Post by @publicdomainrev@mastodon.social

2026-10-08 14:17 UTC

Divide and concur — this radical plan from 1920, for "lasting peace" after WW1, proposed uniting central Europe into 24 wedge-shaped cantons which would radiate out from Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/unionization-of-central-europe/

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@connynasch@mastodon.social 2026-10-08 15:00

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social Worth a read 😊

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@flipper@mastodonapp.uk 2026-10-08 16:07

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social lol, because forcing people to live within artificially created boundaries always works well. I love these dumb ideas and it's wonderful that someone thought it was good enough an idea to spend what must've been an immense amount of effort to produce this.

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@pixxl@mastodon.social 2026-10-08 16:26

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social can't have war if you're too confused to understand what's going on!

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@itinerantnothing@kolektiva.social 2026-10-08 18:21

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social we were deprived of the superior "pizza Europe" timeline because they didn't do this

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@mikaellundin@mastodon.social 2026-10-08 20:02

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social I showed this to my 15 year old kid, and his response was ”that shit is crazy!” 😝

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