serbian nationalist who assassinated franz ferdinand

The World of the Habsburgs describes their very different characters: Ferdinand was impulsive and often ill-tempered, while Joseph was extremely reserved. Even then, he stipulated that it was to be a morganatic marriage, with Sophia and their children denied any rights to the crowns of Austria and Hungary.Įven without domestic strife, Ferdinand was often at odds with his uncle. Only after the intervention of fellow monarchs and the pope did the emperor relent.

In turn, Joseph refused to consent to their marriage. Membership to a reigning dynasty (or at least a formerly enthroned one) was required of any spouse to the emperor's heir, but Ferdinand refused to forsake Sophia. He fell deeply in love with Countess Sophia Chotek, of noble but not royal lineage. Pretty bad attempt at making him not appear as a serb nationalist.Among their more personal disputes was over who Franz Ferdinand would marry. Austrians would later link his weapons with the serbian goverment therefore it's pretty much a fact that the serbian government and the Black Hand were behind this terrorist act.Īlso Princip literally wanted to burn Sarajevo down. The serb terrorist Princip prior to his terrorist act went to serbia to get weapons to commit his terrorist act. Not out of 'brotherhood and unity' with croats and Bosniaks but because they viewed and still view Bosnia as their rightful land.Įven if we ignore the above fact, it's well recorded and well known that Young Bosnia was created by the Black Hand and serbian government. The serbs literally had mass protests in serbia because AU annexed Bosnia. Neither serb nor croat nationalists deny the existence of Bosnia they deny the existence of Bosniaks being separate people and that Bosnia was separate from serbia/croatia. The organization being called Young Bosnia isn't the 'own' you think it is. The only thing you are right about is that he wasn't a 'serbian nationalist'. 'Principovo' and 'Gavrilovgrad' were some of the proposed names.

They mostly make these claims that Princip wasn't a serb and that Bosniaks were part of Young Bosnia to due and change the topic away from their terrorist actions mostly for the sake of optics in western discourse but they literally celebrate him as a national hero and were going to name Sarajevo after him when they burnt it down. The serbs will claim AU started WW1 and not serbs even though they committted acts of terrorism against AU officials and more but at the same time claim a random serb being killed at a wedding was what started the war in Bosnia and not the serbs committing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Bijeljina.Īnother common serb myth is they will claim that Princip wasn't a true serb and there were Bosniaks that were part of Young Bosnia too while at the same time claiming Bosniaks only started to exist in 1992. I will point out some holes and hypocrisies in the whole myth of serbdom relating to this incident as well. The only mistake they made was not acting on this serb aggression sooner and after the Franz Ferdinand incident trying to be reasonable with extremists and still giving them a chance to solve this diplomatically and of course the serbs rejected this option (who knew a people who has a national motto of 'Bolje rat nego pakt'/'Better war than a pact' would prefer war to peace?) but due to historical revisionism and propaganda now the serbs are apparently the good guys because they were being 'reasonable' because they accepted all but one condition in the ultimatum by AU when it was an all or nothing proposal after all the terrorist acts they did. If anything AU was way too tolerant of serbs mass state sanctioned terrorism. Only someone with no reason in their thinking can actually argue in good faith that the Austrians started WW1 and not serbia. This wasn't a one off event as there was already many acts of terrorism against AU by serbs already.ĪU didn't start WW1, serbia did. Since I am giving a history lecture here already I want to dispel some more common myths and propaganda around this topic:

Serbian nationalist who assassinated franz ferdinand