Episode
Episode 538: The Spark
- Podcast
- Western Civ
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- May 29, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 2207
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Summary
Somehow, the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914, throws the entire world into war. Of course, it was not an accident. The alliance systems, the militarism, the nationalism, all of it conspires to doom Europe to its own destruction. But it all starts with two bullets fired by a nineteen-year-old assassin. Support The Show