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Do you agree that if:

1.) Brezhnev dies in a plane crash in 1961 or dies from a fatal combination of booze and drugs;
2.) Mikhail Suslov and Arvids Pelsedying from a heart attack during a hot day in June 1963 (I really think Suslov was the real power behind everything from 1957 to 1982. See "The Soviet Machiavelli" and other sources
3.) Andrei Kirilenko dying in a car crash in 1963;
4.) Rodion Malinovsky demand for an autonomous and professional military establishment as well as his concept of balanced development of the armed forces gets accepted in 1963;
5.) Khrushchev publicly announces the withdrawal of missile from Turkey (basically not announcing it was a big mistake; [In the eyes of the Soviet People]Why withdraw from Cuba for almost nothing?])
6.) Paying the other hardliners and promising political favors albeit under reform so that he could have allies;
7.) A lot of investment was put into consumer products instead of heavy industry and the military during the 60s;
8.) The Virgin Lands Campaign had been fixed;
9.) Mao Zedong and Lin Biao dies in 1958 and gets replaced by Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping, thus no Sino-Soviet Split; and
10.) Him starting a space program right after Kennedy's May Speech and Korolev living until 1977, thus Soviets go the moon in 1968

Khrushchev would not have been ousted in 1964?


I really apologize for the so many deaths.
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