Destroyed four famous empires. Made America emerge as a superpower. Changed the map of Europe forever. It made us realize that the role of technology in war is very dangerous. World War I!
In this, the enemies planned to split into two teams and did not meet on the battlefield. A phenomenon that started somewhere like the butterfly effect, which says, ‘If a butterfly flaps its wings somewhere, it can cause a storm to form somewhere else in the world’ has ensnared many countries in the world as a whole. Chinna hesitated.
World War I was a war fought between European countries. No one should think that we have nothing to do with it. The Indian Army sided with Britain and fought against Germany. About 10 lakh soldiers participated in it. It is estimated that at least 70,000 Indian soldiers died in this war. The First World War may even have been a reason for the independence of India, which was a British colony in a way.
If you want to know clearly about these, you need to know the way the First World War started and the background of each country’s march in it. Only then can we know at what stages and how India participated in the war.
Prince Francis Ferdinand of Austria decided to go on a tour with his beloved wife. Honey moon is what happens in the world. No mistake. But the place he chose for his stroll was wrong. It’s Bosnia!
Don’t you know Bosnia? It is a country in Central Europe. Austria-Hungary had brought this country under their control. Bosnia was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
This is a magical kingdom that was created in 1867. Known as Austria-Hungary, it included Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, and parts of today’s Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Switzerland, and Italy in addition to these two countries. This ‘nation’ has a population of 500 crores.
So the Austrian prince had decided to go to another part of his country for his honeymoon. i.e. from north west to south kodi.
“No. Don’t go to Bosnia. It’s too dangerous,” some warned the prince. The prince knows very well that he is taking a risk. However, he did not change his decision.
What do you mean risk? Many of the people in Bosnia, which was part of Austria-Hungary – mainly the Serbs – did not like Bosnia being part of that country. Bosnia must be independent. They want it to join neighboring Serbia.
In Serbia at that time there was a movement called ‘Black Hand’. Black Hand is a nickname. The real name is even more terrifying. The official name of the movement was Union or Death. Serbia needs to expand more and more. The movement’s desire is to include Bosnia. But Austria-Hungary was strongly opposed to this merger. It is not at all willing to lose a part of its territory. So the black hand movements considered Austria as their enemy.
The Black Hand movement then had 2,500 members. It includes not only military officers but also lawyers, journalists and professors. Some of them lived in Bosnia.
In 1911, the leader of the Black Hand Movement sent a man to assassinate the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph. A few years later they also plotted to assassinate the Austrian governor of the provinces of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Failed at both.
Now that the Austrian prince is coming to Bosnia, the commanders of the “Black Hand” have consulted. They decided to settle the prince who stepped into Bosnia. There was an important reason for this. What if that prince, who was strongly opposed to the union of Bosnia and Serbia, came to the position of king next? Better to nip this problem in the bud!
The leader of the Black Hand movement at the time was Tragudin Dimitrajemic. Not just the name, but the ruling gruff. He chose three people. Each was given a gun, two atomic bombs and a small canister of cyanide. What is the cyanide vial for? To commit suicide by drinking the cyanide in the bottle after solving the prince! Only then will no one know that the black hand is involved.
Will anyone be willing to lose his life? They won’t. But they are desperate to somehow chase down the foreign power, Austria. Not only that. All three had severe tuberculosis. Can’t live long anyway. They thought that they would have done a “good” for the country by then.