https://www.vetsurgeon.org/f/non-clinical-questions/19454/centenary-of-the-most-tragic-day-of-the-20th-century A hundred years ago today, a small group of evil terrorists murdered the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, together with his wife. When I think of the dreadful consequences(both directly and indirectly), I consider that this was the most tragic dayen-USTelligent Community 10https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/116768?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 28 Jun 2014 14:54:59 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:f09f40ce-a7b5-4881-8168-6263aea6547cHannah Wynne Richards<p>&nbsp;Evelyn You may be right. Have you read Erskine&nbsp; Childers&#39; novel &quot;The Riddle of the Sands&quot;? Warning of the dangers of German sabre-rattling almost ten years earlier. Still war, and all the terrible consequences of that war might have been averted if Franz Ferdinand hadn&#39;t been assassinated.</p> <p>Wynne</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://www.vetsurgeon.org/thread/116766?ContentTypeID=1Sat, 28 Jun 2014 13:59:41 GMT146601cc-3922-4be7-9974-7e1d4e45a66b:abb4d16c-3f00-4caa-8dc2-f4f3beb5cdefEvelyn Barbour-Hill<p>[quote user=&quot;Hannah Wynne Richards&quot;]It could be argued that without the war,&nbsp;and the&nbsp;hostility this caused to the Czarina (who was of German birth), the Russian revolution might not have happened.[/quote]</p> <p>Good point, but I think the Russian revolution had already started and would undoubtedly have proceeded. &nbsp;True, without the War, the Bolsheviks (a rather nasty minority party) would not have been able to seize power. The Germans smuggled Lenin back to Russia from exile in the hope of destabilising Russia, and of course succeded magnificently in the short and medium term.</p> <p>I have a feeling that something like the Great War would have happened anyway, as corrupt old empires decayed and old territorial ambitions were re-awakened. Maybe not.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>