Re: [Cz-L] Birthday!

Alex,

Yes, IF....
As we said in Czernowitz:
"If my grandmother would have had wheels, she would have been a
motorcar".

Mimi
On Aug 15, 2012, at 4:26 AM, alexander rosner wrote:

> Well, if we are already speculation what would have happen if ...
>
> If the Emperor didn't react on the assassination by starting a war
> (which nowadays wouldn't happen as states would settle such
> conflicts differently) the WWI maybe wouldn't start.
> A revolution in Russia maybe would still have happened some time
> later if the conditions wouldn't have improved there.
> The Germans probably would have missed the pretext to join a war,
> which would not have started by the Austrians. The German Kaiserreich
> would continue with some adjustments to modernity, no defeat would
> be used by the Nazis, should they evolve, to mobilize the masses
> in Germany for the next war and to indoctrinate them the way that Jews
> were responsible for the defeat, the crisis, virtually for all
> misfortunes.
> Millions of our people would have survived as no Shoahwould have
> taken place, probably.
>
>
> The problem was that "our" Emperor thought that he and his kind were
> superior people (L'Etat c'est moi) which were entitled to war already
> because of one assassination, while other people would have to get
> to a court and listen to a decision of a judge.
>
> Alex
>
>
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