Petar Oskar Potočnik

Petar Oskar Potočnik, (Regnal name: Petar I) was a politician who served as a general of the Serbian army and a deputy of it's parliament. He was the son of Petar Jakob David Potočnik, the last president of the Republic of Yermania. He was promoted to the office of Minister of War by Stefan Borislav I in 1952.

## History

   Petar was born on the 7th of September, 1907, as the only child (at the time) of Petar Jakob David Potočnik, who was at the time a relatively unknown politician in a Yermanian extremist group which had it's headquarters in Maribor, which is where Petar Oskar Potočnik was born.

Petar had to experience the horrors of the first world war after his uncle died in the front sometime in the summer of 1916, when Petar was just 8 years old.

In 1924, his father became the president of the new Yermanian republic which was established after the war, when Petar was only 16. Petar graduated from the university of Ljubljana in 1928, when he was 20, just 2 weeks before his 21st birthday. It was also at this time he met Draža II and his nephew, Dobroslav Božidar.

## Yermanian rebellion

When Petar was just 22 years old, the Yermanian independence rebellion started, which caused him to flee his country in a desperate panic, officially settling in Kragujevac for 7 years.

It was in Kragujevac, during May of 1931, that he learned that his father had took his own life during the rebellion. This affected him deeply and made him want to live up to his father's legacy, immediately joining the Serbian right party in July of the same year.

## World war 2 and rising obsession in communism

Eventually he left the Serbian right party in 1933, as he thought of it as too extreme for him. Soon after he read the communist manifesto during October of 1933, which gave him a rising obsession with the ideology.

In February of 1935, he joined the Serbian Socialist Party, where he met new people who shared the same thoughts as him, most notably Radomir Dražović, who he became political acquaintances with in January of 1936, they would often discuss the writings of Karl Marx late into the night and fantasize of a unified south Slavic state united by the binds of Socialism.

He was drafted into the frontlines during WW2 from 1941-42, where he fought in Austria, gaining the rank of Lieutenant there. Soon enough, he would turn back home, however, to pursue his political career. In 1944, he moved to the outskirts of Belgrade, to be closer to the seat of power.

## Premiership

After the war, General Secretary Josif Dzjugasvili of the 4th Reich has made him the Premier of the new SFR Yugoslavia, giving him almost dictatorial powers in the nation.

Petar was trying to improve relations with nearby nations and build new factories and infrastructure for Yugoslavia. However, he had also been keeping an eye on Radomir, who has started to become more worrying by setting up a secret police force and using slave labour.

## Kingdom of Yugoslavia

In March of 1948, Radomir traveled to Belgrade to search for Franjo in the city. During this time when he was outside the convention, Petar called for the arrest of Radomir, which eventually became a reality around 2 hours later. After this, Petar told the convention that they'd be changing their ideology to monarchism, with Petar as it's king with the regnal name of Petar I.

In late March of 1948, Adolf Hitler traveled to the nation and told Petar that he would have to give half a year of Yugoslavia's trade for free to the Reich just so that they could keep the government, which Petar obliged to.

## Franjo's rise to power

In February of 1949, Franjo I staged a coup and gave Petar an ultimatum, which if he accepted, he would be demoted to a simple general of the army, but if he refused, Franjo would start a revolution with his loyal supporters. Petar agreed to the ultimatum and since then, he has been but a simple general of the Serbian empire's army, but a high ranking one at that.

He also had a big role in the Bosnian revolution of 1951, where he was deployed to both train soldiers and discuss strategy with Franjo in Sarajevo. Franjo eventually temporarily dissolved the general staff after numerous fails in June of 1951, but brought it back in August of the same year after he was unable to focus on all of the fronts. Petar and Dobroslav I would play a key role in ending the revolution after that.

## Romanian revolution and rise to Minister of war

Petar was deployed to the front in Romania in February of 1952 under the order of Franjo. After Franjo died on the 28th of March, Petar was ordered by Borislav I to partake in the invasion of Lipova with fellow generals Jakob Brko and Bogdan Petrovic.

