# WI A Different Fuehrer

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 8, 2011, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wi-a-different-fuehrer/577626 "2011-04-08T03:51:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 12, 2011, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wi-a-different-fuehrer/577626/61 "2011-04-12T04:06:25Z")

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> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#):
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> But the USSR itself would be under horrible dictatorship.

Left alone they might grow out of it. China has, to great degree, and nobody made them. (Still an authoritarian state, but when have Russia or China not been authoritarian states?) If not, it’s still better for to them to avoid a war that, in our timeline, killed 27 million of the Soviet people.

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