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World War Civ 21: Balkan Wars 1912-1913

The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

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The Russian Foreign Ministry's Subculture of Assertive Positions

Trotsky talks to some naive Bulgarian socialists. They always assume that this war is going to start and then Russia is going to kind of come in on their side. Their whole plan was based on an eventual Russian intervention. Meanwhile, the ambassador in Belgrade in Serbia had fewer, actually had no reservations. This is Baron Nicholas Hartwig. He was so pro-Serbian, he became an indispensable part of the Serbian political scene.

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