• huf [he/him]
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    8 days ago

    something had to start it. as bismarck (may he rot in hell) had predicted, some damned foolish thing in the balkans would start it.

    like fort sumter started the ACW, etc etc.

    anyway, austria and russia were fighting over whose sphere of influence the balkans would be, or at least how to split it up. serbia definitely wasnt willing to become an austrian satellite (if anyone, they preferred the russians), hence the hostilities, hence the assassination.

    • Lemister [none/use name]
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      8 days ago

      It was also that the Austrias annexed Bosnia kinda illegally, which major pissed off the Serbian population. Pan-Slavism was all the rage back then, so the crumbling K.u.k was already on edge ditto with germany who feared an industrializing russia (unfounded since most of the russian industry was owned by british/french capitalists).

      • edge [he/him]
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        7 days ago

        germany who feared an industrializing russia (unfounded since most of the russian industry was owned by british/french capitalists)

        Arguably they caused an industrialized Russia by Russia's loss to them (and them putting Lenin on a train back to Russia) leading to the creation of the Soviet Union. Which then became the main reason Germany lost the second time.