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Originally Posted by Marilyn Manson
The victory of the Central Powers would - we can say this with almost total certainity - have put the kibosh on Nazism, and quite possibly Italian Fascism too. (On the reasonable assumption Italy joins the Central Powers and is rewarded territorially, and doesn't have the meat-grinder of the Isonzo.)
I think that we can all agree that would have been pretty good for the world in general.
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I don't think this is the sort of historical claim you can make. It would be quite easy to envision the rise of fascism in france or britain with the situations being reversed.