Well it clearly should have killed even more cuz most survivors immediately became freikorps and then nazis.

"Ooh the youth of yurop was extinguished in the mud in a senseless infight"

Sadly not all of it, and I don't want to even think what would have looked like had they pointed their armies only outward, 100 vietnams but 50 years early

  • RNAi [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Oh, in WWI too? Fuck

    I knew about the Armenian genocide, but not sure if it's directly linked to WWI, besides being done by the Ottomans

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      2 years ago

      ottoman massacres of non-turks were fueled by ethnonationalists who only got more humiliated and empowered as the ottoman position collapsed due to war(s). so it was based on revanchist nationalism boiling for a few decades but escalated due to ww1

      the post-war division of ottoman territories had the british & french & multiple minorities scrambling to carve pieces off what'd become modern turkish borders---when the french & greeks lost this is when the most severe phase of ethnic cleansing began & armenians were practically erased from greater armenia & cilicia, and greeks were kicked out of western turkey.