Word: gachinovich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bones of the archconspirator who instigated Student Gavrilo Princip to assassinate Austria's Crown Prince, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Who was this archconspirator? Outside the grim circle of his admirers, his name is scarcely known, but Sarajevo has waited and schemed 17 years for a chance to bury Vladimir Gachinovich...
...pure intellectual, how pure!" cried Sarajevo's discreet public mourner, an adept at praising heroes of the assassination in terms to which the police can take no exception. Though he himself killed no man, Vladimir Gachinovich, son of an Orthodox priest, was said in Serbian police reports of 1913 to "hold half the revolutionary youth of Bosnia in his hands." Sarajevo was then the capital of Bosnia and still treasured in the town are copies of the celebrated pamphlet, The Death of a Hero, by Vladimir Gachinovich, glorifying the assassination in 1910 of the Governor of Bosnia...
...Archconspirator Gachinovich had been obliged to flee to Switzerland, but Bosnian rebels went to confer with him and at these conferences the details of Franz Ferdinand's assassination were worked out. Student Princip, the actual assassin, was designated by Vladimir Gachinovich as his trustiest and most intimate friend. Too intellectual to risk being present when the shots that started the War were fired, Vladimir Gachinovich also did not feel called upon to enlist or fight, stayed on quietly at Lausanne where he peacefully died...
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