AHC: Taiwan-Style Soviet Exile

As the title states, is there a way to have a continuing Soviet government in exile á la Taiwan? This could any during any time period. What would be the logistics of this? Where would the government in exile be located?
 

RousseauX

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As the title states, is there a way to have a continuing Soviet government in exile á la Taiwan? This could any during any time period. What would be the logistics of this? Where would the government in exile be located?
Sure, you could see Communism collapsing in Russia but lasting in one of the SSRs, with a soviet government in exiles armed with nuclear weapons to keep out foreign intervention
 

chankljp

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Sure, you could see Communism collapsing in Russia but lasting in one of the SSRs, with a soviet government in exiles armed with nuclear weapons to keep out foreign intervention

The 1997 Harrison Ford movie "Air Force One" had an idea that was sort of like this, in which a rump, ultra-hardline USSR remnant existed in Kazakhstan, while Russia is under the rule of a Yeltsin-expy.
 
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Kaliningrad will do just fine. Detached from all SSRs, possibly as a military zone, and have the rump government set up there. Good news is, it's surrounded by anti-Russian neighbors who won't take kindly to Yeltsin sending the troops in via their land. Bad news is, it's surrounded by anti-Russian neighbors who have no love for the Soviets either.
More bad news is that there were Russian troops stationed in Lithuania until 1993, who could safely just move in to Kaliningrad and reestablish order as soon as Yeltsin ordered them to.
 
More bad news is that there were Russian troops stationed in Lithuania until 1993, who could safely just move in to Kaliningrad and reestablish order as soon as Yeltsin ordered them to.
Maybe. It really depends on where the garrisons' loyalties lie, which could result in such varying outcomes as 'arrested at Povunden' to 'mass defections of Baltic garrisons to the Soviet government-in-exile'. Though, the former is far more likely.

EDIT: I only just remembered that the airport is called Khaborovo IOTL. *muh prussia tl*
 
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Maybe. It really depends on where the garrisons' loyalties lie, which could result in such varying outcomes as 'arrested at Povunden' to 'mass defections of Baltic garrisons to the Soviet government-in-exile'. Though, the former is far more likely.

I think a major determinant here might be who is it that is, you know, actually able to pay the soldiers a salary they can live on. An isolated rump USSR in Kaliningrad might not be very strong in those terms.
 
The problem is that this already kind of existed, not all of the SSRs supported the end of the Union, but they can't really keep it from dissolving. A reluctance to establish independent state structures was also harmful to these loyalist SSRs when neighbors challenged them (Azerbaijan is the example that comes to mind).

I mean, I guess Azerbaijan could keep flying the Soviet flag but I don't see how that makes them different from Transniestria really.
 

Lusitania

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In a world without PRC reforming and staying true to communism. I wonder if the Soviet reforms wouldn’t been as successful?

I wonder if the independence of Baltic states would of caused soviet hardline backlash who attempt to reverse the reforms and restablish soviet communist. While the communists are repulsed in Ukraine and in Moscow they have more success in the Asian republic included kazastan.

So we end up with Russian nationalistic dictatorship and a Soviet Union based out of Kazakhstan. At same time Armenia and Azerbaijan start fighting over border with Armenia drifting to Russian camp and Azerbaijan drifting to soviet camp.

While Belarus accepts Russian supremacy Ukraine nationalists revolt and declare Ukraine independent from Russia. Causing Russia to invade Ukraine. Ukraine too drifts to Soviet camp and border clashes along soviet and Russia force Russia to pull back its troops in Ukraine.

So we have now have Russia and Soviet Union which severely weaker than Russia aligns itself to PRC making for potential larger conflict.
 
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