"Alternate History and the Cold War" said that the last real chance for the Soviet Union to win the Cold War ended with Khruschev's stepdown after Cuban Missile Crisis. His popularity collapsed and he was replaced by Brezhnev who ossified the whole Soviet system.
But what if somehow Khrushchev didn't place the missiles in Cuba and he kept on reigning to reform the Soviet economy and politic?
He would stepdown eventually, so who his successor would be?
And by that, could the USSR won the Cold War this time?
Thanks in advance!