Obligatory “the assassination of archduke Ferdinand didn’t start WW1 because the material conditions and economic systems at the time would have eventually demanded it regardless; the assassination only acted as a catalyst” etc etc
Still very cool though
It still started it. Just because you throw a match onto an expanding pool of gasoline surrounded by candles doesn’t mean you didn’t start the fire.
That was never the issue sharkfucker. It was indeed about the fact that it went down exactly like this. Between countries with balanced military might.
WW1 started because Friedrich Wilhelm wanted to fuck his mum.
In particular, his left arm was fucked during his birth (and they basically tortured him through his childhood to try and make it right), and he had a strange obsession and wrote many letters to her about dreams where he would caress his mother’s left hand.
Learning about his life made me realise that calling someone a “mother fucker” is a serious insult because you’re saying they’d fuck their own mother - none of this step-dad bullshit.
It came to me listening to the Behind the Bastards episodes on Kaiser Wilhelm. [YouTube Part 1]
Did anyone else think there was a tiny suit of armor with a giant hand holding the gun?
Just me?
That Terminator hand is freaky.
Food for Thought:
The Black Hand actually achieved their goals with the assassination. They were arguably the only responsible party to benefit from the war.
They were a Serbian nationalist group hoping to start a war that would result in the creation of a “Greater Serbia,” a state where Serbia dominated the regions around them.
After the Austro-Hungarian Empire was dissolved, Yugoslavia was created, led by a royal Serbian house, capital in, you guessed it, Serbia, dominating the surrounding regions.
The moral of the story is assassinate more members of the monarchy, it will be fine in the end, probably.
You know after two world wars, a cold war, a civil war and a little light genocide… So 50/50?
Despite being a 1911 fanatic, and loving John Moses Browning’s designs, somehow I was taken aback by how modern this looks. Maybe I expected a revolver?
Next time someone says a .380 is underpowered, “Well it was enough to start WWI pal!”
Joking aside, this pic seems like an anachronism, even though I know for a fact it’s not.
Had to look it up, it’s a FN Browning 1910
FN-Browning M1910 he stepped forward and opened fire.
https://www.historicalfirearms.info/post/97683056689/the-gun-that-killed-archduke-franz-ferdinand-fn
In contrast I think it looks old. The Browning Hi-power and 1911 look pretty modern though.
