Swimming Pool Coup

Pool where the coup occurred. Most Kiravian swimming pools are shaped like this.

The Swimming Pool Coup (Kiravic: Nevian Sintilinnē) was a coup executed by the Kandelite faction of the Kirosocialist Party (Marxist revisionsists and Kiravian social-nationalists) against the leading Devinist faction (orthodox Marxist-Devinists). It is so-named because it began with the execution of Devin and several of his closest allies on the Politburo in a swimming pool at a state guesthouse in the Aterandic foothills of Ventarya, clearing the way for a more comprehensive purge that would change the ideological orientation of the Kiravian Union's ruling party.