WI Prince Alexei escaped?

WI the prince escaped in February 1918.

What effect would this have on the civil war?

Would the Whites be more unified?

Would Hitler still rise to power?

What would Russia look like without the Five Year Plans of Stalin?
 
I would say "Nothing". Alexei was 9 y.o. very sick youngster, who didn't have a popular party or some uniform group among old elites to back him. Besides, despite Bolshevik carnage, enough cadet branches of Romanovs did survive to head hypothetical monarchist revival movement, would it be any appetite for tsarism reloaded among Russian populace. The mere fact that monarchism did not become significant force IOTL (monarchists were but one of fractions among Whites, and not a major one) places a huge heavy cast-iron lid on any "monarchist miracle" TL.
 

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I would say "Nothing". Alexei was 9 y.o. very sick youngster, who didn't have a popular party or some uniform group among old elites to back him. Besides, despite Bolshevik carnage, enough cadet branches of Romanovs did survive to head hypothetical monarchist revival movement, would it be any appetite for tsarism reloaded among Russian populace. The mere fact that monarchism did not become significant force IOTL (monarchists were but one of fractions among Whites, and not a major one) places a huge heavy cast-iron lid on any "monarchist miracle" TL.

Alexei was actually 13 (two weeks shy of turning 14) when he died. But I agree by 1918 the monarchy was in need of foreign support. A year earlier and this would be more doable. To prevent the USSR from rising though we can eliminate some of its early leadership, Lenin arrives in Finland Station where he is greeted by the Tsar's Personal Guard and gets a severe case of led poisoning. The Tsar still falls, and a Fascist-like government rises in Russia.
 
hold it, hungary here we come

What if, one of the White warlords, Dakin, or Korliov most likely, desides, to play the role of a horthy, to the young Tsarivich?
He might be a worth while symbol of old mother russia?
 
Monarchism was at the very least severely discredited. It would take several additional PoDs to get it to work in any meaningful way.
 
NEVER underestamate a victum

The tsar may have been.
This noble, crippled near martyer, was not.
Coming out of the darkness to save his people from Godless boloshvicks.
That would play very well
 
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