John Fredrick Parker
Donor
OK, taking one of these (though currently, preference is for the first one) as a choice of PoD:
- the July 20, 1944 Plot succeeds in killing Hitler
- FDR dies on his way to Yalta (Feb 1945)
- the building (from ground up) of the political police in Eastern Europe, and the levels of violence said police conduct in the aftermath of the liberation and subsequent years
- other methods of violence, mainly ethnic cleansing and the suppression of competing antifascist partisans
- the degree of direct control Moscow holds over the Communist Parties of Eastern Europe, and the degree to which political opposition to said parties are crushed
- the levels of economic centralization and "socialization" (the "wars on the shops", nationalization of industry, etc)
- the nationalization of civic organizations, youth organizations, and radio
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