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Let's say there are four different AH scenarios with PODs no earlier than 1900:

1) The World War I ended up with a quick Entente victory in 1915, Tsarist Russian Empire reformed itself up, stalemated the World War II against Anglo-German alliance

2) The economic reforms of the Soviet Union is somewhat more successful than OTL

3) The Qing Dynasty successfully modernized itself and stalemated the First Sino-Japanese War. World War II ended up with joint Chinese-American occupation of Japanese Home Islands

4) The KMT forces won the post-WWII Chinese Civil War thanks to greater helps from the Western Allies

In all of the four scenarios above, Tsarist/Soviet Russia and Qing/Republican China survived to the present day and become one of the great powers.

The questions:

Would the lives of common Russian people be better off in scenario 1 or 2?

Would the lives of common Chinese people be better off in scenario 3 or 4?

PS: Bonus question:

Would Russia and China be better off in either one of the above scenarios compared to OTL?
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