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[NotDavidSoslan]

Some historians consider the deliberately engineered famine known as the Holodomor to be part of the White Terror, as its goal was likely to prevent a Ukrainian independence movement. mom

Virtually all scholars outside of Russia agree the Holodomor was man-made and that the Second Russian Republic's government was directly responsible, but the majority of Russians, as well as the present-day government, deny it.

Shortly after the Bolsheviks were defeated, Platov estabilished the Russian Intelligence Service as a military intelligence agency, and the Ministry of State Security as a secret police force. Both of them violently cracked down on Communists, separatists and Left-SRs, resorting to torture, mass executions and large-scale propaganda.

The White Terror was also marked by antisemitism. On 4 January 1922, Platov decreed a Jewish quota for Russian universities, followed by the confiscation of businesses owned by Jews, which were handed over to gentile entrepreneurs, with there being several pogroms throughout the 1920s that are said to have killed almost 150,000 Jews by 1930. The military government's propaganda portrayed Jews as enemies of Russia and proponents of Western values, and responsible for the death of Christ. These antisemitic laws remained in effect for decades.

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

The First Five-Year Plan focused on heavy industry, with the goal of making Russia an industrial power.

The theory that Platov and his government copied the Bolshevik industrial agenda is false, although he did codify into law the eight-hour workday, universal education, and other things the Bolsheviks had proposed. Some of them, such as universal healthcare and the confiscation of estates of the Orthodox Church and nobility, were dropped, and land reform was conducted through the formation of farm cooperatives and maintenance of traditional peasant communities. Strikes, lockouts and the formation of soviets were illegal.

During the plan, the Russian military government built the first hydroelectric dams in Russia, and implemented a progressive income tax in order to fund its plans. It also enforced a protectionist policy with heavy tariffs, which Platov saw as the key to industrial development after reading a Russian translation of Friedrich List.

In 1925, the government of Russia created a state-owned oil company with a monopoly on the production and refinement of petroleum and its derivatives, a monopoly that would later be repealed. That same year, railways were nationalised, bringing internal transportation under the control of the autocracy, which also imposed a standardised railway gauge for the first time.

Further five-year plans were implemented in 1927–1932 and 1932–1937, when the restored constitutional monarchy ended the planning approach, although by then, Russia was an industrial powerhouse due to Platov's focus on industrialisation.

 

[NotDavidSoslan]

From 1973 onwards, Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria, of Medellin, Colombia, became a multimillionaire lawyer who argued for and against laws and represented the Colombian government in the dispute with Nicaragua.

In 1979, Escobar established a bicycle rental business that quickly thrived, as he was a natural at public relations, and used his profits to build houses, power lines and football fields, with government permission. He kept distance from politics during their time, but considered to run for President the first opportunity, being elected an alternate deputy in 1984 and a full deputy in 1988.

By that time, he was one of the most wealthy and powerful people in Colombia, and frequently attacked the country's political elite during his speeches. While Escobar had no clear ideology or program, and was a corrupt and demagogic politician, his views seemed left-wing, and he regularly engaged in charity and social works and proposed welfare programs, some of which were adopted by the Liberal administration; another cause he championed were peace negotiations with the guerrilas. While Escobar was rumoured to have ties to drug traffickers (which was proven after 2002), the Liberal government refused to investigate him, and his popularity grew by the day, especially after he attempted to sue FIFA for not hosting the 1986 World Cup in Colombia.

On 27 May 1987, Escobar held a rally in Medellin to announce the creation of the Nuevas Ideas (New Ideas) political party. Borrowing a slogan from Gary Hart, the party was a big tent for opponents of the Liberal and Conservative establishments, and claimed the legacies of Simon Bolivar, who Escobar repeatedly compared himself to, and Jorge Eliacer Gaitán. NI soon became a major party with expressive congressional and local benches; the following year, Escobar was the most voted federal deputy in Colombia while NI became the third-largest party in Congress, allowing him to announce his candidacy for President on 9 September 1989.

Escobar's campaign platform supported the estabilishment of cheap restaurant, wealth transfer, children's nourishment, and other programs to reduce poverty; the privatisation of non-essential industries; peace negotiations with the communist guerrilas, as long as they laid down their arms; an independent foreign policy free from US imperialism; the use of plebiscites and referendums; and guaranteeing the placement of Colombian products on international markets. He was always the frontrunner and few expected him to lose, although the populist politician suffered death threats and had to be surrounded by loyal bodyguards. But Escobar was elected by a majority of the vote, and followed most of his campaign promises.

 

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[NotDavidSoslan]

The greatest mistake of each one of my OCs

• Ed Donnell: Bomb the Gaza Strip alongside Israel.
• Todd Edwards: Run for President as a Democrat in 2020, while being pro-life.
• Gustavo Henrique: Prolong the civil war instead of taking power through free and fair elections.
• Maria the Conqueror: Cheat on her husband constantly and not follow him and the army during their campaigns (until she repented).
• Marian Andreescu: Imprison and torture his political opponents, especially the moderate PNT.
• Carlos García: Be an expansionist fascist.
• Abdillahi Masoud: Invade Ethiopia in 1976, when Somaliland was a multitude of times weaker.