The Final Days of Austria-Hungary

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  • @MLaserHistory
    @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +360

    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Extra Information & Sometimes Corrections if Needed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    0:22 USA ended up signing separate peace treaties with the Central Powers due to the fact that the senate didn't ratify the Paris Peace treaties as it objected to the US involvement in the League of Nations and it saw not ratifying the peace treaties as an effective way of objecting to that.
    1:22 Even though I say 8th of October in the video the formation of the council happened over the course of 3 days from 5th to 8th hence I put it in the video before the announcement of the formation of Poland on the 7th.
    2:30 In this federal system exclaves of German speaking populations in the Empire like the ones in Romania or Hungary were suppose to have autonomy within their respective federal country.
    5:02 Ok so I made a dumb mistake here, I sadly caught it too late to fix it. 28th of October after Czechs proclaimed their independence they also announced the formation of Czechoslovakia. However, this was announced a day later in newspapers like Pilsner Tagblatt, no.296 (29 October 1918) and so I accidentally put the announcement of Czechoslovakia on the 29th even though it happened a day prior. However, you could argue that Czechoslovakia didn't exist just yet as it was the 29th of October that the Slovaks meat in Martin with the intention of declaring independence and proclaiming unification with Czechia in to the state of Czechoslovakia which they did a day later on the 30th as I stated in the video.
    6:34 Stjepan Radic was the only member to vote against sending a delegation to Serbia. He argued that even just sending a delegation would be a bad negotiating tactic with Serbia and that even before sending the delegation they should decide on how the new state is going to be governed and if that's not successful not join Serbia. So he technically wasn't against the unification like I said in the video. He was more of a realist ready to support the unification if the deal was good but if not than he argued it shouldn't happen.
    6:43 The Banat Republic was only officially recognized by the Hungarian Republic and acted more of as a local autonomous council of the new Hungarian Republic rather than a state of its own.
    7:09 2nd not 2sc but yeah sorry my grammar is terrible.
    7:45 Villa Giusti Armistice
    Point 1.4
    Armies of associated powers shall occupy such strategic points in AustriaHungary at such times as they may deem necessary to enable them to conduct military operations or to maintain order.
    Point 3.3
    Special commissions will be selected by the commanders in chief of allied and associated armies on the various Austro-Hungarian fronts, which will immediately proceed, accompanied by the necessary escorts, to the places they regard as the most suitable from which to control the execution of the provisions established above.
    8:42 Louis Franchet d'Espèrey the French commander in charge of the Belgrade negotiations was said to particularly cold to the Hungarian embassy.
    11:00 Romania reenters the war on the 10th of November not 9th.
    11:51 The allies actually had decided that the generals were not allowed to negotiate more than just military matters during the time the negotiations took place but decided not to tell the generals in Belgrade (or the Hungarians) that they can't do that until the armistice talks were concluded. It was never stated why.
    12:22 It wasn't actually the entire Hungarian parliament who signed it but representatives of the parliament who acted on behalf of the Hungarian parliament.
    12:50 The demarcation line in the south was as shown going through Pecs, however, the Yugoslav troops weren't actually allowed to occupy the border Hungarian cities like Pecs but they occupied such cities anyways.
    13:50 The demarcation line in Slovakia will be pushed further into Hungary twice in the next two weeks and so will the Romanian line, however, I will talk about these demarcation line changes in my Trianon video.
    14:10 The break away eastern part of the Lemko Rusyn Republic became known as the Komancza Republic.
    15:35 Some extra information that didn't fit on the screen.
    -Ruthenia was disputed between the WUPR and Hungary, although Hungary was the one in control in the majority of the area.
    -Lemko Rusyn Republic was struggling to defend against Poland/Polish Liquidation Committee and it can be argued it never was able to become fully independent.
    -Slovak Demarcation zone at this point was set a bit north of the current Slovak/Hungarian border.
    -Austria also claimed Burgenland along with the Sudetenland but this was firmly controlled by Hungary until the Trianon peace treaty.
    I will talk further about all these new political entities and the events following January 1919 in the two follow up videos.
    Video scripts with all my sources are available for free on my Patreon- www.patreon.com/mlaser

    • @neptuneseye7832
      @neptuneseye7832 Před 3 lety +4

      This is part of history where almost every nation will argue because of many minorities, provinces,...

    • @LEONKING360
      @LEONKING360 Před 3 lety

      U should definetely make ottoman version of this video,nice content dough

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +14

      @@neptuneseye7832 OU yeah I definitely expect some ultra nationalistic commenters yelling at each other. Specially once the Treaty of Trianon video comes out. That one is going to be spicy.

    • @neptuneseye7832
      @neptuneseye7832 Před 3 lety +7

      Slovenes and Croats rioting for being treated badly by Sebrs
      Italians getting mad for not getting Dalmatia and Rijeka
      Hungarians and Romanians arguing over Transylvania
      And the list goes on
      I wonder who will start

    • @ninostrcic6709
      @ninostrcic6709 Před 3 lety +3

      M. Laser History and I expect that two weeks after relese of this and next two videos we get every salty nationalist comment on your twitter.

  • @Pakcat123
    @Pakcat123 Před 3 lety +1642

    Austria-Hungary: "Herr Deutschland, I don't feel so good"

    • @ivanbrezina7632
      @ivanbrezina7632 Před 3 lety +24

      It was called Austria-Hungary, but majority of citizens were slavs. Joining with German Empire, ruled by Wilhelm would solve that "problem". If they won the war.

