Better Post-Soviet and Yugoslav Situation

Hans Leip

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How could post-Communist Soviet Union and Yugoslavia's situations be better? Could Russia avoid its disastrous moral and demographic collapse, could Yugoslavia avoid its ethnic wars? Could either of those countries stay united under a democratic government?
 
Yugoslavia is bound to explode, the only thing that can stop that is preventing discord behind the Iron Curtain. The Soviet Union needs to be more successful, have less uprisings in Europe, and no signs of faltering.

Anything that keeps both alive and healthy is going to involve some events back near the end of World War II, into the 1950's, particularly involving Stalin's successor. However, you can still have a unified Soviet Union even with the events of the 80's, but Yugoslavia isn't going to stick around.

As for a "democratic government", no to either. Anything that succeeds the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia will not be democratic in the liberal sense for years to come.

Edit: I don't I really answered the question right, but I think the answer is simple for Russia: "elect" a more transitional president. Yeltsin's economic policies raped Russia, admittedly my knowledge of the candidates isn't large outside of Zyuganov or Yeltsin, but even Zyuganov would ease the stress on a newly born Russia.
 
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There's a famous Yugoslav quote/proverb/saying (that appears in various forms) that the country had

6 republics, 5 'nations', 4 languages, 3 religions, 2 alphabets and 1 Tito.

Tito pretty much was what held the country together and his communist party did manage to suppress the rabid nationalism lying under the surface.

Given the mixed up ethnic mosaic in much of the country, I don't see how to keep the country together or civil after his death.
 
I think post-Soviet Russia was bound to hit the rocks. Its economic problems were from the late 60s. They should've took the route the Chinese did.
 
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