Iron Wolf State of Lithuania

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Lithuania, officially The Iron Wolf State of Lithuania (Gelezinio Vilko Lietuva in Lithuanian) is a country in eastern Europe. It is the leader of the militaristic Eastern Front (EF) alliance. It currently has two declared capitals, one being Vilnius and the other being Königsberg.
The country is a Fascist Dictatorship. The current dictator of Iron Wolf State of Lithuania is Mindaugas Murza, coming into power in late 1998 after the last dictator's death.
The current economy of Lithuania is not bad, but it isn't that great either. One Litas is worth 0,94 USD as of January 1st, 2018.
It is in really good relations with EF members Poland, Byelorussia and Ukraine. It also has good relations with Italy. It has really bad, if not, critical relations with Russia, Czechia, Slovakia, Romania.
== History and Leaders ==
=== Algirdas Sliesoraitis (1929 - 1962) ===
With the growing threat of an attack from either Russia, Poland or Germany, the people of Lithuania demanded answers from the government. At the time, relations with Poland were critically low as they had blatantly occupied Vilnius, Lithuania's former capital in the Polish-Soviet war in 1919.
In 1929, a man by the name of Algirdas Sliesoraitis had created a new political party in the then democratic republic, called "Iron Wolf Union". It was meant to follow and praise the national socialist/fascist ideology, taking an example from Italy. The leader of the party openly hated and disgusted the Polish due to the fact it had occupied Vilnius. They blamed the Polish for the three partitions of Poland-Lithuania in the late 18th century and the blame and hate powered many people of Lithuania to do the same. The political party grew until it was large enough to successfully perform a coup d'etat, overthrowing the then democratic government by force with soldiers and people volunteering for the political party.
==== Sudden reforms of 1929-1930 ====
After the Coup D'etat, many political and diplomatic reforms took place. Poles in the country were stripped of their rights, Polish children could not get a higher education, or go to school at all. This, of course, angered Poland, whom had issued a full-on state embargo. Doing that, it closed it's borders with Lithuania as well.
Military laws changed too. Men from the ages of 16 were heavily conscripted into the Iron Wolf Army and could only retire from the army at age 35. If a man was to stay in the Iron Wolf army even if he has the option to retire, based on his achievements and status, the person would be able to be first in line for a higher education, was guaranteed a home to stay in and even got 250 Litas monthly when the person would be discharged of it's service. Service in the Iron Wolf army would become a honorable thing to do in the state.
The borders of Lithuania would close down. Only officials and people posing no threat to the government or country were allowed to enter and leave Lithuania. Press laws would change, propaganda would fill the news, embracing Fascism, discriminating communism.
==== Baltic Union; Tensions with Poland ====
In 1934, Lithuania sent diplomats to Estonia and Latvia to discuss matters of Baltic Unification. Latvia was the first to agree, and it became official - Latvia had joined Lithuania, however, Estonia was skeptic at first. This, however, soon changed their mind as they feared an invasion from the east. They had agreed to join Iron Wolf Lithuania, embracing fascism along with Latvia.
Soon enough, in 1937 Poland had begun to pressure Lithuania, demanding to give more rights to the Poles in the country, as well as demanding to dissolve into Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia again. Dictator Algirdas Sliesoraitis responded with ordering his loyal military men to execute 20% of Poles in the country and insulting the Polish nation in order to provoke a war; This had succeeded. In 12 March of 1937, Poland declared war on Lithuania with a casus belli of "Freeing the Polish People from Lithuania's tyranny".
==== Polish-Lithuanian War (1937- 1938) ====
Polish troops entered the southern and south-eastern lands of Lithuania; Soon enough, the Iron Wolf army responded with aggressive tactics in retaliation. Germany and Italy were supporting Lithuania, while Britain and France tried to calm the tensions and end the war in white peace.
