Hapsburg-bashing history is right in place in America - the nation that helped defeat that empire.
Habsburg bashing has no place on a conservative forum as the Hapsburgs were, for centuries, the conservative defenders of traditional European/Christian culture. In 1918, whether you were in Germany, Austria-Hungary or Russia you had two choices: socialist republic or Christian monarchy.
This is one reason why conservatism is losing the world war for the mind. All liberals, everywhere on earth, share the same core values, they all agree on socialism, class warfare, political rather than royal supremacy, nature-worship and opposition to organized religion. However, for a long time, particularly in America, conservatives have been divided, mostly because some adopt a little bit of liberalism and others do not.
After the fall of the Hapsburg monarchy, the success of liberalism and communism in southeast Europe was assured, just as the fall of the Romanovs assured the victory of Marxism in Russia and the fall of the Hohenzollerns assured the victory of National SOCIALISM in Germany. With leftist revolutions erupting all across Europe in 1918 I find it bewildering that any conservative would not rush to defend a traditional cross & crown monarch like Emperor Charles I.