> The economy certainly did not, nor did people's livelihoods You.re very wrong about this. Austria had a massive economic crisis. Hungary had 98% inflation pe

> The economy certainly did not, nor did people's livelihoods You.re very wrong about this. Austria had a massive economic crisis. Hungary had 98% inflation per month for.over a year (their second worst ever recorded, but surpassed big time by the one recorded after WW2, which ended with all the Hungarian currency in circulation being worth less than 0.01¢), massive uprooting and a refugee crisis, communist revolutions in Hungary and Slovakia, wars between the successor states (including between Czechoslovakia and Soviet Hungary, then Romania and Soviet Hungary, events which you ridiculously imply didn't impact the average citizen, or were in any way comparable to what was happening in the US at the time), not to mention millions of people ending up living under the jurisdiction of countries they previously fought against. Things didn't go back to any sort of normal until 1922 in any of the successor states. The situation was very much comparable to (and in most aspects worse than) early Weimar Germany. It's also not true that aristocratic privileges were abolished everywhere: the Habsburgergesetz abolished them in Austria in 1919, but Czechoslovakia and Hungary retained them until 1947 (even the Soviet republic didn't formally abolish them, although there were no noblemen stupid enough to try and use them in that brief period). All that said, I do agree with you on one thing: interwar nostalgia for the Empire was pretty much limited to a small Vienna elite (a fact that the article elegantly forgets to mention). Even the populations of Austria, Czechoslovakia and Hungary were overwhelmingly against its restoration, and against the return of the Habsburg monarchs, when the opportunity presented itself. My own Hungarian grandparents got stuck in Yugoslavia, pretty much an enemy nation, so they didn't have a choice in the matter. I also don't know what they thought about it at the time, but it's telling that 50 years later they had nothing good to say, no fond memories to mention about A-H at all.