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| | name = Oleksii Dobrovolsky<br>{{small|Олексій Добровольський}}
| | | image = 1958_invictus_logo.png |
| | image = Andrei_Gromyko_1972_(cropped).jpg
| | | image_size = 250px |
| | image_size = 230px | | | alt = |
| | caption = Dobrovolsky pictured during a state visit to [[Slirnia]] in 1964
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| | office3 = Chief of Staff of the [[PDP|State Police Unit]] (PDP)
| | | host_city = [[Jindao]], [[Estmere]]<br>[[Gyousuu]], [[Senria]] |
| | term_start3 = November 1, 1952
| | | motto = |
| | term_end3 = February 4, 1971
| | | nations = 35 |
| | predecessor3 = [[Tselya Vanko]]
| | | athletes = |
| | successor3 = [[Ladzimir Anachenko]]
| | | events = 17 |
| | birth_date = {{Birth date|1909|6|30}}
| | | opening = 10 March |
| | birth_place = [[Narozalica|Shielvkasemysotka]], [[Terekhivka]], [[Narozalica]]
| | | closing = 29 March |
| | death_date = {{Death date and age|1974|3|17|1909|6|30}}
| | | opened_by = [[Theodore Spencer]], [[Prime Minister of Estmere]] |
| | death_place = [[Samistopol]], [[Narozalica]]
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| | nationality = Narozalic
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| | party = [[Narozalic Nationalist and Revivalist Party|NPNV]]
| | | summer_prev = Hammarvik 1954 |
| | spouse = Valantina Sviontak
| | | summer_next = Rémont 1962 |
| | children = 2
| | | winter_prev = San Alessandro 1956 |
| | allegiance = {{flag|Narozalica}}
| | | winter_next = Lac-Eloise 1960 |
| | branch = [[Narozalic Army|Army]]<br>[[PDP]]
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| | serviceyears = 1928{{ndash}}1935<br>1944{{ndash}}1971
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| | rank = Corporal
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| | battles = [[Great War|Western Front of the Great War]]<br>[[Solarian War]]
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| '''Oleksii Dobrovolsky''' (born Oleksii Tarasovych Dobrovolsky; June 30, 1909{{snd}}March 17, 1974; aged 64) was a [[Narozalica|Narozalic]] civil statesman and politician who served as the [[PDP|Chief of Staff of the PDP]] between 1952 and 1971, encompassing most of the tenure of [[Gabriel Tozulyak]]. Dobrovolsky had been an unofficial adviser to Tozulyak since his senatorial days, and was incredibly influential in shaping his outlook as well as controlling information flow to him whilst he served as the PDP's Chief of Staff. Political analysts have referred to Dobrovolsky as one of the most notorious and powerful ''{{wp|éminence grise|éminences grises}}'' of the 20th century during his tenure as the PDP's Chief of Staff, changing Narozalica's domestic and foreign outlook and policies. | | The '''1958 Invictus Games''', officially the '''Games of the XIII Invictus''' ({{wp|French language|Gaullican}}: ''Jeux de la XIII<sup>e</sup> Invictus'', {{wp|Chinese language|Xiaodongese}}: 第十三届因维克图斯运动会; ''Dì shísān jiè yīnwéikètúsī yùndònghuì'') and popularly known as '''Kintao 1958''', was the 13th edition of the {{wp|Modern Olympic Games|modern Invictus Games}}, held in [[Jindao]], then still an overseas territory of [[Estmere]], in March 1958. The games are perhaps most well-known today as the subject of a large boycott by [[Xiaodong]] and its allies in [[Coius]], protesting {{wp|colonialism}} on the content. 1,418 athletes participated in a total of 17 different sports. |
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| Dobrovolsky was born in 1909 in the rural farming village of Shielvkasemysotka as the fourth of six children born to father Maksim and mother Vasilina (née Biaritz). His father was an industrial worker producing metals at the nearby Lyubarskaya Industrial Zone, and his mother was an immigrant from [[Lemovicia]]. At 19, Dobrovolsky was conscripted into the [[Narozalic Army]] and sent to fight on the western front of the [[Great War]]. He was stationed at [[Krada]], Świebodzin and later Kamnik in [[Slirnia]]. In 1935 he left the army as a corporal to pursue further education. After failed initial attempts, he went into work for six years, before joining Syrnitsa College in 1941, where he met [[Gabriel Tozulyak]]. Dobrovolsky left the college in 1943, joining the [[PDP]] during the [[Solarian War]] in 1944, and was stationed in [[Arciluco]] and [[Dubovica]]. He also began serving as an unofficial adviser to Tozulyak in 1950 when he was elected as a senator for Syrnitsa. Putting his political influence on Tozulyak throughout his senatorial period, the two developed a close political and personal bond that was expanded greatly when Dobrovolsky used a leadership scandal within the PDP to rise to its Chief of Staff position in 1952.
