Timeline For: A Socialist World Point of Difference: The POD in this timeline is broad and somewhat vague, Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin are never born, instead being replaced by two much nicer and more caring people, Catherine Lenin and Benito Stalin, both of whom grow up with no political interests and live normal lives before the Russian Revolution, after which they escape from the murderous bands of revolutionaries ruling certain parts of the country and escape to Holland, where they live out the rest of their lives in peace. Instead, Leon (I think that was his name) Trotsky goes about promoting democratically achieved Socialism, and the rest is in the timeline..