Would you change any events of the last 100 years of history

[Roy]

If you could would you change any of the events in the past 100 years. iwould like to hear your opinions

[football11f]

Killing Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot and Vladamir Lenin as kids would be a start.

[Kong Wen]

Killing Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot and Vladamir Lenin as kids would be a start.

Or simply preventing the atrocities for which they were responsible without going nuts and killing them. But if it wasn't them, it would be someone else. Good call on Lenin, though. He kick-started a poorly-conceived movement that undermined socialism's potential. It would have been better for world politics if it had been allowed to develop naturally.

Since I'm not big on super-speculative history (who knows what the world would be like if there had been no WWII, for example?!), I'll pick something that wouldn't change the course of mankind as drastically. Maybe persuade the Beatles to stay together. Or prevent 9/11, for a more recent option.

[Wo Long]

No. History happened the way at did and we could make it 100 times worse by changing the slightest thing. I wouldn't risk changing a thing.

[urbanterrorist]

Ahh Wo Long I see you speak of the Butterfly effect.

But if it did not apply to this situation I would have to say stopping the assasination of JFK, Martin Luther King, RFK, and Malcolm X.

[Wo Long]

Ahh Wo Long I see you speak of the Butterfly effect.

But if it did not apply to this situation I would have to say stopping the assasination of JFK, Martin Luther King, RFK, and Malcolm X.

Being able to change the last 10 minutes or so wouldn't be bad (so if you accidentally said something at the wrong time or whatever, you could change it), but there are far too many catastrophic consequences that could befall humanity. How do we know that out of over 6 million Jews plus the millions of others that were slaughtered in the Holocaust, there wasn't another Hitler or Dong Zhuo or Oprah Winfrey? I wouldn't ever take that chance.

[Mistelten]

Killing Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot and Vladamir Lenin as kids would be a start.

Or simply preventing the atrocities for which they were responsible without going nuts and killing them. But if it wasn't them, it would be someone else. Good call on Lenin, though. He kick-started a poorly-conceived movement that undermined socialism's potential. It would have been better for world politics if it had been allowed to develop naturally.

Do you think things would have progressed better if Kerensky and his government had more time? I think at least without Lenin, free elections would have been worth something and there probably wouldn't have been a civil war.

[Kong Wen]

Do you think things would have progressed better if Kerensky and his government had more time? I think at least without Lenin, free elections would have been worth something and there probably wouldn't have been a civil war.

I guess I meant on a global level rather than specifically the effect on Russia/USSR. Socialism would be a whole different ball-game without Lenin's revolution and the subsequent monolithic influence the USSR had on communist movements across Europe and in Asia. Imagine if socialism had been allowed to emerge (much later) as a viable political alternative in the USA, without the Cold War bad-guy stigma to bog it down.

[Shi Tong]

I would prevent any sort of political fundamentalism, but some indication to the world as to why it's wrong.

ie- no Hitler, no Mousolini, but with the knowledge that these people are terrible and that they should never take control of a country (otherwise basically World Wars could happen all the same)

Also I would like to prevent the rise of governments who dont allow demonstrations and free speech like the Chinese one who killed those students at Tien An Men.

[Snake]

Do you think things would have progressed better if Kerensky and his government had more time? I think at least without Lenin, free elections would have been worth something and there probably wouldn't have been a civil war.

I guess I meant on a global level rather than specifically the effect on Russia/USSR. Socialism would be a whole different ball-game without Lenin's revolution and the subsequent monolithic influence the USSR had on communist movements across Europe and in Asia. Imagine if socialism had been allowed to emerge (much later) as a viable political alternative in the USA, without the Cold War bad-guy stigma to bog it down.

The Constituent Assembly was pretty darn Socialist and Commie anyway.