| | Estmere expressed its interest in hosting the Games after the [[Solarian War]] in 1946. The devolved Jindanese government, which had remained in Estmerish possession despite the decolonisation of Coius, were interested in hosting the games to deliver a necessary economic boost to the city. Eventually, the two governments agreed to hold it in the city, and it was awarded the 1958 games in 1950. It was the second time Estmere had hosted the games, after [[Estmere|Catherby 1910]]. Several entirely new stadiums and complexes were constructed for the Games, and Estmere came to agreement with the [[Senria|Senrian government]] over hosting some long-distance events in Senria. Ultimately, the games saw the lowest athlete participation and lowest amount of Invictus Committees participating since 1938, mostly due to the boycott. Some athletes from the boycotting countries alternatively chose to participate under the neutral Invictus flag. |
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| When Tozulyak became president in 1955, Dobrovolsky was entrusted behind the scenes as one of his closest advisors. He used this position, as well as his high-ranking position within the PDP, to control and limit the flow of information into the president, heavily influencing his political outlook to conform to his own {{wp|interventionism (politics)|interventionist views}}. Tozulyak oversaw one of the largest periods of Narozalic military funding and expansion since the wartime era, and is thought to have been directly influenced by Dobrovolsky. He championed {{wp|reformism}} and pushed Tozulyak to undergo the largest agricultural reforms in Narozalic history with the introduction of large corporation farms and supply routes. Dobrovolsky is also thought to have been the arbiter of positive relations between the [[Amathian Equalist Republic]] as well as military intervention during the [[Thistle Uprising (Amathia)|Thistle Uprising]] and the sale of uranium to fund Amathian nuclear power projects, moves that would all culminate in the NVNP's rejection of Tozulyak as president and his forced resignation shortly after Dobrovolsky stepped down as the PDP's Chief of Staff in 1971. Dobrovolsky died of cancer three years later in [[Samistopol]].
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| Dobrovolsky's involvement in the Tozulyak presidency was not fully recognised until the declassification of state documents during Dobrovolsky's tenure in 1994. He was {{wp|posthumous trial|posthumously trialled}} and convicted of gross corruption and had all of his military honours stripped. [[Ivan Lecsko]], president at the time of trial, controversially had Dobrovolsky's coffin removed from the July Mausoleum in [[Samistopol]] and relocated to the nearby
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| Kravets Cemetery. He is a highly controversial figure in western Euclea but is widely studied for his effects on Narozalic foreign policy, militarism and domestic economic reforms, as well as the gross misuse of his power and the potential {{wp|nepotism}} that allowed him to adopt the role of an influential {{wp|power behind the throne}} figure.
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| == Early life and background ==
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| == Military career ==
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| === During the Great War ===
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| === Early PDP service ===
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| === Promotion to Chief of Staff ===
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| === Resignation ===
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| == Political involvements ==
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| === Prior relations with Tozulyak ===
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| === Military restructuring ===
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| === Interventionism abroad ===
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| === Foreign relations ===
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| === Domestic economic reforms ===
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| == Death and legacy ==
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| === Domestic legacy ===
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| ==== 1994 Kharchenko declassifications ====
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| === International legacy ===
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| == See also ==
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The 1958 Invictus Games, officially the Games of the XIII Invictus (Gaullican: Jeux de la XIIIe Invictus, Xiaodongese: 第十三届因维克图斯运动会; Dì shísān jiè yīnwéikètúsī yùndònghuì) and popularly known as Kintao 1958, was the 13th edition of the modern Invictus Games, held in Jindao, then still an overseas territory of Estmere, in March 1958. The games are perhaps most well-known today as the subject of a large boycott by Xiaodong and its allies in Coius, protesting colonialism on the content. 1,418 athletes participated in a total of 17 different sports.
Estmere expressed its interest in hosting the Games after the Solarian War in 1946. The devolved Jindanese government, which had remained in Estmerish possession despite the decolonisation of Coius, were interested in hosting the games to deliver a necessary economic boost to the city. Eventually, the two governments agreed to hold it in the city, and it was awarded the 1958 games in 1950. It was the second time Estmere had hosted the games, after Catherby 1910. Several entirely new stadiums and complexes were constructed for the Games, and Estmere came to agreement with the Senrian government over hosting some long-distance events in Senria. Ultimately, the games saw the lowest athlete participation and lowest amount of Invictus Committees participating since 1938, mostly due to the boycott. Some athletes from the boycotting countries alternatively chose to participate under the neutral Invictus flag.
