Maskim Kyssneov

Maskim Kysnneov was a Soldier and Politician in the United Socialist States of Eldham, born in the year 190 TE in the town of Bierzhan. Serving in multiple conflicts and positions within the USSE during his life, his career ended after serving as the Deputy Secretary under Yon, where he retired to continue construction on his home city. Maskim served as the advisor to the mayor, Rosa Ortangon in his home city of Bierzhan until his death in 287 TE.
== Biography ==
Very little is known about his beginnings, but it was suspected that he had lived in Rathnir for a short period of time, before going into a deep period of sleep, reawakening on the shores of an unknown beach in Eldham.
=== Military service ===
Enlisting in the People's Army, Maskim proudly served during the Trinkets War providing logistical support and manual labor in the construction of the impenetrable fortress known as Chernosovok. Blank for an unknown time, served in the Peoples' Security Bureau. Many of his actions during this time period included Squatter raiding, investigating criminal acts, and being apart of the PSB raid that plunged the USSE into the Trinkets War. Maskim left the military after the Bierzhan Crisis.
=== Bierzhan Crisis ===
During the Trinkets War while Maskim was away during his Army service, his hometown of Bierzhan fell into an open revolt. Upon being given the news while on the frontline, Maskim quickly returned home. Bierzhan had fallen into a miniature civil war, with the nationalists and the unionists opening fire on each other in the once beautiful city he had called home. Taking command of the Unionist counter revolutionaries, Maskim attempted to bring peace through democratic means but was shot during one of his meetings by a Nationalist sympathizer, causing Maskim to walk with a limp for the rest of his life. 
The Crisis continued for several years, resulting in the deaths of hundreds until the USSE government had finally intervened after years of prolonged war and the city being permanently scarred from the prolonged civil war.
=== Political career ===
Maskim served proudly as an National Assembly representative before it was shut down in favor of the Central Committee, due to authoritarian consolidation of power. Maskim would be elected to serve as the Premier, which in this position, he had personally headed the return of legislative powers back into a organization similar to the NA, the Supreme Peoples' Assembly. During the second General Secretary crisis under Ren Serbera, during his time in the USSE, Maskim was selected to server the remainder of General Secretary term as the Deputy Secretary under Yon.
=== Retirement and death ===
Maskim after concluding his service to the USSE as Deputy Secretary, attempted to return back to the SPA but was outclassed and beaten by several more experienced politicians. After failing to reenter the political sphere, Maskim declared his Retirement and returned back the city of Bierzhan, where he would write for the CPUSSE and the Red Star in-between his reconstruction of Bierzhan after the Bierzhan Crisis had left the city partly demolished. Maskim would become rather secluded and barely spoke, as his reconstruction of the city was his main priority. 
Maskim would serve as an advisor to the mayor, Rosa Ortangon until his peaceful death in 287 TE. Maskim at his own request, was buried within the newly constructed "Heroes of Bierzhan" park, located in the historical district of his beloved city.
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