Ask/Tell us about the Soviet Union!

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icantfindaname posted:

Gorbachov was a good guy, but the USSR's problems ran so deep there was no fixing them. There could have been a China style economic liberalization without political liberalization, but Gorbachov wanted political liberalization first and foremost. If he had stayed in power I guess he might have been able to fix Russia's economy more successfully than what happened IRL (complete failure) but I don't really think it would have been possible for a former Party member to remain in control of the post-Communist Russia

Did the coup plotters stand a chance or was that enterprise doomed from the start?

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