Characters / EGD Southern Europe

Main Character Index Superpowers: United States of America | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Major Powers: People's Republic of China | French Republic | United Kingdom Other Countries By Region: North America (United Mexican States) | Central America | South America | Western Europe (Federal Republic of Germany) | Eastern Europe | Southern Europe | Northern Africa | Western Africa | Central Africa | Eastern Africa | Southern Africa | East Asia | Central Asia | Middle East | South Asia | Oceania

Southern Europe

Portuguese Republic

Flag of the Portuguese Republic

Common Names: Portugal

Official Name: Portuguese Republic

Starting Leader: António Ramalho Eanes

Starting Faction: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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António Ramalho Eanes

Full Name: António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes

Spanish State

Italian Republic

Flag of the Italian Republic

Common Names: Italy

Official Name: Italian Republic

Starting Leader: Alessandro Pertini

Starting Faction: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

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Alessandro Pertini

Full Name: Alessandro "Sandro" Pertini

Microstates

Republic of San Marino

Flag of the Republic of San Marino

Common Names: San Marino

Official Name: Republic of San Marino

Starting Leader: Grand and General Council

Starting Faction: None

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Grand and General Council

Official Name: Grand and General Council

Vatican City State

Flag of the Vatican City State

Common Names: the Vatican, Vatican City

Official Name: Vatican City State

Starting Leader: Pope John Paul II

Starting Faction: None

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Pope John Paul II

Full Name: Pope John Paul II

Yugoslavia

Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Flag of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia / Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Ranković)

^{Flag of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Yugoslav Wars)} 

Common Names: SFR Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, FR Yugoslavia (Ranković / Yugoslav Wars)

Official Name: Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Ranković / Yugoslav Wars)

Starting Leader: Josip Broz Tito

Ruling Party: Savez komunista Jugoslavije^note League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ)

Ideology: Market Socialism^note Independent Socialism

Starting Faction: None

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Josip Broz Tito

Full Name: Josip Broz

Party: Savez komunista Jugoslavije^note League of Communists of Yugoslavia (SKJ)

Ideology: Market Socialism^note Independent Socialism

Presidency of Yugoslavia

Official Name: Presidency of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

Dobrica Ćosić

Full Name: Dobrica Ćosić

Aleksandar Ranković

Full Name: Aleksandar Ranković

Party: Savez komunista Jugoslavije - Radikali^note League of Communists of Yugoslavia - Radicals (SKJ - Radikali)

Ideology: Autocracy

JNA Military Council

Official Name: Yugoslav People's Army Military Council

Party: Jugoslovenska narodna armija Vojni Savet^note Yugoslav People's Army Military Council (JNA Vojni Savet)

Ideology: Military Council^note Authoritarian Democracy

Milovan Djilas

Full Name: Milovan Djilas

Party: Savez komunista Jugoslavije - Reformisti^note League of Communists of Yugoslavia - Reformists (SKJ - Reformisti)

Ideology: Democratic Socialism^note Independent Socialism

Yugoslav Wars

Stage I

Republic of Slovenia

Flag of the Republic of Slovenia

Common Names: Slovenia

Official Name: Republic of Slovenia

Starting Leader: Milan Kučan

Starting Faction: None

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Milan Kučan

Full Name: Milan Kučan

Republic of Croatia

Flag of the Republic of Croatia

Common Names: Croatia

Official Name: Republic of Croatia

Starting Leader: Franjo Tudjman

Starting Faction: None

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Franjo Tudjman

Full Name: Franjo Tuđman

Republika Srpska

Flag of the Republika Srpska

Common Names: Republika Srpska, Srpska

Official Name: Republika Srpska

Starting Leader: Radovan Karadžić

Starting Faction: None

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Radovan Karadžić

Full Name: Radovan Karadžić

Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Flag of the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Common Names: Bosnia, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Official Name: Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Starting Leader: Alija Izetbegović

