Chairman Albert

### Careers

Terrorist/activist, book keeper, politician, Chairman of the Committee for Revolution

## Political Views

### Ideology

Communism, Populism, Revolutionary Socialism, Democracy, anti-capitalism, Anti-americanism, Isolationism, Utilitarianism

Albert was born in 1886 to a peasant family in Chaprasz, the poorest province of what is today the UAS. As a kid, he was extremely religious and attended church every Sunday. His family could not afford for him to get an education and so he never attended primary school as education was not yet Universal. He was quite smart and self-taught himself how to read. He also began reading a lot of literature in his free time in 1899 when the war of independence started he was in full support of the rebellion at the time. In part because he strongly believed in the Christian National identity and Admired Yevgeny. However, he soon came across Marxist literature in 1900 when he was 14 he read the communist manifesto and then the rest of Marx’s and Engels’s work. It is important to remember that all information about Chairman Albert comes from his own diary and autobiography prior to the age of 16.

All of these works were of course illegal and as a consequence, he had to be careful when carrying these books making sure nobody noticed him. He started becoming less pro-Yevgeny as he saw it as no better than the former colonial regime. He started the Communist Party of Atlantia which was banned. After his church found out about this he was kicked out of the church. He continued to organize workers' protests and was quite popular in industrial cities with large working-class populations like the capital Yirviin.

After the authorities found out about his communist activities and that he was continuing the Communist Party underground he was forced to go underground. The communist party would stage bank robberies to fund themselves and he would use different names and IDs so nobody could ever find him. In 1905 when he was nineteen years of age he left the country for the first time to go to a communist convention in London. (It is unknown how he afforded the ferry to do so, but conspiracies state that Albert Stole money to afford the tickets). In Moscow, during the first international congress, he met Vladimir Lenin for the first time. He disagreed massively with Lenin as Albert believed Vanguardism was elitist and no better than the capitalist oppression communists sought to overthrow.

He returned to the UAS and continued illegally organizing communist activities without getting caught, in 1912 he organized a massive strike spearheaded by trade unions in Yirviin. Which lead to a massacre when the govt cracked down. The communist party grew in popularity day by day as more people became dissatisfied with the provisional government.

While he was in the UAS underground he also wrote many books, some of which are, “socialism and democracy”, “A critique of Vanguardism”, “class analysis of the UAS”, “mass strikes, why trade unions are not enough”

He often left to visit other communists such as Lenin and Rosa Luxembourg, While he disagreed with Lenin and Luxembourg, they all saw each other as proponents of the same goals and worked together as they saw each other as good comrades.

In 1918, he heard of Luxembourg's death and was in massive grief upon hearing of the death of someone he had held as a close friend. In spite of this, he must continue to focus on the revolution in the UAS for the cause of communism .

In 1920 however, a massive economic crisis caused the price of fish to sky rocket, this crisis coincided with drought and sanctions by the UK. This began a massive wave of unrest. When Albert saw the massive spike in global communist movements he viewed this as his one and only chance to implement his communist utopia. The communist party started a revolution and took over the government and Yevgeny was executed by firing squad for treason. Finally, he had his time for a communist utopia. He changed the flag of UAS and changed the name of UAS to the Socialist People's Republic of Atlantia (SPPA).

He started implementing socialist policies, however, the US was not happy with the prospect of being a neighbor to a large communist power. SPPA was at first sanctioned and then an anti-communist coalition invaded the country and anti-communist rebellions quickly sprung up across rural areas in the country. The Coalition was most prominently supplied by the United Kingdom and United States.

Albert planned to have multi-party elections in 1920 but due to internal and external threats, all parties except the communist party were banned. A massive famine also started in the country due to his policies, pre-existing strife, and the chaos caused by war.

He experienced stress from the war as he had sought to have his communist utopia but this war looked unwinnable. He made an announcement saying:

“the fatherland is in danger, must focus all our effort and strength towards defeating the imperialist invaders.”

He ordered the army to never surrender and fight until the last man. He often got headaches and migraines, people attribute this to his stress. He fought fiercely but the result was inevitable. The UAS Militia did not have the capability to fight an invasion by a multi-national coalition from both sides which had more advanced technology. The UAS army consisted of poorly paid conscripts from farming and fishing families, who were not supplied with automatic weapons. Albert was viewed as a national humiliation by the conservative and agrarian populations who began to defect from the army.

Chairman Albert was overthrown by moderates in his own government and was captured and executed by firing squad and buried in an unmarked grave in 1923. Democratic elections were held later that year after the US and UK sponsored a re-write of UAS' constitution.