oh no! here goes Poland
un_aristocrate@jlai.lu 6 days ago
You mean what would happen if for example an Austrian archduke where to be assassinated by a Serb activist whilst visiting Bosnia?
MissJinx@lemmy.world 5 days ago
un_aristocrate@jlai.lu 6 days ago
You mean what would happen if for example an Austrian archduke where to be assassinated by a Serb activist whilst visiting Bosnia?
oh no! here goes Poland
Tja@programming.dev 5 days ago
Those are all minor countries, I’m sure it would be fine.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 days ago
As long as it doesn’t come out afterwards that the Crown Prince of Serbia was running the conspiracy with half of his military officers
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
Is that true? I’m woefully undereducated when it comes to the events leading up to WW1
IWW4@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
We need to start deeper than that. Even if the Arch Duke had not been assassinated WWI would have happened anyway.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 days ago
Yeah. The actual assassination was performed by members of Young Bosnia, which was a nationalist group that incorporated some anarchist ideas that obviously got them labeled as pure anarchists despite wanting to, you know, create a new state named… Drumroll… Yugoslavia.
The Young Bosnians were funded, helped, and organized by a group called The Black Hand, a Serbian nationalist group composed of various military officers and the crown prince, out to create a Balkan empire dominated by Serbia. Their preferred name for that, btw, is back in style under the Greater Serbia moniker.
The funny thing about the assassination is that accomplished all the aims of the assassins, namely the destruction of the AHE and creation of a Yugoslavia controlled by the Serbian royal family.