National Bolshevism becomes more wide-spread

Is there anyway we could see National Bolshevism (the Russian variant that Nikolai Ustryalov formulated) become more wide-spread in the 90s, following the collapse of the USSR? I'm particularly interested about what might happen to the formerly communist countries in Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.
 
Yeltsin would have to cancel the elections in the mid-90s and suspend democracy or make the economy even worse than OTL.

An ultranationalist movement could become popular or provoke a military coup if Yeltsin humiliates Russia by recognizing the independence of Chechnya and Dagestan, triggering a round of secessionism in the other republics in the former RSFR.

Lots of ethnic Russians woke up one day in a foreign country, but it's easier for them to just move "home" to Russia than to pull a Sudetenland 2.0 and beg for annexation. Kazakhstan has traditionally been on good terms with Moscow, something drastic would have to change for Moscow to pull the "oppressed Russian minority in need of liberation" card.

A real war would only be likely if the transition to democracy goes really poorly in the rest of the former eastern bloc, and Poland and the Baltic States were never absorbed into the EU and NATO.
 
Yeltsin would have to cancel the elections in the mid-90s and suspend democracy or make the economy even worse than OTL.

An ultranationalist movement could become popular or provoke a military coup if Yeltsin humiliates Russia by recognizing the independence of Chechnya and Dagestan, triggering a round of secessionism in the other republics in the former RSFR.

Lots of ethnic Russians woke up one day in a foreign country, but it's easier for them to just move "home" to Russia than to pull a Sudetenland 2.0 and beg for annexation. Kazakhstan has traditionally been on good terms with Moscow, something drastic would have to change for Moscow to pull the "oppressed Russian minority in need of liberation" card.

A real war would only be likely if the transition to democracy goes really poorly in the rest of the former eastern bloc, and Poland and the Baltic States were never absorbed into the EU and NATO.
What about outside of Russia?
 
Aside from semantics, National Bolshevism isn't that different from other Third Positionist ideologies like Baathism, Strasserism, and whatever North Korea's system is.
A strong state and/or dictator with a cult of personality, nationalist/anti-imperialist and socialist rhetoric, and either a planned economy or heavy-handed state intervention describes Saddam Hussein, the Assads, Ceausescu's Romania, and Zimbabwe under Mugabe pretty well.

National Bolshevism has a heavy dose of Stalin apologism and Soviet nostalgia, so a self-described National Bolshevik Regime seems unlikely outside the former Soviet Union. The actual National Bolshevik regime splinter over whether they should support Putin or not.

Since the 2000s, Russia's economic recovery and the resurgence of Orthodox Christianity have substantially reduced any potential support for the bizarre chimera of Nazism and Stalinism that is nazbol. The ideology only seems to be an obscure meme outside of the Russian federation.
 
Aside from semantics, National Bolshevism isn't that different from other Third Positionist ideologies like Baathism, Strasserism, and whatever North Korea's system is.
A strong state and/or dictator with a cult of personality, nationalist/anti-imperialist and socialist rhetoric, and either a planned economy or heavy-handed state intervention describes Saddam Hussein, the Assads, Ceausescu's Romania, and Zimbabwe under Mugabe pretty well.

National Bolshevism has a heavy dose of Stalin apologism and Soviet nostalgia, so a self-described National Bolshevik Regime seems unlikely outside the former Soviet Union. The actual National Bolshevik regime splinter over whether they should support Putin or not.

Since the 2000s, Russia's economic recovery and the resurgence of Orthodox Christianity have substantially reduced any potential support for the bizarre chimera of Nazism and Stalinism that is nazbol. The ideology only seems to be an obscure meme outside of the Russian federation.
That actually sounds like something that would be popular in newly-independent countries.

You'd be surprised to which the extent of nostalgia for Socialist/Communist times exists in many formerly Socialist/Communist countries outside of the former Soviet Union - for example, there's quite a few Ethiopians who actually miss Mengistu Haile Mariam and his regime in Ethiopia, remembering it fondly.

So then how do we make it more popular?
 
Jokes aside, in a scenario where Germans are not expelled from what is currently the Kaliningrad Oblast or the latter becomes part of the DDR. What if an ATL East German ruled East Prussia broke off from the DDR at the end of the Cold War (as opposed to reuniting with West Germany) as an state that embraces a variant of National Bolshevism and has a Belarus-like relationship to Russia?
 
Jokes aside, in a scenario where Germans are not expelled from what is currently the Kaliningrad Oblast or the latter becomes part of the DDR. What if an ATL East German ruled East Prussia broke off from the DDR at the end of the Cold War (as opposed to reuniting with West Germany) as an state that embraces a variant of National Bolshevism and has a Belarus-like relationship to Russia?
Perhaps there's more of a connection between the Prussian character and Socialism?
 
Juche isn't a motivating force for North Korea, it only exists for propaganda reasons so a Kim can have a set of thick books on a shelf behind their desks and claim to be accomplished political thinkers. The Cleanest Race by Brian Myers analyzes North Korean propaganda, and makes an argument that the country is guided more by ethnic nationalism inherited from the Japanese Empire than Juche.

From the author's wikipedia page:
The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters (2010) is a discussion of North Korean propaganda, contending that North Korea under Kim Jong-il was guided by a "paranoid, race-based nationalism with roots in Japanese fascism."[20] Myers asserts that the North Korean political system is not based on communism or Stalinism, and he contends that the official Juche idea is a sham ideology for foreign consumption and intended to establish Kim Il-sung's credentials as a thinker alongside Mao Zedong.[21] Myers also claims that post-Cold War attempts to understand North Korea as a Confucian patriarchy, based on the filial piety of Kim Jong-il and the dynastic transfer of power from his father, are misguided and that the North Korean leadership is maternalist rather than paternalist.[22]
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