valio_98 said:Germany would suffer a much worse
defeat in WWI (if it enter si, of course). .
Alayta said:...
This way, Germany would not stumble into a war for austria.
\valio_98 said:As we go further, is becomes more uncertain but if the WWII
follows the OTL scenario, the "Hitler" will win easily against the
tsarist Russia, and then starve the UK to defeat. Enters a long
Germany-vs.-US cold war.
Brilliantlight said:\
Why? The Russian economy was expanding the fastest just prior to WWI not under Stalin. My guess is that the Russians would have been stronger without Communism.
Ice-Titan said:Russia may have been expanding fastest just prior to WW1, but where still far far behind most of the Western Powers, and they where in dept for all this expanding.
Brilliantlight said:That means they would have caught up a bit more then under Stalin. They wouldn't have been at Western standards but they weren't under Stalin either.
Ice-Titan said:-What makes you think this, like i said Russia may have undergone lots of growth, but at a great cost, and if they kept growing sooner or later the Economy would totaly collapse from all the dept it would have to pay, like Germany in the 20s.
Matthew Craw said:I never realised how damaging growth was for an economy, apparently all economists and policy makers have been pursuing the wrong goal for generations!
Brilliantlight said:\
Why? The Russian economy was expanding the fastest just prior to WWI not under Stalin. My guess is that the Russians would have been stronger without Communism.
Matthew Craw said:I never realised how damaging growth was for an economy, apparently all economists and policy makers have been pursuing the wrong goal for generations!
valio_98 said:Because the Tsarist Russia will probably evolve into a weak democracy, comparable or weaker than France. And see what happened to France in WWII.
Ice-Titan said:Growth is good, but to much groth is very bad, it creates high inflation.
George Carty said:In WWII the Russians unlike the French were fighting for the survival of their people against a genocidal enemy. Nothing makes soldiers fight like knowing the enemy takes no prisoners...