After the war, Stefan decided to build up his cabinet, which included making Petar the Minister of War and Dobroslav II into the new Secretary of State. Petar was a field marshal in all of the expansionist wars that Borislav I had declared against the nations around the empire.

## Great European war and aftermath

Petar was deployed in the Yermanian province to lead the 3rd field army into battle against the Fourth Reich. The Serbian forces were pushed back all the way into the provinces of Dalmatia and Slavonia, but after the large offensive, the Germans had exhausted their supplies and had to start a stalemate in Serbia.

Eventually, Petar and Dobroslav II managed to break through the German defensive lines and they started marching back into Yermania. Petar and his men eventually reached Vienna, where they would deal a decisive blow to the German army, capturing over 35 000 men and dealing over 24 000 casualties during the battle.

After the Reich was defeated, Petar traveled back home, where he would continue his political career. In 1972, when the Russian revolution came to a close and the communists rose to power, Petar was worried that the USSR would declare war on the empire, causing him to agree on prime minister Bogdanoff Stojanovska's call to have a diplomat make a non-aggression pact with the USSR, which was finalized on the 4th of November, 1972.

## Third world war

Once the Third world war broke out on the 19th of May, 1973, Petar was initially at the Austrian front, fighting against the oncoming Germans. But by April of 1974, he went back to the parliament, where he would continue to quarrel with the other ministers over each action during the war, as the emperor had taken a break for his mental health in December of 1973.

But after Borislav returned to politics and the military in 1975, Petar travelled to the front in 1976 to assist the emperor during their campaign against the USSR. For the rest of the war, Petar would stay at the Russian front, entering Kiev on the 30th of January, 1977. Eventually, by April of 1977, Petar returned back to Belgrade.

## Post-war

After the war, Petar kept advancing his political career, deciding to support the new archchancellor, Rodavan Jovanovic, due to him being in the same party as him. On the 11th of April, 1980, the Croatian revolution broke out in Zagreb and Petar was sent to take care of the revolting citizens. However, he was pushed back after an ambush by the Croats at Karlovac.

Petar then called the emperor and told him to get more troops for Petar. Borislav obliged and sent over 8 000 troops to reinforce Petar's force of 7 000. Soon enough, Petar defeated the Croats at Karlovac in July while Draža III defeated the Croats at Zagreb, officially ending the revolution on the 18th of August, 1980.

After Borislav III took the throne in May of 1984, Petar was unsure of how good of a ruler he'd be and after the supposed resignation of prime minister Alija Stojanovic and the ascension of the Nationalists to power, Petar became a bit more worried about who was running the nation.

### Death

Petar died on the 5th of March, 1986, in his home in Belgrade, from a rare muscle disease. Petar's son, Petar II, suceeded Petar as the Minister of War.

## Medals and Awards

* Medal for Merits, Gold (Awarded: 11th of February, 1941) (currently in a museum)
* Sretenje order, 2nd class (Awarded: 23rd of May, 1942)
* Yugoslav Great Star (Awarded: 26th of April, 1945) (Discarded)
* Order of the War Banner (Awarded: 13th of June, 1945) (Lost, later found and put in a museum)
* Order of the Partisan Star, 1st class (Awarded: 29th of June, 1945) (Discarded)
* Order of the Serbian Flag, 1st class (Awarded: 14th of August, 1946)
* Order of the People's Army, 1st class (Awarded: 16th of January, 1947) (Discarded)
* Order of the Yugoslav Crown, 1st class (Awarded: 18th of March, 1948)
* Order of the White Eagle, 1st class (Awarded: 3rd of April, 1948)
* Order of Merits in Defense and Security, 1st class (Awarded: 23rd of May, 1951)
* Order of the Empire of Serbia, 2nd class (Awarded: 5th of June, 1966)
* Order of St. Sava (Awarded: 19th of January, 1973)
* Order of Karađorđe's star (Awarded: 25th of May, 1977)
* Order of the Cross of Takovo (Awarded: 17th of January, 1981)