Magenta's background - anti-Bereznik riots?

[Sage]

For my latest fic one of the big themes is Magenta's backstory, and in the process of delving into that I've hit up against a bit of a problem. It's not anything that can't be worked around, but I'd just like to get it sorted in my own mind.

I've read through the character biography and chronology pages, and all I've got so far is that ...

Patrick Donaghue (age 18) became involved with a small gang of political extremists known as “Group 22”. Because of his participation in the “anti-Bereznik riots” of 2052, young Patrick was sent to Rikers Island, a New York prison, for a term of 90 days, where he spent much of his jail time in the prison library, continuing his university studies via correspondence, and returning to Yale after his term in prison.

Thing is though, and this is my dilemma, what exactly where these anti-Bereznik riots all about?
The spark of it, what this Bereznik was up to that compelled people to take to the streets, etc.

And more importantly for my story; what would the young Patrick Donaghue's politics have been, for him to get caught up in that?

In light of his disadvantaged background and 'unconventional' career, I imagine that he would be quite a liberal thinking person (voting democrat, though not registered as such because he 'doesn't agree with voter registration'). But maybe I'm off base there.
And either way that's as an adult. I should think most 30-something's politics are diffrent from when they were a teenager.

That's a point too; is there any reference about how he feels about the riots, with hindsight?

Anyway, I'm waffling.
My point is. Is there some canon or fanon source I've missed that can shed some more light on this issue. I'll even take whatever plausible theories anyone may have.

See I could just make it all up, but well there's a reason I always take historical over fantasy.

[Marion]

Chris Drake & Graeme Bassett in their Captain Scarlet book say: To the east of Europe lies Bereznik, a small but predatory state whose battalions of robot tanks present a constant menace to its neighbours.

The Website Chronology says:

2010 - State of Bereznik begins to come together due to the continuing political struggles in central Europe, started in the 1990s with the break-up of Yugoslavia.

2028 - The state of Bereznik was carved out of civil-war torn central Europe (covering the areas of eastern Germany (which was split by war in 1991, with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia at odds with each other), Czechoslovakia (which was split by break up of USSR in the early 1990s into the Czech Republic and Slovenia), the Ukraine and Poland, though Russia was not involved).

2045 - World Government is formed as a result of the atomic war of Europe, the war lasts 6 years; 2028-2034, but Bereznik, Porto Guava, Tong Viet ken, the United Asiatic Republic and Britain decide not to join. The World Security Patrol is also formed with the World Space Patrol, World Navy, World Army, World Air-Force, and Universal Secret Service. First World President Nikita Bandranaik takes offices, 2045-2066, in which he serves 3 terms of 7 years each.

Also this thread:
http://spectrum-headquarters.com/v-web/ ... t=bereznik

I'm not sure we do know much more about Bereznik, Sage, or why Magenta was protesting about them. It might have been that the robot tanks had been used against a neighbouring (World Government allied) state - or that Bereznik was financing/promoting terrorist cells in other allied countries, or generally being obnoxious about things.
There is no information as to what Donaghue's political views are - Group 22 might have been a group hoping to force the World Government to crush Bereznik, or a group protesting at the escalating arms race, or, at Bereznik's policy of dumping the toxic substances generated by inefficient industries into wilderness areas, or the seas...
Throughout the 60s and 70s there were student marches against all sorts of things - nuclear weapons, the Vietnam War - the invasion of Hungary and Czechoslovakia by Russian troops - so that it must've seemed that even in the next century the students would still be revolting... (so to speak)
I think it is something you can decide for yourself; although others might know more than me...

[Mary]

The Website Chronology says:

2028 - The state of Bereznik was carved out of civil-war torn central Europe (covering the areas of eastern Germany (which was split by war in 1991, with Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia at odds with each other), Czechoslovakia (which was split by break up of USSR in the early 1990s into the Czech Republic and Slovenia)

<nitpick> Marion, I know you're quoting directly from the source, but just pointing out to the other Forum members that this is slightly incorrect. Czechoslovakia broke into the Czech Republic (aka Czechia) and SLOVAKia, not Slovenia. The latter is actually one of the republics formerly a part of Yugoslavia. </nitpick>

(Back in the day, when people actually used ink on paper to write letters, I corresponded with someone in Bratislava, who was very quick to point out that he was *Slovak*, not Czech...)