Well made with a lot of factual data, but one ofc can't expect a Serbian historian backed up by Brits and French assistance to put an objective view of what was happening prior to ww1 especially in the balkans and Bosnia in particular. The Austrians coming there after the Turks were like you if brought the EU to sub Saharan Africa today, the progress made, the investments in infrastructure, schooling, culture, industry, architecture were unprecedented and unseen ever before (or later) in Bosnia and Erzegovina history. If you go Sarajevo today the Basic architectural structure of the city, the logic, all the historical and most important roads and buildings, the villas hotels etc this was all made by the Austrian-Hungarian empire in those 30+ years of their rule there, the first tram in Europe was in Sarajevo, imagine the oppression! No objective person born in Bosnia or anywhere in the balkans would or could deny that the Austrian rule in that time was something positive and that brought progress after centuries of darkness. The Serbs freed themselves from the Turks in Serbia and their aspirations to expand west grow in size and incorporate all Serbs in one country were understandable, but it's a colossal lie that most of the people wanted to be "freed" by them from the "exploitations" from the austro-Hungarians that brought schools, theaters, roads, railways, cars, trams, factories, universities, courts, land registries, laws to a place that was basically living in the Middle Ages for more then a millennia. The Austrians were conquerers but they meant to stay long term and incorporate all the places they brought into the empire. They were the most democratic society of that time incorporating tens of different nations and ethnic groups and religions into a society that by the standards then was very progressive, modern and open. Let's speak the truth for once.
