AHC: End the Cold War By 1980 Peacefully

The Sino-Soviet border clashes of '69 get out of hand similar to that one TL that's still active, except this one results in a war that lasts for a couple years that basically devastate both sides, even though the USSR is the technical "winner". The USSR is too financially weak to support its Eastern bloc puppet states and a "Warsaw" spring of sorts happen around the place throughout the 70's, of which prove to be too much for the USSR to handle and of course the spring comes to Moscow with many protests and separatists wrecking havoc around the country of which forces the leadership to call it quits thanks to the addition of sanctions from the west (led by a US with a 1976 Reagan presidency). The USSR breaks into pieces by 1979 and a Eurasian Sovereign Republic is proclaimed, leading to a new era of democracy and prosperity in the decades to come.
 
Israel agrees to allow U.N. peacekeepers within a couple miles on its side of the border so Nasser can't just dispose of them as an obstacle by dismissing them with a letter. This butterflies the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli conflicts, and by extension the OPEC oil embargo. This causes far lower international oil prices, which devastates the Soviet Union economically, leading all of its economic problems to reach critical mass much earlier. Couple it with some luck and it ends in 1980.
 
1. Soviet Union comes out from WW2 even in worse situation as OTL and it eventually collapses on 1970's.
2. Messier situation after Stalin's death and we see Soviet Civil War and collapse of USSR.
3. Stalin lives longer and all is ruined and USSR collapses earlier.
 
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