• alokir@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    For Austria-Hungary Kossuth Lajos and Aurel Popovici come to mind.

    They proposed to restructure the empire into a federation to prevent its collapse.

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      Surely the danubian federation would have curtailed ethnic desires for autonomy. I mean federations worked so well in the balkans after all.

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        Yeah, in my estimation a federation would have lead to a slightly less bloody breakup of AH, provided WWI didn’t break out.