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Re:Are we living at the 'hinge of history'? by BurningFrog on Sunday September 27, 2020 @01:22AM (#24604415)
WW1 is a very good candidate. It created the Soviet Union and Hitler and pretty much all of history since.

It's also extra interesting, because if Gavrilo Princip hadn't randomly ran into the Archduke's car, history might have turned out very differently.

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Re:Are we living at the 'hinge of history'? by WalterBright on Sunday September 27, 2020 @06:34AM (#24605651)
There would have just been another spark for WW1.
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Re:Are we living at the 'hinge of history'? by BurningFrog on Sunday September 27, 2020 @11:39AM (#24607433)
Maybe. It is truly unknowable.
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Re:Are we living at the 'hinge of history'? by WalterBright on Sunday September 27, 2020 @03:19PM (#24609385)
That's right, but the nascent combatants were spoiling for a fight and just needed an excuse.
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