And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, November 11, 2020
Austro-Hungarian Emperor Karl I personally awarding medals to his soldiers, Eastern front in Galicia (modern West Ukraine), WW1, 1917
There are a number of Hungarian politicians who want to reclaim Galicia. Poles, Lithuanians, and Romanians also have territorial ambitions on Ukraine.
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