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Post by patrick1978 on Oct 1, 2017 3:05:08 GMT
Despite the signing of the Belavezha Accords, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev chooses not to resign and the Soviet Union continues to exist as a rump entity limited solely to the Kremlin.
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dayton3
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Post by dayton3 on Oct 15, 2017 22:51:11 GMT
Why do we define the Soviet Union existing solely with Gorbachev remaining in power?
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Post by lordroel on Oct 16, 2017 3:57:17 GMT
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Post by dayton3 on Oct 18, 2017 0:03:24 GMT
How? The Soviets were not in any shape to fight a major war by 1991. In a conventional war they would've probably gotten steamrolled by NATO. |
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Post by stevep on Oct 18, 2017 11:25:40 GMT
How? The Soviets were not in any shape to fight a major war by 1991. In a conventional war they would've probably gotten steamrolled by NATO. That might be the danger? If some hard liners got in control and triggered a conflict they would be losing fairly quickly and hence might be tempted to go nuclear to 'save' the Soviet empire. |
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Post by lordroel on Oct 18, 2017 14:01:35 GMT
How? The Soviets were not in any shape to fight a major war by 1991. In a conventional war they would've probably gotten steamrolled by NATO. That might be the danger? If some hard liners got in control and triggered a conflict they would be losing fairly quickly and hence might be tempted to go nuclear to 'save' the Soviet empire. So the destruction of the Soviet Union can go two ways, soft as OTL ore hard as you can see in the World War III (Der Dritte Weltkrieg) documentary. |
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