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Assume that WW1 is avoided, and the European powers trundle along without ever giving into any of the flashpoints that erupted over the years (if you’re of the school of thought that a major European war - and WW1 in particular - was inevitable, this is probably not the thread for you). With this peace, no major power ever embraces authoritarian ideologies like Fascism or Communism; not to say that there wouldn’t be authoritarian states, of course. Maybe a few minor states give them a whirl (like a balkan country), maybe some colonial populations find them attractive, but nothing like Italy Spain or Germany embracing fascism, or Russia or China embracing communism.

What might the world opinion be of these ideologies, without first hand experience of them on a large scale? For anyone concerned with extrapolating too far into the future on such a vague outline, lets say we’re looking at opinions in an alt-1945. That gives us a nice inflection point from our history, and 30 years of difference.
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