    • @allensturdivant3044
      @allensturdivant3044 Před 3 lety +32

      Herr Deutschland:
      Me neither.

    • @garlonschuman1014
      @garlonschuman1014 Před 3 lety +17

      Ivan Březina tbh, defining all of those people as Slavs kind of takes away from each of them being their own cultures. They don’t always get along, as one can see by Yugoslavia. Anyway, the majority of Austria Hungary wasn’t Slavic, and the nation would have likely given more freedoms and representation to the minorities if Franz Ferdinand wasn’t assasinated. Actually, if it weren’t for Hungarian resistance to the idea, Austria likely would have given them those rights way earlier.

    • @garlonschuman1014
      @garlonschuman1014 Před 3 lety +3

      Ivan Březina tbh, defining all of those people as Slavs kind of takes away from each of them being their own cultures. They don’t always get along, as one can see by Yugoslavia. Anyway, the majority of Austria Hungary wasn’t Slavic, and the nation would have likely given more freedoms and representation to the minorities if Franz Ferdinand wasn’t assasinated. Actually, if it weren’t for Hungarian resistance to the idea, Austria likely would have given them those rights way earlier.

    • @busodelor1977
      @busodelor1977 Před 3 lety +3

      @@ivanbrezina7632 and Hungarians?
      succes of the Germans in world war 2?

  • @JuanLopez-tn4my
    @JuanLopez-tn4my Před 3 lety +1055

    "yeah I think we did a good job stabilizing the balkans"
    -allies in 1918

    • @krisztoballit
      @krisztoballit Před 3 lety +43

      For like 20 years.

    • @rixille
      @rixille Před 3 lety +122

      "yeah, I think we did a good job preventing a future world war."
      -allies at Versailles

    • @lukaradovcic2892
      @lukaradovcic2892 Před 3 lety +6

      @@Whatareyoudoinnhere That is Croat fault, but we didn't have much choices anyway.

    • @emc8476
      @emc8476 Před 3 lety +4

      @Shaving Pvt. Ryan After that many conflicts they at least somewhat solved their problems. It is not like the Germans triggered the Second World War.
      All of those countries should have been annexed by Luxembourg

    • @TheLucky994
      @TheLucky994 Před 3 lety +4

      That is all thanks to Germany and particualry their emperor-kaiser Wilhelm II. It is they who wanted both world wars to start. And even after that, first german intervention (as a part of Nato) in foreign country after WWII was in Yugoslavia-Kosovo.

  • @indieWellie
    @indieWellie Před 3 lety +1277

    turns out the real austria-hungary was the friends we made along the way.

  • @tahjaiseaton9921
    @tahjaiseaton9921 Před 3 lety +765

    Boy, that escalated quickly.

    • @Artur_M.
      @Artur_M. Před 3 lety +21

      I mean, that really got out of hand fast.

    • @kurtcsk
      @kurtcsk Před 3 lety +14

      Austria-Hungary was called the "Prison of Nations" and part of it was in the Balkans, which was called the "Boiling Cauldron". So no surprise there ;)

    • @thekhans2823
      @thekhans2823 Před 3 lety +1

      @ Artur M. , Oh boy

    • @kurtcsk
      @kurtcsk Před 3 lety +1

      @@rudikockas2575 maybe in a parallel universe ;)

    • @marceghel4669
      @marceghel4669 Před 3 lety +1

      @@rudikockas2575 Under habsburgs yes, under hungarians not so.

  • @mister_mister633
    @mister_mister633 Před 3 lety +1712

    Mr Germany I don't want to go

    • @menschman1464
      @menschman1464 Před 3 lety +128

      Tom Draper Germany holding back tears as he holds Austria Hungary in his arms and watches Bulgaria and Ottoman Empire disintegrate around him.

    • @briaormead4239
      @briaormead4239 Před 3 lety +35

      @@menschman1464
      Tbh turks got the best deal out of all central powers. Proven by the fact that they didn't even consider joining ww2. Sure they had to fight for years and there was way too much bloodshed but the end result was worth it.

    • @nevzky5850
      @nevzky5850 Před 3 lety +21

      @@briaormead4239 still bro, those once huge beautiful empires is now gone... 😭😭😭

    • @libzbond
      @libzbond Před 3 lety +35

      1939: Germany snaps fingers and brings back the boys

    • @crystxlzx6442
      @crystxlzx6442 Před 3 lety +15

      @@briaormead4239 The Ottoman empire was falling apart anyway so there was no need to be hard on it

  • @raf4933
    @raf4933 Před 3 lety +731

    hundreds of years of careful habsburg political maneuvering and tactful marriage, gone in a couple of months

    • @congruitan5972
      @congruitan5972 Před 3 lety +79

      It was inevitable. You know what they call it? A ethnic prison

    • @marjanp
      @marjanp Před 3 lety +149

      It's was a miracle that it lasted for so long.

    • @MattiavonSigmund
      @MattiavonSigmund Před 3 lety +13

      @@marjanp I think not lol, it's just war.

    • @congruitan5972
      @congruitan5972 Před 3 lety +3

      @@tituspullo9768 lol yes. What pervs

    • @congruitan5972
      @congruitan5972 Před 3 lety +17

      @Polish Hero Witold Pilecki greed greed greed. The Vienna that Poland defended, then turned against it. There are many evil empires, but the worst are those who are traitors, that being Austria.

