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This is a topic in direct opposition to the WW2 fandom that generally permeates alternate history. This topic has come up before, but I feel that the discussion always gets lost in certain details. We tend to focus on geopolitical issues, while ignoring socio-cultural-political factors. The Second World War changed everything, and there are certain things that were postponed or fell by the way side because WW2 intervened. One wonders what would have happened with women's rights, civil rights, the Depression and many other factors had there no been a Second World War. One wonders what the effect would have been of a generation of young men not going off to war, and not being psychologically changed by it (good and bad). For that matter, everyone at home was psychologically changed by being in wartime and wartime production; everyone was a soldier. One wonders at the economic factors of avoiding the war, and the issue of the men who were wounded or killed remaining alive and at home. The geopolitical situation is fair game, but I feel that the wider picture needs to be taken into account and discussed. And the world would not have remained static either, for that matter. It would have progressed, but it would have looked different.

What if there were no Second World War?
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