incident had made headlines that same year, and all attempts by the labour movement to get their will was met with hostility and force. The Kolya, Zhelonogorod, Schwikau, and Alexandrgrad Strike massacres of 1902, in which at least three thousand strikers and many Labour leaders, including the respected theorist Polina Kalin, were brutally slaughtered had lead to the founding of a popular workers insurgency movement, usually known as the Kommuniks, Lead by the Aforementioned Valerij Kuznetsov.

The Kommuniks were one of several revolutionary groups that popped up around this time, but by far the most influential. Followers of Kuznetsov and his ideas (enabled through illicit publishing and newspapers) had set up local Kommunik revolutionary militias across the country, and in February 1905 armed revolutionaries rallied the workers in Alexandrgrad and marched on the parliament. The February revolution marks the start of the Dnestrian civil war, and establishment of the Schwikau Union Republic. Signed in the city of Schwikau (hence the name), it was an agreement between the socialist workers republics of Alexandrgrad(later Schwikau), Shyiv, and Werdau (workers states were usually named after their capital at this time) to operate as a single unified republic until world socialism had been established. This agreement was made under an understanding that "siege socialism", a term coined by Kuznetsovs right hand man and the War Commissar, Grigory Voilin, will be necessary if they wish to keep the revolution alive.

1900s unrest and the First homeland war
Main article The First Homeland War

The completele collapse of the Dnestr republic and liberation of its constituents saw a period of unparralled unrest in Kommir as a whole. As the Kommuniks unified the newly formed Schwikau Union Republic with unprecedented speed, absorbing several previously independent nationbuilding projects, revolutionary potential overflowed in several other countries on the continent, guided by Kuznetsovs ideals of revolutionary combat. The timing of the revolution and subsequent events of the early 20th century could not have been more advantageous for the Communists. Grzestin, Leansire, and Sordavia, the triad of Kommirian world powers could do little more than observe the old world order fall piece by piece on the western mainland. They were already streched thin, their troops were commited to a number of colonial projects, and the late 1800s had seen a severe reduction in locally stationed troops as it was (mistakenly) believed that the colonies would serve as the new frontier of military action, and that simmilar doctrines by the other powers in the region would render the possibility of war at home mute.

The revolutionary wave would reach its conclusion with the Cuan War of Liberation (1910). While the Cunian revolutionaries were little concerned with communism at the time, primarily seeking national independence from Leanshire who had colonized the country in 1621, Schwikau was still providing the revolutionaries with arms and material support. By this time however the capitalist powers had officially ended the 2nd Colonial War and brought a significant number of troops back home. As Leanian Republuicans started losing momentum in late september of 1910, seing victory as the only option for survival, The Republic of Cuan was officially signed into InterKom, and the Army of the ShSR moved in to help the war effort. Word quickly spread of Schwikauan involvement in the Leanian War of Independence and under pressure from Grzestin who had just shut down a revolution of their own the Triad reluctantly signed a co-defensive pact in october 1910. Scwhikauan involvement in the Cuan revolution Lead to the inevitable declaration of war from the Empire of Leansire, and in turn the rest of the Triad on the 6th of november 1910, and the first homeland war started.

The first homeland war, in the capitalist sphere usually called "The World War" was by its time the deadliest conflict in known human history. It lasted for almost 10 years and lead to the deaths of more than 51 million people, of which roughly 20 million were civilians. The war was notable for being the first wide spread industrial war, while serving as the debut for a significant amount of new technologies like various forms of aircraft, tanks, artillery machine guns, machine pistols, poison gas, and self loading rifles. It was a particularly brutal and almost stationary artillery war. The technologies of the time allowed artillery to remain almost completely safe many kilometres behind the frontlines while devastating land and soldiers closer to the front to the extent that significant gains during much of the war was measured only in tens of metres. At the end of the war almost 4200 square kilometres of land was close to or completely uninhabitable and significant areas are still to this day too poisonous to safely live in. On the 6th of june 1920 when after a decision of truce all troops were pulled back to their original pre-war borders after a lengthy week of dimplomatic discussion when it was eventually realized there was no victory to be gained from either end. and all parties had been stretched to their limits of manpower and production.