Lemon Revolution
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The Lemon Revolution was the struggle for an independent Catharinia. It started in 1939 and ended in 1941 with the recognition of the People's Republic of Catharinia by Great Brittain. It started as a nationalist movement, but soon became a communist inspired revolution. The Lemon Revolution gave the Communist Party of Catharinia its current power and also led to some other conflicts in Catharinian history. The Lemon Revolution was led by the communist revolutionary and first man of the CPCa, Yu Hanan.
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[edit] Pre-revolution
Before the actual revolution started, there already had been some riots in the major cities of New-Essex. The workers were mad because of the recent doubling of taxes. The nationalist movements came up the streets in order to demand freedom for the colony. They were however not organized and police troops soon broke resistence. People got bakc to their work, but that wasn't the end of the revolution. The nationalist movement learned from its mistakes and was looking for support. They found their partner in the Workers Movement of Catharinia, that controled most of the locals unions. This movement was founded in 1921 by John Wake . The Workers Movement agreed on supporting the nationalists in their efforts and proposed to form a National Front against imperialist Brittain.
[edit] Revolution in New Essex
The National Front was in theory a nationalist movement, but all the important functions within the front were soon filled in by communists. Most of the military support for the revolution came out of communist Asia. All people in the movement that had some rank but could not find themselves in the communist ideals, got persecuted for defending imperialist values and sabotage of the revolution. As soon as the top of the organization was entirely red, the revolution really began. Some workers of a lemon-field protested against the way they were threated. They were killed by the local euthorities. In whole of New Essex a general strike was issued by the Workers Movement. The number one of the Workers Movement, Yu Hannan, founded the National Liberation Army and started a geurilla campaign against police and military units in New-Essex. The NLA, togheter with riots from workers and peasent revolts, soon gain control over main northern province. The Workers Movement was renamed Communist Party of Catharinia and headed the temporarely Revolutionary Government. New-Essex was under communist control and the revolution soon started to spread.
[edit] Spread of the revolution
After New-Essex came under communist control, a whole series of reformations took place. The status of a civilian and a native became equal, etnic minorities were given 'autonomous regions' and, in the spirit of Marxism-Leninism, the right on self-soevereinity. The land that was owned by the major Brittish companies became collectivesed and devided equally under the peasents, though the statewas theoretically in control. Especially the native providences were atracted by this formula. Tana, Maluka and the smaller island Taluva spontaniously joined the communist revolution. The provinces of Evenk, that had a lot of natives, and Sunvall Bay, where most peoples live from agriculture, easily fell and thus the northern part of the island came entirely in the hands of the CPCa.
In order to spread the revolution further, the National Liberation Army was send south. The native tribes, attracted by the self-governing model of the tribal areas within the People's Republic, submitted without much resistance. The more industrial and mostly 'white provinces' of the south-west resisted longer, but eventually most fell under the strikes and peasent revolts organized by the unions that receaved their orders from the CPCa.
[edit] End of the revolution
The reason the National Liberation Army could make its moves so easy, is that the British never treid to make an offensive to push them back. They were too busy fighting on the side of the Allied in WWII. Most of the British army present in Catharinia during that period was moved to Indochina, in order to prevent a Japanese take-over of that region. In 1941 the British agree on the Treaty of Northern Independence, stating the recognition of an independent state that covered about half of the isle. The People's Republic of Catharinia retreated its troops, but kept Tana, a tribal region with a lot of sympathising tribes, occupied. The British negated the complaints of other tribes that felt bad about the 'annexation' of their territory. The revolution was ended, but a lot of conflicts remained. For instance, the NLA had to leave Taluva which had joined the revolution from the beginning. The CPCa still has a great influence on the island. The final goal of the revolution - an entirely free socialist Catharinia - wasn't made, but Yu Hanan thought that half a country was better than none. Today a lot of people, mainly in the Kingdom of Catharinia, still want to unite under a red government.
