I mean took control and kept control and continue control until the present day. England would be included in this, as well as Russia.
I realise tyrannical rulers still exist today but what chance would there be of removing them without any sort of democratic reigime in europe? Of course there is the US but they will find it difficult with the Japanese in the Pacific and Germans in the atlantic to mount any sort of liberation except on the south american peninsula.
Of course all this is my imagination but I'm sure something much worse could have happened without my greatest event.