DBWI: What if the Soviet Union Collapsed?

In 1991 the soviet union was on the verge of collapsing completely. Many of the different republics wanted to break off and the upcoming elections had everyone tense. However after some tough negotiations the republics gained more autonomy and the Soviet Union became a largely democratic federation with a strong economy but not anywhere near as much of a military or economic power as it was before. What would be the effects however if instead the whole thing collapsed in on itself and the soviet union became multiple smaller entirely independent states?
 
You would have 15 republics all going their own way to start, but there would be multiple breakups very quickly given the artificiality of the borders drawn by Stalin. I could see at least five more nations declaring independence & various wars over territory between former constituent part of the Soviet Union. Russia likely going after Belarus and Ukraine, but losing Kalingrad. Moldavia will almost certainly try to go back with Romania. Who knows what happens to the majority Islamic states.
 
Well, then basically the world order begins to unravel and change. The idea of a world without either one of the superpowers was so alien to both sides until 1991 where the USSR near keeled over. Their miraculous recovery helped stablize stuff, but it did lead to alternate history discussions and perhaps plans. The proxy wars ended in exchange for influencing smaller nations more peacefully.

China is the wild card. Here, the near-collapse of the USSR and their resurrection led to a surprise of in-fighting in the Chinese Communist Party. Looks like they were gonna try and usurp the USSR and now their plans are scrapped. Apparently, the plans on how to continue led to in-fighting and then there was the assassination attempt that just led to the party pretty much falling apart. The only reason they did not form their own cliques was because of the minoritiy parties, namely the Chiense Democratic League and the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, working together with the Taiwan government and UN to restore order and pretty much do a quiet coup.

China was pretty nuts for a few years, but they managed to do pretty all right and have been fixing some of the problems and addressing the ecological concerns thanks to the rise of the Chinese Ecological Party. At the same time, they also pretty much allies with as many power players in the world to rise, such as several African nations, all of Southeast Asia and chunks of the Pacific to become the Third World. Now we have he possible Fourth World as India wants to try and make their own party
 
Well, then basically the world order begins to unravel and change. The idea of a world without either one of the superpowers was so alien to both sides until 1991 where the USSR near keeled over. Their miraculous recovery helped stablize stuff, but it did lead to alternate history discussions and perhaps plans. The proxy wars ended in exchange for influencing smaller nations more peacefully.

China is the wild card. Here, the near-collapse of the USSR and their resurrection led to a surprise of in-fighting in the Chinese Communist Party. Looks like they were gonna try and usurp the USSR and now their plans are scrapped. Apparently, the plans on how to continue led to in-fighting and then there was the assassination attempt that just led to the party pretty much falling apart. The only reason they did not form their own cliques was because of the minoritiy parties, namely the Chiense Democratic League and the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang, working together with the Taiwan government and UN to restore order and pretty much do a quiet coup.

China was pretty nuts for a few years, but they managed to do pretty all right and have been fixing some of the problems and addressing the ecological concerns thanks to the rise of the Chinese Ecological Party. At the same time, they also pretty much allies with as many power players in the world to rise, such as several African nations, all of Southeast Asia and chunks of the Pacific to become the Third World. Now we have he possible Fourth World as India wants to try and make their own party

China not becoming Democratic by 2000 would definitely change things. I wonder if they could keep up their planned policies to replace the soviet union as the cheif communist power or if they would just sorta fail after a few years from an internal democratic resistance. Especially with the Tienanmen Square massacre happening only a few years before
 
China not becoming Democratic by 2000 would definitely change things. I wonder if they could keep up their planned policies to replace the soviet union as the cheif communist power or if they would just sorta fail after a few years from an internal democratic resistance. Especially with the Tienanmen Square massacre happening only a few years before

China is a large nation of many people and like many large nations, strong centralized leaders was what held the nation together. It's why the USSR and Communist China operated they way they did. Heck, the Premier of China has a nice boon of executive powers though the party system and what not does help manage that unlike over in the US. China for the most part has spent time fixing Korea and SEAsia while forging their own identity, downplaying "European culture" while the US and China continue their... complicated friendship (if US and USSR are opponents who respect the other and willing to work together, then US and China are vitrolic friends who act similarly for different reasons.)

Back to the USSR, they for the most part, did get better after demilitarizing, but they still have things like watching over content and so on, just... sneakier about it. Most of the shops are owned by the people who worked there and there's a weird mixture of what you could consider the lovechild of guilds and labor unions if raisded by bureaucrats. It's kinda nuts, but it works well. Additionally, the USSR's Miracle after reforming the economy and downsizing the military meant that alot of nations would get that idea.

Including the good ol US of A. Alot of the Neocons and Reaganites weren't happy about that, but oeople were sick of them after 16 years of Republican rule, especially during the recessions and economic turmoils under George HW Bush, though he got less of the blame once people credied Reagan for the bloated military in the hopes of defending them. Talk about backfire.

It's how we got President Paul Tsongas in 1996 and later 2000. He pretty much pushed social reforms in while cutting on the bloated military, especially with the audits. His fiscal conservatism was a pain since he could've done more, but at least he didn't try to do tax cuts. Hell, he actually undid Reagan's tax cuts on the rich and reformed the tax code so they wouldn't get away with it. He also ended the Drug War as another way of balancing the budget and decriminalized marijuana and other "natural" drugs like peyote and shrooms in his last months of office, citing Portugal's successful drug program.
 
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