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After reading several articles on the subject Beria apparently was willing to give autonomy to the Soviet Satellites. So lets say he is ready for the putsch and cuts a deal with Zhukov and he keeps power.
So what happens next ?
(Based on Beria's own statements, other leaders suspected that in the wake of the uprising, he might be willing to trade the reunification of Germany and the end of the Cold War for massive aid from the United States, as had been received in World War II. The cost of the war still weighed heavily on the Soviet economy. Beria craved the vast financial resources that another (more sustained) relationship with the United States could provide. For example, Beria gave Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania serious prospects of national autonomy, possibly similarly to other Soviet satellite states in Europe.)