The British Empire are pretty much the "bad guys" of world history insofar as such a designation makes sense. The punitive measures they arranged after WWI were directly responsible for the rise of the Nazi party in Weimar Germany.
The British Empire are pretty much the "bad guys" of world history insofar as such a designation makes sense. The punitive measures they arranged after WWI were directly responsible for the rise of the Nazi party in Weimar Germany.
WWI was not WWII. There was nothing uniquely evil about the Central Powers.
All of these people didn't work towards independence by accident. There were good reasons to, depending on whose empire you lived in, the ruling group was given preferential treatment, or maybe the minorities would be penalized for using their own language. Higher education and government services would often be provided exclusively in the ruling nation's language.
>WWI was not WWII. There was nothing uniquely evil about the Central Powers.
The Armenian genocide sounds bad enough to me.
And of course these things happened even in the Entente empires, it's just easier to declare independence from an empire that just lost and can't do anything about it.