Second Gjorkan Civil War

Second Gjorkan Civil War
(Clockwise from top) Execution of deserters by Loyalist Forces, Volunteers leaving to join the Revolutionary Fight, Captured Trench filled with dead Socialists, Ruins of Nomakoa following the capture of the city by Revolutionary Forces, Burning of the Gjorkan Royal Palace as Revolutionary and Loyalist Forces fight for control of Gjorka City .
Date 23 May 1911 – 11 November 1919 (8 years, 5 months, 2 weeks and 5 days) Location Gjorka Result Revolutionary Victory End of the First Gjorkan Republic Establishment of military rule Start of resistance movements
Belligerents
Loyalists Loyalist Army Loyalist Militas	Revolutionaries Blue Militias Revolutionary Army Socialist Militias (Until 1917)	Socialists (From 1917) Socialist Militias Gjorkan People's Army Supported by: Ajakanistan
Commanders and leaders
Noel Mitchell  † John Griffith	Éamon de Valera Joseph Vanderburg George Cox †	Colm Kilpatrick Cody Murray
Strength
3,100,000 soldiers (peak)	6,000,000 soldiers (peak)	2,000,000 soldiers (peak)
Casualties and losses
900,000 dead 3,500,000 wounded	1,000,000 dead 4,500,000 wounded	500,000 dead 1,000,000 wounded
Civilians: 400,000 dead, Unknown wounded

The Second Gjorkan Civil War (Gjorkan: Dara Cogadh Cathartha Gjorkan) was an armed conflict in Gjorka fought initially between the Government Loyalists and the Revolutionaries. Later the conflict became a three sided war when the Socialists joined the war following the overthrow of the revolutionary government. The war is the bloodiest conflict in Gjorkan history, and saw the deaths of nearly 2.4 million soldiers and over 400 thousand civilians.

Background

First Gjorkan Republic

Main article: First Gjorkan Republic

Rising Tensions

See also: Gjorkan Labor Wars and Gjorkan revolutionary period

Blue Revolution

Main article: Blue Revolution

Early war

Soldiers leaving to join the Revolution

Late war

Socialist split

See also: 1917 Gjorkan coup d'etat

Revolutionary Soldiers patrolling the street following the Coup d'etat

Surrender of the Loyalists

Nomakoa following it's capture by Revolutionary Forces

Legacy

Film

The War was depicted a number of times during the military government in use as propaganda films. Following the Black Revolution, and the re-establishment of democracy the war became a taboo subject in film making. A big budget film about the war wasn't produced until 2019 when 1917 was released which grossed over a billion pón making it the highest grossing film that year.