Charles Edgar Garnier

Charles Edgar Harland Garnier (25 October 1917 - 31 December 1998) was a Magisterian communist politician who was the paramount leader of the United Magisterian Socialist People's Republics from 1951 to 1991, simultanously serving as the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and General Secretary of the Communist Party UMSPR. Ideologically a Longinist for most of his leadership, he moved towards democratic socialism in his latter years.

Garnier was born to a working-class family of Latvian and Finnish ancestry in Victoria, Corelli. He joined the Young Revolutionaries youth league of the People's Socialist Party in 1934 before becoming an official party member in 1939. Garnier studied civil engineering at Magisteria People's University and attended the Ulyanovsk State University. He quickly ascended up the Magisterian hierarchy under the sponsorship of Jefferson Patenaude.

Longin's death on December 19, 1951, triggered a power struggle in which Garnier emerged victorious after consolidating his authority as General Secretary of the Communist Party and later being elected Chairman of the Council of Ministers. He condemned the purges that happened during the first five-year plan in his New Year's address on January 1, 1952, and later implemented changes that marked the beginning of a new era in Magisteria. Garnier was the key figure behind Magisteria's rise to global superpower status, and he began by defying Soviet hegemony as the second Cominform member after Yugoslavia in November 1952. He was one of two leaders in Joseph Stalin's lifetime, the other being Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, to abandon the Cominform and begin his country's idiosyncratic model of "Communism with Magisterian characteristics," in which firms were managed through trade unions and all workers were entitled to an equal share of profits.

His domestic programs, which attempted to improve the lives of regular citizens, were commended for their effectiveness, particularly in agriculture. He received international prominence as a co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, with Yugoslavia's Josip Broz Tito, India's Jawaharlal Nehru, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, and Indonesia's Sukarno. His foreign policy of establishing economic and diplomatic ties with both Warsaw Pact and NATO nations, as well as attempting to form a united military and economic alliance, displayed his commitment to reconciling all sides despite of ideological differences. He obtained 95 foreign honors, including the Legion of Honour and the Order of the Bath, for his highly regarded reputation in both Cold War blocs.