In May 21st 1937, Lithuania would push back south and enter Sudovia, soon enough, entering a complete stalemate as The Battle of Kaunas was taking place at the same time. The Polish army seemed to be bigger, but the Iron Wolf army was stronger at the time. It would take time until in 1937 June 28 Lithuania sent out 4 tanks in the battlefield in the streets of Kaunas - with that, Lithuania had successfully defended Kaunas and won the battle itself, however, the Polish were quick enough to re-take their Sudovian lands by pushing Lithuania back. Half of the Kaunas region was occupied by the Polish.
In 06 August, 1937, German volunteer divisions were sent in. The said divisions helped out Lithuania retake the Kaunas province and enter the western Hrodna province in Eastern Poland, occupying it within three-four months.
In 13 December 1937, Lithuania had occupied most of the Polish eastern lands, as well as a bit of Sudovia. The Polish were pushed out of Lithuania entirely. It wouldn't take much, as in 1938 January 21st, Germany used this opportunity to invite Lithuania into Axis and demand Danzig from Poland.
Poland rejected the German ultimatum, with that - Germany had joined the Lithuanian side on the war in 1938 January 28th.
It would take less than a few months, the Polish were pushed into surrender, even though the allied powers didn't do anything as to the prime ministers hadn't signed the treaty that guarantees the independence of Poland yet. The only resistance given upon the Balts and Germans were economic sanctions, which had little to no effect on the two nations.
==== The Treaty of Tilžė ====
Diplomats representing Poland, Germany and Baltic State met up on 1938 June 19th in the city of Tilžė, which is located at the then German controlled Prussia.
The Baltic State required to annex southern and eastern territories, while the Germans had annexed western territories, as well as Danzig. The Baltic State also took the opportunity to make the remaining Polish lands into a satellite state, serving as a sort of buffer state to the Czechoslovakians.
==== Pre World War 2 ====
Tensions grew fast. The allied powers were not playing games anymore. The Third Reich sent an ultimatum to Czechoslovakia, demanding to anchluss Sudetenland. Even though Czechoslovakia agreed, the allied powers saw this as another act of aggression to the European nations. They had declared war upon Germany with the main reason of "putting Germany in their place" and "forced democratic reforms". The war was declared on 1938 August 25th.
Dictator Algirdas Sliesoraitis and Mussolini responded by joining the side of The Third Reich, causing another great war to happen.
==== World War 2 (1938 - 1946) ====
With Poland being a satellite of the Balts, and the Baltic State serving as a sort of buffer state between the Soviet Union, Germany could better focus on the French. With the French having set up really good forts in Alsace-Lorraine, Germany had launched the attack against Belgium as the state refused to grant military access to Germany. Quickly advancing forward, Germany had soon occupied the whole of Belgium and slight territories in the north-east of France. With the following happening, the Baltic State had focused more onto the sea, performing naval attacks on the British and supporting the Germans in their attacks against Denmark and Norway.
Germany had successfully occupied the whole of France by 1940. The Ribbentrop-Molotov pact had never happened, but the Soviets had still launched an attack against Finland. The Baltic State and Germany responded by launching an attack against the Soviets in support of Finland. Quickly taking over most of eastern bordering terriotories that belonged to the Soviets, the Balts had made satellite states - State of Byelorussia and State of Ukraine. The said satellites would soon be forced into a military-alliance organisation called as "The Eastern Front".
The Soviets wanted to sign peace with Axis, however, Germany rejected the peace offering, further pushing into Soviet land. The Baltic Union, however, agreed to enter into a non-aggression pact in 1943, which would greatly anger and upset Germany due to the fact that this was the reason of German losses in the war. The soviets pushed the Germans out of their land. The Balts left Axis and signed a seperate peace treaty that granted Byelorussia and Ukraine as Baltic satellites.
Germany and Italy had soon declared war on the Baltic too - deeming them as traitors. With that, The Baltic State was at war with The United Kingdom, Italy and Germany.
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