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Remember when Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation in December 1991 and with it the end of the USSR?

As soon as he left office, the Polish, Prussian, Serbian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Crimean, Armenian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Moldavian, Byelorussian, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Abkhazian, Manchurian, Mongolian, Kurile, Uzbek, Kazakh, Kurdish, and Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republics declared their independence and immediately received worldwide diplomatic recognition.

Only the Siberian and Chechen SSR's elected to stay with Russia. Manchuria elected to join China.

If these countries were never conquered an incorporated into the USSR after World War II by Joseph Stalin and his successor Lazar Kaganovich, would they have become sovereign Communist nations like Hungary, Romania, Albania and Czechoslovakia?
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