Miersan Military Organization
| Miersan Military Organization | |
|---|---|
| Мерска Oрганизаця Bойскова | |
| Leader | Oskar Raczkowski |
| Foundation | 1915 |
| Dates of operation | 1934 |
| Headquarters | Arciluco |
| Ideology | 1915-1927: Miersan nationalism Miersan irredentism 1927-1934: National Functionalism |
| Opponents | Soravia |
The Miersan Military Organization (Miersan: Мерска Oрганизаця Bойскова; Mierska Organizacja Wojskowa), sometimes referred to as Oskarites, were a Miersan paramilitary organization engaged in terrorism against Soravians and Lemovicians in the years leading up to and during the Great War. Initially non-functionalist the organization evolved into functionalist ally of Gaullica during the war. It was led by Oskar Raczkowski and based in Arciluco.
[SUMMARY] Founded in 1915 by Oskar Raczkowski and other Miersan nationalists, he would initially be an opponent to Gaullica and Soravian occupation but eventually a power struggle with members from the Gaullican regions led to his focus being solely on Soravia. The group would commit assassinations and terror attacks against Soravians and other percieved enemies of Miersan independence throughout the 1920s.
History
Before the Great War
The organization was founded by Oskar Raczkowski in August 1915, a former member of the Miersan Corps of the Soravian Armed Forces, he had founded it in secret in Arciluco to keep outside of reach of Soravian and Gaullican law enforcement. The group was founded as an underground military organization made to continue to armed struggle for Miersan Independence from Soravia and Gaullica. Initially it sought to conduct terror attacks, assassinations, and ambushed against Soravians and Gaullicans in Miersa. They also targeted minorities such as Lemovicians and Savaders.
An early on power struggle between the leader of the Eastern Gaullican wing of the organization, Stanislaw Sabrozicz, led to Oskar purging much of it's eastern members, and the organization became centrally focused on combating Soravian forces. Initially the group was small.
In 1924 it committed it's first major act against the Soravian government, assassinating Vladimer Gamkrelidze, Minsister of the Interior of Soravian Miersa, and an ethnic Salikhian. He would be killed by a sniper while in sitting in his living room.
By 1926 the organization had committed over 30 terrorist attacks across Soravia. Vladislav Pudovkin designated members of the group "enemies of the state" in 1925. Eventually members of the organization itself became targets by the government of Soravia, who used extrajudicial means to kill members of the group. A spy for the organization, Urszula Rogowska, was assassinated by Soravian law enforcement in 1926. The group would respond with the assassination of a top general, Vasko Jarabinec in a car bomb in 1927. When the Great War broke out, the group sought to take advantage of it.
