08-10-2020, 02:42 PM
The last Crisis Era could have gone very badly. had Satan Incarnate hd the patience to squeeze Britain in an ever-tighter blockade, then he might have won the war in the West before turning against the Soviet Union. British Jews who escaped the Holocaust in our timeline because the Briotish kept the Wehrmacht, Gestapo, and SS out of their country would have been another horrible addition to the Holocaust toll. Without an effective ally for Lend-Lease deliveries to the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union might have fallen -- or having been mauled badly it might have won, only to spread Stalinist horror all the way to Lisbon and Galway. Either way, the whole of Europe descends into a new Dark Age. A Japanese conquest of Australia and New Zealand would have led to massacres on the scale of Europeans against First Peoples in the Americas... the Japanese learned colonial btrutality quite well from the experts -- Europeans and white Americans.
The worst that I could imagine is a world in which not gangsters took over not only Germany and Japan -- but just imagine the 1915 Klan as a partner in a fascist crime wave.
History is not written in stone until it is written in stone. How could the Crisis of 1940 gone better? Quite simply, Kerensky gets a chance to pull Russia out of the war, and his successor is able to assemble a grand coalition againt Hitler... ot, better yet, Hitler never gets a chance to seize power. Maybe the victors, scared of what Hitler might have done, decide to relax the Versailles settlement. (The democracies squeezed Weimar Germany but kissed up to Hitler. How foolish! bad 3T behavior makes a 4T nasty and dangerous..
The worst that I could imagine is a world in which not gangsters took over not only Germany and Japan -- but just imagine the 1915 Klan as a partner in a fascist crime wave.
History is not written in stone until it is written in stone. How could the Crisis of 1940 gone better? Quite simply, Kerensky gets a chance to pull Russia out of the war, and his successor is able to assemble a grand coalition againt Hitler... ot, better yet, Hitler never gets a chance to seize power. Maybe the victors, scared of what Hitler might have done, decide to relax the Versailles settlement. (The democracies squeezed Weimar Germany but kissed up to Hitler. How foolish! bad 3T behavior makes a 4T nasty and dangerous..
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
