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struggle4progress

(118,236 posts) Sat Jun 28, 2014, 01:48 AM Jun 2014

The Shifting Legacy Of The Man Who Shot Franz Ferdinand

by Ari Shapiro
June 27, 2014 3:52 PM ET

... In the one-room museum on the corner where the assassination took place, tour guide Mirsad Nazerovic points to a black-and-white photo of a pillar that used to stand outside this building. It was a monument with a very short life.

"Construction started in 1916. It was finished in 1917. And it was destroyed in 1918," says Nazerovic ...

There was a plaque in the 1930s that said Princip fired shots expressing the longing of people to be free. It was removed when the Germans arrived ...

For a while, there were footprints in the sidewalk where tourists could stand in Princip's shoes. Those were torn out during the Balkan war in the 1990s ...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2014/06/27/326164157/the-shifting-legacy-of-the-man-who-shot-franz-ferdinand

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The Shifting Legacy Of The Man Who Shot Franz Ferdinand (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2014 OP

Quite fascinating!! Cooley Hurd Jun 2014 #1

Yup. Igel Jun 2014 #2

Cooley Hurd

(26,877 posts)

1. Quite fascinating!!

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Jun 28, 2014, 06:05 AM

Jun 2014

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip#Sites_of_interest

Sites of interest
The house where Gavrilo Princip lived in Sarajevo was destroyed during World War I. After the war, it was rebuilt as a museum in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia was conquered by Germany in 1941 and Sarajevo became part of Independent State of Croatia. The Croatian Ustaše destroyed the house again.

After the establishment of Communist Yugoslavia in 1944, the house of Gavrilo Princip became a museum again and there was another museum dedicated to him within the city of Sarajevo. During the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, the house of Gavrilo Princip was destroyed a third time; no attempts to rebuild it have yet been announced. Prior to 1992 the site on the pavement on which Princip stood to fire the fatal shots was marked by embossed footprints. These were destroyed as a consequence of the 1992–95 war in Bosnia.

There is still a plaque in front of the museum at the spot where Gavrilo Princip stood when he fired the shots. Bosansko Grahovo municipality has announced a plan to reconstruct Princip's birth house in Obljaj before the centenary of the assassination in Sarajevo.

Igel

(35,276 posts)

2. Yup.

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 28, 2014, 01:46 PM

Jun 2014

One person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter.

We have to look for the root causes of this kind of behavior--what drove him to it?

We welcome a diversity of views.

It's an easy thing to say and even believe when you sympathize with the "freedom" sought. And when you like the outcome or have an outcome that you prefer (and which is the only one possible, you think). When the view that suddenly counts as "diverse" is fervently despised.

It's rather a different story when the "freedom fighter" does something that triggers a chain of events that kills millions. When even after trying to clean up Princip and say that he also had colleagues were who Muslim, Croat, etc., the fact still remains that he was a nationalist. (Like many other revolutionaries were nationalists, and more than a few way into ethnic cleansing.)

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