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 Před 3 lety +519

    Habsburg Family: *"Look How They MASSACRED MY BOY"*

    • @krupam0
      @krupam0 Před 3 lety +46

      I don't know, they were massacring their own gene pool pretty strongly themselves.

    • @Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer
      @Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer Před 3 lety +48

      @@krupam0 You are just jealous because your mud genes aren't as refined as their gene pool. A Habsburg is the habsburgiest a Habsburg could ever be! And they have the chin to proof it.

    • @stealth225
      @stealth225 Před 3 lety +28

      Well tbh , the austrian side was still okay , it was the spanish side which continuously intermarried and as result we got Charles the 2nd of Spain

    • @gelulache
      @gelulache Před 3 lety

      @@Dear_Mr._Isaiah_Deringer And you a a slave gene.

    • @zbynekurbanek3345
      @zbynekurbanek3345 Před 3 lety +11

      dont worry about Habsburgs... they did well after the war... just switched to normal politicians... the mentioned Otto Habsburg was a member of European Parliament for 20 years... and as a big supporter of eastern european states' EU membership he practically reunified his old empire in the EU :P

  • @sterlingpratt5802
    @sterlingpratt5802 Před 3 lety +751

    Austria-Hungary is fascinating. Not merely a historical anachronism, but a deeply underappreciated part of European culture and history. At least in America.

    • @gtafan9584
      @gtafan9584 Před 3 lety +7

      How about you keep it that way!

    • @amanaje4743
      @amanaje4743 Před 3 lety +85

      @@gtafan9584 this is why you can't have an empire where no one speaks the same language and also they hate eachother

    • @sandorgyenge5600
      @sandorgyenge5600 Před 3 lety +24

      @@amanaje4743 the big hatred started with the Trianon Dictatum.

    • @Gabrong
      @Gabrong Před 3 lety +2

      @@sandorgyenge5600 na akkor ess neki újra annak a történelem könyvnek...

    • @m.c.6559
      @m.c.6559 Před 3 lety +37

      @@amanaje4743 worked for a long time tho. We should not judge only from a modern standpoint with nation state borders. This didnt exist back then and the sentiment was different. AH did not collapse because of language.

  • @tobiashandler9000
    @tobiashandler9000 Před 3 lety +413

    "Herr Wilhelm, ich fühle mich nicht so gut"
    - Kaiser Karl, probably

  • @henrik1220
    @henrik1220 Před 3 lety +577

    "What could go wrong in 20 years?"

    • @firstnamelastname-uw6vq
      @firstnamelastname-uw6vq Před 3 lety +38

      It's both funny and sad when you think about it how an Austrian man in both wars (the dumb Conrad von Hotzendorf and Mr. Schmitler) is responsible for millions of deaths and the loss of centuries worth of acquired territories of Hungary, Germany and Austria in the span of 30/40 years or so.

    • @wolfgangkranek376
      @wolfgangkranek376 Před 3 lety +12

      @@firstnamelastname-uw6vq Was he? In the end many if not most citizens of the Monarchy were fed up with it. Also in the German speaking parts (because they felt to have been sacrificed for the dynastic interests of the Habsburg family, many would've preferred to become part of Germany - it was a feeling of: "If all others have their national state, why cant we join ours?" This was even true for most Austrian Socialists).
      The war just invigorated a sentiment of pride for a short period of time in the beginning. After that the different national feelings kicked in again.
      For everything else: www.corbettreport.com/wwi/

    • @firstnamelastname-uw6vq
      @firstnamelastname-uw6vq Před 3 lety +15

      @@wolfgangkranek376 I read this comment multiple times and I don't know what are you alluding to. Conrad von Hotzendorf was a really dumb general. Energetic but dumb as a general. He wanted for Austria to annex Serbia, even though Austria had enough internal problems with its minorities and the last thing they needed was few million serbs in it too. He pressured Franz Josef to declare war on Serbia and overall pursued an expansionist policy before the war. The only person who really knew what evil he was, was Archduke Franz Ferdinand. One he got shot, Conrad literally took over the country. And I can't even start to talk about his blunders that rivals Cadorna's and the insane Enver Pasha's winter campaign. He was the last person who wanted a dissolution of the Empire, but he was so stupid that he was the main cause for its fall.

    • @firstnamelastname-uw6vq
      @firstnamelastname-uw6vq Před 3 lety +12

      @@wolfgangkranek376 Also I am not saying that the dissolution of the Empire was a bad thing, finally some of the different nationalities got their independence, but what I am saying is bad for the Hungarians who had to leave the territories where they were more numerous, but after the war were given to the neighbors and the millions of people, ordinary people conscripted to fight and die in the Autumn's mud, in the Carpathians in the fields of Ukraine and in Serbia just because of some insane person who was so sure of himself, but he was so dumb to be the one to command the armies of the Empire.

    • @somerandomguy___
      @somerandomguy___ Před 3 lety

      A lot it turns out

  • @kfizzledizzle8467
    @kfizzledizzle8467 Před 3 lety +249

    Girls: Why don't boys understand our signs? They're so simple!
    Their signs:

    • @daniellewilson8527
      @daniellewilson8527 Před 2 lety +2

      I’m a girl and do not get why people think we’re complicated

    • @celticlad5866
      @celticlad5866 Před rokem +12

      @@daniellewilson8527 you don't understand because it is too complicated.

