When is the earliest point after 1945 that the Soviet Union could collapse? How might this happen without a nuclear war or some other global conflict?
An additional way would be for the Soviets to try for all of Western Europe, prior to 1949, and having the United States use atomic weapons to win the war.
..........When is the earliest point after 1945 that the Soviet Union could collapse? How might this happen without a nuclear war or some other global conflict?
When is the earliest point after 1945 that the Soviet Union could collapse? How might this happen without a nuclear war or some other global conflict?
If Beria had a backbone?
In fact the odd thing about the Soviet Union was there were so many powerful individuals who simply went down without fight when there could had been at minimal 10 civil wars in the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1990.
Can we go as early as Stalin dying without a clear successor and heavy infighting essentially demolishing the party? After a few years of neglect, people in non-Russia start to complain &c. while America not-so-silently supports this?
Without the rise of oil prices in seventies USSR may not be destabilised, since that made big blow was fall of prices later.But it might be possible to avoid the dramatic rise in oil prices in the seventies somehow. Not sure exactly how that would be done though. Nevertheless, if my sources are correct, if you keep oil cheap, the USSR is going to be destablized about a decade ahead of schedule, however whether that would lead to an outright collapse is another question entirely.
Can we go as early as Stalin dying without a clear successor and heavy infighting essentially demolishing the party? After a few years of neglect, people in non-Russia start to complain &c. while America not-so-silently supports this?