Gorbachev Doesn't Resign

Despite the signing of the Belavezha Accords, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev chooses not to resign and the Soviet Union continues to exist as a rump entity limited to the Kremlin and possibly Red Square.
 

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Despite the signing of the Belavezha Accords, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev chooses not to resign and the Soviet Union continues to exist as a rump entity limited to the Kremlin and possibly Red Square.
this is unsustainable I think

Yeltsin would have eventually sent in the Russian KGB or reliable units to drag Gorbachev out

Or just cut off the water/gas/electricity to the Kremlin and freeze him to death unless he comes out
 
The legal position of the Russian Federation was that the Soviet Union had ceased to exist. Gorbachev's resignation had already been provisionally accepted, and the formality of actually resigning was more or less done so that he could have a dignified exit. If Gorbachev instead decides to fight it he'll be dragged out kicking and screaming (legally speaking he's a private citizen and thus trespassing on government property).
 
might not have to be a soviet union in exile.. just a Vatican style arrangement. but I must agree with others, It would undermine credibility of both sides, the RF and newly independent republics and that of Gorbachev and the SU itself and simply look a restructuring.

I don't see it tenable.. Option 2 would be to make Gorbachev president of the CIS, however since Gorbachev is / was seen as the guy who pulled the plug in the first place, this also is not a great option.

Option 3, is what took place, or could even get worse, if Gorbachev stands up and attempts to rally the troops one last time in the name of the workers, you could see things get ugly. Both Gorbachev and everyone else did not want things to get ugly considering all the factors in play, the only option was the option taken, go off into the sunset.
 
Despite the signing of the Belavezha Accords, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev chooses not to resign and the Soviet Union continues to exist as a rump entity limited to the Kremlin and possibly Red Square.
The movers carry him out of the White House while he's still on his seat.
 
I don't see it tenable.. Option 2 would be to make Gorbachev president of the CIS, however since Gorbachev is / was seen as the guy who pulled the plug in the first place, this also is not a great option.
At the very least Gorbachev could've just been CIS President, at least for the duration of what his first term as Soviet President would've been. Naturally the role would've been symbolic and he likely would've had little real power.
 
At the very least Gorbachev could've just been CIS President, at least for the duration of what his first term as Soviet President would've been. Naturally the role would've been symbolic and he likely would've had little real power.
actually the fear was that if he was it could be transformed into a quasi new union with maybe another chance to push the new union treaty .. IE rebranding ;)
 
actually the fear was that if he was it could be transformed into a quasi new union with maybe another chance to push the new union treaty .. IE rebranding ;)
Considering what's happening today, maybe new union under a different name would've actually been better.
 
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