Why did the Congress of Vienna fail?

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Also giant famines in the early 1840s followed by a continent wide bank faliures. Ireland lost half its population and still hasn't recovered to 1840 levels today.

>Italian and German unification take longer.
Both were mistakes.

>What happened in 1848?
the revolutions of 1848

Should point out, Hapsburgs didn't flee Vienna due to Italian and Hungarian rebels. Nope. Insurrectionary Germans seize Vienna and later Hungary seiges it... Kinda, they run back as an Austrian army comes.

They were totally fucked and somehow recovered.

Great European Chimpout of 1848 by Nationalists and Liberals.

Bismark needed it to die
Outside of minor banter wars nothing happened until bismark started manipulating shit so he could unite germany

Bismark didn't manipulate anything, he was just really good at taking advantage of opportunities as they presented themselves.

>A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

>By the time the Communist Manifesto is a year old Pope, Guizot, and Metternich have been driven out of their cities by revolutionary workers.

wtf, I love Marx now!

The Congress died in 1848. Bismarck was just taking advantage of it.

Besides you're talking about the meme "Balance of Power" guy.

>communist still get BTFO in the end
wtf, I love Austria now!

Bismark: Did you ever hear the tragedy of 1848?

Wilhelm I: No?

Bismark: I thought not. It’s not a story the Liberal would tell you. It’s a Conservative legend. Metternich was a Chancellor of the Habsburg domains, so powerful and so wise he could use Diplomacy to influence the Balance of Power to create stability… He had such a knowledge of the dark arts of politics, he could even keep the states he cared about from dying.

Wilhelm I: He could actually save states from death?

Bismark: Diplomacy around the Balance of Power is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural.

Wilhelm I: What happened to him?

Bismark: He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught the Hungarian apprentices everything he knew, then his Hungarian apprentices betrayed him in old age. Ironic. He could save nations from irrelevancy, but not himself.

>>supposed to end European wars.
>"let's keep most of europe except Great Powers balkanized and let turks continue to plunder europe"
>"oh wow, why are all these nationalists trying to form their own Great Powers to defend themselves with unification movements?"
>"oh wow, why are balkans still rebelling against turks and trying to create their own Great Powers to defend themselves?"
>"oh wow, why are all these Great Powers still continuing to have massive feuds with each other and fighting for imperialist desires?"

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Explain to me how it is that Prussia is partially inside, but also partially outside of the German confederation? Same for Austria and Denmark.

rivalry between HA members
birth of nationalism
birth of socialism

those territories were conquered or inherited by the rulers of the constituent states inside (or outside, in case of denmark) the confederation but the boundaries of the confederation itself was fixed and the overlord of the confederation (historical the HR emperor) did not have the power to coerce denmark or prussia to give up territories or incorporate them into the empire. alternatively, the emperor negotiated with them in exchange for loyalty or other services so they can keep these territories. also, originally, prussia was a part of the teutonic order and then became a vassal of the polish king when the state became secularized by the last grandmaster albrecht hohenzollern, whose line died out and passed to the hohenzollerns of brandenburg. finally the emperors (habsburgs from the 15th century onward) themselves had territory outside the empire from conquest and inheritance and ironically they used these personal domains outside the HRE to bribe electors of the HRE to keep granting them the position of holy roman emperor after each habsburg ruler died.

>German liberals will never unify Germany early with liberal values and without Prussian militaristic autism, giving poles and bohemians their own national autonomy
>Italian Socialist will never fully unify Italy early with socialist values and without retarded Sovoyan absolutism that will last until they get constitution and fail at everything
>Austrian clusterfuck will never fully collapse with Hungary became independent, Russia seizing Austrian Galicia unifying it with russian Poland while rest of Austria and Bohemia join new Liberal German Federation
>Russia will never win Crimean War and liberate balkans much more earlier, establishing unified slavic spheres, while western powers divide ottomans in middle east
We have to go back... This shit needs to be fixed until we go further into shit we've started in 1850-70

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It's one thing for the Congress to be gone and another to destroy what it had built. It certainly did die in 1848 but Bismarck sealed the coffin shut. I also never said anything about Balance of Power - Bismarck's tenure as chancellor was ultimately a failure.

Brought down by G*rmanic and *nglo autism

>t. fucking retard

People realized the states and princes that were put back in place post-napoleon were illegitimate and wanted more liberal and democratic nation-states.

whites are psycopathic

>t. faggot.

sort of like how the English kings had England and at the same time they had domains in France

the German confederation was considered Germany proper, Denmark, Prussia and Hungary were considered their own Kingdoms outside of Germany

>The problem is that it supposed Revolutions would be discreet. In 1848 everyone blew their top.

This reminded me of Buddenbrooks
>I am saying sir, we want a republic.
>You idiot, we are already a republic!

>try to subdue Poles
>expect to win

>Poland already revolted by tries again since everyone else is.
A big mistake was to revolt a decade earlier. Had Poland waited 10 years it could have used 1848 to regain independence under Russian protection with Poznan and Krakow added to Congress Poland as autonomous kingdom united with Russian Empire.

He also forgot the Franco-Austrian War of 1859