Sure bro. I'll stop thinking "Russia having a seat at Versailles would have changed history" because it would somehow not change history, and that's something you can objectively prove, lol.
I'll tell you what definitely wouldn't have happened though.
The repeated Bolshevik genocides of Jewish people.
I'll not comment on your apparent belief that Nazism was some fated historical inevitability, which sure seems like something a Nazi would believe and not a Marxist.
The imperial powers that were direct threats to the revolution and they were already fighting, buddy, aka the Ottomans and the Germans. Hey, remind me how that worked out in the end? Did the People's Government get a seat at Versailles? No? Had to fight a war against fucking Poland first and then get even more people killed by Germany later?
And your argument is "the decision was unpopular," not that it was wrong.
You also find that they were not overthrown. Their political alliance was couped, like what happens in a "real democracy" when you push an unpopular policy. Even then, they supported the Bolsheviks anyways in the civil war.
Generally speaking, it's considered rude to murder all of your fellow socialists anyways if that happens.
Describe what you consider the "third way" that isn't capitalists owning the means of production, workers owning the means, or the state owning the means.
If you didn't willingly ignore the sins of "your side" that'd be valid.
Meanwhile, the only criticism you launch at the Mensheviks is... They wanted to keep fighting the imperial powers?
Don't get me wrong, it was just a bad decision, but it wasn't, ya know, genociding fellow socialists.
I'd personally criticize them for thinking they needed to follow the traditional Marxist thought that economic liberalism was a required stage on the path to socialism.
I mean, it's just literally what they call themselves. Sure, they lie or don't know what the fuck they're talking about, but that's kind of their whole deal.
When your purges actually violate literally every Marxist principle and sabotage the revolution, isn't it kind of fair to accuse Bolsheviks, or at least the leadership, of being fake communists?
Stalin was a counterrevolutionary, die mad about it, we're Menshevik posting in this bitch.
Yeah, people don't give up power willingly, they have to be forced. Especially when they think it's something they rightfully own.
At the end of the day it's just self interest in action.
You could do it non-violently... In the sense that the Civil Rights Movement or Indian Independence were non-violent.
Mostly.
And there was certainly violence directed against them.
And it only worked because there were enough people who very, very firmly believed in the cause... And there's always, always the implication of or else.
Just among so many other things, like the lead poisoned baby food from March this year, you clown, the FDA was established in 1906, and Republicans are, right now, trying to abolish child labor laws and hiring 12 year olds in meat packing plants.