Kārlis Priede

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## Kārlis Priede

### Political alignment

Baltic Ultranationalist

Kārlis Priede, full name Kārlis Priede Ugudāns Meringtons is an underground Latvian politician and leader of the Baltic Ultranationalist Latvian Restoration Party. He is currently residing in New Riga with the goal of opposing the rule of the New African propped up New Baltic Union.

He was born in New Riga August 26th, 2103 into a middle class Latvian family which had settled on Earthia around the late 2070's. His parents held somewhat nationalistic and racist views and passed these down to Kārlis at a very young age. When Kārlis was 3, the Soviets occupied the Baltic areas and annexed them into the USSR. This resulted in the deportations of hundreds of Baltic nationalists and important figures away from their homeland. While this list would have also included Priede and his parents, they successfully managed to go into hiding and soon returned with forged identities making them out to be ethnic Russians. This situation only strengthened the family's beliefs and lead to Priede's parents illegally importing foreign rightist literature for themselves and their son, further influencing his opinions on politics and race. [Will be continued]

*From a young age, he would form a hateread for the Soviet government ruling over the Baltic lands, believing them to be the embodiement of Satan himself. During his teens and early adulthood, he would begin reading many far-right books published by New African and Baltic authors, which had been banned in the Soviet Union, smuggling them across and almost being caught multiple times. These books would influence him into becoming more nationalistic and anti-Communist, beginning to believe in such ideologies as National Socialism. By around the age of 34, he began to experience symptoms of schizophrenia, while also falling into a deep depression and alcoholism, being fired from him job soon after. All of this only grew his hate for the government and the "Satanic Races", as he called them, which he believed were the cause of all problems and should be eliminated in order to establish a world dominated by the Baltic people, calling for the utter extermination of any other races and ethnicities. In 2158, he would publish a book titled "The Dark World We Live: Satan's Plague and How to Destroy It", which explained his political and philosophical beliefs, with the main three points he argued for being the extermination of every other race and ethnicites that wasn't considered baltic, the unification of all political ideologies into a final end ideology for all people to live under and the "cleansing of Satan's work", meaning the completely destruction of anything built before the "End Regime", as he called it, took power, rebuilding them in a new, pure way, as well as reshaping the planet to perfectly fit it's inhabitants. When New Africa took over the region inhabitated by Baltic people, he decided to begin an active campaign against the new occupiers, as they seemed far weaker than the old Soviet regime, founding the Latvian Restoration Party in 2162.* [Will be lightly rewritten and probably split into two paragraphs]