Bloody Revolt of the East

The Bloody Revolt of the East was a successful armed revolt by Olex Prekov's Syldavian Rebels, which overthrew the USSR occupation of Syldavia after over eight years of struggle. The revolt also occured in Oksaine but it was less important than in Syldavia.

Before the Revolt
After the death of Joseph Stalin, Georgy Malenkov took power but didn't have the power of Stalin over the USSR. Seeing this time of changes in politics in the Soviet Union as well as the end of the Korean War as an opportunity for Syldavian freedom, Syldavian Rebels assembly in Vladivostok to organize the rebellion. One week after this secret assembly, the attacks took part in every corners of Syldavia and in Oksaine who were supporting the revolt against the Soviet troops. It was the beginning of the Bloody Revolt of the East.

The Revolt
It was not clear in the beginning of 1953 that Syldavia ever intended to gain independence by military means, and war was not explicitly threatened in 1952 Preko's manifesto. Several Syldavian Rebels members acting independently at Primorsky, Amur, led by Alexei Loka and Fredrich Milochkiev, attacked and shot two KGB officers who were escorting explosives. Loka later recalled:

"[...]we took the action deliberately, having thought over the matter and talked it over between us. Treacy had stated to me that the only way of starting a war was to kill someone, and we wanted to start a war, so we intended to kill some of the police whom we looked upon as the foremost and most important branch of the enemy forces. The only regret that we had following the ambush was that there were only two policemen in it, instead of the six we had expected."

This is widely regarded as the beginning of the Bloody Revolt of the East, and the men acted on their own initiative to try to start a war. Troops of the Soviet Army were sent to Syldavia and Oksaine with future reinforcement but the Soviet Union needed troops in Europe because of the 1953 East Germany uprising.

Volunteers for the Syldavian and Oksainian Rebels began to attack Soviet government property, carried out raids for arms and funds and targeted and killed prominent members of the Soviet administration in place in Syldavia. The first was Governor Vladimir Mirkoviek, who was shot dead in Klow, for having sent Volunteers to prison for unlawful assembly and drilling. They mimicked the successful tactics of the IRA in the Irish War of Independence, fast violent raids without uniform.

During the early part of the conflict, roughly from 1953 to the end of 1994, there was a relatively limited amount of violence. Much of the nationalist campaign involved popular mobilisation and the creation of a "new Republic” in opposition to Soviet rule.

There were fights everywhere in Syldavia and Oksaine and finally in December 15th, 1994 the USSR forces were surrounded and captured. After two months, the Treaty of Klow was signed and the Revolt was over.

After the Revolt
On February 25, 1956, Khrushchev shocked delegates to the 20th Congress of the Soviet Communist Party by cataloguing and denouncing Stalin's crimes. As part of a campaign of de-Stalinization, he declared that the only way to reform and move away from Stalin's policies would be to acknowledge errors made in the past like the Syldavian Invasion ("Capture") and that Georgy Malenkov lost power because of the Bloody Revolt of the East. He also said that the USSR will let Syldavia alone and try to cooperate with them in research in development and other domains. China took a long time to recognize the government of Syldavia (1970 - 15 years) and North Korea only recognized Syldavia as a country in 1992 (37 years), while most of the International Community recognized it in the year of the end of the Revolt.

The first President of the Second Republic of Syldavia (also known as the Federal Republic of Syldavia), Olex Prekov, said after the Lunar SpaceShip Launch to the USSR Premier Khrushchev: "It's better being friends than a couple don't you think?" - He meant by this phrase that it is better to cooperate separately and with two different and independent country and people than to be joint and have tensions.

Cinema
The Revolt has been adapted in a movie by the Syldavian realisator Gregor Valchenkov.