Wednesday 27 June 2012

austria hungary flag ww1

The pulpits on all sides – British, Scottish, French, German, Austrian, Hungarian, Russian, Serbian, Italian, etc, — rang with flag-waving, patriotic fervor, telling their doomed sons that it was their Christian duty to obey their...

The Navy's new Ensign was
The Navy's new Ensign was

The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Austro-Hungarian Monarchy

Austria-Hungary.
Austria-Hungary.

Austria-Hungary,
Austria-Hungary,

1914 -- Austria-Hungary
1914 -- Austria-Hungary

As WWI turned into a protracted, bloody struggle the initial enthusiasm gave way to growing class tensions which exploded first in Russia's February Revolution.... Leon Trotsky wrote of 'the patriotic enthusiasm of the masses in Austria-Hungary', Arthur Ransome in Russia of how 'the moment welded the nation into one', and Rosa Luxemburg of Germany's 'mad delirium'. .... Workers and soldiers merged on the streets and paraded together with guns and red flags.
A Marxist History of the World part 70: 1917: the February Revolution ...

It glorifies the heroism of the English soldiers who fought in WWI. This is often contrasted with Wilfred Owen's 1917 antiwar poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est". 07/28/1914, World War I starts as Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary declares war on...
austria hungary flag ww1

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