DBWI Gorbachev succeeds

Its little known today, but one of the General Secretaries of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, and a reform program that was supposed to be even more far reaching than that of Khrushchev. He lasted less than three years before he was removed and then fell victim to the Second Great Purge. But suppose he lasted a little while longer and actually implemented a reform program?
 
The USSR probably doesn't collapse into bloody civil war and ethnic conflict when it's economy collapses in the late 1990's? Maybe it manages a peaceful transition to democracy and stays one country like the Czech-Slovak and Yugoslavian fedorations?
 
The USSR probably doesn't collapse into bloody civil war and ethnic conflict when it's economy collapses in the late 1990's? Maybe it manages a peaceful transition to democracy and stays one country like the Czech-Slovak and Yugoslavian fedorations?
Which means no National Eurasia. Otl, the pannationationalists came to power and managed to keep Russia, Ukraine, and the Caucasus together with some corruption, some threats, and some concessions. Even Poland is relatively friendly to this version of russia.
Biggest issue is that they're focused on the central asian states and America is cautious to do anything.
Ultimately I'm worried this could end up like appeasement of the 1930s
 
Don't you mean a lot of corruption, a ton of threats, a few minor concessions, and a whole lot of ethnic cleansing? You should read the reports starting to come out of places like Kyrgyzstan and Chechnya...
 
With Gorbachev we might not have seen the complete decimation of Afghanistan like we did. After all, constant carpet bombing probably wouldnt be liked by such a "reformer"
 
I still remember that September 11th - I was in class when they announced the seismic detection and soon after vaporization of Ufa, Irkutsk, and Tula. Another was stopped before it could hit Moscow. So many dead and the images were surreal - the civil war came to an immediate halt and the Volgograd Trials made such disturbing findings. I hear the teardrop memorial at Ufa is visible from the rebuilt railway and stands so tall as to look like a pillar holding part of the thermoblasted mountain together.
 
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