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Is there any way that the USSR could have reformed and become a new centralized superstate where they didn't have to see half of their population and a third of there territory become sovereign independent nations? Or was the USSR doomed to either break up if its constitution changed or be perpetually totalitarian in order to keep the union together when it was formed?