Assassination Attempts that you think should've succeeded

kernals12

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There are many attempts on the lives of world leaders that failed. Which ones do you think would've made the world a better place if they had succeeded? Mine would be the 1891 Otsu Incident, where a Japanese policeman tried to kill the then-Tsarevitch Nicholas of Russia. He only survived because his cousin who was with him saw the blade and blocked it with his arm. Czar Nicholas II, by going to war with Austria despite having no obligations to do so, made probably the most disastrous decision in modern history. World War I resulted in communism and fascism, and therefore World War II and the Cold War. My only rule is no dead Hitlers, it's too much of a cliche.
 
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Sexby's attempt to assassinate Cromwell could have been interesting. Either causing a martyr to the British Republican cause, or in having a leveller be a major figure in a restorations politics.
 
Orsini and company kill Napoleon III in 1858. Would the people support Napoleon IV though his regency or form a new relublic? What would this mean for Italian and German unification? For a guy who's sort of a joke and viewed as a failure, he sure did live up to his own hype as a "man of destiny."
 
If you want to avoid WWI, you'd be better off looking at Franz Joseph than Nicholas II...after all, it's Franz Joseph's government that started the war. The assassination attempt in 1853, or one of the plots in the 1880s, would be the best bet.
 
If you want to avoid WWI, you'd be better off looking at Franz Joseph than Nicholas II...after all, it's Franz Joseph's government that started the war. The assassination attempt in 1853, or one of the plots in the 1880s, would be the best bet.

And it was Nicholas II dragging Russia into it
 
Napoleon. Either the Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise in Christmas' Eve 1800 or the attempt by Friedrich Staps in Vienna in October 1809.
 
February, 1861, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln or 7 May, 1866, Otto von Bismarck, when he was just Minister President of Prussia
 
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