Just for sci-fi indulgence, Tesla receives better funding?
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Just for sci-fi indulgence, Tesla receives better funding?
The 20th century can be vastly improved, simply by making sure three leaders, Hitler, Mao and Stalin, never acheive any form of significant political power.
This can be acheived in several ways, but one way I can think of is by having Vladimir Lenin live a few more years by avoiding his attempted assasination.
He publicly reads Lenin’s Testimony and Stalin is removed as General Secretary, with Trotsky or a similar Soviet leader attaining his position.
This avoids the policy of Social Fascism, with Communist parties in Germany cooperating with Social Democrats to prevent Hitler from attaining power.
In China, with Trotsky in charge of the USSR Chen Duxiu receives support instead of Mao and a policy of cooperating with Nationalist China continues.
This most likely butterflies World War 2, while Communist parties are able to exert continued pressure throughout the rest of the world.
With the avoidance of World War 2 Europes colonies are released more slowly, hopefully allowing them to establish firmer democratic traditions
However it’s also possible that without World War 2 bankrupting countries like Britain they’d be significantly more willing to use extreme force to maintain control over countries like India.
Hitler, Stalin and Mao were responsible for 80-120 million people, making the world significantly better off without them.