Wiktor Smolak
Wiktor Smolak is a Wehzek politician who currently serves as the President of Wehlen. In addition, he is the commander-in-chief of the Wehzek Armed Forces. He is known for his commitment to ‘Wehzek nationalism with socialist characteristics.’
He is the third president to rule Wehlen after the departure of the Arcasian troops in the aftermath of the Wehlen Civil War. He was the leader of the National Nurist Alliance of Wehlen until 1940, which heavily promoted Wehzek nationalism and Nurist traditionalism.
After the failures of the previous post-war presidents in lifting the country out of economic recession, he formed his own political party, Wehzek Nationalist Party of Nurist Socialism in 1942, which combined religious Nurist politics with Wehzek nationalism and socialism. He was elected president in 1943.
During his first years as president, Smolak oppressed and persecuted most of his opposition, censored the Wehzek press and seized the assets of the multi-millionaires. As a staunch anti-Arcasian, he blamed the royalists, liberals and the democrats for the civil war and the subsequent Arcasian invasion. Despite being an anti-Malenyevist before the civil war, he brought Wehlen closer to United Contana, which helped him bring the country out of recession with the financial aid coming from the CSP.
Smolak’s aggressive promotion of Wehlen nationalism and Nurist politics also resulted in the oppression of ethnic and religious minorities in Wehlen. His rule was marked by thousands of Bludish people being arrested and killed, as well as military action against the Bludish Freedom Front which set up bases in north-eastern Wehlen.
