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| conflict    = ASU-Chokashian War
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| partof      = [[Second Great War]]
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| caption     = From Left to Right: City of [[Polom]] after ASU bombardment, Chokashian soldiers posing with a dead ASU soldier, Komiti guerrilla, Members of the Freikorps Rennenkampff,  Guerrillas of the [[Chokashian Army in the Fatherland]]
| date        = 1 April 1926 - 1945
| place       = Chokashia
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| combatant1  = [[Image:Chokashian Hetmanate Flag.png|30px]] [[Chokashian Hetmanate]](1926-1934)
*Chokashian Armed Forces
*[[Image:Jakubi Legion Flag.png|30px]] [[Armed Forces of Granica|Jakubi Legion]] (1926-34) 
{{flagdeco|Chokashia|size=30px}} [[Kovilovo Republic]] (1927-1945)
*[[Image:CAiTF Flag.png|30px]] Chokashian Army in the Fatherland(1927-1945)
*[[Image:Komiti Flag.png|30px]] [[Komiti]](1926-1945)
*[[Image:Freikorps Rennenkampff Flag.png|30px]] [[Freikorps Rennenkampff]](1926-1940)
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'''The ASU-Chokashian War''' or more commonly known as '''The Great War of the Fatherland''' ([[Chokash language|Chokash]]:Велика Вітчизняна війна, Velyka Vitčyznjana vijna) is a conflict that was fought between the [[Chokashian Hetmanate]] and the [[Kovilovo Republic]] on one side against the [[Aeian Sociaist Union]]. It was the prelude to the Second Great war but also the conflict that continued after the [[Sacila Conference]] with large guerrilla operations of Chokashian solidarists.

The conflict grew out of a crisis between Chokashia and the ASU. Chokashia was at peace after a civil war which wrapped the country for months, fought between nationalists and the ASU backed syndicalists which lost. The ASU demanded that the syndicalist leaders, which have been arrested and sentenced to death by the nationalists, to be released immediately and viewed the court decision as a provocation and an act against the proleteriat. Prior to the [[Chokashian Civil War]], the ASU acted in the interest of left-wing political parties as a mean to expand its own sphere of influence to Chokashia. 
After the syndicalist leaders of Chokashia were executed the ASU issued an ultimatum to which Chokashian officials couldn't respond as it would have subdued Chokashia and violated its constitution. On 1 April the conflict started when the ASU started shelling Chokashian cities close to its border, but the ASU land invasion didn't start until April 15 when the ASU attacked Chokashian foritifications in the Shevchenkovo forests. The Chokashian army held out for more than a week as it had prepared itself well but then slowly started going back into the country. On April 29th the Chokashian army made a counteroffensive that pushed back the ASU troops more than 60 kilometers deep into Dreyvisevich. The initial success of the Chokashian army was one of the reasons why the Wester Asuran countries started shipping the much needed supplies to Chokashia. The Chokashian offensive didn't last long as the Chokashian troops pulled back into Chokashia. For the next four months the Chokashian forces dug in and fought back human waves of the ASU forces. On September 23 the ASU started a massive offensive on all parts of the front, the Chokashian forces had to retreat but dug in the Polom mountains in the east and on the banks of the Svislach river in the south. The Second Stalemate lasted until late October when the Chokashian forces pushed back the ASU troops and regained control over most of the country during the [[Greusmann Offensive]]. The 1926/1927 Winter was fruitless for the ASU which started pressuring the Western countries to cease supplying Chokashia which was successful, and on March 8 the ASU started the [[Great Spring Offensive]] during which they pushed the Chokashian forces westwards and then northwards to Tudonia.
On April 5 Tudonian forces occupied a small part of Chokashia in the north to where it purposely let the Chokashian army to retreat with the whole government and thousands of refugees. The ASU declared victory on April 9 after defeating the last Chokashian forces in the north.

===Prelude===
After the civil war that happened in Chokashia a new government was chosen by [[Taras V]], the [[Hetman of Chokashia]], who continued his authoritarian rule over the country.
In the aftermath of the Chokashian Civil War, many of the syndicalist rebels were put on trial. The most anticipated one was of the leaders of the rebellion. [[Mykhailo Bondarchuk]], [[Mykola Oleksandrovskiy]], [[Georg Steiner]] and other important figures of the [[Chokashian Workers Syndicalist Republic]] were accused of high treason and put on trial. The ASU protested, even after the ideological split, asking for an immediate release of the rebel leaders. After a month long trial all of the leaders were sentenced to death including [[Oleksandr Bondarchuk]], [[Ivan Sviatovski]], [[Artur Mykolaichuk]] and [[Evhen Kolomoiskiy]] who have been tried and sentenced in absentia.
The imprisoned rebel leaders were executed by hanging in secret on the eve of February 24th 1925. Upon hearing the news of this, the ASU Secretary of Foreign affairs protested this act. The situation quickly escalated into a crisis. On March 27th 1925 the ASU ambassador to Chokashia handed over an [[ultimatum to the Chokashian government]]. The response deadline was on 29th of March, two days later.
The ASU demanded free elections sanctioned by ASU observers , the immediate release and amnesty for all the rebels and their leaders and pointed out in the ultimatum ''that the rights of workers are endangered and the ASU will do everything to protect them''. This has raised concern among Chokashian officials with many fears that the ASU will try to interfere in legitimate elections. 
The government and the Hetman knew that the utlimatum has been written to humiliate and subdue Chokashia, but they acknowledged that Chokashia was not prepared for a war with the ASU. Hetman even said on one occasion during the meeting ''i fear that this ultimatum has purposely been written for us to decline''. 
At 17.30, 29th of March, [[Chokashian Prime Minister]] [[Viktor Vsevolodov]] delivered the ultimatum to the ambassador of the ASU. The answer of Chokashia was positive to all the points of the ultimatum except one - the ASU sanctioned elections in Chokashia. When the ASU ceased its diplomatic relations with Chokashia on the same day, the Chokashian government issued a mobilization order, and put most of its standing army forces on the border. Villages on the ASU-Chokashian border were ordered to be evacuated. Around midday, on April the 1st, an unusual declaration of war was recieved - a simple telegram. 
There are historians who claim that the ASU bureaucracy contributed to the war being announced only on April 1st, as the telegraph service did not work the previous two days.