WWIII by the summer

[Ringo]

 

[Deadstick]

Well here is the family background to the Nazi Merz, if those long range missiles are used i hope Berlin is blasted to Hell, i can't believe how patient Russia has been.

Friedrich Merz's grandfather, Josef Paul Sauvigny, was a member of the Centre Party, which voted for the Enabling Act in 1933 and to which Franz von Papen belonged as a supporter. On May 1, 1933, Sauvigny gave a laudatory speech about Hitler. Shortly thereafter, he had two streets in Brilon renamed after Hitler and Göring. He was a senior squad leader (Oberscharführer) in the SA, and in 1938 he finally joined the NSDAP. He was also a member of the NS-Volkswohlfahrt (National Socialist People's Welfare), the NS-Reichskriegerbund (National Socialist League of War Veterans), and the NS-Rechtswahrerbund (National Socialist League for the Protection of Law). Friedrich Merz once described his grandfather as an admirable role model.

 

[Ringo]

 

[Deadstick]

Well they can't say they were not warned.

 

[Zavulon]

Well, who raised the crowns of the Austrian, Russian, German emperors and the Turkish Sultan? Where are these monarchies?

Crown of Russia was raised by Lenin and Trotsky (figurally speaking), crown of Turkey - by Atatürk. Austria and Germany (as well as many other territories) became, in fact, protectorates of the victors. Every single crown (if we are talking figurally, about symbols of power, not literally about fancy golden hats) was carefully collected by someone.
Romanovs or any other specific family are expendables.

The russian working class won and that was enough to change everything.

You know, a revolution rarely (may be never) create something actually new. It usually only unleash what is already inside the nation. Say, Russians didn't build their new state by the recipies taken from the fancy German books. They tried, but failed in the first years. Russian socialism, significantly, raised feom the traditional Russian lay. And quite soon they've returned to money, soldiers/commanders, secret services and bureaucracy and so on.... And Lenin&Trotsky made of themselves good reference to Minin&Pojarskiy in their PR-strategy. Not just "builders of the new world" but also "the saviours of Russia". And, we know, Stalin played Ivan the Terrible. At least it is quite popular opinion. So, those are quite discussable questions - was the Soviet Union something "absolutely new", or just "improved/degraded version of Russian Empire". Is Russian Federation something "absolutely new" or is it "improved/degraded version of the Soviet Union"?
I'm a practical man. I don't care about ruling classes and other political issuses. Most of it nothing but BS-rhetoric anyway.

And about the fact that everyone thought that there would be a big war, this is from the series, “smart, as my wife after".

Almost everyone thought that big war in Europe was no longer possible, that machine guns and other military inventions made war impossible, because everyone would kill each other. And the politicians thought that the war would pass very quickly and everyone would be home in a couple of months.
Doesn't sound at all like Engels' view, does it?

Don't mix up official propaganda and actual beliefs of decision-makers. Those who were actually more or less responsible for the planning of military/economic/psychological actions like, say, Friedrich Bernhardi, Paul Regnard, Ivan Bliokh, Vladimir Bekhterev, Petr Durnovo they predicted the situation quite accurate.
In fiction literature it was predicted, say, by Herbert Wells and Alexander Bogdanov.

And Friedrich Engels' predictions weren't really accurate.
1. There will be no more local war for Germany - wrong. There were local wars.
2. There will be a big war - correct.
3. This war will be as devastating as thirty-years war - wrong. In Thirty-years war Germany had lost 40-75% of population and significant regions of Central Europe were totally depopulated, in WWI Germany lost only 10% of population, no region of Germany/Europe was totally depopulated).
4. There will be no winners and losers, there will be total anarchy in the world - wrong. Germany was under control of the government until capitulation, say nothing about winners.
5. The workers will take the power in the whole world. Discussable questions. Mass armies, industrial revolution and "volkswaffe" (mass and cheap firearms) demanded more egalitarian society, but "uberwaffe" (like tanks and planes, and other modern equipment) and complexity of the modern economy demanded elitarian society.