AHC: Russia with the most geopolitical power post-USSR-breakup

Arctofire

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In 1993 parliament wins the constitutional crisis, and a nationalist semi-socialist regime is established with Alexander Rutkosky as president. He reverses a lot of Yeltsin's economic policies, and declares a revival of socialism in Russia. Russia starts building up it's military again, and annexes Crimea during the 1990s, believing it to be rightful Russian territory.
 

samcster94

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In 1993 parliament wins the constitutional crisis, and a nationalist semi-socialist regime is established with Alexander Rutkosky as president. He reverses a lot of Yeltsin's economic policies, and declares a revival of socialism in Russia. Russia starts building up it's military again, and annexes Crimea during the 1990s, believing it to be rightful Russian territory.
What becomes of Belarus?
 

FBKampfer

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If they didn’t drop the claims then the US, Britain, France, and USSR/Russia wouldn’t have allowed German reunification.


They could just renege on their renunciation of claims.

Its not like they weren't under duress at the expense of a really paranoid Thacherian UK, and a trembling France.
 

BigBlueBox

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They could just renege on their renunciation of claims.

Its not like they weren't under duress at the expense of a really paranoid Thacherian UK, and a trembling France.
An entrenched, unmodifiable clause was added to the German Basic Law preventing Germany from claiming any territory beyond its borders after the 2+4 Treaty. If the Basic Law was abolished altogether, America and France would intervene to “restore constitutional order” in Germany, assuming the Germans didn’t rectify the situation on their own.
 
In 1993 parliament wins the constitutional crisis, and a nationalist semi-socialist regime is established with Alexander Rutkosky as president. He reverses a lot of Yeltsin's economic policies, and declares a revival of socialism in Russia. Russia starts building up it's military again, and annexes Crimea during the 1990s, believing it to be rightful Russian territory.

It could not work this way.

The socialist soviet economy had been collapsing for years. This made the gigantic arsenal of the soviet army, which already was unnecessary, unsustainable. And the Yeltsinian reforms hastened and worsened the collapse, selling huge valuable assets to cronies for a pittance.

To have post soviet Russia retain more geopolitical power, you need the russian economy not to collapse as dramatically as it did OTL.

This is this relative economic resurgence that has enabled Russia to assert itself again on the geopolitical stage in the early 21st century.
 
To have post soviet Russia retain more geopolitical power, you need the russian economy not to collapse as dramatically as it did OTL.

Which in itself is practically a requirement for the USSR to break up. The Soviet Leadership mindset was so fixated on the Cold War going hot that any spare change was going to support the military. Even if some of it slips through the cracks and ends up being reinvested in the country, there's no guarantee that it won't go back into the armed forces at some point. It needs a different Cold War entirely. Hell if we could avoid the Cold War together we could still end up with a Soviet breakup that leaves Russia the main power in the world. The easiest butterfly is to make it so the US stays out of the war in Europe and the USSR becomes the undisputed power there following the end of WWII.
 

Ak-84

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Oil prices rise spectacularly in the 1990’s a bit like they did in the OTL 2000’s.
Western “Investors” don’t buy up enterprises on pennies to the dollar and then drive them into the ground fearing competition, rather they outsource manufacturing there likeceith OTL China in the 1990’s.

Basically have anyone but Yeltsin in charge.
 

Arctofire

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Alternatively, instead of Rukosky it could be Ruslan Khabulatov, the strongman who would likely lead the country in a nationalist direction with some Soviet measures retained. I find this period of history very overlooked and fascinating. The mass outrage at Yeltsin's economic reforms, the unemployment, hyper-inflation, corruption, could also potentially have led to a second socialist revolution, with a hardline communist regime established which hearkened back to the Stalin Era. In fact, the Communists had a real chance to get into power again, and were stopped only because they pooled all their resources into the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Gennedy Zyganov, who tried to win power constitutionally but failed because the system was naturally rigged. The Communist Workers Party, a hardline Stalinist party led by Viktor Anpilov was a powerful force before the majority of its members defected to the CPRF. If they had formed a militia and declared active war on the Yeltsin government they would have easily have crushed the president with the mass of the people on their side.
 
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