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Gavrilo Princip (started WWI) gets own statue in Belgrade
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:39 am
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:39 am
From 2015, but still very relevant today. Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Archduke Ferdinand which started WW I gets honored in Belgrade.
Contrast that with our current mayor who is afraid what his population thinks of the history of New Orleans.
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Serbia has unveiled a monument to the man who sparked the chain of events leading to World War I. Gavrilo Princip, who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 has a divisive legacy in the Balkans.
Serbia on Sunday inaugurated a monument to the man whose assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand ignited World War I.
Gavrilo Princip, whose two-meter bronze likeness was unveiled before a crowd of hundreds in central Belgrade still fuels controversy in the ethnically-divided Balkans.
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic described Princip as a freedom fighter and a hero.
"Today, we are not afraid of the truth," Nikolic said. "Gavrilo Princip was a hero, a symbol of the idea of freedom, the assassin of tyrants and the carrier of the European idea of liberation from slavery," Nikolic told the crowd.
To the many outside of Serbia who view Princip as a terrorist, Nikolic said, "others can think what they want."
Contrast that with our current mayor who is afraid what his population thinks of the history of New Orleans.
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This post was edited on 5/18/17 at 10:00 am
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Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:44 am to NYNolaguy1
The next thing you know someone is going to propose a statue of Lee Harvey Oswald.
The world has gone crazy.....
The world has gone crazy.....
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:45 am to NYNolaguy1
So NOLA is a more backward city than Belgrade.
That's nice to know.
That's nice to know.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:47 am to NYNolaguy1
Dude you misspelled both of his names in the OP title 
quote:
Gavrillo Principe (started WWI)
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:48 am to LSURussian
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The next thing you know someone is going to propose a statue of Lee Harvey Oswald.
The world has gone crazy....
The Serbs view him as a hero who accelerated Serbian independence. They don't care what the rest of the world thinks. It's difficult to imagine what Mitch would look like with a spine.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:50 am to LSURussian
And Princip is a hero to his people for reasons that aren't that hard to understand if you read about it.
He obviously fricked the rest of the world over though.
He obviously fricked the rest of the world over though.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:50 am to NYNolaguy1
This should rustle plenty of jimmies
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:50 am to NYNolaguy1
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The Serbs view him as a hero who accelerated Serbian independence. They don't care what the rest of the world thinks.
Right.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:50 am to NYNolaguy1
Princip is a hero to the Serbs. He is seen as the man who ended the tyrannical rule of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
He is the John Parker of Serbia.
And that whole chain of events was just insane with how it lined up. I mean, botch the assassination, then go grab a bite to eat.. Walk out to a stalled vehicle with your target right there in the open after taking a wrong turn? Sometimes you just have to believe in predetermined fate.
He is the John Parker of Serbia.
And that whole chain of events was just insane with how it lined up. I mean, botch the assassination, then go grab a bite to eat.. Walk out to a stalled vehicle with your target right there in the open after taking a wrong turn? Sometimes you just have to believe in predetermined fate.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:54 am to NYNolaguy1
quote:I worked in Belgrade, Serbia for a couple of months and I can attest to their "us against the world" mentality.
The Serbs view him as a hero who accelerated Serbian independence. They don't care what the rest of the world thinks.
One story: when one of the locals I was working with there in 2008 learned I graduated from LSU he said, in perfect un-accented English, "Congratulations on winning the football championship."
I was taken aback and asked him how he knew about LSU football. He said, "I got my MBA from Tulane."
Posted on 5/18/17 at 9:58 am to NYNolaguy1
This thread is exciting for me because I am currently listening to Hardcore History and actually have an idea what yall are talking about. 
Posted on 5/18/17 at 10:00 am to NYNolaguy1
He should have some blood spittle hanging off his lips. They picked him because he had TB and was going to die anyway.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 10:01 am to MaHittaMaHitta
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This thread is exciting for me because I am currently listening to Hardcore History and actually have an idea what yall are talking about.
Blueprint for Armageddon is the GOAT Hardcore History IMO.
Ghenghis Khan one is a close second.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 10:06 am to MaHittaMaHitta
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This thread is exciting for me because I am currently listening to Hardcore History and actually have an idea what yall are talking about.
Actually just started episode V and they were talking about this statue being unveiled.
I find it interesting he gets a statue while Lee gets his pulled down, for almost polar opposite reasons. One society wants to remember history, and another (segment) wants to erase it.
Posted on 5/18/17 at 10:07 am to MaHittaMaHitta
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This thread is exciting for me because I am currently listening to Hardcore History and actually have an idea what yall are talking abou
Welcome to the dark side.
if I could be holed up in a room with nothing but history books, I'd be a damn happy man. Posted on 5/18/17 at 10:09 am to HarryBalzack
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He should have some blood spittle hanging off his lips. They picked him because he had TB and was going to die anyway.
Not sure if serious. He was one of MANY along the route that day. All with the same goal. It just happened that he was the one that was able to pull the trigger. After one of his comrades botched his attempt with a delayed fuse explosive.
It wasn't some lone gunman thing where only princip was to kill the arch duke
Posted on 5/18/17 at 10:20 am to beerJeep
And he had already given up on trying...then he walked outside and BOOM there he was.
All time greatest/worst right place at the right time.
All time greatest/worst right place at the right time.
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