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France’s entry into the war was justified in terms of the opportunity to free the inhabitants of Alsace Lorraine from the ‘oppression’ they had suffered at German hands since the annexation of the region after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The catalyst for the war was Russia’s reaction to the invasion of a small Slav nation, Serbia, by a large Germanic empire, Austria: ‘Liberation of Serbia’ was the Tsarist slogan.
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Supposed concern for the horror being inflicted on small nations was central to the war propaganda of all the contending powers in the First World War. But this one, written as the horror of the First World War was casting its bloody shadow across Europe, is relevant today, when Nato politicians tell us this is the first ‘humanitarian war’ and many who claim to be on the left concur.
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asserting that it is out to defeat the enemy, not for plunder and the seizure of territory, but for the liberation of all other peoples except its own.’ Quotations from Lenin can appear like biblical texts, presented as sacred truths at the beginning of a holy sermon. Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Marxists’ Internet Archive.Ĭhris Harman on self determination and national liberation
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