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Hey everybody! I've been a lurker for years and finally decided to join. To start off, I'm writing some science fiction, and for this project I've decided on a POD either shortly shortly before or shortly after the start of WW2. My timeline involves the world taking a rather implausibly optimistic course toward a global social/liberal democratic federation by the later 21st century, and eventually reaching an interstellar level. Although I've thought out the structure of my Terran Union, its constituent nations and their administrative divisions in obsessive detail, I've been a bit lazy with developing my AH. So my question is, what do you think is the most plausible way to arrive at a situation where a) the Soviet Union and Lithuania successfully acquire the eastern territories of Finland, Poland and Romania as they did in 1939-40 in OTL, and b) the Holocaust and the greater part of WW2 (if not the whole thing) are averted? I've been thinking about using one of the Hitler assassination attempts between 1939 and 1941, but I'm open to suggestions either before or after the start of the war.
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