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Does the Soviet Union still eventually collapse if France doesn't fall in 1940?

For the record, no Fall of France ensures these three things:

1. The Soviet Union will not endure tens of millions of casualties during World War II; indeed, the Soviet Union might not even enter World War II in the first place in this TL.

2. The Soviet Union doesn't acquire a massive Eastern European empire for half a century in this TL.

3. The world doesn't become bipolar (with the U.S. and the Soviet Union being the only two superpowers) in this TL.

Basically, what I am wondering is whether any of these factors would be likely to butterfly away the collapse of the Soviet Union several decades later. Indeed, while the Soviet Union's economy would have certainly been in the toilet in any case, I am wondering if it is likely that, in this TL, the Soviet Union would have been able to reform its economy while avoiding a 1991-style collapse.

Anyway, any thoughts on this?
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