1991: No August Coup in the USSR

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The August Coup was an attempt group of members of the Soviet Union's government briefly deposed Soviet president Gorbachev and attempted to take control of the country. The coup leaders were hardline members of the Communist Party who felt that Gorbachev's reform program had gone too far and that a new union treaty that he had negotiated dispersed too much of the central government's power to the republics. Although the coup collapsed in only three days and Gorbachev returned to power, the event crushed the Soviet leader's hopes that the union could be held together in at least a decentralized form. The SU collapsed a few months later.

So what if there was no coup attempt?
 
Even if there is no coup in Moscow in August 1991, still USSR will collapse because Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia already secede from USSR and USSR would collapse in February 1992 if there's no coup.
 
Both Coup and stance of Baltic countries (who sat quiet as scared mice in summer of 1991, been there, seen that) are largely irrelevant to USSR's fate. It was Yeltsin's and Kravchuk's burning desire to pull the carpet from under the Gorbatchov and Union's authorities that killed USSR. 'Stans had no say in this decision and were actually very much irked by it and Caucasians were not happy with Union but preferred it to collapse they feared in the near future (those fears proven right by Karabakh and Abkhazia).
 
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