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On June 16, 1944 in Cartegine, there were variouswidespread protests in the automobile and textile factories in Cartegine, marking the largest demonstrations during the Unionist dictatorship, against the high cost of living. The main cause of the success of the strikes was also thanks to the Cartaginesehigh editioncost of theliving, nationalwith newspaperfood whichscarcity hadand resumed its clandestine publication thanks to Gaetano Valerio in a farmhouse in Swingle. This also contributed to the spreaddenunciation of theexorbitant strikeprices inbeing the Meerleprimary area after it spread to Cartegine thanks to a wide spread of clandestine leafletsreasons. TheInflation, initialcaused causes ofby the demonstrationmassive were for the scarcityissue of foodstuffs and for denouncing the too high prices, in factmoney since 1939 the cost of living, had doubled due to inflation caused by the massive issuecost of moneyliving.

The strikesprotest soonmarked the beginning of the Cartegine Revolution or Phoenixian Civil War, which saw opposing pro-Unionists and partisans. The unrest lost almost any link with the original cause and becametransformed into a more general anti-government demonstrationrevolt. When anti-government protesters demonstrated in Cartegine in June 1940, Leone Ausilio, perceivedperceiving the demonstrations as a political threat and on June 17, ordered military forces to open fire, killing and injuring women, children, and the elderly. The revelation of Ausilio's responsibility resulted in a massive spread of riots and civil unrest across the country, reaching the capital Phoxia.

On the morning of June 20, the news arrived of the suspicious death of Rover Relver, Chief of the Defense Staff, later confirmed as suicide. (he tried to incapacitate himself with a shoulder wound but a bullet severed an artery), the news is it was given by anAn anonymous informant (hiswhose identity was never discovered) from the secret services gave the news to the press, who immediately published it. Believing that Relver had been murdered, the ordinary soldiers went to the side of the revolution almost en masse. The disillusioned commandersgenerals viewed Ausilio as a lost cause and made no effort to keep their mensoldiers loyal to the governmentUnionist regime, they instead sided against Ausilio.

Ausilio made a desperate attempt to address the crowd gathered in front of the government building, but people in the square began throwing stones and other bulletswaste at him, forcing him to take refuge in the building along with his family and a circle of loyalists. Then Ausilio and his wife Marta, alongtried with the circle of close associatesto fledflee the capital by helicopter, but were soon captured by the military.