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The challenge is to get Soviet secret police to bungle Stalin's purge to point where it fails completely.
("Fail" could mean the populace at large resisting attempts at arrest; the courts going rouge by throwing out confessions and releasing most who are arrested; etc.)
The PoD must occur after 1930 and Stalin has to be alive.