People's Democratic Republic of Kanoria

Flag of the PDRK

State Emblem of the PDRK

The **People's Democratic Republic of Kanoria** (abbreviated **PDRK**) was a communist successor state to the Tarnist Republic of Kanoria that emerged during the Kanorian Revolution of 1938. It was a member-state of the Internationale and closely supported by the Socialist Republic of Kokinos.

## History

### South Kanoria

While the Tarnist Republic of Kanoria was nominally "democratic", many had seen through the Cult of Tarn's disguise, the most notable of which being Geldon Bramton and his Republican Party of Remfel, who waged a decade long guerilla war against the Tarnists and its Kanorian puppets in the 1920s and 30s. The RPR operated mostly in western Kanoria, and in 1924, a small group of guerilla fighters under the RPR led by Paul Honecker broke off and went eastward, continuing to fight against the Tarnists in the mountainous southern frontiers of Kanoria. Honecker and his revolutionaries suffered a major defeat in 1926, and were forced to retreat southwards beyond the poorly defended border into what was then the Principality of Novo Gavia.

### Novo Gavian Bush War

In 1926, the Novo Gavian Bush War had began, and the sparsely populated regions of northwest Kokinos were a hotbed for guerilla activity. Honecker ended up in Johanopolis, then the command center of the People's Liberation Army of Kokinos. They were convinced by Quirin Bach and Markos Siantos to fight for the communists, and Honecker declared his group the Communist Party of Kanoria (KPK), having adopted the KSWP's communist ideals. In 1928, Honecker stated that the Tarnists were no different than the Lespians who ruled over Kokinos under apartheid colonial oppression, and sought for the Socialist Republic of Kokinos's support in a "revolution to overthrow Tarnist oppression". However, by then the SRK was too distracted by the Interventions to be able to support a proxy war in Kanoria.

### Post-Intervention

With the end of the Third Intervention, Kokinos was able to spare the resources for a revolution in Kanoria. Honecker and the KPK was given weapons and supplies needed to wage guerilla warfare in south Kanoria. KPK guerillas, experienced in guerilla warfare from the Novo Gavian Bush War and with the material support of Kokinos, returned to south Kanoria in 1932. The KPK was effective in destabilizing the rule of the Tarnists in south Kanoria, and was infamous for its brutal tactics not too different from those employed by Bramton and the RPR in the west.

### Kanorian Revolution

As the Kanorian Revolution of 1938 broke out, the KPK took the opportunity to take full control of south Kanoria, establishing the People's Democratic Republic of Kanoria, a communist state based on the system of the Astavaran People's Republic, with the General Secretary of the Party as head of the party, the Chairman of the Military Council as head of the military, and Chairman of the State Council as head of the government. Honecker was the first Chairman of the State Council and leader of the PDRK, with his Vice Chairman being Alsen Ulbricht. As Honecker and many of the PDRK's leadership were former RPR members, the PDRK enjoyed friendly relations with the Republic of Kanoria, which was founded by the RPR's leader Geldon Bramton.

The first years of the PDRK's existence were shaky at best, as the former nobles restored their 19th century states in the east, opposition to the KPK's leftist policies increased and the Patuljacs emerged from their underground caverns, the PDRK was in a dangerous position. As Kokinos was shaken by the Troubles of the 1930s, Honecker's Kokinan advisors urged Honecker to enact harsher measurements to suppress any and all internal threats to the PDRK. The Great Purge ensued, targeting anyone and anything associated with the Cult of Tarn, use of magic, manufacturing of golems, Patuljacs, and the old Kanorian nobility. More than half a million were killed, and many more fled, but the purges were effective in making the PDRK the most stable and secure region in all of Kanoria.

### Chairman Ulbricht

Chairman Paul Honecker led the PDRK until his death in 1944, and was succeeded by Alsen Ernst Ulbricht, who continued Honecker's pro-ROK, anti-confederate policies.