People's Republic of Pulezh

People's Republic of Pulezh Republik Poblel Pulezh
1964
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Anthem: People's Song Aurivizht: Pobleloù Kanaouenn
The location of the People's Republic of Pulezh (in red) shown with the rest of Aurivizh (in gray).
Status	Unrecognized state
Capital	Pulezh
Common languages	Aurivizht
Demonym(s)	Pulezhian
Government	Socialist republic
• 12 September 1964 – 30 October 1964	Devan Kernivinen
• 31 October 1964 – 3 November 1964	Loudiern Ollivier
Legislature	People's Council of Pulezh
History
• Established	12 September 1964
• Disestablished	3 November 1964
Currency	People's Pod (Pȡ)
Preceded by Succeeded by Aurivizht State Aurivizht Republic Aurivizht State
Today part of	Aurivizh

The People's Republic of Pulezh (Aurivizht: Republik Poblel Pulezh) was a short-lived communist nation in Pulezh which existed between September 12th and November 3rd 1964. It existed as an attempt to separate the Regional State of Pulezh from Aurivizh, which had suffered from the nationalist Great Coup of 1964. The People's Republic was ruled by the General Secretary of the Aurivizhts People's Party Devan Kernivinen until his assassination in October, after it was ruled by Loudiern Ollivier. The People's Republic was dissolved on the 3rd of November 1964, after the Aurivizht State Militia invaded it and Ollivier signed a diktat of unconditional surrender. The People's Republic is remembered in Aurivizh as a catastrophe.

Background

The roots of the People's Republic of Pulezh lay in the chaos which had engulfed Aurivizh after Turien Rouault’s nationalist coup, which had overthrown the relatively unstable Aurivizht republic with the Aurivizht State, which still governs the nation to this day. On September 4th, after months of civil unrest, the Aurivizht National Unity Party staged a coup against the Aurivizht Republic, overthrowing the government and forcing Ruvon Kergoat, then Prime Minister, to abdicate all power to Turien Rouault, who was able to both abolish the constitution and the parliament during a single session. In the following week, regional law enforcement forces either pledged allegiance to the new government or were disbanded and replaced with ANUP Nationalist Militias.

On September 8th, the Rouault government announced a ban on all non-ANUP or ANUP-aligned political parties. Leader of the main Social-Communist party Devan Kernivinen, as well as many other high-ranking members of the Aurivizhts People’s Party, were at the time the new ban was announced in the city of Pulezh to organise a rally against the Rouault Government. Knowing that many of the high-ranking members would most likely be arrested, the party’s members went into hiding in Pulezh, usually staying with leftist sympathizers.

At the same time, the Commissioner of the Pulezh regional state, Yann Pennec, who himself was a member of ANUP, announced a general crackdown on all political opposition. Despite that, most of the Law Enforcement in Pulezh had not yet pledged allegiance to the new government, claiming that a debate with the commanders of various units would first be needed, delaying ANUP Militias from replacing them. In reality, many of the commanders of law enforcement units were staunch Anti-ANUP, and were seeking to revolt, or at least resist the ANUP government.

Establishment

On the night of September 9th to 10th, 1964, the first General Committee of the Pulezh Regional Council was held in a bar in the centre of Pulezh. A large part of the Aurivizhts People’s Party, including Devan Kernivinen and Loudiern Ollivier, who was Kernivinen’s second in command, were present. Furthermore, local law enforcement commanders, trade-union leaders and intellectuals were all also on the first Committee. During the underground meeting, it was decided to stage strikes on both rail and road services to prevent ANUP-aligned Militias from entering the Region. However, the largest decision agreed on during that night was the proclamation of the People’s Republic of Pulezh, a socialist republic. Devan Kernivinen was proclaimed as the Republic’s first General Secretary, and planning started on a coup against Yann Pennec’s regional government.

Rail and worker strikes started on the evening of the 10th, following the announcement that the roads into the Regional State had been blocked by Pulezhian law enforcement. A rough boundary was drawn, stretching from Charmort to Mount Gwierc’h on the Ebrarian border, as well as a small exclave near the town of C’halloud, whose mayor was a member of the APP. On September 11th, standoffs occurred between Pro-APP and Pro-ANUP militias on the boundary, but no fighting occurred. Meanwhile, Pennec declared martial law in the regional state, but, with most of the law enforcement being on the side of the APP, the attempt failed, as it could not be enforced. Furthermore, protests by the APP were instigated in the city of Pulezh, calling for the abdication of Pennec.

Hegareg Quiviger, APP-alligned mayor of Angauzon, announces the establishment of the People's Republic. He was later executed for treason, together with 15 other mayors in the region.

At exactly 01:05 on September 12th, the sentence “Na kriz e vo heol an argad, d'ar vourc'hizien ha d'an treitour.” (Aurivizht: How cruel the onslaught will be to the bourgeois and the traitors.) marked the beginning of the coup. Law enforcement, as well as APP militiamen, made their way to the Regional Council of Pulezh, as well as the residence of Yann Pennec. The guards at both buildings were disarmed and arrested, and by 01:48, the second codeword “Toc’had.” (Aurivizht: Harvest.’’) marked the success of part one of the operations. Yann Pennec was awakened and reportedly tortured for four hours before he agreed to abdicate all power to the APPs General Committee. By 7:50 in the morning, Devan Kernivinen and five other members of the General Committee declared Pulezh a “Free Socialist Republic”.

Only a few hours later, the Turien Rouault government in Alivezh declared that the Socialist Republic in Pulezh was in no way or form legitimate and would only recognise the Regional State of Pulezh as a subdivision of the State of Aurivizh. However, due to the relative instability of the country at the moment, the ANUP government was unable to squash the People’s Republic, and instead kept the Republic isolated, cutting off all telephone connections and closing all road and rail connections into wider Aurivizh.

Troubles

The Assassination of Devan Kerniven was carried out by nationalist militias, his car was blown up on a side street by an IED.

Foreign Relations

The Hamon-Lavor Hotel in Pulezh, where the Velaherian representatives were hosted.

Around a week after the establishment of the People's Republic of Pulezh, the Democratic People's Republic of Velaheria sent representatives to discuss establishing ties between the PR Pulezh and DPR Velaheria. Among the representatives sent were Heinlem von Aurenburg and Duzhdek Beriah. The Representatives stayed in the Hamon-Lavor Hotel in the centre of Pulezh. Von Aurenburg reportedly met Devan Kernivinen on multiple occasions, and in his personal notes he reported about the success of the revolution.

Despite the young age of the People's Republic, it seems like there is a relative stability. Socialist principles still need to be integrated, but, for the most part, Pulezh seems on the right way to succeed the Aurivizht Republic.

After the assassination of Kerniven, the Velaherian Supreme People's Assembly started evacuating its representatives from Pulezh. However, the invasion only a few days later caused the evacuations to be delayed, and eventually scrapped. Both von Aurenburg and Beriah were arrested, and charged with assisting in revolt, but were eventually extradited back to Velaheria. It took another twenty years until bilateral relations were again established between Velaheria and Aurivizh.