About 11 minutes ago,WW1 started with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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  2. “So they’ve killed Ferdinand,” said the charwoman to Mr. Schweik who, having left the army many years before, when a military medical board had declared him to be chronically feebleminded, earned a livelihood by the sale of dogs—repulsive mongrel monstrosities for whom he forged pedigrees. Apart from this occupation, he was afflicted with rheumatism, and was just rubbing his knees with embrocation.

    “Which Ferdinand, Mrs. Muller?” asked Schweik, continuing to massage his knees. “I know two Ferdinands. One of them does jobs for Prusa the chemist, and one day he drank a bottle of hair oil by mistake ; and then there’s Ferdinand Kokoska who goes round collecting manure. They wouldn’t be any great loss, either of ’em.”

  4. > The archdukes last words were “Sophie, Sophie! Don’t die! Live for our children!”

    Poor family 😥

  6. The book Dreadnought, by Robert K. Massie, has an excellent description of the episode. Apparently there were a LOT of assassins in town that day, all just waiting for a shot at the guy…

  7. „who would win this hypothetical war” memes coming in 3…2…1…

  8. The Austrians were itching for war. The Archduke was sort of a jerk, but he was the main opponent to what was obviously a stupid idea. They used his death as an excuse to start the war.

  9. I have the feeling that happened a little longer than 11 minutes ago… but maybe I’m mistaken

  10. Incorrect, WW1 started a month later, on July 28th 1914, with the Austro-Hungarian declaration of war.

  11. I think it started a few years earlier then 11 minutes

  12. A whole civilisation vanished in the trenches of the Somme and Verdun.

  14. World War 1 started on 28 July 1914, the assassination started the ball rolling, but claiming the war started with it, is just contrafactual.

  15. WW1 didn’t start with the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the outbreak of a large conflict was still totally preventable for months afterwards. It started with Germany’s [white cheque](https://youtu.be/PcMcWuK1cAE?si=bRgtH2–JQ50DakT) to Austria. That’s the moment when high ranking commanders left and right, often in the middle of their vacations in an [soon to be] enemy country got urgently called back home to mobilize, often to their own surprise.

    Note: I’m not blaming certains countries here, just stating a rule dangerously applicable today: if a mouse farts in the south China sea and nobody wants war, nothing will happen; if the same mouse farts but somebody desperately wants war, it will provoke WW3. Back in 1914 Austria-Hungary desperately wanted war, misinterpreted their ally (Germany) signals in order to fulfill that goal, and boom.

  17. Don’t care, steam summer sale is on. I can stay in a bunker indefinitely

  18. apology for poor english

    when where you when fritz ferdinand dies?

    i was sat at home oppress slavic minority when hötzendorf ring

    ‘ferdl is kill’

    ‘no’

  21. It’s always scaringly fascinating to me how the course of world history depends on events that take place within seconds. Imagine he had missed or had been arrested before. Maybe there would still be an Austrian and a German empire and we would stand next to the street waiving flags when the emperor passes by. Or maybe imperialism would have continued for 20 years longer and the European powers would eventually have nuked each other..

  22. Bye Habsburgs, bye Ottomans, bye Romanovs it is going to be the end of multicultural empires in Europe.

  23. the July Crisis started, the war would start in exactly a month

  25. I have received intel from a credible source that Austrians have appointed von Hotzendorf to lead their armies. It looks like they will be unstoppable!

  26. Funny, I stood at the spot he was assassinated just yesterday.

  34. I heard that it started when a bloke called Archie Duke shot an Ostrich because he was hungry.

  35. He weapon used in the picture is wrong. He used a semi auto

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