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Well, first off he wasn't a dictator, excusing the difference between dictatorships and monarchy, we're going to just assume you're calling anyone with autocratic authority a dictator for ideological reasons. But even then that doesn't track because by the time the war broke out in 1914 the Tsar's powers were severely limited by the Russian Constitution and the State Duma, so much so that he ironically did not have the power to stop the war from happening when the Kaiser reached out to him and begged him not to continue mobilizing his forces. It was the same thing in regards for Germany. Both men had some minor control over military affairs and internal politics but by the 20th century Monarchies were no longer divine right to rule and the powers of the royal families were severely limited by national constitutions, federal parliaments, and of course unelected bureaucracy. And they're the real perpetrators of WWI, and you know what? they're the same perpetrators of every war since.

Thanks for the gift!

Thanks for the gift!

They annexed Cisleithania which includes these regions. Kingdoms Kingdom of Bohemia (Land of the Bohemian Crown) Kingdom of Dalmatia Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria Archduchies Archduchy of Austria above the Enns (unofficially Upper Austria) Archduchy of Austria below the Enns (unofficially Lower Austria) Grand duchies Grand Duchy of Kraków (Subdivision of Galicia and Lodomeria) Duchies Duchy of Bukovina Duchy of Carinthia Duchy of Carniola Duchy of Salzburg Duchy of Silesia (Land of the Bohemian Crown) Duchy of Styria Margraviates Margraviate of Istria (Part of the Austrian Littoral) Margraviate of Moravia (Land of the Bohemian Crown) Princely Counties Princely County of Gorizia and Gradisca (Part of the Austrian Littoral) Princely County of Tyrol Princely County of Vorarlberg Free Cities Free City of Trieste (Part of the Austrian Littoral) Condominium Condominium of Bosnia and Herzegovina naturally some of these territories have been removed, like bosnia and herzegovina, galicia and lodomeria, dalmatia, etc.

I mean.. This was a smut novel written as a cash grab... It was never supposed to be serious.

That stat ignores who gets counted, what crimes get reported, and how they’re classified. Reality isn’t a spreadsheet—go walk through Cologne at night and tell me the math still matters.

Describing social obligation to the family, community, and nation by the term politically loaded term "socialism" is crazy...

Despite knowing the dangers of smoking, people still smoke and drink today. Because while you might think the cons outweigh the pros, some people just need to take the edge off after an extremely stressful day, like after fighting in combat.

"Bismarck was born in 1815 at Schönhausen, a noble family estate west of Berlin in Prussian Saxony. His father, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck (1771–1845), was a Swabian-descendant Junker estate owner and a former Prussian military officer; his mother, Wilhelmine Luise Mencken (1789–1839), was the well-educated daughter of a senior government official in Berlin whose family produced many civil servants along with academics." So Junker is a term that means different things in different eras, but more or less it was a term either used for the lower nobility who were land/estate owners, but had no real title above, or the young noble families who came into effect after the era of feudalism began to fade from history. Generally speaking though it was a term in Brandenburg, Prussia, and the German Reich for young noble families that possessed land, but were not otherwise qualified for higher noble titles like Freiherr, Graf, Herzog, Furst, Konig, Kaiser, etc. etc. etc. So while the origins of the von Bismarck family is much older than the fictions von Zehntner family the main character is a part of, they still would have been lower nobility/land owners aka Junkers, and thus a part of a coalition that by the 19th century primarily owned the land in Prussia and were often united against the higher houses of superior noble birth in a political sense. Add a reply

I am aware, I generally use English translations for ranks, and titles in narration, and the actual spelling in the language of origin of the character it is associated with within the dialogue.