Simple Question about Culpability..

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18. IIRC the UK House of Lords still contains some hereditary peers.

It is true that in central Europe and in Russia, aristocracy was abolished

But the German Noble's Association (Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft or DAG) nevertheless continued to exist during the Weimar era and throughout WWII, providing support for the Nazis, whose regime had a surprisingly medieval flavor

There seems to be wide divergence of opinion about the ultimate benefits of the Russian revolution, the conditions for which were created by the war: within a few years, Stalin had complete control of the country

It is not clear to me what you mean by "19th century thinking": colonial empires might come to mind, but they were really ended by the enormous financial ruin caused by the second world war, which made it impossible for the colonial powers to sustain their colonies