Starting Faction: None

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Alija Izetbegović

Full Name: Alija Izetbegović

Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia

Flag of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia

Common Names: Herzeg-Bosnia

Official Name: Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia

Starting Leader: Mate Boban

Starting Faction: None

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Mate Boban

Full Name: Mate Boban

Republic of Macedonia

Flag of the Republic of Macedonia

Common Names: Macedonia

Official Name: Republic of Macedonia

Starting Leader: Kiro Gligorov

Starting Faction: None

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Kiro Gligorov

Full Name: Kiro Gligorov

Stage II

Republic of Vojvodina

Flag of the Republic of Vojvodina

Common Names: Vojvodina

Official Name: Republic of Vojvodina

Starting Leader: Assembly of Vojvodina

Starting Faction: None

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Assembly of Vojvodina

Official Name: Assembly of the Republic of Vojvodina

Republic of Serbian Krajina

Flag of the Republic of Serbian Krajina

Common Names: Krajina, Serbian Krajina

Official Name: Republic of Serbian Krajina

Starting Leader: Milan Babić

Starting Faction: None

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Milan Babić

Full Name: Milan Babić

Republic of Montenegro

Flag of the Republic of Montenegro

Common Names: Montenegro

Official Name: Republic of Montenegro

Starting Leader: Momir Bulatović

Starting Faction: None

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Momir Bulatović

Full Name: Momir Bulatović

Stage III

Bosnian Mujahideen

Flag of the Bosnian Mujahideen

Common Names: Bosnian Mujahideen

Official Name: Bosnian Mujahideen

Starting Leader: Abdelkader Mokhtari

Starting Faction: None

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Abdelkader Mokhtari

Full Name: Abdelkader Mokhtari

Republic of Serbia

Flag of the Republic of Serbia

Common Names: Serbia

Official Name: Republic of Serbia

Starting Leader: Slobodan Milošević

Starting Faction: None

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Slobodan Milošević

Full Name: Slobodan Milošević

Republic of Kosova

Flag of the Republic of Kosova

Common Names: Kosova, Kosovo

Official Name: Republic of Kosova

Starting Leader: Ibrahim Rugova

Starting Faction: None

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Ibrahim Rugova

Full Name: Ibrahim Rugova

Southeastern Europe

People's Socialist Republic of Albania

Flag of the People's Socialist Republic of Albania

Common Names: Albania

Official Name: People's Socialist Republic of Albania

Starting Leader: Enver Hoxha

Starting Faction: None

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Enver Hoxha

Full Name: Enver Halil Hoxha

Socialist Republic of Romania

Flag of the Socialist Republic of Romania

Common Names: Romania

Official Name: Socialist Republic of Romania

Starting Leader: Nicolae Ceaușescu

Ruling Party: Romanian Communist Party (PCR)

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism^note Revolutionary Socialism

Starting Faction: Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (Warsaw Pact)

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Nicolae Ceaușescu

Full Name: Nicolae Ceaușescu

Party: Romanian Communist Party (PCR)

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism^note Revolutionary Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}  Nicolae Ceaușescu was born on the 5th of February, 1918 in the small village of Scornicești as the 3rd Child to poor Romanian Farmers. He became involved in Communism through the workshop of Alexandru Săndulescu, a shoemaker who was an active member in the then-illegal Communist Party. He had been first arrested by age 15, for street fighting during a strike. By the late 30s, he had been arrested numerous times. During the war, he spent time between internment camps and prisons. After the Communists seized power in Romania in 1950, he headed the ministry of agriculture, then served as deputy minister of the armed forces under Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, becoming a major general. In 1954, Ceaușescu became a full member of the Politburo and eventually rose to occupy the second-highest position in the party hierarchy. He was elected general secretary on 22 March 1965, three days after Gheorghiu-Dej's death as a compromise candidate due to party infighting. Initially, Ceaușescu became a popular figure, both in Romania and in the West, because of his independent foreign policy, which challenged the authority of the Soviet Union. The 60s and 70s were a period of economic prosperity. However, the mountain of foreign debt that is piling on Romania due to oil mismanagement during the 70s, the falling birthrate, and nepotism within the government threaten to tear the government and very fabric of society apart. Whether Ceaușescu can retain his liberal stance or not is yet to be seen.

