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- 5 - LS On the Bohemian side, it was the concern about the preservation of the rights and privileges of the estates, and the intention of their expansion mixed with confessional antipathies; on the Viennese side it was an urge to secure and expand the rights of the landlord and to spread the Catholic religion. The fact that the real fronts were running on the ethnic-confessional problems shows nothing more striking than the counter-candidacy of the national-Bohemian direction against the Habsburg: when in 1619 the Bohemian estates set Ferdinand II aside - whom did they call on the throne? a German prince, Friedrich von der Pfalz, in particular with regard to his capacity as head of the Protestant Union and the German Calvinists. This attempt of constant empathy, as it is well known, ended ASV in the Battle of the White Mountains with complete collapse. He had a profound and decisive change in the composition of the country's leading stratum, the nobility. Again, contrary to the popular view of the deliberate Germanic character of the re-positioning of nobility and land re-nunciation, which is predicated with the inexhaustible power of historical legends, it should be pointed out that the policy of absolutist victory is based on a people's neutral principle. In his paper on land reform, where he speaks of its historical preconditions, Pekař cites the former Czech Minister Krofta, who himself, as a historian, explains that the decline of Czech nobility in Bohemia associated with the imperial criminal court was almost offset by Vet- - 6 -