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Alright, I present a scenario to you:
- Versailles less destructive, Nazi Germany butterflied away.
- March on Rome, crushed. There goes Fascist Italy.
- Those butterfly Fascist Spain, now we have Red Spain.
- No Japanese invasion of China, no oil embargo, no Pacific War.
- Lenin's testament read, Trotsky rises to power.

Note those are not in any particular order. For the sake of argument, we will postulate that all these events happen. Now, I am of the opinion this wouldn't greatly effect the German V-2 program. So, my final point is:

German satellite launched into space in 1946 (no World War II means they have more money and resources to put into this). We now have ourselves an 8-way space race between:

United States of America
British Commonwealth (primarily Britain-Canada-Australia)
Soviet Union
Germany
Italy
Japan
France
Spain

How much faster/slower will space achievements be reached in this hypothetical space race?
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