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![]() The place was bustling with life especially in Mysłowice on the German side. According to the ancient chronicles, approximately 6,000 up to 8,000 visitors were coming here every day. The place where these two rivers merge into one forming the river Przemsza is the “Three Emperors’ Corner'.Īt the turn of the century that was the place which was well known in almost the whole Europe. Two rivers, White and Black Przemsza, were the borders. In that time, the region of Silesia had not belonged to Poland for a few centuries, so there is no question that it was not a German annexation. In fact, it was the tri-border area of the Russian and Austrian annexation and Germany. It is very common to say that this point is the place where the borders of the three annexations met. Speaking of the mistakes, one more thing should be explained here as it is very frequent to be mistaken. The name for the tripoint of the three powerful countries, which is “Three Emperors' Corner' (in German: Drei Kaiser Ecke) and literary means the angle of the three emperors, was wrongly translated into Triangle of the Three Emperors (Trójkąt Trzech Cesarzy in Polish) and has survived in this form up to this day. But, unfortunately, most of us does not know what it is and where it is.įor a better understanding of what is going on and where did this name derive from, one needs to go back to the year 1873, when the Austro-Hungarian emperor Franz Joseph I, German emperor Wilhelm II and Russian tsar Alexander II, have entered into the so-called “The League of the Three Emperors'. In the Balkans it will also be a real challenge to keep both the A-H's and the Russians fed and happy, and I guess British and French diplomacy will try to divide the DreiKaiser alliance here.Apparently most of us has once heard the above-mentioned name. With a very strong Germany France is indeed a more natural Russian ally. The Russians might be temporaily bought by being given a free hand and support for going at the Ottomans, the Japanese and the British Empire (India), but the Russians will start feeling that while they have both hands occupied the Germans have grabbed them by the balls. Both Russia and A-H were industrialising at record breaking speed before 1914, and the Russian naval programe initiated before WWI would alone be a significant contribution.Īnyway I doubt if Russia for very long will be satisfied by being an assistant to German foreign policy. In the first instance the RN will make GB and her Empire perfectly safe, but with no major continental enemies the German and Russian shipbuilding industries combined have a good chance of outbuilding GB. ![]() ![]() If USA had been fully armed and prepared that might have given hope, but I'm afraid France will be run over much before that is possible. But still, Imperial Germany, Russia and Austria-Hungary is one mighty alliance - even for GB on the zenith of her power in alliance with France. I agree that this is really THE grand challenge of diplomacy, and in the end Germany will have to choose. In fact, it is very likely that we would have seen a much more monarchistic Europe into the late XXth-early XXIst centuries. Also, World War II would have probably not happened in the form we know of, but another Cold War could and would have still occurred, especially if WWI ended in a relative stalemate. Not to mention with the war itself relatively far from Russian borders, and as such potentially smaller scale Russian involvement could eventually decrease the population's dissatisfaction with the government that led to revolution.Ĭonsidering that the Revolution of 1917 was largely financed by the German money, it is likely that even if the revolution has happened, it would have been very likely to fail at its start due to no financing with lesser dissatisfaction against the war the uprising would have been less likely, and even if the French, the British, or the Americans tried to finance it, the domestic situation in Russia would have been such as to decrease the chances of revolution's success.Įffectively, should the war not result in a major Russian/German/Austrian loss, we could still have a constitutional monarchy in Russia at the beginning of XXIst century. ![]() Russia entering World War I on a different side? If this were the case, the World War I could have lasted for much longer time, should the Franco-British alliance be able to hold its positions and not fall within shorter time due to greater manpower being thrown at them.
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