What you need to happen in order for the soviets to survive , can you make a different outcome for the cold war with instead of the ussr falling apart , the americans and the soviets gave up the competition , id like to hear some interesting PODs 
What you need to happen in order for the soviets to survive , can you make a different outcome for the cold war with instead of the ussr falling apart , the americans and the soviets gave up the competition , id like to hear some interesting PODs![]()
earlier on, Gorbachev and other leading reformers, could have hit upon the idea of religious liberty and really meaning it. and/or a church or mosque is taxed but at the lowest tax rate in that broad area.
There's then one less major motivation for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, etc, to leave the Soviet Union.
And maybe if the first doesn't leave, the ball never gets rolling.
earlier on, Gorbachev and other leading reformers, could have hit upon the idea of religious liberty and really meaning it. and/or a church or mosque is taxed but at the lowest tax rate in that broad area.
There's then one less major motivation for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, etc, to leave the Soviet Union.
And maybe if the first doesn't leave, the ball never gets rolling.
earlier on, Gorbachev and other leading reformers, could have hit upon the idea of religious liberty and really meaning it. and/or a church or mosque is taxed but at the lowest tax rate in that broad area.
There's then one less major motivation for Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, etc, to leave the Soviet Union.
And maybe if the first doesn't leave, the ball never gets rolling.
With a Gorbachev PoD you'd need him to focus on economic reform and not political reform. That's what ultimately killed the USSR.
This really surprises me. You're the second person who's said it, so good chance it is the case. But all the same, I'd like to have some references.Kazakhstan and the Muslim republics didn't want to leave the Union though. Yeltsein had to keep the dissolution a secret from them before it went public. It was Russia which wanted the Union dissolved.