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I noticed a lot of traditionalists in Europe and America praise Austria Hungary and Germany during the kaiser rule or second reich. There is cosntant mental acrobatics to pin the blame for ww1 on ''evil'' Britain,America, ''joos'' or anyone except the Central Powers. Even Serbs or Balkan people are blamed, because of Gavrilo Princip's stupid and awful assasination of reform minded and pacifistic Franz Ferdinand. Of course it's not fair to blame only Germany and it's allies. All great powers and the two european military blocks Entente and Central Powers were to blame. But what about Austria Hungary as the cief and forgotton istigator? Even though they saw Russia might make war and there would be a european war, they made no compromise and made sure the ultimatum on serbia was very extreme and weren't happy when only 2or 3 of the worst clauses were rejected. Not even arbitration by foreign powers wasn't good enough. And who was behind this war party in Austria Hungary? Why it was those wonderful kultured, monocled austro-german aristocrats and military men of very old, ultraconservative, ultrareactionary and militaristic bent. Who else? Why those wonderful, equally cultured, ultraeuropean Hungarian chauvinistic aristocrats who said no to democratic reform and since 1910 had largely made short work of croatian autonomy. What about all the fanboys of habsburgs and Greater Hungary think of their idealized gods help unleash ww1 on Europe. See the essays of Robert Seton Watson, british historian and publicist for details on austro-hungarian foreign policy,domestic policies, nationalities question and ww1. Also his book The racial problem in Hungary, for a look at how opressed and humiliated the non-magyar nationalities of Hungary were. And about the bad government, abuses and tyrranous nature of hungarian aristocratic government.
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