    • @matthiuskoenig3378
      @matthiuskoenig3378 Před rokem +1

      @@daniellewilson8527 male and female brains and other biology is different. its a proven fact that girls can see more facial expressions and other body language than boys can, the subtleties are just not recognized by our brains.
      that and different hormones is why boys think girls are complicated.

  • @AleronWolf
    @AleronWolf Před 3 lety +149

    This was outstanding. You even included Lemko-Rusyn Republic. What I mean by that, not even many people Know about Ukrainian Republic declaring independance after WW1, so Western Ukrainian Republic and Lemko-Rusyn one is like, barely known even in Eastern Europe.

  • @LedosKell
    @LedosKell Před 3 lety +581

    "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." -Franz Ferdinand probably

    • @artuilech.7506
      @artuilech.7506 Před 3 lety

      LedosKell dr seuss

    • @awormnamedscoobis3419
      @awormnamedscoobis3419 Před 3 lety +19

      Сварог Ahah,another one who listens to propaganda from the Entente.

    • @SirAlex-jn1zr
      @SirAlex-jn1zr Před 3 lety +3

      @King Victor after you stole 60% of our country,we don't love you !

    • @askurel485
      @askurel485 Před 3 lety +1

      @@98TrueRocker98 you're an uncharacter slav. convertit ,smuggler of facts...you have "zhar" on your eayes ! 🇧🇦🇷🇸👍

    • @lazarjovanovic4388
      @lazarjovanovic4388 Před 3 lety +4

      @@98TrueRocker98 so we werent the victims in ww2..?

  • @jangelbrich7056
    @jangelbrich7056 Před 3 lety +378

    Most excellent!! Maps, images and facts and all that in a chronologic order. Subscribed!

  • @hailgiratinathetruegod7564
    @hailgiratinathetruegod7564 Před 3 lety +606

    apology for poor english
    when were you when Austria-Hungary dies?
    i was sat at home eating wiener schnitzel when telegram ring
    ‘Austria-Hungary is kill’
    ‘no’

  • @hisimperialandapostolicmaj4299

    This is so sad
    Can we plan the 13th battle of the Isonzo River?

  • @alpcetin6244
    @alpcetin6244 Před 3 lety +27

    “Do as you please” that hit hard

  • @hussite7235
    @hussite7235 Před 3 lety +246

    Parents: Why you crying so damn loud
    Me:

    • @assassinscreedgameplays4059
      @assassinscreedgameplays4059 Před 3 lety +3

      This is satisfaction 😂😂😂

    • @bunniifangz
      @bunniifangz Před 3 hodinami

      @@assassinscreedgameplays4059satisfaction at seeing Hungary mutilated far too harshly and unfairly?

  • @marekctvrty
    @marekctvrty Před 3 lety +29

    Btw fun fact, Czechoslovakian state, as we understand it in law university, mightve happened on 4-5 separate occasions, depending on who you ask. and our first president Masaryk, did not consider the date, we now celebrate as our national holiday of founding of Czechoslovakia as THE day.

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +4

      Yeah there where truly way too many, proclamations, recognition, re-proclamations, etc.

  • @mrhippo6040
    @mrhippo6040 Před 3 lety +49

    One very important part you skipped however, is that the German republic of Austria had many claims on Slovene lands which led to rough fighting between Yugoslavia and Austria. Slovene general Rudolf Maister eventually managed to secure lower Styria along with Maribor and annexed it to yugoslavia. Yugoslavia also occupied most of Carinthia along with Klagenfurt, but that area was later given back to Austria after the Carinthian plebiscite in 1920.

    • @Davros539
      @Davros539 Před rokem +1

      He talks about this in his Treaty of Staint-Germain video.

  • @KonradSeverinHilstad
    @KonradSeverinHilstad Před 3 lety +101

    Mr. Kaiser, I don't feel so good...

  • @pttp1079
    @pttp1079 Před 3 lety +154

    Poland: "This is our territory!
    "
    Hungary: "This is our territory!"
    Romania: "This is our territory!
    "
    Czechoslovakia: "This is our territory!
    "
    Yugoslavia: "This is our territory!
    "
    USSR: "Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"

    • @stephenlitten1789
      @stephenlitten1789 Před 3 lety +17

      ah. USSR - when this bloody civil war is over we will export the revolution!

    • @petrujoldea2786
      @petrujoldea2786 Před 3 lety +5

      And....? All taket back the territory
      .

    • @eddiewrathchild2016
      @eddiewrathchild2016 Před 3 lety +9

      Yugoslavia was not part of the eastern block after WW2, so...

    • @stephenlitten1789
      @stephenlitten1789 Před 3 lety +3

      @@eddiewrathchild2016 But it wasn't all A-H territory either

    • @DjSoma55
      @DjSoma55 Před 3 lety +1

      everyone is lying, it has always been Hungarian territory

  • @sebastianalvarez4211
    @sebastianalvarez4211 Před 3 lety +186

    Austria-Hungary: Implodes
    ....
    A-H Minorities: It's Free Real Estate!

  • @nexonmozart581
    @nexonmozart581 Před 3 lety +118

    6:33 if you translate Stjepan Radić to English it means Steve Jobs

  • @matepastorcic679
    @matepastorcic679 Před 3 lety +10

    I haven't watched a video so detailed with every nation in a while. Keep up the good work and thank you for such high quality video.

