Victor Almaz

Victor Almaz, born in in 1932 and moved to Czrik at the age of 22 had been known as the most accomplished Syldavian in Shushtrepistaz, with notable accomplishments in book writing, winning two awards and his 89 Visions, which stunned many about how society would run. He is, along with Hegro Vikkor was the co-founders of the Socialist Party of Shushtrepistaz. He currently resides in what is now know as little Syldavia, the north western part of Czrik in a 2 story suburban house at the edge. Along with these accomplishments, he was the first Syldavian Senator, and the second oldest Syldavian man in Shushtrepistaz. Victor has been described as one of the most influential figures in Shudonese history.

Life in Syldavia
Victor Hekirov Almaz was born on September 8 1932 at 2101 Rukinov in Klow, a city located on the coast of the Khanka Lake. His ancestry was from the Pelican Empire known from his great ancestor Rikorov Almaz. Victor's father, Haljilj Almaz, was middle-class and relatively prosperous, being a trader and artisan. His life was shaped by WWII after his older brother Lemitr Almaz had died in fighting off the Japanese, and having his sister, Gerga Almaz die after returning back from a trip from Moscow after being caught in a raid. In 1946, he began working for his father under an artisan apprenticeship, in his spare time he had researched about Karl Marx and many other socialist ideas, under the USSR, his family, having connections with the Moscow leaders, they had lead a normal life, or at times a better life then before. Victor Almaz, like the rest of his family had been left uneasy about the Soviet Union's control of Syldavia. He had started plans along with his father, where he had revealed indirectly in his second book Tribal Scholar, for an overthrow of the Soviet rule in Syldavia, even going war enough to try to start a rebellion group that eventually had never took off. After unsuccessfully getting into the Sons of Liberty movement of Rebellion Leader Olex Prekov, he left Syldavia after attempting to start a riot in 1952 with a group of friends, which had failed leading his friends to be executed by the Red Army. He and his surviving friends had escaped to Japan at nightfall during the warm summer of 1952. His words, repeated in his biography, after leaving Syldavia exclaimed :  "I do not feel sorry or remorse for what I left, as what I left was a piece of land that had not enought [motivation] to survive."

New Life
After leaving Syldavia, Victor, who had spoken no other language then russian, had been lost in Japan for 2 months, only relying his freinds, who spoke some Japanese. Their big break came in the spring of 1953 where he had heard of a nation below Japan, where a large majority of Syldavia exiles and escapee's had lived. He had taken all the money he tried to make, and set of to Czrik, Shushtrepistaz. He installed himself in the Northwestern Quarter of the city, which was a popular place for Syldavian refugees. As he began to set up his life in Czrik, as the conflict in Syldavia had started to begin. 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. In that time Victor Almaz, who was once rejected from the Sons of Liberty had been informed that he was welcomed to return to Syldavia and fight against the Soviets. In his letter back to Olex Prekov he rejected the offer and said, what was done is done, and what happened to me will not happen again.

Under the Soviets
Victor Almaz, during this time had also been trying to change the much more capitalist, Shushtrepistaz into a more Socialist Union, he began a lobbyist group known as The Communist Union. The lobby had eventually failed as growing american influences in the nation had lead it to crumble. While its domestic efforts had failed the Communist Union had gotten attention from the USSR, where they had sent advisers to take over. Victor, a huge opponent of the Soviet State, had almost decided to refuse the help, but knew it was the only way to do it. Meanwhile in Russia 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 and that Georgy Malenkov lost power because of the Bloody Revolt of the East. Victor had also expected the Soviets to leave his Union, it never had happened, and he had soon gotten farther and farther away from the alliance, letting large plans had go under his nose, acting more of a figurehead for the Russians to control. The turning point happened in July 1, 1958, where he had left the Union, and 7 days later the State of Brenzaltan had declared independence. Victor, along with his remaining followers had tried to escape, but had been trapped within the nation. The Brenzaltan government had forced him to be their public figurehead, but he refused it. Because of this refusal he had been torchered for days, but had escaped during a prisoner raid. In the time until the 1960s' Victor Almaz had been reported as the leader of Brenzaltan, with a look-a-like acting as the puppet. When 1960 rolled along and a new spread of change in government had occurred where the Soviets gave the power officially to Brenzaltan, "Victor" had vanished from the news of paper. At the same time American and Shushtrepistaz Operations in and over Brenzaltan had began, one famous one, known as the Zytxchol Nuclear Operation had revealed of nuclear weapons being produced in Brenzaltan, where Victor, now as a traitor had worked undercover, and had been assigned as a guard, where he had seen a glimpse of the spy plane but had not reported it.

