DBWI: If Blaine had lived.

Well, folks, this next Wednesday will be the 129th anniversary of the day that President James G. Blaine was shot by a certain former Confederate in the streets of Indianapolis. Blaine was known for his stances on civil rights for African-Americans and his support for tariffs to protect American workers, and signed several bills supporting civil & economic reform. Unfortunately, though, many of his reforms were reversed under President Cleveland after his win in 1888(granted, the Southerners pushed on him pretty hard, but still!), and it wasn't until the T.R. era when many of the financial reforms finally came back, and not 'till Truman's time when the Civil Rights protections started coming back again(he paid a heavy price; Republican Douglas McArthur won in 1948 thanks to Southern backlash against him.).

If Blaine had survived his assassination attempt, instead of dying on Sept. 26th, 1883, as he did IOTL, or even not been shot at all(like if Garfield had won the nomination instead.), how could things be different? Would there have been two World Wars? Would the Russian Empire have survived beyond 1905 and not given way to the U.S.S.R.(which itself fell apart in 1948)?

Would blacks have enjoyed Civil Rights at an earlier age, instead of the horrors of Southern Apartheid, and the extreme corruption that flourished down there because of it? And could the 'White Terror' of the '50s been avoided as well?

Sorry about the textwalling but I just have so many questions to ask. :D
 
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Had Tsar Nicholas II avoided his assassination in 1904, the Russian Empire may have lasted a little longer. Grand Duke Michael ruled as regent on behalf of Nicholas' hemophiliac son Alexei and proved to be more incompetent than his brother.

After the civil war that resulted in the founding of the Union of Sovereign Socialist Republics and the Hetmanate of Russia (mostly Siberia and Yakutia) led by Wrangel, Lenin maneuvered the Mensheviks out of power and declared himself President of the USSR.

The main reason the USSR collapsed was due to Trotsky genocidal philosophy of spreading socialism that led to the invasions of Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Prussia and Bulgaria leading to World War II. Anyone but Trotsky would not have decided to order U-boat attacks on Pearl Harbor resulting in the American declaration of war.

That still does not ignore the atrocities committed by Hetmanate in Manchuria, Korea and the Japanese island of Hokkaido.
 
Had Tsar Nicholas II avoided his assassination in 1904, the Russian Empire may have lasted a little longer. Grand Duke Michael ruled as regent on behalf of Nicholas' hemophiliac son Alexei and proved to be more incompetent than his brother.

After the civil war that resulted in the founding of the Union of Sovereign Socialist Republics and the Hetmanate of Russia (mostly Siberia and Yakutia) led by Wrangel, Lenin maneuvered the Mensheviks out of power and declared himself President of the USSR.

The main reason the USSR collapsed was due to Trotsky genocidal philosophy of spreading socialism that led to the invasions of Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Prussia and Bulgaria leading to World War II. Anyone but Trotsky would not have decided to order U-boat attacks on Pearl Harbor resulting in the American declaration of war.

That still does not ignore the atrocities committed by Hetmanate in Manchuria, Korea and the Japanese island of Hokkaido.

IC: That isn't quite what happened.
First of all, the U.S.S.R. was founded by Vladimir Lenin, and Wrangel never held a leadership position(the Hetmanate collapsed in 1919, and it was only based in southwestern Russia anyway.). In fact, he died in British Columbia in 1914(he wasn't welcome in Roosevelt's America!). Also, Trotsky didn't come into power until 1938; In fact, he was the one who replaced Joseph Stalin after he wrecked the country's economy AND tried to make peace with the Germans; and, btw, it was the Germans who were starting to commit mass genocide in Eastern Europe, not the Russians. In fact, Trotsky's U.S.S.R. actually took in hundreds of thousands of refugees from not only the genocides that had already begun in Poland and Slovakia, but also from the fascist puppet regimes in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and the Ukraine, between 1938-41.
And finally, it wasn't the Russians who bombed Pearl Harbor; the Japanese and nationalist Chinese did......in fact, the Russians were highly eager to assist us in the Asian Front. Had it not been for the Soviets, our battle with the illegitimate fascists in Beijing might have lasted until the end of 1946, instead of July 1945 as per OTL, and many more American lives would have been lost.

OOC:Again, this isn't really a DBWI but a TBWI. I think that may be confusing people.

OOC: Perhaps you're correct on that. Sorry about that. :eek:
 
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