More than once it happened that the two bullets that ignited the hell of the First World War might not fire, as if the providence of God gives one chance after another so that the war does not break out.
Such coincidences can sometimes occur in surprising and confusing ways, especially before major disasters. Perhaps these are just passing coincidences, or perhaps they are warnings and a missed opportunity. Perhaps these are safety valves that did not work and people mistreated them.
The twenty-eighth of June was marked by two important events: the first was the spark that ignited the First World War with all its horrors and tragedies in the assassination of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 2014, and the second was the signing of the Peace of Paris, which ended that great war in 2019.
Franz Ferdinand, nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph, would not have attained the rank of Archduke, an Austro-Hungarian title meaning crown prince, had it not been for the suicide of Rudolph, the Emperor’s son, because his father would not allow him to marry. the woman he loved!
In addition, the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire would not have come to Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, if this former part of the Ottoman Empire had not been annexed in 1908, and of course the terrorist organization “Mlada Bosna”, founded by Serbian extremists, would not would have appeared and not declared itself in the attack during the visit of Ferdinand to Sarajevo, which changed the course of history.
Human history is on its dark side, and “If” can change nothing about it, except that the assassination operation, in fact, could have failed more than once.
Including that 6 terrorists, while traveling by train from Serbia by train, one of them lost weapons and potassium cyanide, which the members of the group had with them in order to commit suicide if they were arrested.
The affairs of the terrorists were unsatisfactory, and their plan almost failed. At about ten o’clock in the morning, a homemade bomb was thrown into the car in which Crown Prince Ferdinand and his wife were traveling, but did not reach the goal, and the guards had to interrupt the visit, but they did not.
The car continued to move at a slow pace through the streets of Sarajevo, and 4 more terrorists were left behind, leaving only one, 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, the 19-year-old son of a postman.
He was disappointed and convinced that the whole mission had failed. He strayed from the path of the procession and sat down in a confectionery on the street adjacent to the bridge to eat a sandwich, but the driver of the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, having crossed the bridge over the Malacca River, turned into the wrong lane and ended up one and a half meters from the terrorist busy eating pirogue.
At that moment, when the driver was disengaging, Gavrilo Princip stood up and fired twice from his revolver.
The first bullet cut the gastric artery of the Crown Prince’s wife Sofia, and she died almost immediately, and the second bullet pierced the Archduke’s neck and stuck in the spine.
Ferdinand gathered his strength and said his last words, turning to his wife: “Sophie, Sophie, for the sake of our children, do not die.”
Even at that moment, the Archduke could have been saved by clamping the artery, but this was impossible due to the very narrow collar of his general’s uniform. While his assistants were trying to unfasten the buttons, Ferdinand died from heavy bleeding.
Now, in the place where PrintSub started a fire that turned into a world hell, I lay a tile with a boot imprinted on it. This young man, who was described as shy, was short and suffered from tuberculosis, but two bullets fired by him confused the map of Europe and further complicated the situation, led to the formation of military alliances and opened the gates of hell.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire presented an ultimatum to Serbia, as they believed that the Serbian intelligence of the General Staff was behind the assassination, while Tsarist Russia announced mobilization to protect its ally Serbia, and Germany declared war on Russia and invaded neutral Belgium. Thus began the First World War, leaving behind 10 million dead and 30 million maimed.
Source: RT