Episode Seven Point 24 - The Pan Slavic Congress

In episode seven point 24, we covered the first pan slavic congress. The idea being that above certain regional differences, there was a greater slavic national identity. That growing self slavic nationalism in the balkans winds up being the trigger for world war one. In 18 66, prussia launched a lightning war again austria that drove them out of unified germany. All of that will play directly into worwar one, as does bismarck's answer to whether austria would be in or out of unifiedgermany. So now we can talk about all that stuff, but we could also talk about paris paris commune and so on.