Red Laiatan conflict

Red Laiatan conflict
Laiatanese Type 56 Jackal tanks on patrol near Khalskigorod during a lapse in fighting between government and LPF/NLF forces in October 1957.
Date June 8, 1956 - February 3, 1959 (2 years, 7 months, 26 days) Location Laiatanese Federation Result Laiatanese government victory LPF/NLF surrender to federal government LPF/NLF demobilize LPF/NLF start transitioning into a legal political party
Belligerents
Laiatan	Laiatanese Patriotic Front New Laiatan Front
Commanders and leaders
Andrei Menshchikov Lazar Abdulov Lukyan Laptev Galina Ivakin	Slava Yarmolnik Vladimir Chebotaryov † Anastasia Ukhov † Nikita Nikishin Katherine Galdin Pavel Smirnitsky † Vladimir Taruvoskin
Strength
~400,000 (in 1957)	~40,000 - 50,000 (in 1957)
Casualties and losses
Laiatanese military 1,654 killed 9,781 wounded 235 missing	LPF 9,458 killed 11,256 wounded 2,598 missing NLF 8,394 killed 11,492 wounded 3,495 missing
Civilian causalities 7,789 killed, 19,487 wounded, 3,298 missing Total causalities 19,506 killed, 52,016 wounded, 9,626 missing

The Red Laiatan conflict was fighting that occurred between communist groups (Laiatanese Patriotic Front and New Laiatan Front) and the Laiatanese federal government from June 1956 to February 1959. The war was launched during a period of economic stagnation, and targeted the democratically elected government and capitalist economic system.

	Laiatanese Federation
Main article: Laiatan
Important Topics: Culture ♦ Lupine ♦ Laiatanese language ♦ Mahitou ♦ Laiatanese korona ♦ Defense Forces
Government: Cabinet ♦ Federation Assembly ♦ Federal Council ♦ People's Council ♦ President ♦ Supreme Federal Court ♦ Political Parties
History: Pre-Mahigan Laiatan ♦ Kingdom of Laiatan ♦ Laiatanese Empire ♦ Laiatanese Junta ♦ Laiatanese Federation
Important Figures (Past and Present): Yuliya Surkova ♦ Zakhar Kreskov ♦ Aleksey Zukov ♦ Yuri IV ♦ Katerina I ♦ Nika Alkaev ♦ Yura Lainov