Re: Abandoned state architecture in Bulgaria
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Veer_G</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Somehow I can't imagine such a state of affairs here no matter how many bad associations might be made with the site. </div></div>Interesting photos. See my sig line.
Cubrilovic was the longest-living of the six terrorists - all young students at the time - who had plotted to assassinate Archduke Franz-Ferdinand in 1914.
That day on the Quay all six carried bombs, pistols, and cyanide to kill themselves to avoid capture. As the Archduke passed-by the first lost his nerve and did nothing. The second turned and ran. The third then threw his bomb, which missed and wounded innocent people instead. The last three also fled - Gavrilo Princip to a Cafe, where he reportedly met with his girlfriend and ordered a coffee.
Cubrilovic was captured and, probably because he was the youngest, was jailed instead of executed. After serving his prison time he became a revolutionary in WWII and, later, one of Tito's ministers.
Cubrilovic lived to be over ninety years old. In 1987 he lamented that the satisfaction he had felt over the creation of Yugoslavia was negated by the consolidation of power in a breed of lesser men - technocrats and opportunists who were too busy cashing-in to care. In his opinion, the bureaucrat of the twentieth-century cares not enough to risk losing even his nerve.
