Posted on 06/28/2015 4:03:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Serbia on Sunday unveiled a monument to Gavrilo Princip, whose assassination of the Austro-Hungarian crown prince in Sarajevo helped ignite World War I and still provokes controversy in the ethnically-divided Balkans.
Hundreds of citizens attended the ceremony in central Belgrade held on the anniversary of the 1914 assassination which is also the Serbian national holiday of St. Vitus Day.
President Tomislav Nikolic described Princip—who is viewed as a terrorist by many outside Serbia—as a freedom fighter and hero. …
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I’ve long opined that Princip was by far the most influential person of the 20th century.
It’s good to know that the whole world has gone insane, and not just our own country.
You made it Gavrillo, rest in peace my friend. /s
I still don’t think Clinton should have bombed Serbia. But this kind of stupid $h*+ makes me less sorry that he did.
You could certainly make a compelling case for that. I would give the edge to Vladimir Zworykin.
Looks like the world has gone Serb, in this case (hat tip to our banned Serbs).
Ubsurd is more like it.
“I’ve long opined that Princip was by far the most influential person of the 20th century.”
If you made it “unintentionally” influential, he’s a lock.
+1
Give Dan Carlin Hardcore History podcast a try. He just did a 6 part series on WW1 that was amazing. He concurs with you
I could not agree with you more.
Certainly WWI was the defining event of the entire 20th century. It is interesting that the 20th century began with problems in the Balkans and ended in the Balkans.
It was Bismarck who said war in the Balkans was “Not worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.”
There’s certainly something to that line of thinking, though in that realm I would favor Philo Farnsworth.
Or Edward Bernays.
There was a program on C-SPAN3 today about the assassination of William McKinley. Someone asked the speaker if he thought that Teddy Roosevelt would have ever become President if McKinley had not been killed. The speaker thought he probably would have just because he was such a dynamic personality—as a hero of the Spanish American War and governor of New York, he would have been in a strong position to become the Republican nominee in 1904, whether or not he had served as Vice President in McKinley’s second term.
Here’s another Bismarck quote. Back in 1888, he said “One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans.”
That’s a pretty darn cool site. Listening now.
Truer words were never spoken.
Some say that if Theodore Roosevelt had bee President in 1912, WWI could have been avoided.
A BBC show “The Fall of Eagles” gives a good historical background to the conflict. Patrick Steward does an excellent performance playing Lenin.
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