Looking at the picture below, guess where all the trouble started?
Hey, don't blame me--I am still a faithful Kaiser und Koenig loyalist (Gefreiter Kania, remember? :)). Austro-Hungary was the second best empire in the world's history after the Holiest Rzeczpospolita.
It (A-H) was deeply Catholic, largely Slavic, unashamedly aristocratic, and encompassed most of the greatest region in the world - Central Europe.
The whole world started going downhill since 1. The partitions of Poland. 2. The Fall of Austria-Hungary.
Poland was reborn in 1918 as one of many abominable nation-states. She should have been reborn as an empire or not al all.