Most important person of the 20th century (Hitler, assassin, Russia)

[btownboss4]

I think it is Gavrilo Princip, he shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, causing the World Wars, and the Destruction they wrought on Russia lead to the foundation of Soviet Russia.
He shaped the whole century with one bullet.

[Atai J.]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

I think it is Gavrilo Princip, he shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, causing the World Wars, and the Destruction they wrought on Russia lead to the foundation of Soviet Russia.
He shaped the whole century with one bullet.

He did just one shot and nothing more. WWI was inevitable. Somebody or something another would be a cause of this war.
I would name Hitler who raised the German Reich, and Stalin, who destroyed this evil.

[majoun]

Originally Posted by Atai J.

He did just one shot and nothing more. WWI was inevitable. Somebody or something another would be a cause of this war.
I would name Hitler who raised the German Reich, and Stalin, who destroyed this evil.

If not for Princip there would not have been a Hitler nor a Stalin.

[Nolefan34]

I have to agree with Princip. His single action did more to shape the history of the century than anyone/anything else. While it can be argued WW1 would have happened anyhow, if there's one person/event you can point to as being the most important, this was it.

Others that come to mind are-
-Hitler
-Stalin
-Osama Bin Laden
-Henry Ford
-Bill Gates
-Steve Jobs

[Escort Rider]

Albert Einstein.

[Listener2307]

Originally Posted by btownboss4

I think it is Gavrilo Princip, he shot and killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, causing the World Wars, and the Destruction they wrought on Russia lead to the foundation of Soviet Russia.
He shaped the whole century with one bullet.

Taking it one step further, couldn't it have been the Archduke's driver? He went the wrong way as I remember and came back around by the assassin, giving the dastardly coward a clear shot. One shot; two victims.

[Atai J.]

M. Gorbachev
V. Putin
Bill Gates.
G. Bush

[Grandstander]

Originally Posted by Listener2307

. One shot; two victims.

There were two shots. Sophie was hit in the abdomen by one and Franz was hit in the jugular vein by the other.

[NJGOAT]

Bart Simspon...


Either him or Einstein, Ghandi, FDR, John Paul II, Mandela, Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, etc.

Though I think Princip was an interesting and good choice. Certainly much happened from that single act. Though, I could counter argue that it was really all Franz Joseph himself wasn't it? He is the one that annexed Bosnia-Herzegovina into Austria-Hungary in 1908 in direct violation of the Berlin Treaty of 1878. This is the act that inflamed the Yugoslav nationalists which led Princip to assassinate the Archduke...

[Snowball7]

Einstein was a plagiarist and hack. He lifted every idea he ever published
from other scientists.