What if Leonid Brezhnev decided to build separate space programs in Eastern Bloc countries instead OTL Interkosmos? I think that this could looks like this:
Building cosmodroms in two-three countries - let's say - Poland, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. Estabilishing space agencies in interested countries which will build their own spacecrafts launched in their cosmodroms by Russian rockets [later maybe their own]. I expect that these countries would launch only few satellites and sounding rockets but development their own space programs [under "Soviet protection"] will give prestige to whole Eastern Bloc [Look, we share our technology with our allies!] and technological base in these countries. After USSR collapse they ATL will have rocket engineers, own spacecrafts, students interested in space travel and "brains" - maybe Polish/Czech/Slovakian genius like Korolev or von Braun? Maybe these countries will provide modules for ISS or even estabilishes East European Space Agency and their own space station in 2000s?
Building cosmodroms in two-three countries - let's say - Poland, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria. Estabilishing space agencies in interested countries which will build their own spacecrafts launched in their cosmodroms by Russian rockets [later maybe their own]. I expect that these countries would launch only few satellites and sounding rockets but development their own space programs [under "Soviet protection"] will give prestige to whole Eastern Bloc [Look, we share our technology with our allies!] and technological base in these countries. After USSR collapse they ATL will have rocket engineers, own spacecrafts, students interested in space travel and "brains" - maybe Polish/Czech/Slovakian genius like Korolev or von Braun? Maybe these countries will provide modules for ISS or even estabilishes East European Space Agency and their own space station in 2000s?