Vernon Manderov

## Early Life

Vernon Manderov was born in 1898 he was born to a family which was wealthy for the time. His family was also a Catholic

## Vernon Manderov

Vernon Manderov in 1939 while visiting Madrid

## Political Views

### Ideology

Fascism, Paleo-Conservatism, Totalitarian, Anti-American, Pro-Germany, Christian Nationalism

German/Ukrainian family in Gottheim. He would go to church every Sunday. He was strongly supportive of Yevgeny. For most of his life though he was not especially political, he was mostly interested in religion and studies. He attended a private school and he did extremely well, especially in humanities. In 1916 he attended university to study theology. He was known for aggressively and mercilessly arguing with anyone who disagreed with him, he was viewed either as a determined industrious person who would do anything for the furthering of the Catholic Church’s charity work, or else a dogmatic and Arrogant person who refused to marry anyone as he thought they were not good enough for him.

He graduated from university in 1919 and decided to focus on the church. However, in 1920 the communist revolution happened and this was the first time he began to look into politics. He strongly disliked the communist government because they appropriated his family’s wealth and opposed the church, and failed to combat invasions by the UK and US which he saw along with a large subset of the rural inhabitants of the country as a national humiliation.

## Military career

He joined the UAS militia to fight the communist government and quickly saw himself rise the ranks in part due to his education which was unusually extensive for the time. He gained a reputation for being a military genius who could win very one-sided battles. He criticized western intervention as he saw them as too individualistic, consumerist, and secular and thought their culture would harm the country.

By the end of Chairman Albert's demise, he had become General of the Army. The first democratic elections came up and he decided to run. He thought that none of the other candidates were good as he believed that the country needed a strong leader to protect them externally from western powers, and internally from communists while maintaining a strong national Christian identity.

He started the National Firebrand party and got 25% of the vote coming second, of course he did not see the election as valid as he did not win, he was quoted as having said: “what do the people know they are a bunch of uneducated dunderheads how could they know what is best for the country like I do.” He knew they needed a strong leader to stop the country from degenerating into an individualistic mess of infighting and foreign invasions.

He launched terrorist attacks directed at the government starting a civil war, now known as the first UAS civil war, in 1923. Despite being massively outnumbered, and support given from other countries, he still managed to win the civil war in two months while losing fewer troops. This again came from his experience which made him a far better tactician with nobody few on the other side having a formal education. Once more, many of his supporters were soldiers.

## Supreme Leader of UAS

Vernon Manderov made himself the leader of UAS in 1923 upon winning the civil war. No elections were held.

Upon coming to power he increased censorship and political repression while running the country as a police state. In 1925, He declared the country a fascist regime with him as the dictator.  He started enforcing his culture of collectivism as well as facilitating military honor culture. He started a mandatory youth program for children where they would be taught these values.

He also increased trade and globalism which he did largely because he knew one mistake the former leaders made was their isolation which caused the economy to grow slowly and or decline.

In 1929 the great depression wreaked Havoc on the free trade economy of UAS. The fishing industry nearly ceased to exist due to waning foreign demand for luxuries. Manderov responded with a rigid economic program that involved: privatizing several industries as well as creating lots of labor groups and public work programs, he expanded military conscription to more classes of people and militarized his government.

These programs reduced unemployment incredibly quickly but failed to revive the Industries which had been destroyed by foreign demand, they also failed to prevent inequality and Deflation from worsening.

Manderov enjoyed comfortable support from the rural portions of his population but alienated people in the cities who had preferred their old fishing and trading jobs to military conscription (many served in the navy) and constructing infrastructure in far-off rural parts of the country.

Manderov stemmed the tide of migration which gave the country life, this combined with his policies lead to a recovery from the great depression which was quicker than the US or the UK, but which was considerably slower than Japan. The worst edges of the depression were mitigated but other significant problems took their place. By 1936, Unemployment was low and falling but inequality was high and increasing.

Manderov was reportedly one of Miklos Horthy’s best friends, Manderov went on Holiday to Budapest in 1937.

Manderov supported the OUN in Ukraine and attempted to assist Nazi Germany in its militarization so that it could act as a bulwark against the Soviet Union. Vernon Manderov also detested the presence of Chinese persons in the government, he was suspicious that they had communist sympathies and proceeded to violently purge them from the government in secret in 1938.

In 1940 he declared war on the allies in support of Nazi Germany after its invasion of France, UAS was promptly invaded. The country’s military was still decades behind and although the citizenry of UAS volunteered en-mass to join the army, UAS was an island and could easily be starved of supplies by the British and Canadian Navies. Canadian troops invaded on foot from the north and the British forced coastal cities to surrender by shelling them till they were forced to give in. The Military’s morale collapsed despite its loyalty to Manderov, the regime, and the country, and the little industrial output which the country did produce ground to a halt. Gottheim and Voysowei capitulated quickly. The south island however took months to subdue even after it was occupied, some of the south island’s inhabitants (particularly in Thureanu) continued to engage in partisan warfare and acts of terrorism which attempted to bring the allied occupation to an end.

Vernon refused to surrender, but Manderov's government refused to send out the order and informally surrendered in December. Manderov left the country just after the surrender. The USA jointly occupied UAS in 1943 and used it as a base of operations to send troops to Europe.

## Exile

Manderov then went into exile in Argentina. After the war saw Germany lose the war he fell into a great depression seeing that all he wanted and had built up was gone, the only two sides were highly individualistic democratic liberal western countries, and the other was the Communist Soviet Union. He detested both sides and saw the cold war as a pointless struggle.

However as Manderov was religious he did not commit suicide as he believed that would be sinful, instead he lived the rest of his life in Argentina hoping to see the emergence of some collectivist far-right movement. Manderov often wrote to Slavov (Who many see as his spiritual successor), the leader of the charge party and gave him instructions for what to do with the party.

In 1969 at the age of 71 he started getting seriously ill and his health declined. In 1971 when the civil war started he was overjoyed as this was the chance to restore his regime and wrote in support of the Old Order League but could not do much due to his health. In 1973 he was invited back to the UAS. He returned but died in the same year from a heart attack, his final words were:

“we will win and restore the UAS to its former glory”

Manderov remains the most controversial person in UAS history, scholars still debate whether he was a fascist and whether his reign was ultimately beneficial or detrimental economically and socially. He remains popular in Thureanu, but is despised in coastal urban areas. A poll conducted in 2010 found that 66% of UAS citizens do not approve of Manderov's rule, and that 20% did.