People's Republic of Bulgaria

Flag of the People's Republic of Bulgaria

Common Names: Bulgaria

Official Name: People's Republic of Bulgaria

Starting Leader: Todor Zhivkov

Ruling Party: Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP)

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism^note Revolutionary Socialism

Starting Faction: Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (Warsaw Pact)

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Todor Zhivkov

Full Name: Todor Hristov Zhivkov

Party: Bulgarian Communist Party (BCP)

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism^note Revolutionary Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}  Todor Zhivkov was born in the Bulgarian village of Pravets into a peasant family on an unknown date due to the fact that the Orthodox priest that was charged with keeping the records of new births was drunk and forgot to write the date down. In 1928, he joined the Bulgarian Communist Youth Union and in 932, he joined the BWP proper, later serving as secretary of its Second Borough Committee and as a member of its Sofia County Committee. In World War 2, Zhivkov participated in Bulgaria's resistance movement, organizing the Chavdar partisan detachment around Sofia and coordinated partisan movements with those of pro-Soviet army units during the 9 September 1944 uprising. In 1950, Zhivkov became a candidate member of the BCP Politburo, then led by Valko Chervenkov, leading to a full membership in 1951. Although sharing power with Prime Minister Chervenkov, he used the chaos of the Secret Speech to denounce Chervenkov as a Stalinist and had him removed from political life. Zhivkov carried out a policy of relative sociopolitical liberalisation and de-Stalinization after gaining power, seeking to remove what he saw as cults of personality. For the last 20 years, Zhivkov has remained at the top of the BCP due to his favorable position with Moscow, as well as the period of political and economic stability seen under his reign. As the roar of the 80s emerges, it seems that Zhivkov will lead Bulgaria through another successful decade.

Hellenic Democratic Republic

Flag of the Hellenic Democratic Republic

Common Names: Greece

Official Name: Hellenic Democratic Republic

Starting Leader: Charilaos Florakis

Ruling Party: Communist Party of Greece (KKE)

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism^note Revolutionary Socialism

Starting Faction: Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance (Warsaw Pact)

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Charilaos Florakis

Full Name: Charilaos Florakis

Party: Communist Party of Greece (KKE)

Ideology: Marxism-Leninism^note Revolutionary Socialism

In-Game Biography ^{Click to Show}  Charilaos Florakis was born on July 20, 1914 in the village of Rachoula in Agrafa, Thessaly. He was only 15 years old when he first became associated with the communist movement and by 1941 he had joined the Communist Party. In 1929, when Venizelos persecuted the Communists, he organized the Leading Student Groups of the OKNE. He participated in action against the dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas through the ranks of the powerful union of TTT. As an employee of TTT, he developed trade union activity and became the secretary of the Executive Committee of the trade union federation of the branch. In 1941 he became a member of the KKE and participated actively in the resistance during the German Occupation. He worked under conditions of complete illegality, while twice taken to detention centers. He took part in the organization and leadership of the strike in Triada in April 1942, the first major strike in occupied Greece and one of the first strikes in occupied Europe. He joined the National Liberation Front (EAM) exactly one day after its founding, fought the conquerors from the ranks of the national liberation army (ELAS) under the pseudonym Kapetan Giotis and reached the rank of major. After the war, Florakis rose through the party's ranks and became the general secretary in 1960. Just 4 years later though, he would take action again, this time against the Regime of the Colonels. Leading the KKE through its victorious revolution, he oversaw the formal establishment of socialism in Greece. He personally signed the country's membership in the Warsaw Pact and has led the country ever since.

Republic of Cyprus

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Common Names: Cyprus

Official Name: Republic of Cyprus

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Alastor

Ideology: Annihilationism