How would. Russian nationalism function in a surviving USSR

how would Russian nationalism be changed if the USSR never collapsed but rather reformed into a democratic federation. This would follow the model shown in the "liberal USSR" timeline ,economic reforms in 60s/70s followed by free elections starting in the early 80s and a surviving country encompassing at least Russia,Central Asia, Caucasus, Ukraine and Belarus.

While the country would be a great deal larger and more poweful it would mean that the Russians would be equal in status to large numbers of Non orthodox Christians and non Russians so my question is would Russian nationalists see the USSR as a good thing or be opposed to it in the way European nationalists are opposed to the European Union.
 
how would Russian nationalism be changed if the USSR never collapsed but rather reformed into a democratic federation. This would follow the model shown in the "liberal USSR" timeline ,economic reforms in 60s/70s followed by free elections starting in the early 80s and a surviving country encompassing at least Russia,Central Asia, Caucasus, Ukraine and Belarus.

While the country would be a great deal larger and more poweful it would mean that the Russians would be equal in status to large numbers of Non orthodox Christians and non Russians so my question is would Russian nationalists see the USSR as a good thing or be opposed to it in the way European nationalists are opposed to the European Union.

The National-Bolshevik ideology emerged from former White Russian Nationalists who saw Soviet ideology and expansion as a tool to reinstall Russian imperial glory. Since the 19th Century there had been writers who connected Socialist ideas with Pan-Slavism and Russian Nationalism. Many Ultranationalists in Russia claim, that the Soviet Union had only one mistake and that it was Atheism.
 
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