The Black Hands terrorist organization, the ones that killed Archduke Ferdinand, hoped that by doing so they would start a civil war that would result in a victory for Serbia, specifically creating a “Greater Serbia” from the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire where they had dominance over their regional neighbors.
Obviously, that didn’t happen.
Instead WW1 happened.
Which ended in the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the creation of Yugoslavia, a constitutional monarchy with a Serbian royal family, capital in Serbia.
(And then they made everyone hate them because they were assholes both as a monarchy and a communist state)
Second, Bonus Fun History Fact:
Terroristic tactics have left Afghanistan as the only nation to have defeated occupations by the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and America, the three most powerful states since the collapse of the Mongol Empire.
I typed out a huge rant in response to this, absolutely hating that series for reasons I can’t get started on without spiraling into an unhinged rant again, and decided that was way too negative a response for some casual excitement about an upcoming series.
All I’ll say instead is I hope the show is better about staying on theme than the novels were.
And, hey, best case scenario?
We finally get a good Definitely-Not-Space-Marines show.
The problem in that case is I absolutely can’t talk about the problems with it without spoiling the ending and quite a lot of the drama from the third book, but I will say I enjoyed the series quite a lot, teen drama and all, until #3.
I’ll also say if you loved the combat in the second book you’ll love some 40k Space Marine novels because it was basically just a typical Astartes drop pod assault, including the MC melting a guy’s face with definitely-not-a-Betcher-Gland.
I will rue the day this inevitably happens. (lemmy.world)
NASA has some explaining to do (startrek.website)
Also, the Jewish God and Muslim Allah are on the International Space Station.
fr fr ong (startrek.website)
Why can't we get our shit together? (lemmy.zip)
What having a bard in the party is like (media.kbin.social)
Sorry guys, we had a good run (lemmy.zip)
title (i.imgur.com)
A self-care reminder (startrek.website)
Male Loneliness (slrpnk.net)
Hill to die on (lemmy.ml)
Fellow landchads of Lemmy. Don't you hate when this happens? (lemmy.world)
3 January 2023 (sh.itjust.works)
It's a giant ego booster (lemmy.world)
Just keep moving forward (lemmy.world)
Wednesday's Theme: The Star Wars Expanded Universe (lemmy.world)
Hello,...
Do you feel the trickle yet? (lemmy.zip)
Sophie's choice 70s edition (lemmy.world)
The guillotine song (lemmy.zip)
Welp, Saturday's here. Time to get drunk and watch Zach Snyder's Rebel Moon, I suppose (lemmy.world)
Well, now we know. (lemmy.world)