What if Hitler+Stalin Clean Shaven?

Will this affect their rise to power? Do moustaches remain more fashionable? Will people today be less fascinated by these 2 individuals?
 

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I'm always surprised they had facial hair. The last America voted a man in with facial hair was way back with Taft!
 
I'm always surprised they had facial hair. The last America voted a man in with facial hair was way back with Taft!

Tom Dewey did have a mustache, though. He ran for office repeatedly, and had two chances to get it (44 and 48)

I would interpret this to put a negative image of being clean shaven, and the result is that mustaches would become a bit more fashionable whereas cleanshaven cuts would be less fashionable.

My guess: More acceptance for Mustaches at higher level of governments and in the workplace--and so you'd see Mustached Presidents after 1940s--as well as the Bloc mustache never going out of fashion.
 
Who says mustaches are unfashionable? Hitler and Stalin's facial hair affected history about as much as Lincoln's did.
 
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and I give you Charlie Chaplin who could not love the little Tramp.
 
I think Hitler chose his mustache and haircut to create a "look" that was distinctive. I do not know about Stalin. The dress code that mandated a
"soldier short and shaven" look emerged in the thirties.
 
I think Hitler chose his mustache and haircut to create a "look" that was distinctive. I do not know about Stalin. The dress code that mandated a
"soldier short and shaven" look emerged in the thirties.

Stalin kept his mustache because it represented his origins from the hardworking peasants and because having a mustache makes it easier for him to lie by obscuring his words.

There's also a story that Hitler as a WW1 officer loved cream cakes, and his hipper, more normal mustache was discarded because he kept getting hairs on his cream, and cream on his mustache.
 
I think you'd need more positive reinforcement as well in order to make it popular. In other words, not only would Hitler and Stalin need to be clean-shaven, you'd have to put a big 'ol handlebar 'stache on Ike and have Churchill spearhead the return of the muttonchops.
 
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