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What were the chances of Austria remaining a Hapsburg realm (either a greatly diminished Austrian Empire as before 1848 or just the Kingdom of Austria) after World War One? Would a shorter, less horrifyingly bloody war have made the Entente willing to tolerate it? Maybe the Hapsburgs are kept in place as part of a central/eastern European bulwark against Communism (perhaps the German communists make a better show of things, frightening the British and French)? Any thoughts?
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