Skallagrim
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Thanks! i would be happy to see that,too.
With one difference - Hlond as pope from 1930 could be killed by germans in 1943,and that would be big change.
But if not - commies could murder him in 1948,so here he could live till 1960 or later if germans do not kill him.
No matter what would happen,he would certainly show the world in 1939 that Hitler and Sralin are allies.
If Hlond is Pope, I'm sure he's in the Vatican. He was right-wing to be sure, and he'd probably get on with the Italian fascists just fine. Certainly at first (since they were, at least, generally favourable towards Catholic tradition, and didn't support Hitlerist nonsense). So a possible effect here is that a sympathetic Holy See has the ear of the Duce, and encourages him to maintain his intitial anti-Hitler position. When Hitler invades Austria, you see Italy, France and Austria (and almost certainly Poland, to some degree) all go against Germany.
I'm confident Hitler would lose, at that point. So you get a more normal Germany (ruled by conservatives), and Poland, France, Italy and Austria are all allied. When Stalin invades Europe (which he surely would), Europe is pretty much united against him. Hard fight, but I don't think the commies win.
That would be a much better timeline than OTL. Very conservative Europe, Nazis removed early, and communism forever seen as the "great enemy" that only traitors can support.
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I've read some things that said a Cadre of homosexuals entered into the priesthood in the 60s. With the intention of undermining the moral legitimacy of the Roman Catholic church. No idea if it's factual but it was an interesting little theory in my opinion
And they were all ninja-trained too, I gather?
I mean... it sounds like a conspiracy tale, but when you consider the Frankfurter Schule and the degree to which they (deliberately, by their own account!) infiltrated all sorts of institutions to turn them towards leftism...
Well. At the very least, you can't rule out that they made it into the Vatican, too.
(Not sure about the 'gayness' of these infiltration plans, of course, but the Frankfurter Schule certainly did have a higher-than-average percentage of homosexuals. All of the depraved, young-boy-fucking sort, too. Go figure.)
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