Can The Failed 1991 Coup In Russia/USSR Succeed?

Can they get Gorby onside? It seems there wasn't much negative consequences for the conspirators ultimately in any case!
What if Yeltsin was to drunk to stand and it was publicly known at the time as was indicated by shedvrenadze subsequenly?
 
I don't think people of Russia would stand for it at the time. The coup was organized by a minority of hard liners, who did not have wider popular support. I gues that result, even if no appropriate leader to voice the popular opinion appeared, would be massive protests, strikes and similar things going on all around soon to be ex Soviet Union. I do to think they could get the army to shoot civilians at that moment.
 
Any more offers, another OP I did on Gorby, elicited a quite poor response, which surprised me. Is the USSR and Gorby save for WW2 and the Cuban Misile crisis a forgotten entity?
 
Ukraine, the Baltics and the Central Asians SSRs would have bolted out quickly and may even "invite" NATO forces to protect them.

Meanwhile the Russian Army could split itself between hard-line officers and others loyal to the government, while massive protest are triggered all around.

The question is: Who gets the nukes and what do they do with them? :eek:
 

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Banned
How bad would a Soviet Civil War be?

Nuclear Weapons used in the process?

Also remember the Baltics were going to leave no matter what. Parts of Ukraine might do so too. At the lease the republics against the coup would be invaded and wed prolly see some forest brothers mk 2 shit up in there. And the other republics against the coup.


@ louis. Nukes would be left in the republics as otl meaning ukraine and kazakstan are nuclear powers. I also doubt central asia would jump as you think too.
 
@ louis. Nukes would be left in the republics as otl meaning ukraine and kazakstan are nuclear powers. I also doubt central asia would jump as you think too.

Not quite. I remember reading an old dog earred magazine form the early 1990s about Russian-Ukrainian diplomatic tensions and it mentioned the various nuclear silos on Kiev's soil as a tricky situtation. Apparently the former Soviet missile command structure meant no one in the Ukraine had access to launch codes, while individual high security meant the Russians couldn't contact the silo computers if they wanted to operate them independently.

So you could see major violence between the republics over the nukes but its unlikely they'd be fired.
 
Not in OPs premise of successful coup in 1991. With earlier POD sure. But at that particular moment USSR was zombie empire already. Successful coup would mean massive unrest and worse mess than what happened OTL.
 
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