AHC: President Hitler, Fuhrer Roosevelt, Comrade Churchill, Prime Minister Stalin

Okay, there is already a lot of AH challenges about "X becomes the ruler of nation Y", but let's twist that out: create a single timeline where Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin become the Head of Government in USA, Germany, Russia, and Britain, respectively.

Is that ASB...?
 
Okay, there is already a lot of AH challenges about "X becomes the ruler of nation Y", but let's twist that out: create a single timeline where Adolf Hitler, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin become the Head of Government in USA, Germany, Russia, and Britain, respectively.

Is that ASB...?

You have to ask?!?!?!?
 
Yes, it's ASB. Hitler, even as a second generation immigrant, would be incredibly unlikely to reach the Presidency as everything that motivated OTL Hitler to enter politics would not exist in the USA. The son of Georgian peasants becoming British Prime Minister in the 1930s/1940s is impossible for various reasons. Churchill becoming head of the Soviet Union is laughable because of his hatred of Socialism, with a very far back POD you could turn his establishment radicalism into pure socialism I suppose but then you have to get past the xenophobia of the USSR and the fact that he is of high birth. Roosevelt becoming Fuhrer would require a citizen of the country that beat Germany in WWI to lead a revanchist movement against said countries from within Germany. I'll let you work out whether that's plausible.
 
You have to ask?!?!?!?
In order to find out what the other members would think about that...yes, I have.
Do you mean analouges, because that's slightly less ASB.
Hmm, please explain "analouges". And then I can tell whether it's still acceptable in this challenge or not...
Thanks for the analysis, but I won't make it a challenge if it's meant to be an easy one... ;)
 
Hmm, please explain "analouges". And then I can tell whether it's still acceptable in this challenge or not...

Well as Meadow explained, those men actually becoming leaders of those countries is impossible. However a fascist president, a progressive German leader, an adventurist Soviet and a dictatorial Briton is somewhat doable.
 
Well as Meadow explained, those men actually becoming leaders of those countries is impossible. However a fascist president, a progressive German leader, an adventurist Soviet and a dictatorial Briton is somewhat doable.

But...with the PODs that alter the places and circumstances where they were born and grew up, they certainly wouldn't be the same people as in OTL...

Or are you suggesting that Hitler was "destined" to be fascist, Roosevelt was "destined" to be progressive, Stalin was "destined" to be dictatorial, etc...?
 
But...with the PODs that alter the places and circumstances where they were born and grew up, they certainly wouldn't be the same people as in OTL...

Or are you suggesting that Hitler was "destined" to be fascist, Roosevelt was "destined" to be progressive, Stalin was "destined" to be dictatorial, etc...?

Of course not, but i presumed you wanted them to be similar to their OTL counterparts. As it's ASB that most of them would even be in the countries they're meant to be leading I though I'd offer an alternative.
 
Of course not, but i presumed you wanted them to be similar to their OTL counterparts. As it's ASB that most of them would even be in the countries they're meant to be leading I though I'd offer an alternative.

I have to avert my eyes passed the OP to say that your alternative is actually an excellent challenge. I'm going to pretend that this is what the OP meant:

AH CHALLENGE:

A fascist U.S. president, a progressive German leader, an adventurist Soviet leader, and a dictatorial British Prime Minister.

And results as well please!
 
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