„Keď zomrie tyran, zomrie s nim aj jeho vláda. Keď zomrie martýr, jeho vláda začína.“ Ku vzniku štátu Kráľovstva Srbov, Chorvátov a Slovincov na pozadí niekoľkých myšlienok existencialistov

FRANTIŠEK JAKAB
Katedra histórie, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Mateja Bela v Banskej Bystrici

“When a tyrant dies, his government dies with him. When a martyr dies, his reign begins.” Towards the creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes against the background of several existentialist thoughts

Abstract: The chilling events of World War I were a test for all of humanity, which until then could not even imagine such horrors. For many people, they meant death, suffering, or a fight for mere survival. Not even the nationals living on the Balkan Peninsula were an exception, which became the scene of the infamous trigger squeeze that started four and a half years of war frenzy. The work analyzes selected episodes preceding, concerning, or following the end of World War I and confronts them with an existentialist view of the world. In this context, it opens the question of objectivity, historical memory, political instrumentalization of fact, and the diversity of interpretation of the history of this segment of history.

Keywords: Balkan peninsula, First World War, existentialism, Yugoslavia, Serbia.