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Submitted by Eleni (United States), Jun 28, 2014 at 15:58

The pre WWI era was replete with genocides...corruption...all festering under a monstrous diseased imperial ottoman...austro Hungarian British hegemony...senseless and brutal...they exploded in a frenzy of bloodletting. The assassination simply revealed the sordidness of the existing order.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
history repeats itself [67 words]WilsonJul 1, 2014 12:18215692
1The Spark That Lights The Coming Middle-East Wars [598 words]Lujack SkylarkJul 1, 2014 10:15215690
The Reality on the Ground Concurs with What is Portrayed Here [23 words]M. ToveyJul 7, 2014 15:04215690
The Beast, Turkey, etc. [943 words]Michael SJul 10, 2014 21:03215690
120.01.1942 a worse day [112 words]
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mythJul 1, 2014 09:59215689
1Sarajevo source of the worst day in history [82 words]lilyJun 29, 2014 23:03215659
The worst day in history [65 words]LilyJun 29, 2014 22:54215658
To be clear, those who need to catch up on history:: [116 words]NuritGJun 29, 2014 15:59215653
The Japanese were forgotten [34 words]нафикнафикJun 30, 2014 15:14215653
1I have never bought the assertion that Princip was the cause. [189 words]
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yonasonJun 29, 2014 09:53215650
2the powder keg and the fuse - Belgium [383 words]mythJul 3, 2014 04:45215650
1Also - Arguably - One of the Best of Days [177 words]
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LudvikusJun 29, 2014 09:34215649
Part of a Continuum [239 words]Michael S.Jun 30, 2014 02:37215649
no titles [23 words]leoJun 30, 2014 08:35215649
Overthrow of reichs and empires, and the "unipolar world" [242 words]Michael S.Jul 8, 2014 05:08215649
Instead of "before" and "after", I'd use "with" and "without" Hitler's order - Lybia "with". [89 words]leoJul 11, 2014 14:08215649
no titles [40 words]leoJul 11, 2014 15:53215649
Какое это имеет отношение делать с этой темой? [7 words]Michael S.Jul 13, 2014 03:40215649
I can not excuse for things that you will ever think [15 words]leoJul 16, 2014 13:17215649
1arguably? yes. [36 words]EleniJun 28, 2014 15:58215642
One Thing They Didn't Have in 1914 [95 words]TL WinslowJun 28, 2014 11:50215637
The Worst Day in History [66 words]Elsdon WardJun 28, 2014 11:03215636

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