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I've been thinking of an idea where America after WWI becomes a socialist state that still has a strong, party-based authority but is tolerant of more civil liberties than the USSR was.
And I just wanted to ask: what kind of POD would achieve this?

I'd imagined a world where Teddy Roosevelt was either never elected and the tensions between the people and the trusts reach a breaking point; or gets butterflied into becoming a socialist revolutionary.
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