Revolutionary Years
His life in the years of the sixties saw a change for his rebellious life, now under his alias of Kekogrov Alako, had married Jenica Veruna, and had a child. No one but his wife and his friends knew his real name. He soon had stopped his rebellious attitude to life altogether and had become a simple man. This all had changed when his brother, Yuri Almaz had sent him a mail, detailing of the end of the Bloody Revolt of the East, the mail had been originally been kept as it brought news from the outside world, but as the new change in government happened some new freedoms had been released. The letter had also told about how he was so rebellious and that he inspired them to change their nation. This letter alone, had brought a spark back to him, to take back Brenzaltan to its past of freedom, but with a more Socialist View. In 1962 he had organised the Legion of Brenzaltan, a revolutionary group that had consisted of over 1000 men, who all had the same ambition, freedom. The group had connections with the newly forming Syldavian Government who provided them low level supplies through smugglers, with an idea of them claiming Brenzaltan for Syldavia. The group had acquired a small fortune of reselling many of the supplies, enough to bribe many low and mid level officials in the Brenzaltan Government to their side. They had planned to revolt on April 2, 1969, but had eventually failed, known now as the Lame Revolt had consisted of over 100 rebels in the main square of Czrik, where they had fired home made rockets into the capital building, the explosives, not as effective as they thought had barley damaged the capital building, and had also caused a retaliation consisting of tanks, and armed men, who had slaughtered 90% of the rebels. Victor in 1970, scared of what happened in 1969, had stopped with openly public attacks, and had resorted to terrorism, using much more effective bombs. The years of 1970-1972 where known as the age of bombs, as the amount of terrorist attacks, and soldier death had become ever present in areas more in the north. Victor had a new flame for what he did, and had been contacted by Shushtrepistaz officials about his actions, and had given him more tools to revolt, in 1973 the birth of his daughter, Christina Almaz, had lead him to take a rest and to spend time with his kids. As he knew that the next years will be the most painful he will ever have.

Victor's New Battle
After hiding for much of the early 1970's Victor had been back into the public eye, where he had promoted anti-brenzaltan views, and had started to gather new arms for battles. His big break would come in 1974 where he had gone into contact with Jukonev Veki where he had heard about a planned rebellion in the north, he being skeptical had decided to view the rebellion and only provide Jukonev with informational and weapon support which he had acquired from the Shudonese Military in the late 60's. On June 30, 1974 the Northern Rebellion had broken the area of Northern Brenzaltan into a new nation of Wezor the break had caught the Brenzaltan military off guard as they were focusing on their military expansion. A few day's later in his home Victor had been arrested for plotting of the Northern Rebellion, but in the trial a mishap had happened and he was only charged 25 days of prison instead of 25 years. After those 25 days Victor, invigorated from the Northern Rebellion had started to unite rebellion groups creating the Coalition of Brenzaltan, which, like always had been secretly supported by the American and Shudonese governments, with funds and weapons. After the nuclear disaster in 1982 at Zytxchol, fortunately a day when Victor had been sick. Had gave Victor a sign, where he was chosen to unite Brenzaltan and Shushtrepistaz, through a socialist philosophy. At the same time of this new revelation, Victor had began writing his first book Art of Men where he portrayed the goods and evils of socialism after seeing both types in Brenzaltan and Shushtrepistaz. Two years of planning with the Coalition of Brenzaltan and the Shudonese had fell flat, and Victor was ready to just to end it. On the day of May 25, 1984, after a Brenzaltan Invasion of Kobe, the Shudonese had assulted back, Victor believed this was perfect timing for a revolt, and on the day of June 3, 1984 the Brenzaltan Revolution had set Czrik ablaze even before the Shudonese arrived, the war ended on June 19, 1984, of which Victor Almaz had been though of as a Hero.

The new era
After the war had ended Victor had set up plans to start a party that believed in his socialist values, this had become the Socialist Party of Shushtrepistaz of which he was one of the leaders, his first role was to run for office of the presidency in in 1986, where he had received almost enough votes to win, but had lost to Kyumo Hadino who had run on a anti-socialist platform saying that it was the cause of the break in the first place. Victor, had accepted defeat, but was not over, he had trained his apprentice, a son of one of his best freind Yubi Sadumo to follow in his footsteps, his own kids, had gone into politics, where Andrew Almaz had won a congressional seat in 1986. In 1988 Victor had won a seat in the congressional body for the Czrik seat. During the next 2 years he had fought many anti-socialist bills, and brought up some very famous bills that are still in today, including the Standards and Limited Bill Forcing the government to provide some free healthcare, which was manifested into the Shudonese Health Fund, which he had been a board member after leaving office in 1990. In 1989, the same year of the Soviet Union collapse he had returned to Syldavia where he was greeted by thousands, and marked as a Hero. After a day he had escaped the crowds and went to his old home, which was now home to his brother and his family, there he had met future president Vladimir Almaz in the 1990 election between Yubi Sadumo, Kyumo Hadino, John Kingly, and Guntruth Vikcor, Yubi had won, being the first member of the party to win an presidential election.

Final Saga
The years had taken a toll on Victor now 64, and still actively playing in politics, his face has still marks of war and his socialist ways have changed. As his ideology went from pure socialism to a respective capitalist and socialist view where both are merged within each other. The same year of his 64th birthday he was awarded the Perion Award for his book about the goods and evils of socialism. He eventually had settled down after his second award and his second term in a congressional seat at the age of 70 where he lives in a humble home with his wife and his grandchildren.