Tuszkean Political Revolution

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Tuszkean Political Revolution
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The Tuszkean Revolutionary Flag, under which many Tuszkeans rallied and continue to rally.
Location Reriskzeiy and Yaraa
Date 1903–1976
Causes Lack of Tuszkean representation in government
  • Discrimination against Tuszkeans
  • Segregation of Tuszkeans
Type Political movement
Goals More Tuszkean representation in government
Methods Civil disobedience, marches, political protest, sit-ins
Figures Zaňha Deovesý, Zaha Meriý, Mýna Osmegina, Syorä Sohen Gaňdövina, Ozijma Diž, Výka Soreiheňa, Janý Meodhem, Sobreiňe Hýga, Janýisa Varogan, and others
Results Tuszkeans elected into the Kryfonsparliszaiye

The Tuszkean Political Revolution (Kryfona: Tuszkeya esvolanej riefaloz; /tz.k.jɑː ɛs.vʌl.ɑːn r.fɑː.lz/; Tuszkean: Tuszkeya efolaneý rýfaližý; S Tuz. /ˈtzˌk.jɑː ˈɛˌf.lɑːn ˈrˌfɑːl.ɪ.ʒ/), also sometimes known as the Tuszkean Rights Movement was a broad movement of loosely associated groups whose goals were to bring the Tuszkean populace into the politics of the Kryfona Kingdom, to end segregation and discrimination against Tuszkeans, and to end the then re-surging Impurist Movement. Although Tuskean political activism had been occurring long before 1903, the movement is generally regarded to have begun in earnest in 1903, with the election of Sobreiňe Hýga to the Kryfonsparliszaiye.

There were several phases to the movement. In the early days, generally between 1903 and 1927, the movement was less organized and very decentralized, with campaigns generally happening on a small scale. Very few of the organizations which would come to define and give the movement legitimacy were established at the time, and the few which were during this period were small. Subsequently, decentralized sit-ins were the preferred and most successful method by which Tuszkeans resisted the government.

Beginning in 1926, the decentralized movements of Tuszkeans began to give way to organized protests and political groups. In 1927, the first major Tuszkean rights group, the Tuszkeyazi Akhiže, was founded in Keszanetaa, and others soon followed. The first large-scale organized protest by Tuszkeans, the Voice Campaign, also occurred in 1927. These landmark events were partly responsible for the passing of the Tuszkean Acts (1927) and the Rights Act (1930), which functionally ended de facto segregation of Tuszkeans in the Kryfona Kingdom. Further protests and political activism during this period also lead to the eventual passing of the second Rights Act (1942).

Pushback to the Tuszkean Political Revolution intensified greatly during the 1930s with the creation of the mainstream Eporisya Malosom and the Impurist Revolution group. Between 1930 and 1939 alone, it is estimated that almost 500 Tuszkeans were killed, murdered, or assassinated by Impurist groups, including major figures such as Saföd Mergý of the Tuszkeyazi Akhiže and Zaha Meriý, publisher of Zarjeňehu Tuszkeya, among many others. A large scale bomb and firebomb campaign was also conducted by Impurists during this period, which only ended once it became impractical for the campaign to continue. Owing to the government's near total lack of intervention in the situation, responses to the campaign largely fell to Reriskzeiy and Tuszke, and this subsequently inflamed Tuszkean politics. The first Tuszkean political parties–virtually all of which were far-left in ideology–were founded in the early 1930s, and by the end of the decade controlled every aspect of the provincial government.

Turbulence between the Tuszkean-left and the crown of the Kingdom dominated politics between 1939 and the early 1950s, with the Tuszkean-run and Tuszkean-dominated government actively defying its leadership in Nylzsryf. Emboldened by the rise of the Yaraan-left in the Kryfonsparliszaiye and in Yaraa itself, the political parties within Tuszke began a passive resistance against the government in the form of great marches and boycotts, ultimately culminating in the 1949 Justice for Tuszke campaign and the Impurist response in the form of the Hozkigina hostage crisis. It was around this point that public support for the Tuszkean Political Revolution began to spread, and likewise around this point that an Impurist bombing campaign began in earnest against Tuszkeans in the province.

Bombings defined the mid-1950s and early 1960s, as did a significant shift in the politics of Tuszke. Despite the power of the left and the rise of the Proper Tuszkeanism ideology within its parties, centrism in the form of the Tuszkeyazi Nasieňala and the Pažem Tuszkeya would ultimately win out in the battle for control of Tuszkean politics. After the 1957 Bevare bombing, the Kryfonsparliszaiye began to involve itself, ultimately passing the Acts to Prevent Terrorism in the Tuszkeya later that year. In 1960, the Pažem Tuszkeya established itself and quickly became the majority party in Reriskzeiy and among Tuszkeans as a whole. The Pažem was the beneficiary of the Fight for Federality campaign, and became a federal party in 1961. They would go on to sweep all of Reriskzeiy's seats in the 1963 elections. Great demonstrations such as the March on Nylzsryf also took place in the early 1960s, marking the great shift in political support for the political revolution.

The political revolution began to wind down in the mid- and late-1960s, and early 1970s, as it became clear that Impurism was a dying ideology among much of the population and that Tuszkean rights were almost wholly supported. Four provinces outlawed the ideology of Impurism in the 1960s and 1970s, supplementing four others that had done so in the 1940s and 1950s. Nonetheless, Impurism remained a significant security threat, and this was demonstrated when the Telk Avenue shooting took place in 1976, killing 12 people including two Pažem MPs. Subsequently, the Kryfonsparliszaiye boycott took place, and the last significant pieces of legislation of the revolution were passed. The Impurist Movement was banned in late 1976, effectively bringing about the end of the revolution.