The end of tsardom in Russia was bolsheviks winning the revolution, not the killing of Romanovs. If Whites have won the war then they had like crap ton of options of preserving the tsardom. This wasn't the first case of royal family dying out. They could have picked from local aristocrats. Pick from previously ruling families. Ruriks were still around, that's who Kropotkin was the prince of as far as I know. Or they could have picked from European royal families. British and German royals were cousins of Nicholas. Pick Wilhelms son. Hell pick Willhelm himself, he was unemployed at this point and had an amazing resume. Worst thing you could just do a dumb move like Swedes picking Marshall Bernadotte to be their king.
If some Romanovs survived, they would be nobodies today. Maybe appearing in news every couple of years crying about their ponies and palaces. Probably trying to get some of their stuff back after 1989 and eating shit. No one cares about the current head of House Bourbon or the current head of House Bonaparte. They have about as much chance of getting their throne back as me winning a lottery. And I never buy tickets.
While I think the victory of the Russian Revolution and the establishing of the USSR is one of the most important victories in all human history, it is interesting to think what the world would look like if the Whites had won and then Wilhelm, last emperor of Germany, became the Tsar of Russia. That'd just be a really interesting thing to read in a history book. Maybe in this scenario the Nazis wouldn't rise to power and instead the Weimar Republic would continue (though, without knowing that much about the history, I assume in this scenario the Nazis would come about anyway since the pressure from France and Britain is still there).
Yeah it is fun to speculate. What is an underrated aspect is that the country would be very unstable after the Whites won. I would expect another revolution/civil war in a couple of decades, because the tensions in tsardom would be left unresolved. Bourbons got their French throne back after Revolutionary/Napoleonic wars, but they managed to only keep it for a very short while.
I also wonder how Lenin would be looked at in the alternative history. Maybe instead of a Kolchak movie from Russians we would get a Lenin one.
On Nazis it is also hard to know how they would look like without Soviet Union around. French and British empire would be probably more willing to quell them early to not upset the continental balance.
The end of tsardom in Russia was bolsheviks winning the revolution, not the killing of Romanovs. If Whites have won the war then they had like crap ton of options of preserving the tsardom. This wasn't the first case of royal family dying out. They could have picked from local aristocrats. Pick from previously ruling families. Ruriks were still around, that's who Kropotkin was the prince of as far as I know. Or they could have picked from European royal families. British and German royals were cousins of Nicholas. Pick Wilhelms son. Hell pick Willhelm himself, he was unemployed at this point and had an amazing resume. Worst thing you could just do a dumb move like Swedes picking Marshall Bernadotte to be their king.
If some Romanovs survived, they would be nobodies today. Maybe appearing in news every couple of years crying about their ponies and palaces. Probably trying to get some of their stuff back after 1989 and eating shit. No one cares about the current head of House Bourbon or the current head of House Bonaparte. They have about as much chance of getting their throne back as me winning a lottery. And I never buy tickets.
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While I think the victory of the Russian Revolution and the establishing of the USSR is one of the most important victories in all human history, it is interesting to think what the world would look like if the Whites had won and then Wilhelm, last emperor of Germany, became the Tsar of Russia. That'd just be a really interesting thing to read in a history book. Maybe in this scenario the Nazis wouldn't rise to power and instead the Weimar Republic would continue (though, without knowing that much about the history, I assume in this scenario the Nazis would come about anyway since the pressure from France and Britain is still there).
Yeah it is fun to speculate. What is an underrated aspect is that the country would be very unstable after the Whites won. I would expect another revolution/civil war in a couple of decades, because the tensions in tsardom would be left unresolved. Bourbons got their French throne back after Revolutionary/Napoleonic wars, but they managed to only keep it for a very short while.
I also wonder how Lenin would be looked at in the alternative history. Maybe instead of a Kolchak movie from Russians we would get a Lenin one.
On Nazis it is also hard to know how they would look like without Soviet Union around. French and British empire would be probably more willing to quell them early to not upset the continental balance.