Winter Revolution

2016 Granzerian Revolution
Part of the East Granzerian Insurgency
Clashes in Győr-Ibrany.
Date	3 December 2016–17 January 2017 (1 month and 2 weeks)
Location	Granzery
Goals	Destruction of AKHS Purge of Granzerian National Army
Methods	Protesting, rioting, civil resistance, insurrection
Resulted in	New Renaissance Party victory
Parties to the civil conflict
White-Green Coalition Christian Democrats National Democratic Party Dialogue for Granzery Young People's Alliance Granzo-Stehkrainyan League Green Granzerian Army 8. Armoured Division 1. Combat Engineer Regiment 15. Mechanised Regiment Granzerian Communist Party ZPA GPLA Alfa Detachment UNB Anarchists AKHS Government Ministry of the Interior National Gendarmerie NAVI Internal Security Various local police 5. Motorized Infantry Division New Renaissance Party VITNAC 1. OV.NC Életőr Istvan Kende 2. OV.NC Reneszánsz Őrök 3. OV.NC GRANEM 4. OV.Nk Såksesch Gruppe 8. OV.NC Viktor Szombathy Various other Paramilitary Organizations
Lead figures
Aliz Horvath  † Barnabás Vámos  † Theodor Constantin  † Yevheniy Zelenko Karoly Taksony Istvan Kecel Szilveszter Péter Kristóf Kalmár Mátyás Nemes
Number
Győr-Ibrany: 200,000–300,000 protesters 22,000+ insurrectionists 10,000 military forces Csongrad: 40,000–30,000 protesters 4,000+ insurrectionists 2,000 military forces Elsewhere: 11,000+ Law enforcement in Győr-Ibrany: 19,000 National Gendarmerie 8,000 Internal Troops Pro-government demonstrations: 40,000–60,000 (Győr-Ibrany) 5,000+ (Csongrad) 8,000+ (others) Paramilitary Forces: 2,500–2,600 (Győr-Ibrany) 1,500+ (Csongrad) 1,640+ (others)
Casualties and losses
Deaths: 1,903 Missing: 1,166 Injured: 9,100+ Arrested: 13,077 AFVs: 23 Deaths: 328 Injured: 572 Captured: 16 AFVs: 37

The 2016 Granzerian revolution, also known as the Winter revolution, Christmas Revolution or the Bloody Winter, took place in Granzery from the 3rd of December 2016 to the 17 of January the following year, when a series of violent events involving protesters, riot police, and eventually military action in the capital, Győr-Ibrany, culminated in a series of clashes between anti-government protestors and police, culminating in a brief civil conflict between members of various antifascist paramilitary groups, elements of the Granzerian Army, internal security forces and various pro-government paramilitary forces.

Overview

The 2016 Granzerian elections held in November were widely accused of being one-sided and corrupt, with no real opposition to the Granzerian Vezér Karoly Taksony or the ruling New Renaissance Party. Anti-government protests erupted across the country as New Renaissance member Istvan Kecel was sworn in as Prime Minister despite broad unpopularity and accusations of corruption and incompetence.

On the 3rd of December, the Granzerian government declared a national state of emergency and national curfew. In response some 10,000 protesters advanced on the National Diet building where the New Renaissance Party was temporarily governing the nation in support of ousting the Vezér of Granzery and Vezekabinet. National Gendarmerie blocked their path and the confrontation turned violent. Gendarmerie opened fire upon protestors initially using rubber bullets (but began using live ammunition when armed protestors began throwing rocks and molotov cocktails at police.) Protestors, who were not armed at this point, retreated from the Royal Diet siege after an estimated 4 law enforcement and over 60 protestors were killed.

Later on the evening of December 13, clashes between protestors, law enforcement, and paramilitary groups began to spread to other areas of Granzery, including mostly the second most populous city of Csongrad. While these clashes did not see the same international attention as the clashes in Győr-Ibrany, it is estimated at least 100 people were killed in clashes outside of the capital, including 30 killed as Zsukrán Provincial Army militants attacked government buildings in the east of the country.

On December 14 the Granzerian Vezer instituted a total media blackout on the situation in Granzery as disloyal elements of the Granzerian Military announced entered the capital seeking to overthrow the Vezér. Local police and gendarmerie clashed with military forces but were not equipped to combat the armoured vehicles of the military forces, at around 4pm on the 14th elements of the 15th Mechanized Regiment seized the Capital complex adjacent to the river, however the Vezér and Vezekabinet fled earlier that day, leaving the site largely unstaffed. Granzerian paramilitary forces belonging to the Vitéz National Corps assembled in the capital starting at 9pm on the 14th, preparing to assault the capital complex and apprehend or destroy the disloyal military elements.

During the conflict over the capital, chaos continued in the streets of Granzery, with local police and paramilitary beginning to mass apprehend protestors and involved the regular use of live ammunition on crowds found outside of home past curfew.

Three days later a force comprised of the Vitéz division "Életőr Karoly Taksony", Internal Security Troops and Granzerian National Army 8th Motorized Regiment assaulted the capital complex, initial assaults were repulsed by the dugin constitutionalist forces, heavily damaging the historic Parliament House. However by the 22nd of December most or all of the 15th Mechanized had surrendered to loyalist forces, most of which were tried and convicted of treason, with the last being sentences and executed on the 2nd of July of 2018.

On the 1st of January the New Renaissance Party returned to the Granzerian Parliament House and while clashes continued between protestors and state forces, the last major bastion of resistance in the capital was crushed with the defeat of constitutionalist forces and by the 17th of January the conflict was considered over and thousands lay dead and tens of thousands remained behind bars.