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After WWI, with the fall of the Russian Empire, many regions of it declared independence. Poland, Finland, and the three Baltic states managed to consolide themselves as independent states along the interwar era, but other separatist entities didn't endured, and after a few years were retaken by the USSR.
Among these separatist attempts were the Democratic Republic of Georgia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Georgia), the First Republic of Armenia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Republic_of_Armenia), and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijan_Democratic_Republic). Could these countries, or at least some of them, manage to keep their independence, at least during the interwar era? If so, how would they, and a USSR without them, develop? And, especially, what would happen with Stalin now that his native land is no longer part of the USSR?
And, just to clarify a think, I'm asking here about their possibility of survival without a German victory in WWI, so no Germany here to enforce Brest-Litovsk.
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