[justshutupandtakeit]

You may be right with regard to further fragmentation.

Had the Germans won WWI the milirarism of the Kaiser would have been rewarded. You should know that the Nazi party was a product of the German Army's political manuvering and that the Lenin cell was conveyed into Russia by the German Army. Russia was a dead letter as a viable country.

Like Slavery Communism had to be allowed to expose itself through its evil deeds and impracticality.

[Wallace T.]

It would have been better for America had slavery been abolished in the late 1700s, before Western expansion and the effects of the cotton gin on agriculture permanently ingrained the institution into Southern life. Jefferson, Madison, and other Founding Fathers refused to acknowledge the contradiction between their libertarian rhetoric and the existence of slavery. Had slavery been abolished, the western South may have been developed by smaller farmers, including European immigrants, as the Midwest was. Capital may have flowed into manufacturing, as it did in the North. As a result, the agriculture vs. industry conflict that led to the tariff wars in the antebellum era would not have divided the regions.

Likewise, had the Bolshevik Revolution failed, as did similar uprisings in Hungary and Germany, tens of millions of human lives would have been spared. Tsarism was an oppressive system, to be sure, but it was benign in comparison with the butchery of Lenin, Stalin, and their henchmen. Moreover, Russian civilization and even the mental state of Russians were decimated by 70 years of oppression almost unparalleled in human history.