Adorian People's Republic

Map of the APR

The Adorian People's Republic was a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship ran by Miguel Botelho from 1980-1989 following the end of the Adorian Civil War in 1979. The regieme is noted for its particular brutality, supression of speech, and economic downturn under Botelho's "Adorian Way to Communism" (which has been considered a massive failure by most historians). For most of its existance, the country faced massive political instablity, barely kept together through the Adorian Secret Police, named the "Mão negra" (Portugese for Black hand), Bothelo and the Adorian Communist Party's forceful supression of opposition and speech.

## Early History (1980-1983)

The ARP was established after the Adorian Red Army, led by Miguel Botelho, captured Adoria City. Immeditely afterwards, the "Sick Trials" (as they would come to be known) occured. Thousands were shot based off false accusations and little to no evidence, a curfew was imposed, thousands were thrown in jail, thousands of formely private companies were absorbed by the state, and all parties except for the ACP (Adorian Communist Party) were banned. Almost 2 weeks after Miguel became Chariman of the ACP (making him de facto leader of Adoria), an irresuection began in Orlaew (now Montana) among farmworkers who opposed collectivizion. Although supported by Portugal, France, the UK, and most importantly the US, the revolution was crushed after they attempted to take Imithia. For the rest of the APR's history, Orlaew would ran by a pratical military government, which paved the way for the state to become a center of Anti-Communist reistance in Adoria. Shortly afterwards, Botelho and his government began the first 5 year plan, which dealed centrally with infrastructure and the devolopment of argiculture to stop the ongoing famine. With payments from the USSR and China, this seemed to go well at first, with the Adorian Economy making a stunning comeback.Roads were massively improved, unemployment dropped (from almost 37% to 10%), schools began to run again, new rail was built all throughout the country, and with Polish and East German adivsors, the first nucelar power plant was constructed in Kusti. However, the fults of the centrally planned economy began to show, Combined with the Central Commitee's refusal to accepect any economists to advise them (as Botelho had a paranoia that they were "reactionary counterrevolutionaries"), general incompentancy, corruption, and high, unneeded investment in the military, the economy began a massive depression. Inefficency began to grow as the government demanded full employment of workers not even experienced in the trades they were demanded of, Combined with the sudden closure of trade from major trade partners and the relentuance to even trade with the allies in the Warsaw pact, the country became much more improvished, with a French journalist writing:
"It is insane. Poverty has risen towards civil war levels, Hospitals do not have enough beds, rationing is required, yet hundreds die of famines each day, inefficeny and corruption has plagued the government, and there are much more beggars on the street than in Portugal's day."

## The Adoria Crisis (1984-1986)

Because of the massive depression and lack of food to go around, the exiled Social Democratic government in Lisbon called a general strike.  In Adoria City, consturction workers led by Benedito Alves answered the call and lanuched a strike. They began to march in the streets demanding  justice reform, and a fix to the broken economy. While the moderate branch of ACP (led by former trade unionist, Balduíno Hernandes) demanded that Botelho meet their demands, he insisted otherwise and sent in a force of 2,000 soliders and 50 tanks to repress the strike. The workers began to get whatever weapons, blunt objects, or guns they could get their hands on, and began to fight the Adorian Army. The fighting was noted as being "excessively cruel", and even children were not spared by the army. The strike was sucessfuly repressed by the government after 3 days of fighting, but almost 1,000 union workers died, with 200 soliders and 1,500 civlians killed. 800 children, mostly orphans, were killed as well.

That was not the end of it, however. Strikes occured all throughout the country, mainly in Orlaew. In the small rural town of Rosaville, farm workers made their last stand, killing 52 government soliders, at the lost of the entire farm. Adorian troops slaughtered farm workers and burned down crops en masse, exacerbating the already massive ongoing famine. Historians estimate that the deaths resulting from the scorched earth policy of the government was between 30,000 - 100,000 dead. Other non-lefitsts joined, mainly the Knights of Saint John, the supporters of the old monarchist government in the civil war. They lanuched a terrorist attack on several government offices and railroads, killing 103 people in total. They would contuine to lanuch attacks on the government.

In the resulting fallout, Botelho began a purge of the ACP, killing moderates, and others who supported the strikes, deeming them "counterrevolutionaries". The most important was which was Hernandes himself, who became a matyr for the anti-communist cause. Alves managed to flee Adoria and headed for Paris, where he established (with existance from the US, French, and Adorian Government in exile)"Radio Free Adoria", which broadcasted anti-communist propaganda and news. The"Adoria Crisis" as it came to be known,was extremly well broadcasted around the world, becoming a massive hit and bringing attention to the Adorian situation.

The US and other countries raised sanctions, and the economy seemed to go into a massive free fall, survivng off assistance from the USSR and other communist states.

## The Fall of the APR (1987-1989)

With the economy going into freefall, massive strikes begin to occur, along with general discontent for the government. Instead of reforming the system, Botelho began harsher repression, making the ACP more extreme, and constantly announcing martial law in a bid to restore stablity. This just led to even harder repression, columanting in a massive shooting of a government office by The Knights of Saint John, killing almost 200 people. The government simply did not have enough money to fund pensions, because Bothelho spent almost all the budget on the militarly (at one point, making up 50% of the GDP) to stop protests. The Red Rose movement began (taking its name from the Roseville revolt), which led peaceful protests, the first of which was in Kusti. Bothelho began to increasingly degrade in health, as his son and wife were becoming more and more sick. He was constantly depressed, paranoid, and began to act extremly rashly to his cabinet. At one point, he demanded that a lower member of the ACP get shot for not saluting him properly, accusing him of treason. This was carried out.

In 1989, Coal Miners in Misoma refused to work and began to take control over the mines themselves, slaughtering the government overseers themselves. The Knights of Saint John joinedthem, and a massive spree of murders began. The Rose Movement began a massive peaceful march towards Adoria City from Slovent, demanding reforms and an end to the communist system. Soliders refused to shoot at the protestors, and instead joined them along with police, trade unions called for a strike and for all workers to join the march. Bothelho became bedridden on July 28th of that year,  and his government refused to carry out his orders. He died 2 weeks later.