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Practically every former communist soviet satellite state that was not part of the Soviet Union experienced revolutions either peaceful as in Poland and Mongolia, or violent as in Romania. Mongolia, a Communist satellite state that was not part of the Soviet Union experienced a democratic revolution and is today a democracy despite not having a tradition of democracy in pre-communist times. However save for the Baltic States, none of the former SSRs are genuine democracies, instead the local communist party leaders simy declared independence, abandoned communism and stayed in power.
Therefore if lets say there hadn't been a Soviet Union in 1991, but merely an RFSFR surrounded by satellite states, there would have been real democratisation in those Central Asian republics as well as Belarus.
And assuming that Gorbachev is the head of the RFSFR, what would have happened to Russia?
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