Yngvar Tangen

Yngvar Dyrdahl Tangen (2 July 1890 – 25 September 1971) was a Savic politician and the founder of the People's Republic of Savland, which he ruled as supreme leader from 1933 until his death in 1971. He was also a co-founder of the Savic Socialist People's Party, which he led from 1925 until his death.

Tangen was born in 1890 in Lærdal, Oppdalen province, to a well-off peasant family. Against the wishes of his father, Tangen left home at the age of 17 and enlisted in the Savic army. He was honourably discharged after two years of service and went on to attend the University of Skåben, where he became politically and intellectually active in socialist and nationalist circles. He and fellow student Åsmund Bergum formulated a Savic interpretation of called "Savic socialism", which they began to advocate publicly. Tangen and Bergum were expelled from the university for advocating and nationalist sentiment, which led to their founding the Savic Socialist People's Party (SFF) in 1921. The party and Tangen's public profile grew rapidly, resulting in his forced exile to neighbouring Bloodia in 1923. Tangen took over the party leadership in 1925 after Bergum's arrest by the Savic authorities.

Tangen began to advocate violent revolution against the Savic state, which he considered to be corrupt, undemocratic, and indifferent to societal problems. He returned in secret to Savland in 1932, remaining in hiding while organizing paramilitary forces for an insurrection, while also securing political support from ideologically-aligned Bloodia and Reismov. In 1933, Savic authorities publicly executed Bergum on charge of seditious activity; a joint Bloodian–Reismovi invasion of the country began five days later, deposing the republican government and placing Tangen in power.

By the end of 1935, Tangen had completely centralized power and purged the government of non-loyal elements. He declared himself "Supreme Leader of the People's Revolution" and transformed the political apparatus into a. Tangen saw the conversion of the Savic economy into a socialist one on the basis of state planning and public ownership. Despite decent growth in its early years, the Savic economy stagnated after a short boom in the wake of the Second Great War. Savland lagged behind its socialist allies, resulting in further state repression, terror, and centralization. Tangen became increasingly despotic in his later years, engineering another violent purge in 1966 that saw the deaths of hundreds and the apex of his. He died in 1971 and was treated to a large state funeral and lengthy period of public mourning.

Tangen's policies, personality, and writings dominated the politics of Savland in his time and continue to do so in the modern day. His birthday is a major public holiday in Savland and he was posthumously declared the "eternal thought leader of the SFF" in 1979. An attempt at small-scale liberalization was made by his successor Magnar Bylund, but this was undone by an invasion of the country and the subsequent seizure of power by Andreas Goplen, an orthodox Tangenist, in 1972.