Make the Soviet Union collapse 10 years earlier

Alright, I made post saying what if the Soviet Union collapsed in 1981 but people kept saying how the events I mentioned would've not made it collapse. What events could've happened that caused the Soviet Union to collapse in around 1980? What would've happen and how would've it affected our modern world as well?
 
Alright, I made post saying what if the Soviet Union collapsed in 1981 but people kept saying how the events I mentioned would've not made it collapse. What events could've happened that caused the Soviet Union to collapse in around 1980? What would've happen and how would've it affected our modern world as well?

Read "Children of Apollo" one of my favorite alt history books
 
The anti-nuclear movement never happens. 4th generation reactors are common by mid 1970's . The US starts converting to a nuclear/hydrogen gas based economy. Oil prices collapse and the USSR collapses with it .
 

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Alright, I made post saying what if the Soviet Union collapsed in 1981 but people kept saying how the events I mentioned would've not made it collapse. What events could've happened that caused the Soviet Union to collapse in around 1980? What would've happen and how would've it affected our modern world as well?

Two rather dark scenarios:

- 1. A B-Weapon leaks in the Soviet Union. The whole thing actually stops at the Iron Curtain because NATO actually figured it out early enough.

Terrible casualties and the SU loses control of the WP because every Socialist state desperate fights the plague on its own.

2. Stalinism lasts longer fucking up the Eastern economies even more. Deeper East-West divide and no/smaller food shipments. Maybe a conveniently placed low oil price and the whole house of cards collapses a decade earlier.
 
Two rather dark scenarios:

- 1. A B-Weapon leaks in the Soviet Union. The whole thing actually stops at the Iron Curtain because NATO actually figured it out early enough.

Terrible casualties and the SU loses control of the WP because every Socialist state desperate fights the plague on its own.
And can't keep the fact that it was because of a Soviet bioweapons leak quiet and anti-Soviet riots break out everywhere at once.
 
The Soviet oil geologist who found the main Siberian field follows orders. (OTL, he defied orders and searched an area hundreds of km from where he was supposed to be.) Soviet oil production stays much lower in the 1970s, depriving the USSR of a huge fraction of its foreign exchange supply...
 
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