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  • Anvilicious:
    • What If Russia Won The Crimean War? ends rather suddenly with a message from the author that a problem with the Alternate History genre as a whole are people taking relatively unimportant events and playing them up as this huge event that could've changed history. As noted in the video, if Russia had won the war, they could've simply annexed all of the Ottomans' Balkan regions, but stated it was more likely they simply kept their title as protectors of Orthodox Christians as it would otherwise push their ally in Austria-Hungary away.
    • Could Germany Conquer The Soviet Union?, which focuses on whether or not lend lease toppled the German-Soviet War in the Soviets' favor based on something Josef Stalin said, and people criticizing a previous video for having them victorious. He states through mountains of evidence that while lend lease certainly helped the Soviets in their war, it wasn't a crucial part of it and simply ended it quicker. At the end of the day, while no lend lease would've resulted in even more deaths, the Germans' defeat was simply inevitable.
  • Magnificent Bastard ("What if Stalin Commanded Zombies?"): Grigori Rasputin is depicted here as a scheming and skilled wizard. Foreseeing his death, Rasputin hid his soul in a book, appearing in said form to Josef Stalin in the desperate times of World War II. Manipulating Stalin by promising him an unbeatable army, Rasputin creates an army of zombies to harvest souls of those they kill and goads Stalin into killing more via promises of eternal life and intimidation. After attaining enough power, Rasputin kills Stalin and hijacks his body, tricks the Soviet leadership into attending a meeting to be slaughtered by zombies, and baits the Allies and Germans into advancing into Russia so that they are left defenseless to his aquatic zombies, ending the video on the cusp of victory.
  • Too Good to Last: The Alternate History Guild, which would've seen community-collaborated alternate history videos was a neat concept, but got cancelled after two videos after viewers informed him of the plagiarism concerns. Subverted as Rewriting History ended up taking over afterwards.

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