Petar II

Petar II, was the son of the former Minister of War of the Serbian empire, Petar I, otherwise known as Petar Oskar Potočnik. Petar was a general in the armed forces of Serbia and served as the Minister of War for the Empire of Serbia.

## History

Petar was born on the 28th of November, 1932, as the son of Petar Oskar Potočnik, who was only a Colonel of the Serbian army back then and a small politician in the Serbian Worker's Party. Petar's life eventually became one of high prestige in the year of 1948, when his father became the King of Yugoslavia.

However, things would change as Franjo I made his father abdicate and set himself on the throne of Yugoslavia. Soon enough, the nation transformed into the Serbian empire and Petar would follow in his father's footsteps by joining the Serbian army at the age of 18 in April of 1951. Petar rose through the ranks due to his father's high position in the government, becoming a Brigadier general by the outbreak of the Greco-Serbian war, which he fought in.

### Great European War

Before the Great war started, in 1961, Petar joined the Serbian navy in December, where he also rose through the ranks. By the outbreak of the war in 1963, Petar was both a commodore of the Serbian navy and a Lieutenant general in the army at the age of 30. Petar was one of the commanders helping General Jakob Brko during his protection of all of the naval ports in Serbia.

Petar was a commander during the battle of Podgorica, which lasted for a few days in October of 1964, where he was focusing on bombarding the German ships with artillery from the beach.

   Petar was present at the treaty which ended the war, the treaty of Hamburg, as one of the 15 representatives of the Serbian government and it's army.

### Third world war

Petar served as an admiral during the Third World War, patrolling the coast of Serbia to make sure the Nazis or the Soviets wouldn't land any naval invasions onto their territory. Petar managed to block a German attempt of a naval invasion during the Battle of the Adriatic in late 1974, which was supported by Italy's ships.

Petar's service during the war was relatively uneventful compared to the ground force generals, but he was given a seat as the main Admiral during the signing of the treaty of Warsaw, which ended the Third World War.

## Position as Minister of War

Petar hadn't participated in the Croatian Revolution unlike his father, but he used the time to advance his political career by officially getting elected into parliament and joining the Monarchist Party in October of 1980. Petar was said to likely suceed his father to the position of Minister of War, due to the Ministers and their families being treated like hereditary noble families.

The predictions were right, as after Petar's father died, he became the new minister of war of the Empire. Petar protested against emperor Borislav III's decision of demoting Secretary of State Draža III, as he supported the politician's outrage over Borislav's new intolerant policy against the majority of ethnic groups in the empire. Borislav told Petar that he would be demoted if he kept arguing, so he walked out of the parliament without saying much.

After the rise of the new emperor, Borislav IV, Petar and Milutin formally disolved the coalition opposition and started working on a new constitution with the new Archchancellor, Dragoljub Nikolić. Petar was forced to use over 10 000 soldiers to quell a constitutionalist coup in November of 1991, as the constitutional party thought that the new constitution was only made by monarchists and signed by them, despite being made and signed by Democratic party politician Alija Stojanovic as well.

### Death

By early 2000, Petar's muscles became weak from a rare muscle disease. Petar couldn't even rise from bed during the last days of his life. He lied in his bed for hours on end and on the 20th of August, 2000, Petar passed away from the disease in the early morning hours. Petar's son, Petar III, suceeded him as the Minister of War of the empire.

His death is shrouded in mystery, as his father had died of a similar muscular disease, bringing up the question of if the disease was hereditary and if it was even treatable. Not much is known about the actual disease which killed him and it will most likely never be revealed what actually had killed him.

## Medals and Awards

* Order of Merits in Defense and Security, 1st class (Awarded: 25th of June, 1962)
* Sretenje Order, 2nd class (Awarded: 12th of August, 1966)
* Medal for bravery of Miloš Obilić, gold (Awarded: 4th of February, 1975)
* Medal for Merits, gold (Awarded: 18th of January, 1977)
* Order of Karađorđe's Star (Awarded: 29th of October, 1977)
* Order of St. Sava (Awarded: 9th of April, 1986)
* Order of the Empire of Serbia, 2nd class (Awarded: 16th of December, 1991)