  • @p7ytzxq
    @p7ytzxq Před 3 lety +158

    You work so hard why dont you have more subscribers :(

  • @kavky
    @kavky Před 3 lety +61

    Imperial Coffin Dance, with Czechoslovakia Poland Romania and Yugoslavia as the pallbearers.

    • @PsyMOONze
      @PsyMOONze Před 3 lety +5

      Basically Serbia instead Yugoslavia.

  • @zrowe0233
    @zrowe0233 Před 3 lety +68

    Me: *scrolls through comments in search of insightful discussion about the topic presented in the video*
    Everyone else: *insert unfunny overused meme here*

    • @darylosborne2058
      @darylosborne2058 Před 3 lety +12

      Typical to all such short summaries of popular history. The creator puts/uploads a well researched piece presented in a simple way. Millennials spam the comments section with a blend of useless mem's, comments starting with 'my great aunt was the cleaner of the Polish liquidation committee and I disapprove this', or just ranting about the fact that 'they hide that episode in history in school. I grew up in Sri Lanka and the teachers never told us about the 3-day lasting 'Peoples republic of east Trans-Guvna' back in 1919. Thank you youtube'.

  • @mixedbruh
    @mixedbruh Před 3 lety +5

    As I have commented seversl times before on your other videos. Thank you for your hard work and the effort you put in all your videos. You have a talent at sticking with facts and nicely packaging things together concisely. Thank you, I always look forward to whatever historical adventure you put together and explain.

  • @Omnigreen
    @Omnigreen Před 3 lety +5

    Really appreciate lighting of this short but very interesting and important time period and border changes in this time, great content, wait to see more.

  • @deciusx9720
    @deciusx9720 Před 3 lety +12

    Your videos are always great, but... damn, I’ve never seen something so confused made so clear. Fantastic job, man!

  • @David.Zivotic
    @David.Zivotic Před 3 lety +7

    Great video, very informative and concise. Also I love your maps/animations & voice over. Love from Serbia.

  • @CarnetTcheque
    @CarnetTcheque Před 3 lety +8

    Really, a well done and necessary video, thanks for making it !

  • @marekctvrty
    @marekctvrty Před 3 lety +76

    you gotta be kidding me. 2 days ago i just passed an exam on Czech and Czechoslovakian law history. This had some information that could've improved my grade ffs XD

    • @barnvandiebos9070
      @barnvandiebos9070 Před 3 lety +1

      What grade you got?

    • @marekctvrty
      @marekctvrty Před 3 lety +3

      @@barnvandiebos9070 2nd semester on charles uni in prague

    • @marekctvrty
      @marekctvrty Před 3 lety +6

      @@barnvandiebos9070 oh, my bad, i misunderstood your question after reading it briefly xD i got B+

    • @yancenunez6525
      @yancenunez6525 Před 3 lety

      At least you got a B+ :)

    • @barnvandiebos9070
      @barnvandiebos9070 Před 3 lety +1

      @@marekctvrty B+ is a 9 right? We work with numbers when grading, but that's still a nice grade tho

  • @aleksandarvil5718
    @aleksandarvil5718 Před 3 lety +139

    Thumbnail = after Thanos snapped.
    Austria-Hungary: "I Don't Feel So Good."

  • @rtsgrz1902
    @rtsgrz1902 Před 3 lety +94

    Hungary to Austria: I will be independent!
    Austria: wait, you cant do this.
    Hungary: i can
    Minorities in Hungary: we will be independent!
    Hungary: o shit

    • @justandrew9_9
      @justandrew9_9 Před 2 lety +9

      "Minorities"

    • @fariseul9111
      @fariseul9111 Před 2 lety

      maghiars are a minoriti in Austroungaria in 1914.

    • @peterforgacs626
      @peterforgacs626 Před rokem

      It hurts, but it’s true😅

    • @rarescevei8268
      @rarescevei8268 Před rokem

      ​@@justandrew9_9Romanians majority in Transylvania, Slovaks, Croats, and Bosnians were minorities when separateley compared to all hungarians in Hungary

  • @holmes.9223
    @holmes.9223 Před 3 lety +9

    Great work dude! Also a great timing for the 100th anniversary of Trianon.

  • @John_Fugazzi
    @John_Fugazzi Před 3 lety +11

    Thank you for such a thorough explanation of the breakup and transformation of Austria-Hungary. In history classes all of this was usually glossed over and you were suddenly shown a new map with new countries that seemed to have magically and harmoniously appeared overnight.

  • @Aaron-pe7xk
    @Aaron-pe7xk Před 3 lety +18

    I love chaotic messes like this in history, thanks for bringing light to such an unknown time.

  • @PeoplesProtector
    @PeoplesProtector Před 3 lety +5

    This was really fascinating.
    Thank You :)

  • @Lupus_Solitarius
    @Lupus_Solitarius Před 3 lety +4

    Okay, I think this is the best video showing the mess that was happening at the end of the Great War in the Habsburg Empire. I knew it all was a mess but I didn't know it was *that* messy. Really great video and I'm looking forward to the next ones. Good job!

  • @robertpucovsky
    @robertpucovsky Před 3 lety +2

    Such detail, very impressive! Good job, absolutely loved it!

  • @pierresihite8854
    @pierresihite8854 Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you for the effort you put into this

  • @mp1727
    @mp1727 Před 3 lety +3

    Definetely your best video yet. It goes very in-depth and I love you provided the dates!

