Opinions on Prussia?

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Bismarck did nothing wrong.

Germany and Europe would be better of without them

An interesting and far less authoritarian state than most people know. Certainly the most modern European power by the 19th century.

Had big problems with reactionaries however and didn't have any great kings after Frederick the Great and his father

Meteoric rise of a Duchy in the Kingdom of Poland to world power by the end of the 19th century. Amazing how a backwater state managed to outmaneuver Bavaria and Austria, to form the first modern united Germany.

The perfect nation, the evolution of human society.

Britain's proxy which only grew to a considerable power after she devoured most of Poland in the late 18th century.

What about Emperor Wilhelm I? Under his rule he crushed the Austrians at Königgrätz, which allowed the Prussians to have enough clout to form the North German Confederation, the precursor to the German Empire. With a enough consolidated power, he was able to go to war and utterly defeat France. This in turn allowed him to gobble up the last of the southern, pro-French, Kingdoms, thus forming a truly unified Germany.

fuck off Hegel.

I've noticed many Prussiaboos on this site but before I came here I never heard much about it
Who were they?
What did they do?

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They were the next step in the evolution in human society and barbarians invaded it.
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All of those things were orchestrated by Bismarck. Wilhelm I wasn't a bad king but certainly not the most competent one either. Bismarck was basically running Germany once it was formed

We will unite a Greater Germamy.

how many hegel's can you hold?

But shouldn't a good leader always be defined by the men he surrounds himself with?

Many a people who're interested of history usually go through a phase of being a massive wehraboo/prussiaboo. It slowly dies down but it doesn't mean they still don't appreciate Prussia, which was one of the greatest powers ever

that is true. Wilhelm just lacked enough charisma and leadership skills to actually be influential enough when compared to Bismarck. Otherwise he would've been remembered as the unificator of Germany instead of him

>"how would you like your empire"
>just kleinstaaterei my shit up freund
Thank god someone put an end to it.
Sad the legacy had to end with a guy that didn't believe in cars.

I made one mistake; I should've burned Berlin.

just a mercenary state with no culture, compulsory schooling, evil philosophers who thought people were just machines, prussia was shit

Turned a nation of poets and artists into factory workers and soldiers to satisfy his fetish for grand strategy games.
Invented modern education, where all children are grouped by their manufacture date and are asked to study dull shit from the moment a bell rings to the moment it rings again.
Prevented Russia from reforming by funding the pal-slavic movement and repeatedly getting it into wars with the Ottomans and their allies because of the Balkan situation.
Allowed the socialist and proto-communist movements to start and advance themselves in his state.
Failed to educate and prepare the man who was essentially the strongest leader in the region, and had the war come a decade later, perhaps the world.
Couldn't create a big cultural divide between Imperial Russia and France, thus failing to make it very hard or impossible or those two states to become allies in a coalition against Germany.
Got fat.

You understand the irony behind calling the people who reject morals and the idea of good or evil, to be evil, right?

An absurd amalgam of unrelated lands and peoples. Polish, Prussian, Lithuanian, Sorbian, Danish, Frisian and German land stitched together.

The most powerful German state was named after a people that had nothing to do with Germany.
It's like calling half of Italy "Slovenia" and the people there "Slovenes".

The "Prussians" of modern times didn't even speak their own language
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Rightfully Baltic, it was german invaders wearing the skin of their enslaved and slaughtered enemies.