Foreign relations of a Soviet Union in a successfully 1991 August coup

Say the 1991 August coup is successfully

Would the Soviets keep support it's various proxies through out the world

What would be it's relationship with West

Would the Soviets have closer relationship with China than otl Russia
 
Say the 1991 August coup is successfully

Would the Soviets keep support it's various proxies through out the world

Most arab states would certainly be relieved and delighted.

What would be it's relationship with West

Would the Soviets have closer relationship with China than otl Russia

The West would have a negative reaction but it's reasonable to think the USSR and China would draw close together since both regimes could relate to one another. The Chinese had crushed the Tiannamen movement prior to the '91 coup.
In addition, a surviving USSR would probably try to emulate the Chinese in maintaining a dictatorial political system while allowing capitalism.
 
The West would have a negative reaction but it's reasonable to think the USSR and China would draw close together since both regimes could relate to one another. The Chinese had crushed the Tiannamen movement prior to the '91 coup.
In addition, a surviving USSR would probably try to emulate the Chinese in maintaining a dictatorial political system while allowing capitalism.

Would that work, though? No offense, but the economic situations for the USSR and China were fundamentally different in terms of growth potential, and Moscow just lost rather than gained markets, so can they really follow through on the promise of prosperity? Especially since this Coup government is going to need to pay for the large Red Army propping it upand China is already a giant forgein investment capital sponge
 
IMO, it's hard for the coup to succeed because the Soviet Union was already in a pretty bad situation and many in the armed forces didn't support the coup. At most, it may have led to a civil war. What do you think?
 
IMO, it's hard for the coup to succeed because the Soviet Union was already in a pretty bad situation and many in the armed forces didn't support the coup. At most, it may have led to a civil war. What do you think?
Wouldn't a capture of Boris Yeltsin deprive the opposition of an leader to rally around
 
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