Suppose Gavrilo Princip lives into old age, perhaps even into the 1990s. How would he be treated throughout his life? And how would he be looked at in the late 20th century?
Suppose Gavrilo Princip lives into old age, perhaps even into the 1990s. How would he be treated throughout his life? And how would he be looked at in the late 20th century?
Would he get exiled by the communists?
OTL one of his co-conspirators lived shortly before the breakup of Communist Yugoslavia. He had been a radical Serbian Nationalist scholar and professor who advocated genocide against the Albaniens and after WW2 adapted to the Communist ideology in Tito's Yugoslavia. He was minister under Tito's goverment and advocated the expelling of ethnic Germans and Hungaruans. In His later years during the 80es he denounced his Nationalist views. He died in 1990 at 93. His name was Vaso Čubrilović.Suppose Gavrilo Princip lives into old age, perhaps even into the 1990s. How would he be treated throughout his life? And how would he be looked at in the late 20th century?
For me, the question is more: Can Gavrilo Princip rule a nation, whether under communism (Principism anyone?) or fascism or any other system?
He doesn't feel like the type to go into politics to me at all.For me, the question is more: Can Gavrilo Princip rule a nation, whether under communism (Principism anyone?) or fascism or any other system?
OTL one of his co-conspirators lived shortly before the breakup of Communist Yugoslavia. He had been a radical Serbian Nationalist who advocated genocide against the Albaniens and after WW2 adapted to the Communist ideology in Tito's Yugoslavia.
The 1990s? That sounds way too ambitious...with everything he had to endure in prison, it'd be a minor miracle if Princip lives into the 1960s.
IF by some miracle he ends up dying in 1992 i expect Milosovich to grant him a state funeral live on TV.
Not exactly, assuming he was in prison for only a few years, then was well-treated and lived comfortably, and got good medical care, it's doable. Frank Buckles, the last living American World War I veteran, was working in the Philippines when Japan invaded, and ended up spending three years imprisoned in harsh conditions by the Japanese, during which he endured conditions of near-starvation, and weighed less than 100 pounds when he was freed. Despite this, he ended up living to 110.
Is there any information about his opinion about WW1? Perhaps he might try to be far from politics and nationalism.
I agree that there's a distinct possibility he'd retire to a quite life and stay well away from any political arena.
Or hunted by Germans during ww2?He'd have a very interesting career in Yugoslavia in the 1920s and 1930s. Would he get exiled by the communists?