However questionable the Austro-Hungarian rule over Serbia might be, Princip was an atheist anarchist motivated by hatred for Christianity. The outcome was the greatest nightmare ever visited upon Europe, leading to two world wars, 150 million dead, and the Communist destruction of Western Civilization.
Lately, I’ve developed strong sympathies for the newly avuncular Orthodox society in Eastern Europe, but if I ever needed reminding how demonic the Serbian regime is, this is it.
Serbia was an independent nation in 1914 and had been for many decades. Not all Serbs, however, lived within its boundaries.
Princip was an atheist anarchist motivated by hatred for Christianity.
Do you have a link showing this?
Everything I've read about him indicates he was a Yugoslav nationalist. The attack was planned and carried out by a rogue faction within the Serbian government, for whom Princip worked.
There were an amazing number of anarchists, of a variety of ideologies. running around the later 19th and the early 20th centuries. Assassination was a favorite tool. They have pretty much disappeared down the memory hole, with communism and fascism showing up.
But most of the anarchists would have scrupled to work for a government like that of Serbia.
Everything I’ve ever read indicates that Serbs are the closest thing there is to normal, decent, middle class people in the Balkans. I’m hoping I can live long enough to see Serbian tanks roll back into Kosovo.
The Black Hand. Have read that the one who actually shot Ferdinand was not all there mentally either.