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Franz Ferdinand-Emperor of Austria
Franz Ferdinand-Emperor of Austria
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Part II
25th February 1914
The news spread like wildfire-The emperor of Austria is dead!This is the biggest event that has happened in this decade and,people,say that it will be the biggest event of the century.All newspapers covered it,even the ones in other countries covered it.Frranz Josef has ruled for 66 years and people still like him.The Empire earned a constitution,expanded the territories of the Empire and and with the Compromise he United the nation more .
However, there were many failures in the external policies of the empire-the dissolution of the austro-russian alliance and the defeat in the Italian war for independence and later the Treaty of Disorder was a serious failure in their policies because it was too harsh on the Balkan League
Not everything was fine inside the Empire as well-before the Compromise the Bohemians wanted the new ruler to become king of Bohemia as a sign of their autonomy.That didn't happen and the Compromise left the Czechs and their aristocracy without the recognition of Bohemian state rights.Because of this ,there were many public demonstrations.However, Franz Joseph remained immensely respected; the Emperor's patriarchal authority held the Empire together.
And now he is dead.Franz Josef was respected by almost everyone inside the empire,even the nationalists(from the nations inside of the Empire).Outside of the empire,however,he had gained many enemies.
The pan-slavists in Russia hate the Austrians and Franz Josef for invading the Balkans.They want to invade the Austrians and help the Slavic people.But first they wanted to turn Russia into a pan-slavic democracy.The Tsar doesn't want to support the Balkan nations and instead pursues his own interests.Peter Milyukov( leader of the pan-Slavic party)wants to rule democratically by getting seats in the State Duma and decrease the powers of the Tsar,but most of the people in the Party and the party's supporters think that is impossible.They think that making the Tsar abdicate through a revolution can actually happen and will be better for all slavs.This led to a split inside the Party between the ,,democrats'',led by Milyukov and the ,,revolutionaries'',led by Kerensky.The ,,revolutionaries" held many speeches saying that the Tsar is oppressing the people and that they should revolt and they created the newspaper,,Slavic Voice"
Other enemies of the emperor were the Balkan parties and the nationalist parties.
Grabež didn't die from the cyanide pill and was taken into custody after he was severely beaten by the crowd.After he was taken into custody he was tortured,so he can tell them who is he.A few days after that he told them about the Force of Salvation,along with the names of other people that were part of the assassination.He was sentenced to death by hanging.
Franz Ferdinand wasn't respected by anyone,Franz Joseph and Franz Ferdinand hated each other.He advocated granting greater autonomy to ethnic groups within the Empire and addressing their grievances, especially the Czechs in Bohemia and the south Slavic peoples in Croatia and Bosnia, who had been left out of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 and after the death of Franz Joseph he can give more rights and autonomy to the other ethnic groups.
Revolts against the Force of Salvation started ,before they were put down by the military and after the interrogation the people saw that the National Party of Work has a part in the assassination and people wanted the Party to be banned.
But,while the Austrians try to fight hungarian nationalism and before Ferdinand officially become the emperor,Hungarians and Bohemians decided that this moment of chaos would be the best for a revolution.

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