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There are many many people who think that the holocaust was a hoax and there are also people who think that the americans and the other allies did not help soon enough. what is your opinion on this?
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Hmm...
I think the world would be much like it is now, only with economic power more concentrated in the Far East than in Europe. Think about it: The Soviet Union collapsed from within. Why? Not because of military might -- because its government became too oppressive and at the same time the leaders became too weak. Nazi Germany and the USSR would have balanced each other out. Eventually they would have to arrive at some sort of peace, at which time the Cold War would begin -- only between the Nazis and Soviets. Eventually, both nations would have collapsed for that reason -- dictatorships never end well. The first dictator is always the strongest, but after that they become weaker and weaker. Hitler would have been replaced by Goering, who quite frankly was an incomptetent fool. Goering eventually would have led to democratic resistance uprisings in France and Italy (in August '43, Southern Italy declared itself independent of the rest of Italy and declared war on Mussolini -- this is a month before the Allies landed in Italy). I could see the collapse of Nazi Germany as early as 1980. It is harder to coordinate a revolution in Russia, so the USSR would probably have lasted until as early as 1985 and as late as 2000. Remember that Gorbachev was a very open minded but weak leader, who basically saw that the USSR could not last and broke it up into the CIS. Under these situations, Russia would be basically the same today as it would be in the alternate history. In fact, the only area that would be significantly different under my alternate history would be Western Europe (France/Germany/Italy), which would likely be economically much weaker, but socially still similar, although Germany might be slightly more repressive than it is today. But still, it wouldn't be our fight. |
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