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To go along with the Hitler thread, suppose Stalin's wife had lived into the WWII era. How would Stalin have done thngs? It seems that like Hitler with Geli, Stalin loved Alliuevya, so might these two people being alive have an impact on things like the Holocaust, the Holodomor, and the Purges?

Hitler had a relationship with his cousin, and it evidently was pretty deep for someone like him. How much impact would Fraulein Raubal's surviving into the WWII era have on Adolf Hitler? Would it change a few things, or really nothing?

Since the OTL 20th Century was obviously the worst that could happen, what could be the best-case scenario for the Russians, with Russowank excluded? The Tsarist Empire was bound to fall once *WWI begins, and to delay it only buys time for Nicholas II. POD can be pre-1900, but the emphasis is on...

How could there be a much larger proportion of the North American population that is Native? Is this ASB? The Native Americans of North America, from the Maya to the Inuit used to be much larger. Is there any way the U.S. or Canada could have ended up more like Mexico, with a considerable Native...

Suppose that when Europeans came calling in the 1600s, the aborigines had been able to fully domesticate the dingo. The dog is extremely useful, and as a matter of fact, some Native Americans used dogs for what they would later use horses for. So, had the Aborigines of Australia possessed a dog...

In what is today the Southeast of the United States in the 1500s, there were highly advanced societies that were the ancestors of today's Cherokee and Choctaw tribes. Suppose that these ancestral societies had by the time De Leon came calling built something like Opechecanough in Virginia or...

Let's assume for the sake of this POD that Israel and Judah get smart kings/tribal leaders that decide to bow down to Assyria and Babylon, and are still in Canaan as independent kingdoms by the time of the Achaemenids. The POD is that the Jews are never deported and remain in Canaan by Babylon...

The Biblical canon of OTL nearly included the Shepherd of Hermas, and excluded Revelation. Suppose that that does happen. How does Christianity develop with a different canon? For people like The_lynzienian, arguments that "God willed it be this way" don't apply. As a Christian, I'm going to...

IOTL, Paul the Apostle made Christianity palatable to the West. He was told by the Holy Spirit (or by a rationalization by the later Church Fathers, for the Atheists. to explain why he ignored the Sassanid Persian empire) to go to the West. Supposing God (or, again, Church history saying God...

In OTL, Clitus the Black saved Alexander the Great from a certain death at the hands of Spithridates. What if he had failed? With Macedonia without a sucessor, the empire he had built probably would have fallen. With a longer-lived Achaemenid dynasty, how would the conversion of India to...

Since there's been umpteen dozen No Muhammad threads, let's presume that Joshua BenMiryam is miscarried on the journey to Bethlehem due to a fall from a donkey. Hence, no Rabbi Joshua, no Christianity. Discuss. Disclaimer-I am an agnostically apatheistic Christian. I don't have a...

In OTL, experts expected Mexico to hand the USA's ass to it. How could the war be changed so that the experts were right? What impact would a US defeat have on Manifest Destiny? What happens to the Republic of Texas? Bonus points for Latest POD.

In the late 1890s, the USA fought a proto-Iraq war and won it, by nearly the beginning of World War I. A WI here is that Auginaldo, the Filipino leader, is not captured in 1901, and continues to lead combat against US forces for longer, perhaps until 1910. How does that impact the struggle...

In the OTL battle, the Union failed to unite McClellan and Pope's forces. Suppose McClellan decides to ship his forces to join Pope's forces before Lee could react, as he had an opportunity to. Suppose that at Second Bull Run, instead of facing Pope alone with 50,000 men, he has Pope and...

If the Chairman dies early, say in the Long March, you might have a different China. If Red China is removed early, then you have Stalin in August Storm perhaps dividing China, sparking another Period of Three Chinas. Remove the Red Chinese, too, and perhaps the USA wins Korea, and quite...

Let's presume Fred Ward dies early from a heart attack, and he doesn't come to China during the Rebellion. What happens then? My guess is that Shanghai falls, but after that what would the consequences be? Would the European Powers get involved? :eek: