Spearhead
Gulf coast redneck hippy
+731|7118|Tampa Bay Florida
If the Soviet Union never existed, Nazi Germany would still be around today.
KEN-JENNINGS
I am all that is MOD!
+2,991|7060|949

If the USSR did not exist, it would be necessary for man to create it.

Credit to Voltaire.
Spark
liquid fluoride thorium reactor
+874|7102|Canberra, AUS
Predicting the past can be tricky.
Well...

I would've thought that something similar to the USSR would've emerged. Just looking at the the state of Russia today with a non-autocratic political system suggests that.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
twiistaaa
Member
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DoctaStrangelove wrote:

sergeriver wrote:

DoctaStrangelove wrote:

Historical Hypothetics are teh suck.
They are a game for the mind.
We have no way of knowing what could have happened. Asking people what they think would have happened in the distant past is stupid because they have no way of really knowing. They are just stupid and pointless. Most history majors understand this and thus don't bother with them.
so even if its fun to speculate we shouldn't because its stupid and pointless? why do we play computer games?

Spearhead wrote:

If the Soviet Union never existed, Nazi Germany would still be around today.
america had the bomb still. germany didn't, they actually abandoned the project.

Last edited by twiistaaa (2008-02-25 22:11:33)

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