  • @wmpmacm
    @wmpmacm Před 3 lety +5

    Very nice consolidation of a very confusing time for Central Europe. Your graphics are particularly helpful. Thank you. I am doing a little personal study of this, just because Central Europe between the two wars seemed like an interesting subject.

  • @Isura101
    @Isura101 Před 3 lety +2

    Boom another history channel to binge. Love ya! keep spreading the word brother!

  • @trabezuntine
    @trabezuntine Před 3 lety +10

    to think all of this happened within the span of a couple of months is astounding

  • @keithljarvis
    @keithljarvis Před 3 lety +3

    Great history lesson. Thanks!

  • @jakubcesarzdakos5442
    @jakubcesarzdakos5442 Před 3 lety +15

    About the name Polish Liquidation Committee: its English name is a bit misleading. Its original name meant exatly Poles (in this case: people of Poland) who formed a committee in order to liquidate (the Austro-Hungarian rule in the area)

    • @SantomPh
      @SantomPh Před 3 lety +1

      sounds like a neo-Nazi punk band

  • @chrisgerardy2877
    @chrisgerardy2877 Před 3 lety +1

    Extremely well done video about a fascinating time in history! 👍

  • @Winner8501
    @Winner8501 Před 3 lety +1

    Excellent overview of this mess. Thank you for this very informative video a pozdrav z Moravy 😉

  • @grankoman
    @grankoman Před 3 lety +3

    Perfektné video
    !!!

  • @systemreset9410
    @systemreset9410 Před 3 lety +10

    Awesome vidoe, its gonna get a lot of views for sure. The map and animations and text. Everything was so good. One common mistake though: Romania gained some territory from Bulgaria in 1912 (they lost it in ww2) but you show the current border between them.

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +3

      Yeah so did Serbia (later to be known as Yugoslavia) gain some small territories from Bulgaria but I am already tracking so many other things that I figured I will only focus on the border changes that deal with Austria-Hungary specifically.

    • @calin-ionutispas5265
      @calin-ionutispas5265 Před 3 lety +2

      România gained the south Dobrogea from Bulgaria in 1913,not in 1912.It was after the Second Balkan War, finnalised with the peace of Bucharest.Bulgaria regained this territory from as in september 1940.This territory is known in Romania like " Cadrilater" wich was formed by 2 romanian county, Durostor and Caliacra.

  • @nandor41
    @nandor41 Před 3 lety +1

    Excellent video. Thank you very much and congratulations

  • @bradbel
    @bradbel Před 3 lety +1

    Great job. Very informative

  • @sonoftheway3528
    @sonoftheway3528 Před 3 lety +35

    Ottoman Empire: "There was no other way" *dissolves*

    • @NovaPtl
      @NovaPtl Před 3 lety

      Well, we only dissolved from Arabian peninsula, it was a shit show.

    • @xalpacazeu1332
      @xalpacazeu1332 Před 3 lety +2

      Sudo Throttle Now greece is orthodox : ) not muslims

    • @Metawire61
      @Metawire61 Před 3 lety

      @@NovaPtl technically they also took most of anatolia and left you with like ankara and trazboson or whatever that black sea city was and a small, iraq-sized country and you just said "nope" and kicked everyone else out

  • @mrtzarangamer1708
    @mrtzarangamer1708 Před 3 lety +24

    It's the saddest thing I ever heard

  • @MrThrib
    @MrThrib Před 3 lety +2

    Brilliant! Such a crazy period of history.

  • @gregdavey7602
    @gregdavey7602 Před 3 lety +1

    very much like the maps/animations. made it very simple to follow all that info

  • @george12ispas
    @george12ispas Před 3 lety +13

    Awww I love the title and I m so happy she will never exist:)) From Romania! Love to Trianon!

  • @Omegador
    @Omegador Před 3 lety +31

    Top 10 Saddest Thumbnails of All Time...

  • @derekantill3721
    @derekantill3721 Před 3 lety +1

    Thank you for this excellent video on European history. Very informative.

  • @kiheirc3195
    @kiheirc3195 Před 3 lety +1

    So interesting and well done thanks

  • @saintleger858
    @saintleger858 Před 3 lety +3

    Remarquable explication sur les négociations très compliquées de 1918 qui restent douloureuses encore en 2020 pour notamment la Hongrie ....Bravo pour cette vidéo!

  • @nunodossantos3362
    @nunodossantos3362 Před 3 lety +10

    This is by far the most depressing video I've seen in a long time.

    • @nunodossantos3362
      @nunodossantos3362 Před 3 lety +5

      @@serbonresurrected816 A federalized Austria-Hungary would have sold so many problems, and not have left room for Hitler's expansion.

    • @cromusician6153
      @cromusician6153 Před 3 lety +3

      @@nunodossantos3362 yeah I also wish that we ended up as a federation :(

    • @nunodossantos3362
      @nunodossantos3362 Před 3 lety

      @@serbonresurrected816 Care to elaborate?

    • @micharubik5304
      @micharubik5304 Před 3 lety +1

      @@nunodossantos3362 could you remind me how WW1 started? Austria-Hungary couldn't have existed any longer the way it used to unless you mean Austria-Hungary minus Slavic nationsand there territor~es?

  • @everyvidchannel
    @everyvidchannel Před 3 lety +1

    My Gott, The Editing Is So Cool!

