General Mung Beans
Banned
With a POD of no before January 1st 1900 how could the world be utopian as possible plausibly?
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Also inter-race marriages and coupling is encourage to make everyone a tingy shade of beige and brownish amber eyed. Until everybody is the same. This can be accelerated once genetic engineering comes along.
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How about "Rose Glasses Brit Wank", since it pretty much ignores a mountain of things OTL that would disagree. Like, you know, the fact that American isolationism never applied to Latin America and Asia, or the fact that colonies were economic losers even before WW2 and that independence movements had no interest in remaining under European colonialism (leading to a continuation of European crackdowns and brush wars).Is this utopic enough? Or just plain ASB?
Ok, here's what I might do...
Hitler is somehow killed in the spring of 1939. Let's say he falls down the stairs and breaks his neck or something. Over the next decade, Nazi Germany gradually tones down, and democracy is restored in about 1950 or something. The Germans get Danzig back, so they're happy, and form a close alliance with Poland against the Soviets, who remain very weak ITTL due to the lack of German invasion.
The British and French empires are unbroken by the Second World War, and easily beat off Japanese attacks in the 1940s. Increasing protests for Indian independence are eventually granted by Prime Minister Clement Attlee. Following the 1943 general election, Labour takes power, and begins to introduce a gradual socialist reform in Britain, as well as making moves towards independence. When Anthony Eden and the Tories regain power in 1948 they are unable to stop the movement, but instead grant India full Dominion status, which most Indians accept. The French make similar moves in Algeria over the 1950s, seeing how the British were able to pacify India.
The African colonies remain under European rule until te 1970s. While this is certainly a rather racist and repressive rule, it is far better than the civil wars and genocides that ravaged the continent in OTL. In the 1981 General Election, the Conservative Prime Minister, Keith Joseph, and his Foreign Secretary Margaret Thatcher decide to grant Dominion Status to the rest of the Empire. By 2009, the British Empire is a peaceful and prosperous trading bloc.
The United States remains isolationist. Due to the lack of a Second World War, the economy takes far longer than usual to pick up, but by the 1950's, it is finally beginning to boom again. The Civil Rights movement is delayed ITTL, but by the 1970s, it finally begins to emerge in a strong way. The end result is that by 2009, the United States is as tolerant as it is today.
The Soviet Union is ironically ITTL crippled by the lack of a major push to unite before the Nazi threat. Independence movements in the 1950s are brutally repressed, but they continue throughout the 60s. In 1974, the Soviet Union begins attempts at reform, which eventually lead to the system somewhat resembling modern China, though slightly more open. The economy booms, and the state is able to ease restriction on its citizens behaviour, since being a Soviet citizen is far more desirable ITTL than it ever was before.
20th century is hard.
The best way to do this would be to have the civil war with a better, democratic, lasting outcome rather than a puritan dictatorship but they still get into imperialism later on. Nicer world all round.
Hmm...I suppose early quashing of Hitler and perhaps fascism in general then WW2 is the big smack down of the Stalinists? Leave the whole of the second half of the 20th century sans bad guy rather than just a period in the 1990s.