Comments by "belstar" (@belstar1128) on "The Freikorps: «When we were 17, the voice of our blood dragged us into the trenches»" video.

Yea true but it was easier to split up because it was a multilingual country that has been unstable for a while. and a lot of people hated them for what happened earlier in history. Austria was very powerful but was seen as an outdated feudal relic.
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