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How could the Soviet Civil War have been prevented? Is it is simple as preventing the August Coup and the deaths of Gorbachev and Yeltsin? Or is an earlier POD needed? And if Soviet collapse is inevitable, could it happen peacefully, without massive ethnic cleansing, as happened in Abkhazia, Chechnya, Estonia and Nagorno-Karabakh? Or is a violent collapse inevitable? Could the USSR move towards democracy, or is a totalitarian dictatorship like OTL's Union State inevitable?
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