Challenge:Make a Utopia

I do not think killing Hitler, or Mussolini or Lenin or Stalin or whatever would have really changed anything as the economic and social conditions could have allowed other, possibly worse dictators and revanchism to rise, so the catalyst for these dictators, as noted before has to be contained or prevented.

I don't think that's the case, with the exception of Lenin (for whom there are plenty of other, possibly worse alternatives all of whom can only be avoided by preventing the circumstances that led to the Bolshevik revolution - but he's also the least bad of the four named).

There were similarly odious alternatives to Mussolini (such as Gabriele d'Annunzio) but the circumstances in Italy at the time didn't make a turn towards dictatorship inevtiable at all (without Mussolini ramping-up the pressure, the political conflicts there could have played out the same way as they did in France). Hitler's rise to power was the result of a perfect storm of missed appointments, personal slights and fanciful rumours - changing any one of half a dozen small events could keep von Schleicher in power long enough to prevent the collapse of the Weimar Republic, let alone getting rid of Hitler altogether. And Stalin was a complete aberration, someone who married C20th mechanisms with medieval barbarism in a way that I can't imagine any of his rivals doing.
 
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