Austria-Hungary Was the Last Good Time for Croatia

Aldarion

Neoreactionary Monarchist
Communists and other Leftists like to attack Austria-Hungary, and this is true in Croatia as well. Here, the myth of the Austria-Hungary as a “prison of the nations” still survives.

But the Imperial Crown was always friendly or at worst neutral to smaller nations. Germanization and Magyarization, which happened during that time, were a work of the indigenous traitors first and foremost and not an actual Habsburg policy.

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PsihoKekec

Swashbuckling Accountant
Let us not forget when the friendly Franz Joseph repaid the Croats for their critical aid against the Hungarians by reaffirming Hungarian control over Croatia. AH certainly was not nearly as bad as it was painted post 1918, but let us not pretend all was fine either, it had it's flaws as well and the series of mistakes Franz Joseph made during his reign were bound to come bite the country in the ass sooner or later, WWI making the reckoning come sooner and in much worse form.
 

Aldarion

Neoreactionary Monarchist
Let us not forget when the friendly Franz Joseph repaid the Croats for their critical aid against the Hungarians by reaffirming Hungarian control over Croatia. AH certainly was not nearly as bad as it was painted post 1918, but let us not pretend all was fine either, it had it's flaws as well and the series of mistakes Franz Joseph made during his reign were bound to come bite the country in the ass sooner or later, WWI making the reckoning come sooner and in much worse form.

Agreed. Though even that was still far better than what followed after Austria-Hungary fell apart: even under Austro-Hungarian Compromise, Croatia still had elements of statehood, such as parliament, and its sovereignity was in fact affirmed within the Hungarian element of the Monarchy in some (but not all) elements.

In fact, Austro-Hungarian Compromise was widely unpopular in Hungary and Croatia both, because it reduced the autonomy of both kingdoms: Croatia was subordinated to Hungary in a way that it wasn't before, but Hungary itself also lost a lot of autonomy. Franz Joseph did not "reaffirm" anything, because Hungarian control over Croatia was a consequence of the Austro-Hungarian Compromise; up until that point, Austria, Hungary and Croatia were essentially sovereign kingdoms under the Habsburg crown.
 

Buba

A total creep
Simply put - Franz Josef destroyed Austria.
E.g. during the Hungarian Revolt of 1848 besides the Croats, the Serbs, Slovaks, Romanians all revolted against the Hungarians. And were repaid with indifference and - Croats to least degree - being returned to Hungarian rule ...
 

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