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Churchill actually had this idea :D "This man is the mainspring of evil. Instrument - electric chair, for gangsters no doubt available on lend-lease".

Don't start with Polish aircraft. Thank to Piłsudski's disbelief in modern warfare (air and armoured) Polish Air Force was really unimpressive. However, if you mean Polish pilots, that's a diffrent story.

Assuming that Hitler was taken a prisoner by the Allies and survived until verdict, he'd surely receive a death sentence. That's beyond any doubts. During the trail either he'd be broke, pathetic man, abandoned by his former lieutenants who'd try to lay all the blame on him, or he'd go totally nuts.

Interesting and not so obvious questions. IRL, Dewey, a total favorite, took all for granted, didn't moved his ass to campaign and lost in an upset. I can easily imagine Taft would do really active campaigning, yet even in 1952, when basically every Republican would win, many party leaders...

Welstone would be re-elected over a Coleman. His rantings improves, despite some legends, after his Iraqi resolution "nay" vote.

Since a recent political history of Brazil is one of the subjects of my interest, I wonder if there's anyone else to discuss possible mini-what if scenarios like: 1. Kubitschek is prevented, as there were some concerns about such a possibility, from taking office in 1955. 2. Quadors did not...

Hey, Hcallega, I see you're here as well :) And regarding topic, I always found a different scenario, with Wallace succeeding FDR before he could be dropped from the ticket, interesting as well. Any thoughts about such a scenario?

Good point. The core of the Shia theology is based on martyrdom.

SAVAK was hardly to underestimate, yet that didn't helped. I view the Islamic Revolution or, without Khomeini, something smillar, as inventable. In 1953, thanks to Operation Ajax, United States basically destroyed all secular opposition forces and Shia clergy, hard thing to break, left as the...