Veim Faldŭ
| MP Veim Faldŭ e YK Veim Zeŏrizs Megŏre Faldŭ | |
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| Leader of the YKM | |
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| In office 2 October, 1957 - 25 July, 1963 | |
| Constituency | Leader of the YKM |
| Preceded by Zyŏn Felyoz |
Succeeded by Syinu Talga |
| Member of Parliament | |
| In office 1 October, 1939 - 1 October, 1957 | |
| Constituency | Drzseil |
| Majority | 346,551 (1951) |
| Preceded by Zyŏn Felyoz |
Succeeded by Syinu Talga |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 15 March, 1919
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| Died | 13 November, 1995 (age 76)
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| Citizenship | Kryfona |
| Nationality | Yaraan |
| Political party | Yaraan Kryfon's Movement |
| Parents | Veim Zeŏrizs Hosinu and Megŏre Mangozi Faldŭ |
| Spouse(s) | Tulu Aasŭ |
| Children | Voisas Faldŭ, Tanse Faldŭ, Godris Haly Faldŭ |
| Residence | 1 Taimane St. |
| Education | University of Yaraa at Drszeil |
| Religion | Irreligious |
Veim Zeŏrizs Megŏre Faldŭ, e Yarankryfŏnes (born Veim Mangozi Hosinu; 15 March, 1919 - 13 November, 1995) was a Yaraan politician, best known as the leader of the Yaraan Kryfon's Movement from 1957 to 1963 and the MP for the Drzseil constituency from 1939 to 1957. Born to middle-class parents in Drzseil during the early days of the Yaraan Political Revolution, Faldŭ took an early interest in politics and quickly established himself as an intelligent figure among the up-and-coming Yaraan political scene. Faldu joined the Yaraan Kryfon's Movement at the age of 16, and was only 20 years and 6 months old when he first contested and won his seat in the Kryfonsparliszaiye. Until Arija Dažin won a seat in 2011 at the age of 19 years and 3 months, Faldŭ was the youngest MP to ever win a seat in the Kryfonsparliszaiye. Faldŭ was well liked among his peers during his 18 year stint in the Kryfonsparliszaiye, and was an integral part of establishing and maintaining the party's coalition government with the Kryfona Loyalist Party between 1945 and 1957. Thus, Faldŭ was tapped by then-party leader Zyŏn Felyoz to become the next party leader of the YKM, which Faldŭ did on 2 October, 1957.
Despite his wit and obvious intelligence, Faldŭ's stint as the leader of the YKM was uneventful and ultimately did little to further the party and Yaraa on the whole. For one thing, the Eporisya Malosom was at the time in the middle of a devastating bombing campaign directed at Yaraa and its population; for another, voters were not happy with the YKM's incumbent government. Nonetheless, Faldŭ felt that ignoring the prevailing winds of public opinion–which at the time were steering Yaraan politics towards a more radical left-wing that openly rejected and defied the authority of the crown of the Kingdom–remained the best course of action. While in many respects, he was publicly successful in doing this, it was clear in private that the battle was either being lost or had already been lost.
In 1961, unbeknownst to Faldŭ, low-ranking members of the YKM had begun plotting to strike back against the Eporisya Malosom in what came to be known as the Purge scandal. MPs to the party Zyŏn Mekar and Ryfald Mirŏ were also gradually roped into the plot, and soon after became significant members of it. Shortly after the plot began, systematic acts of violence against members of the Eporisya Malosom, including assassinations and bombings, became significantly more common. This violence continued for almost two more years after the plotting began, completely unbeknownst to Faldŭ and his peers at the top of the party. When the plot began to unravel in late July of 1963, it blindsided Faldŭ and the entire leadership of the YKM; a Nylzsryfa front page story on the subject was decried by Faldŭ as "clearly intended to injure [the YKM]" and he vehemently denied such action had occurred. Gradually, however, the extent of the plot was pulled back by the media, and it became clear that there was more than just substance to the allegations. Three YKM seats were suspended by the Kryfonsparliszaiye subsequently, and widespread rioting took place in response to the revelations. Within three days of the plot being revealed, Mekar and Mirŏ were arrested and the YKM's approval among the public had dropped tremendously. Faldŭ subsequently dismissed virtually every member of the party even accused of being in on the plot, but it became clear to him quickly that there was little he could truly do to fix the situation. Thus, two days later, on 25 July, he resigned as a part of the Thursday Night Massacre, and Syinu Talga took his place as the party leader the day after.
Although Faldŭ was forced to resign as leader of the party, he remained closely associated with the YKM and stayed in Yaraan politics. Between 1964 and 1968, he served as an adviser to the Yaraan Progressives, and briefly in 1968 considered running for a local parliamentary office before opting against it. After serving with the Yaraan Progressives, Faldŭ returned to the YKM on behalf of Talga as a senior adviser, a position in which he served from 1970 to 1984, when he submitted a letter of retirement to Hosina Farŏn, the successor of Syinu Talga. Faldŭ then became a political pundit for Nylzsryfa, a position in which he served until his death in 1995 at the age of 76 of natural causes.
Despite his short period of leadership and the Purge scandal, Faldŭ is considered one of the better leaders of the YKM, and is usually credited with preventing the party from spiraling into the far-left politics that swept the rest of Yaraa during the early 1960s. While in the early aftermath of the Purge scandal he was blamed for failing to control the party, in more contemporary history the Purge scandal is usually considered to be something that was simply out of Faldŭ's hands. Faldŭ had a street named after him in his hometown of Yolrie in 1999, and a school in Yarasil, where he lived for most of his life, was also named for him in 2012. He was posthumously awarded the Yarankryfŏnes Medal by the government of Yaraa for his representation of Yaraa in 2005.
