From April 29th, 1909 to October 1st, 1911, Llamadoridica would face the bloodiest civil conflict it had seen to date with over 740,000 dead. The Socialist Coalition, consisting of moderate socialists, radical socialists, anarchists, communists, and a sizeable Elkoist majority had fought this war and won against unprecedented odds. It seemed outside intervention against their revolution from the imperialist powers was almost inevitable yet, besides seizing a widely desolate and unpopulated island to the south, nothing happened. This inaction, with aid from the Volksreich, gave the Socialist Coalition the momentum it needed to continue the fight and end the war. Now, fresh into 1912, came the question of what was to happen now. In the midst of the formation of the coalition Aron Elko was the Provisional National Director, giving him extensive political power within the coalition. Now that the revolution had been won, at least for most sides of the coalition, the question of Elko's position of authority came up. The fate of the Socialist Republic was in question and Elko was not at all going to allow these false revolutionaries to seize the initiative and send the infant state into another civil war. Decisive action was needed. It was needed or the state could be threatened from the inside out as the Empire was. Never again should such a war be fought in Llamadoridica. Elko was going to be sure of that. In the early morning hours of Janurary 6th, 1912, gunshots rang out in the capital for the second time the past year. Elkoist militia from the civil war surged into the capital and began storming specific buildings, those housing leading members of other factions in the Socialist Coalition as well as open opponents to the Elkoist regime or ideology. This would mark the beginning of the First Purge. Political opponents, captured members of the old regime not killed off during the civil war, and ideological enemies such as large land owners, upperclassmen, and rich industrialists were all rounded up and shot across the country but specifically in the south and southeast. Over the next 14 months over 180,000 would die as a direct cause of the purge and the Socialist Coalition would be gradually withered away until being officially dissolved. As soon as the self-coup had ended, the People's State of Llamadoridica would be proclaimed as Elko secured absolute power, as his manifesto claimed the true revolution needed. The bloodied, now empty seats the coalition members once sat in were replaced with Elkoist leaders, and loyal ones more importantly. Recovery was a long road ahead but further brutal purges were to be expected. Anything for the people, anything for the revolution.
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