DBWI: What if Reagan lived?

Superman

As we all know, President Ronald Reagan was assassinated in 1981 by John Hinkley Jr. But what if he had lived? What the Soviet Union still have broken up? Would the world be a more or less democratic place than it is now?
 
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Turquoise Blue

Turquoise Blue

Well, if Reagan had lived, we wouldn't see the disastrous Presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush (1982-1985). No President Ted Kennedy, unfortunately...
 

Superman

Yeah, maybe Germany and Korea would have been in one piece by now. Reagan definitely would have completed Star Wars though.
 

d32123

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Honesty, Reagan might've been even worse than Bush.

I don't see what Reagan could've done to unite Germany and Korea, though. Seems like wishful thinking to me.
 

Superman

I think someone wrote a TL on Russia collapsing if Reagan survived, but completely ASB. There's no way Commie-land is going anywhere.
 
DTanza

DTanza

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I don't understand why people say that Reagan sticking around would have kept the Soviet Union alive. Just because he ended the grain embargo doesn't mean they would have survived. It was screwed the moment Gorbachev started his reforms.

OOC: A bit annoying that this entered ASB immediately. Come on guys, no Soviet Union collapse? No uniting Germany? You are ridiculously overstating the amount of influence Reagan had and how set in stone it was that Mondale was going to get the nomination in 1984. Ted Kennedy didn't want to be President, he just wanted to keep Reagan from being elected.
 

RomanNumeralII

Turquoise Blue said:
Well, if Reagan had lived, we wouldn't see the disastrous Presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush (1982-1985). No President Ted Kennedy, unfortunately...
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I wouldn't be so sure of that. It's not too uncommon for a former VP to be elected later on as President. Then again, I can't see a full Reagan presidency going well enough for anyone to want to elect his VP as a President at any point.
 

Superman

I think it might have been possible for President Reagan to have gotten impeached if he carried out Iran-Contra, just like Bush did
 

TRH

Would Yugoslavia have survived if Reagan lived? I think we all understand that Milosevic's backing is the only reason that East Germany's still around even after Communism fell in most of the rest of Europe. Regardless of how that worked out, though, one can only hope that a breakup of Yugoslavia would happen before their 1997 nuclear test. 150 loose nukes would be 150 too many, after all.
 

Superman

TRH said:
Would Yugoslavia have survived if Reagan lived? I think we all understand that Milosevic's backing is the only reason that East Germany's still around even after Communism fell in most of the rest of Europe. Regardless of how that worked out, though, one can only hope that a breakup of Yugoslavia would happen before their 1997 nuclear test. 150 loose nukes would be 150 too many, after all.
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Well, we got two rogue states in OTL, but I think Reagan would have pressured the Soviet government into ceasing their support of communist forces in eastern Europe.
OOC: The two rogue states are North Korea and East Germany.
 

tiggerfan

But would Reagan have banned opposition parties the way Kennedy did ?

If he didn't we might not have had so many years of repression in the US or the revolution of 2009
 

AYC

tiggerfan said:
But would Reagan have banned opposition parties the way Kennedy did ?

If he didn't we might not have had so many years of repression in the US or the revolution of 2009
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-AYC
 

John Fredrick Parker

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Superman said:
As we all know, President Ronald Reagan was assassinated in 1982 by John Hinkley Jr. But what if he had lived? What the Soviet Union still have broken up? Would the world be a more or less democratic place than it is now?
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OOC: Can I point out that the assassination attempt was actually March 30, 1981?
 

LendleAlba

tiggerfan said:
But would Reagan have banned opposition parties the way Kennedy did ?

If he didn't we might not have had so many years of repression in the US or the revolution of 2009
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What? I don't remember any sort of effort being made to curb or outright ban opposition parties under Kennedy. :confused:
 

TRH

LendleAlba said:
What? I don't remember any sort of effort being made to curb or outright ban opposition parties under Kennedy. :confused:
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He's probably hyperventilating about Kennedy re-introducing the Fairness Doctrine on TV and radio, a lot of Republicans at the time likened it to censorship and strangling their ability to voice themselves. Still seems a bit hyperbolic, but reactionaries are like that, you know?
 
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