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Imagine if you will Stalin has an aneurysm in 1928 and while recovering undergoes a stark personality change.
"Socialism in One Open Country!" he decries and his associates obey.
So while collectivization and the 5 year plans still happen, it does so with the right of free speech & free press protected.
Could it have worked? and if so what sort of benefits/negatives could it have provided to the early USSR onward?