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Two WIs: What if Juan Perón and Evita never met? And what about Putin and Yeltsin?

Thinking about a USSR takeover / occupation during the 1940s (WWII).....Finland would be annexed or kept as a satellite state, member of Warsaw Pact such as most of Eastern Europe?

And how a Communist Finland would evolves until 1990? Something like a giant Baltic Republic?

Sure that several threads have already covered, but interested on views of a Communist Finland (either as a Soviet Republic or as an USSR satellite)....any thoughts or previous discussions?

Some data about Umberto II: https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/03/18/Umberto-II-the-last-king-of-Italy-who-spent/8552416811600/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umberto_II_of_Italy

WI the 1946 Italian referendum had a different outcome, with Monarchy being victorious? What kind of King Umberto II would be and how Italian politics would develop with the Savoia still at throne?

No other ideas? A no-oil shock or at least a delayed crisis can be a major changer to OTL. Imagine a 1970s without stagflation, maybe no Reagan, no Japanese automakers crushing the US car industry...

The 1973 oil shock was the definitive end to the Post-War Boom (which was already fading by the late 60s - early 70s), rocking the Western economies and making the 1970s an extremely tricky decade on economic terms (recession and then staginflation). How such oil shock could have been avoided...

A new National Pact or Constitution, with a more balanced approach to all religious groups, would be possible by 1960s / early 70s or is just ABS?

Thanks, but the POD must be within the OTL Lebanese Republic (1943 until 1975/76)...

Something like that: you're a 20 or 30-yrs old in East Berlin, November 1989, without major perspectives and, for all your life, confined into a small Communist Republic surrounded by other countries where the situation is only worst than yours. Your teenagers years were spent hearing...

Was the Lebanese Civil War avoidable (within a POD btw 1943 and 1976)? What about a No-Civil War Lebanon: something like OTL UAE, Jordan or was a general conflagration just unavoidable?

Agree...sometimes it appears that Margaret (if the "spoiled child" and "heavy drinker" items are, somehow, butterflied) was born some three decades before her due time. A Margaret as Elizabeth's daughter (minus the "spoiled"), born by late 1950s or early 1960s, could have become immensely...

Question: in such scenario, what happens with Princess Margaret? Even more spoiled or a more balanced person?

Most probably Philip would be made Prince as part of Elizabeth's accession to the throne, even as courtesy to the Queen and as father of the next British King...

IMHO, where the OTL 1950s marriage crisis have in fact helped the couple on the long run and George VI dies somewhere between 1960-1965, Elizabeth would be probably busy being groomed and refined to become Queen or even acting as regent during the illnesses of her father (in OTL this improvement...

Would say that the opposite could have happened: for sure Elizabeth and Philip had rough patches during the 50s, but the unique position of being a young royal couple made their marriage, as an institution, as something almost indestructible, was it would be almost imaginable a royal divorce...

IMHO hard, as Gibraltar is maybe the most strategic point in all European coasts and any reduction of UK presence there would demonstrate a kind of military fragility, even if the base is kept During the 1930s Gibraltar was strategic for all routes between UK and Middle East and India (via...

Agree. Mitterrand was a socialist but not a communist or sovietophile...France would certainly press for a quick resolution of the war, maybe accepting the Soviet domination of West Germany but if France’ territorial integrity was in danger, Mitterrand would use the tactical nuclear force

Something a bit more recent that could be interesting on terms of butterflies: Sep 11th, 2016, NYC: A bit colder and dry weather helps Hillary Clinton to attend the 9/11 memorial ceremony until its end....no overheating situation and pneumonia is discretely treated during the next days...