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There are also the Imperial Catholic Socialist Party, the Germanic Nationalist Party, and the Mazar liberals. The ethnic groups are not strictly divided into different factions according to ethnic groups. On the contrary, although they often shout independence, independence at that time was similar to divorce when a couple quarreled, and was a threat rather than an ideal.
During the time of Emperor Franz Joseph, due to the continuous reform of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in terms of suffrage, theoretically the Empire recognized the universal suffrage of adult men in the empire at the end of the 19th century, although Letania firmly resisted the emperor's decree.
The Czechs hated the Empire, the Czechs, Germans and German-speaking Jews in Prague fought and even caused bloody conflicts, but why did the Czechs hated the Empire?
Because the Czechs demanded that the official language of the Bohemian government be changed from German to German and Czech, this requirement was initially partially compromised, that is, both Czech and German-speaking people can be civil servants, but the Czechs were not satisfied. The Czechs demanded that they must understand both German and Czech as Bohemian civil servants. This requirement was fought by Germans and German-speaking Jews, because once the empire accepted this requirement, those who did not understand Czech would face unemployment.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire did have problems, but this problem was not enough to tear the empire apart. On the contrary, these problems in some areas have intensified with the advancement of industrialization and in others, they have been alleviated with industrialization.
The empire had only one "chronic disease", which was the Austro-Hungarian Agreement.
The Austro-Hungarian Agreement gave the Hungarians the right to rule "Wiletania". In other words, the Mazar people, who only account for 19% of the empire's population, can now freely control 40% of the empire's territory and have 50% of the say in diplomatic and military tariffs.
And the bad thing is that these Mazarean liberals are also national chauvinist.
They blatantly discriminate against ethnic minorities in the territory they ruled.
The brutal Magyarization of the Hungarians and the oppression of the Letanian ethnic minorities outside were the reasons for the large number of subjects of the Austro-Hungarian Empire who fled and had sharp conflicts with the Balkans.
Originally, the Yugoslav ethnic groups in the empire did not have a strong intention to merge with foreign countries. On the contrary, in 1848, Yugoslav ethnic groups like Croatia were still on the side of the emperor. However, when the Austro-Hungarian Agreement abandoned them all to the rough Hungarian government, they realized that they had been abandoned by the emperor and began to escape or extend their hands to the neighboring foreign countries. The empire was broken by the rough nationalist policies of the Hungarians.
The Croats defended the Habsburgs in 1848, but now they have become people on the land of the Leta River, or St. Stephen's crown.
Chapter completed!