As we all know, the Soviet Union reformed into the Union of Soveriegn States under Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991 with the New Union Treaty, but what if there was no Union of Sovereign States? What PODs would have resulted in the Union of Sovereign States becoming stillborn? Yeltsin not having a mysterious car accident in February 1991? Hardline elements in the USSR launching a coup? Both? What would the impact of such a scenario be? Could we have seen a civil war?