football11f wrote:Killing Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot and Vladamir Lenin as kids would be a start.
urbanterrorist wrote: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.
Kong Wen wrote:football11f wrote: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.
Mistelten wrote: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 wrote:Mistelten wrote: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.
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