Posted by SleepingHare on 5/7/2004, 2:25 am, in reply to "Re: Blame for WWI" --Previous Message--
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: I left my opinion on this topic with the
: History Channel board, but they censored my
: posts and banished me because I didn't tow
: their party-line.
: I think it's self-evident that Pan-Slavism
: and ethnic nationalism, of which Prinzip was
: a proponent, was a huge threat to the KuK
: Hapsburg Monarchy, and it would be cynical to
: expect the Hapsburgs not to have reacted to
: provocations against their imperial
: authority... Russia and Britain were in
: cahoots with the Pan Slav nationalists, just
: as they rewarded them with the formation of
: new states out of Germany and Austria/Hungary
: at Versailles: Poland, Czechoslovakia,
: Romania, etc...
: Interesting how Britain, the world's biggest
: global imperialist in WWI, wasn't even
: willing to grant Ireland independence (had to
: fight the Anglo-Irish war 1919-1921) but the
: Anglophone world cynically continues to
: condemn Germany for imperialist aggression
: right up through the present. But then again,
: Churchill said that the truth is so precious
: that it must be protected by a bodyguard of
: lies. I treat most of what officialdom spouts
: re. WWI and WWII history as distortions of
: the truth...
: Contrary to popular belief, truth is not
: established by popular belief.
: --Previous Message--
: Sleeping Hare,
: I think you make a very good argument, one
: I'd never heard put just that way. Germany
: was not any more to blame than any of the
: other major powers.
: Personally, I'd blame Serbia most, but I
: guess most people reckon that's like blaming
: Gavrilo Princip.
: :
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