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And you have crossed the wall of red tape! Congrats! (To be frank, I wanted you in, but ceremony is ceremony.)

Luigi Cadorna is a very underrated or imo misunderstood general. He is called an incompetent General for failing to invade Austria Hungary, but he shouldn't be called incompetent because out of all the nations that Austria-Hungary invaded, only Italy was holding out. Serbia, Montenegro and Albania were overrun in 1915, Romania lost its capital and most oil fields by 1916 and surrendered in early 1918.
Austria-Hungary's rival Russian army ceased to exist by 1917 and surrendered few days after Romania's surrender.
But Italy held out against Austria-Hungary in the freezing alpine terrain for 3 years and also launched repeated assault to help its allies by distracting winning five battle near isonzo.

Gerd von Rundstedt John Marston @vonmanstein77, will this count as a historical post?

Hey Gerd von Rundstedt how do I send links of my posts because I do have mire than Nhyjj has posted so I think that could very easily pass me in.

What is the new criteria

Anschluss -

"Anschluss" is a German word meaning "union," and refers to the Union of the Austrian Peoples with the Third German Reich. First, a little bit of Background. Ever since the end of the Austro-Prussian war, Both the Austrians and the Germans wanted to be unified. However, the leaders, just involved in a war that overturned the ruling power in the German Confederation, this was not a viable option. The Austrians did not want to lose their self-government, and Neither did the Prussians. However, Union was always an underlying desire.

Enter World War One. The Germans are humiliated and The Austrians' power practically obliterated. The garbage called the Treaty of Versailles (pretty much what the French wanted to do after WW2) was signed. The Reichsmark undergoes ridiculous inflation. Perfect conditions for an angry Austrian who loves Germany to rise to power. Him and his party, The National Socialist Worker's Party had pretty much the same ideals as Bolshevism, but with a right-wing way to get there. They quickly rose to power with Hitler's oration skills and their promises of a stronger Germany. Once they came into power, the Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, allowing Hitler to not have to have his ideas go through the Reichstag, basically making him a dictator able to do whatever the flip he wanted. He blamed the Jewish Bolsheviks (nearly all Bolshevik leaders were Jewish, so Hitler decided that nearly all Jews were Bolsheviks, a logical fallacy) for Germany's WW1 defeat. Enter the Holocaust. Finally, Hitler souped up his military and reoccupied the Rhineland, in flagrant violation of the Treaty of Versailles. The British and French were outraged and declared war on Germany immedi- They did absolutely nothing.

Enough with the background, now on to the Anschluss. With a struggling economy, practically nonexistent military, and civil unrest, when Germany offered a union of the two states with Austria in 1938, they jumped at the chance. It didn't help that Austrian Nazis had been working on this for years. The Prime Minister, Konrad Schuschnigg called for a referendum two months later, and the Austrians nearly launched a coup. The only reason they didn't was that Hitler managed to *cough* Persuade *cough* the Prime Minister to allow it immediately. The Wehrmacht crossed the border in March, with cheers. On 12 March, Austria officially signed a plebiscite making it part of the Reich and for the majority of the people for the majority of the war, it went excellently. Short answer: Austrian and UN claims that Austria was "the first victim of the Hitlerites" are complete Bullcrap.

No, but their politics were very similar, i. e. The economy is state-run, a totalitarian system, et cetera.