  • @yousuck785why
    @yousuck785why Před 3 lety +3

    Love your videos

  • @WombatSteve
    @WombatSteve Před 3 lety +11

    Awesome video! Just a heads up, in the hungarian language (with very few exceptions) both the letter "j" and "ly" are pronounced like "y" in "yeah"

  • @saganenzenieer6785
    @saganenzenieer6785 Před 3 lety +10

    right ..... 1. i love how in all maps of Great Hungary is present the Adriatic cost :))))))))) 2. Is interesting how the 1 December when more than 100K representatives of Romanians from Transilvania and Banat gathered to Alba Julia/ Gyulafehérvár voted to unification with Romania. However you pointed out that this is a Austro-Hungarian centric
    perspective

  • @vem9583
    @vem9583 Před 3 lety +1

    Subscribed! Such a well made video!

  • @KS-yy9dv
    @KS-yy9dv Před 3 lety +1

    Great videos!

  • @hilmermate317
    @hilmermate317 Před 3 lety +7

    Thank you for covering this part of history, well done!

  • @GarfieldRex
    @GarfieldRex Před 3 lety +24

    -Charles: I will no longer perform administrative duties
    -Congress: so you abdicate?
    -Charles: no, I'm still the Kaiser, but will not..
    -Congress: It's a Republic!
    -Charles: wait, I didn't say..
    -Congress: behold the new Republic!
    Awesome video and animation. Your content is extremely high quality, thanks :D

    • @Kannot2023
      @Kannot2023 Před 3 lety

      Kind of Harry and Meghan of Sussex

  • @garybabich7112
    @garybabich7112 Před 3 lety +1

    Great information about a confusing time

  • @enlighteninghistory7021
    @enlighteninghistory7021 Před 3 lety +2

    Very accurate video, good job!
    Can I ask you how do you generate the borders on the map?

  • @Potato-po9kr
    @Potato-po9kr Před 3 lety +7

    Charles: Guys it’s fine you can all go! *Cries a little*

  • @user-zw2lz6nz8y
    @user-zw2lz6nz8y Před 3 lety +3

    I honestly enjoyed the video a ton and I appreciate all the work put into it. I just wanted to point out that in the final map Romania should have been shown to be in control of Southern Dobruja after the war, as that region was returned to the kingdom of Bulgaria after the Treaty of Craiova in 1940.

    • @calin-ionutispas5265
      @calin-ionutispas5265 Před 3 lety +1

      I agree with you.Romania had the southern part of Dobogea between 1913 (Treaty of Bucharest) and 1940 after the Treaty of Craiova .

  • @MLaserHistory
    @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +58

    5:02 Ok so I made a dumb mistake here, I sadly caught it too late to fix it. 28th of October after Czechs proclaimed their independence they also announced the formation of Czechoslovakia, it wasn't the 29th as stated in the video. The proclamation of Czechoslovakia was announced a day later in newspapers (like Pilsner Tagblatt, no.296, 29 October 1918) and so due to this I accidentally put the announcement of Czechoslovakia on the 29th even though it happened a day prior. After that it was the 29th of October that Slovaks meat in Martin with the intention of declaring independence and proclaiming unification with Czechia in to the state of Czechoslovakia which they did a day later on the 30th as I stated in the video.
    I feel particularly dumb about this mistake hence it gets its own comment.

    • @michalhruska3100
      @michalhruska3100 Před 3 lety +4

      To be fair, the majority of Czechia was only notified of what happened on the 29th. So *akchyually...*
      Thanks for your hard work, as always.

    • @Cibohos
      @Cibohos Před 3 lety

      tfw you get your own lands history wrong lol, great vid as always

    • @boddonzarojelxd3345
      @boddonzarojelxd3345 Před 3 lety +2

      you should pin your comment, cause it's not on the top of the comments

    • @Rachotilko
      @Rachotilko Před rokem

      Hanba hanbúca

  • @m.j.vazquez4720
    @m.j.vazquez4720 Před 17 dny +2

    2:43
    anyone else wish Hungary was able to keep the borders of Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen ?
    it just looks so much more aesthetically pleasing

  • @overconfidentpineapple8783

    Thank you! It's an excellent piece of work. The only, and very minor, problem I found was that the First Hungarian Republic existed in 1848-49, so it was the second one being declared after the war.

    • @MLaserHistory
      @MLaserHistory  Před 3 lety +2

      The Hungarian revolution of 1848 and the accompanying political entities were never recognized nor very well centralized it has therefor never been called a republic in any historical context.
      That is why every history book calls the First Hungarian Republic the 1918 Karolyi regime.

    • @cpt.brexit6392
      @cpt.brexit6392 Před 3 lety

      @@MLaserHistory then suddenly *kun Béla noises*

  • @nirfz
    @nirfz Před 3 lety +3

    There is a small detail that i was missing in the vide about the Villa Giusti Armistice. You mentioned that it went into effect a day later. This small mentioned part did cost a lot of lives, territory and made lots of soldiers to prisoners of war to italy: While negotiating, the Austrian delegation in italy was allowed to use telephone to ask back to vienna. Until they signed. After they signed, the italians cut the line, and added a few apendices! One of them was that the thing would take over 24 hours for the italian side to take effect. (They claimed it would take that long to reach the front line) During the negotiations this was never mentioned nor agreed upon. Both sides were talking about an armistice that takes effect immediately after signing. So the Austro-Hungarian side shortly after signing stopped fighting as they thought was agreed upon, while the italian side jumped on the opportunity to go into an offensive, capture soldiers and territory as much as possible during the 24 hours of time they had.

