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To be honest, I'm surprised that Hindenburg didn't retire in 1932 due to his age and instead endorse Hugo Eckener. One would think that a senile old man would actually want to retire as soon as possible, after all.

What's his personality like in this TL?

@Ricardolindo Here's what David T previously wrote about this topic on alternatehistory.com: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/no-stalin.398172/ Kind of hard to view the pre-Stalin Soviet Union as a paradise when it had the Red Terror, Lenin using chemical weapons against the...

Was Operation Sea Lion ever actually feasible, though?

Screw Hindenburg! :( You know, I think that it's a huge shame that he lived until 1934 and not died a couple years or more earlier. Hugo Eckener would have been much better at dealing with Hitler. He, unlike Hindenburg, was much more passionate about his opposition to Nazism, after all...

But the Nazis didn't have enough for a governing coalition on their own. Or would Hindenburg still prefer a coalition with Nazis than a coalition supported by Communists even from outside of the coalition?

What do you think about the idea of the Soviet Union (one without Stalin) ordering the German Communists to support an anti-Nazi German governing coalition in 1932-1933 in order to block Hitler's and the Nazis' rise to power in Germany?

Would he actually allow free speech/expression, free emigration, free internal migration, and a multiparty system?

I have heard Wolfpaw and other people on alternatehistory.com say that Trotsky wasn't a serious contender for the Soviet top job after Lenin's death since he was too hated--unless, of course, he was a figurehead for someone else. Trotsky as Soviet leader would, of course, also give further...

What would the Soviet Union have looked like without Joseph Stalin? Would forced collectivization still occur? Would there be more freedoms, such as freedom of speech/expression or at least the freedom to emigrate and/or to move around the country more freely? Would there be any extremely...