In January 1913, a young man named Papadopoulos walked out of the Vienna Nordbahnhof, which was the name on his passport, and his real name was Joseph Stalin. That's right, stalin, who later became a giant. At this time he came to Vienna as a revolutionary exile. What he didn't know was that there were 4 other people who would later become giants who were also living in Vienna at this time, and 3 of them would become his opponents, and Trotsky was the first to pick him up.
Vienna in 1913 was almost the center of Europe
Trotsky was the editor of Pravda and the so-called "radical heretical intellectual", so he also went into exile in Vienna. Vienna in 1913 was the capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which administered 15 countries and had a population of more than 50 million people. Vienna at this time was like a unique "cultural soup", attracting European dissidents.
The British author Emerson wrote that Vienna's cafes are crowded with intellectuals, more than a third of whom have escaped from other parts of Europe, and many people are here to understand and collide ideas here. The "Viennese café" thus became a unique cultural phenomenon.
The Big Five live within less than two kilometers
There is a clinic in Borg Lane, about 1,000 meters from the residence of the Tor and Thesis, which was owned by the famous psychoanalyst Freud, who later became a very influential figure in the intellectual world, and now he is also famous. Often in and out of the same café called Central, Trotsky and Freud became acquainted.
Also fond of going in and out of the same café is a 24-year-old young Austrian who lives in a cheap inn on Möldermannstrasse, about 1,500 metres from the café, and makes a living by painting landscape postcards. He was rejected twice for the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, but he still had a crush on Vienna, and his name was Adolf Hitler.
Adolf's painting of Vienna was rated as "bland in style"
In addition, a young man living in the south of Vienna also frequents the cafés in the city center, and he can often be seen at Central Coffee, his name is Tito, who is now an employee of an automobile factory in the south of the city.
Except for Freud, the other 4 were all nameless at the time, and Trotsky and Stalin did not even dare to use their real names. But no one expected that these few people would later become giants that determined the course of human history, and that many of the world history of the 20th century was shaped by several of them for a long time.
Among the five people at this time, Freud was still the most famous
At this time, they lived within a kilometer and often went to the same café. They all met and even knew each other. If there really is a "dragon vein", then this "dragon vein" must be in Vienna. Never before have so many people stirred up the course of history gathered in such a small confinement.
But ironically, Hitler, whose main customer was the Jews, later went on a frenzied persecution of the Jews. The writings of Freud as a Jew were burned in public on the grounds of exaggeration and destruction of souls. On June 22, 1941, he unilaterally tore up the treaty and launched an attack on the Soviet Union, destroying the flesh of more than 17 million people in both countries in several years. (Based on the death data released by both sides).
Trotsky, who was speaking
Trotsky later became the main commander of the October Revolution. The "Papadoporos" he had picked up had him exiled to Almaty in 1928, expelled him four years later, and assassinated him in 1940.
Tito, on the other hand, became a hero who led the Yugoslav people in a heroic fight against the Germans, and after his victory in World War II, he became the leader of Yugoslavia. But his and Prows' views diverged deeply on a number of issues, causing the two countries in the same camp to almost part ways.
Marshal Tito (left)
Although history is created by people, it is also full of accidents. If the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts at that time had not rejected this student with a "bland style", there might have been one less war maniac and one more mediocre artist in the world. If the Austro-Hungarian Empire had not been involved in World War I and caused it to fall apart, Tor, Slovak and others would not have returned to China so early, and how the historical process would develop is still unknown.