  • @texas-raider
    @texas-raider Před 3 lety +2

    Holy cow, my head blew up trying to keep up with this......

  • @alexanderballa6152
    @alexanderballa6152 Před 3 lety +2

    This man needs more subs

  • @MauroGames1
    @MauroGames1 Před 3 lety +17

    Imagine the emperor just watching the collapse of the empire...

    • @paulungureanu937
      @paulungureanu937 Před 3 lety +2

      It was a fake artificial empire either way, this is why it crumbled so quickly.

    • @chrisinnes2128
      @chrisinnes2128 Před 3 lety +1

      What his words were near the end "Do as you please "

    • @innosam123
      @innosam123 Před 2 lety +2

      @@paulungureanu937 Hungary and Austria’s borders were all tied to natural barriers.
      It’s about as artificial as the UK’s borders.

  • @hungrevious9823
    @hungrevious9823 Před 3 lety +20

    "Civitas Fortissima" (the bravest city) the city what picked up the weapons against the invaders. After 4 year of massacre and death , that city , Ballasagyarmat , for one last time went to battle.

  • @nektariosvasilopoulos3841

    Well done. Thanks.

  • @mailmangetrektbich4992
    @mailmangetrektbich4992 Před 3 lety +8

    "i'm dying call a doctor!"
    Franz Joseph 1916

  • @konradleichenberg9190
    @konradleichenberg9190 Před 3 lety +9

    Very sad times indeed.

  • @Pucukax
    @Pucukax Před 3 lety +4

    Read this if you're interested in this topic: "An Undiplomatic Diary: By the American Member of the Inter-Allied Military Mission to Hungary, 1919-1920" . It's pretty hardcore.

  • @PeruvianPotato
    @PeruvianPotato Před 3 lety +2

    Hey, can you do the same type of video but with Sweden-Norway, a very underappreciated country? The history in it is very interesting

  • @trixus4768
    @trixus4768 Před 3 lety +2

    I like, how chaotic and fast it was. With a little bit of sarcasm, it was funny as hell 😂

  • @m.a.n4134
    @m.a.n4134 Před rokem +3

    treaty of versailes be like:
    germany: bro, i lost all of my colonies and got alot of sancti-
    austria hungary: *AAA-*

  • @Noname-ye1vg
    @Noname-ye1vg Před 3 lety +31

    This was great country imho because in my country they did more positive things like making buildings, water supplies, bringed civilisation, culture and art etc. I wish Monarchy survived a bit longer.
    Greetings from Bosnia

    • @vvkth2500
      @vvkth2500 Před 3 lety +4

      in my country they attacked us without declaration and murdered thousands of civilians though

    • @gergelylaszlo5463
      @gergelylaszlo5463 Před 3 lety

      @@vvkth2500 thats sad. What nation are you from?

    • @vvkth2500
      @vvkth2500 Před 3 lety

      @@gergelylaszlo5463 Serbia :D

    • @vladimirperic9720
      @vladimirperic9720 Před 3 lety +1

      @@vvkth2500 1.250.000 peoples died in the Kindom of Serbia, which was 1/4 of the total population.

    • @Noname-ye1vg
      @Noname-ye1vg Před 3 lety

      @@Ignisan_66 omg yeah, Hungarians were sometimes bad because in Croatia they tried to erase Croatian language

  • @buck9668
    @buck9668 Před rokem +1

    Fantastic vid. Also, M. Laser is Slovakian living in Britain. Also Mihály Károlyi in English is pronounced Michael KAR uh lee. In Hungarian, the closest I can come is KAR uh lee MEE high (surname comes first).

  • @dkm4338
    @dkm4338 Před 3 lety

    I love your channel

  • @bukelos2804
    @bukelos2804 Před 3 lety +12

    Thank you for the much needed context on this topic. I didn't even know I needed it until YT recommended your video to me. :>
    Overall, I am glad that Austria-Hungary has disintegrated. There was simply too much bad blood, oppression and history within this multiethnic empire. And i say this as someone with Austro-Hungarian roots (Czech/Slovak/Hungarian).

    • @fred9211
      @fred9211 Před 3 lety

      What about Franz Ferdinand's plans? O-o

    • @bukelos2804
      @bukelos2804 Před 3 lety

      @@fred9211 They no longer mattered after his assassination, sadly...

    • @matthiuskoenig3378
      @matthiuskoenig3378 Před rokem

      @@bukelos2804 actually emperor blessed Karl [blessed because he was canonized by the church in 2003/2004] had similar plans and was actively supported by the austrian half of the empire to do so. sadly the majority party within the hungarian parliament believed only hungarians should get equal status to the germans and opposed the reforms.

    • @bukelos2804
      @bukelos2804 Před rokem +1

      ​@@matthiuskoenig3378 Lol I didn't know that the church blessed Karl :) Unfortunately, all these intended reforms came too late, I would say that even if the Hungarians were in favor, it would not work out anyway. National revival and patriotism were on the rise at the beginning of the 20th century, therefore this should have come min. 50 years earlier...

  • @ferenc.gonczol
    @ferenc.gonczol Před 3 lety +9

    I am hungarian studying history and you did a great researching job... I really liked it :)

  • @ppaaccoojrf
    @ppaaccoojrf Před 3 lety +1

    Amazing video! This is the content that I love this channel for.

  • @alberttibor8553
    @alberttibor8553 Před 3 lety

    Wellwellwell what a good video bravo