When they were finished, the assassins were instructed to kill themselves with cyanide.
So he sent a group of young men-including Gavrilo-to Sarajevo to kill the archduke, whose motorcade would be driving through the city, on his way to inspect army maneuvers. It’s even easier when each of the young men are already doomed: Gavrilo and some of the other assassins were sickly, sufferers of tuberculosis, and knew they weren’t long for the world anyway. If you’ve paid any kind of attention over the years to how terrorism works, then you know what Dimitrijevic probably knew: it’s not that hard to convince young men to throw their lives away, as long as you convince them it’s for something important. Just like Shredder was luring lost boys into his ninja gang, Dimitrijevic recruited some young Serbian dudes.
Through that job, he has another job: leader of the Black Hand. Our Shredder, meanwhile, is Dragutin Dimitrijevic, chief of the Intelligence Department of the Serbian army. The Foot Clan is like the Black Hand, but they’re ninjas rather than Serbian partisans. He’s some who kid feels like he needs a group-nay, a clan-to belong to, so he joins Shredder’s Foot Clan. OK, so the character Danny Pennington, he’s like Gavrilo Princip. OK, back? How was it? I haven’t watched it since I was a kid, but I’ll bet it still holds up. Here’s a paragraph break to give you some time to give it a quick watch. You really only need to see Act I for this, if memory serves me right. If you haven’t seen 1990’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, maybe give that a watch and then come back, because I’m about to use it as an analogy for early 20th century Serbian nationalism. He joined a nationalist movement called the Black Hand, which, when you’re 19, sounds pretty cool. Belgrade is where, in modern parlance, Gavrilo was radicalized. Gavrilo was able to receive some education, at least, going to schools in Sarajevo and Tuzla, before heading off to Belgrade in 1912. His father was a postman, but let’s not sugarcoat things: the Princips were peasants. It seems like illness ran in the family-or maybe living conditions were just terrible-because six of his eight siblings didn’t survive infancy. Either way, they know the name Gavrilo Princip in that part of the world, and if you’re from there, well, you probably don’t need this article.įor the rest of us, we have some catching up to do. After that, Bosnia considered the teenager a terrorist. But there was no way he could have known he was setting off the biggest butterfly effect in modern human history.įirst, I should make a note: Gavrilo Princip, for many years, was treated as a national hero in Yugoslavia, before the country was all divvied up-Balkanized-into warring factions. Shooting a man and his wife in cold blood is f**ked up. what am I looking for-oh, right! F**ked up. When Gavrilo-a kid too young to be hanged under Austrian law at the time-pulled his trigger, he was doing something serious. He wasn’t even the first assassin to attack Ferdinand’s motorcade that day.īut chance put Franz Ferdinand and Gavrilo Princip on the same street, at the same time.
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He’s famous because he got shot in the neck in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, and died, setting off a series of events that would start World War I, which in turn led to the entire 20th century-World War II, the ascension of the United States as a global superpower, the Cold War, right up until the modern day bullsh*t conflicts that plague the world today.įranz is a man famous for being assassinated, but what about his assassin? He was about the opposite of a 50-year-old archduke: a Serbian peasant, only 19 years old when he shot his Browning pistol at the motorcade, first hitting Ferdinand’s wife, then Ferdinand. But Austria-Hungary is in dead empire hell, and that’s not why we care about Franz Ferdinand enough for Scots to name a band after him. I could go on about how he deserves recognition in his own right, for being an archduke and heir apparent to rule the Austro-Hungarian empire. If you know anything about World War I or Scottish indie rock from the early 2000s, then you’ve probably heard the name “Franz Ferdinand” before.
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