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I've been reading some nifty Kaiserreich AARs, and realized something: so much of AH seems semi-sanitized, even if when they contain massive amounts of war. In even the most elaborate of online timelines, there aren't many that mirror the stupidities, excesses, and atrocities we can easily see in the last few centuries. While you get all sorts of wars, including nuclear ones or bloody revolutions, it's usually equal opportunity evil. In contrast to real world history, with all of its mass race-based killings or colonialist-induced famines.
Am I under the wrong impression, or do most online (and otherwise) AH tend to shy away from those concepts? I usually do indeed tend to see this in 1900 timelines, namely the alt-WWI ending ones. And if I'm not wrong, then what is the cause of this? Is it because of squeamish of depicting alt-pogroms and fictional Unit 731's? Is it because the difficulty in imagining the improbable wretched stupidity of Ceauşescu's regime or of modern North Korea?