Shiny, Happy, USSR

Where are you talking about there? :confused:
Latvia and Estonia. And I don't want to dive into whole "occupation/continuation" discussion here, I was just pointing at fact that it is possible in modern world to strip whole segments of population of it's rights and still be called "happy shiny democracy".
 
Latvia and Estonia. And I don't want to dive into whole "occupation/continuation" discussion here, I was just pointing at fact that it is possible in modern world to strip whole segments of population of it's rights and still be called "happy shiny democracy".

OK... you mean Latvia and Estonia as they are now? Is this what you're talking about? Still confused...
 
Speaking about border of the USSR, Slavic triad plus Central Asia and Caucasus could have been pretty stable internally. After all, independence had been rammed down Central Asian's throats by the leaders of Slavic 3 OTL and Caucasians didn't really moved past "watering hole discussions" in their independence movement too.
 
Speaking about border of the USSR, Slavic triad plus Central Asia and Caucasus could have been pretty stable internally. After all, independence had been rammed down Central Asian's throats by the leaders of Slavic 3 OTL and Caucasians didn't really moved past "watering hole discussions" in their independence movement too.

"Watering hole discussions" = ethnic cleansing and bloody fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijanis? It's true that the USSR probably would have been more stable if it had never absorbed the Baltics or occupied Eastern Europe: the collapse of the Communist regimes and the "legitimacy" of the Baltic indpendence struggle set an obvious precedent.

Bruce
 
"Watering hole discussions" = ethnic cleansing and bloody fighting between Armenians and Azerbaijanis?
As you rightfully said, bloody fighting had been happening between Armenians and Azeris (I hope nobody is offended by this nick), with neither side seriously opposing central government. USSR could overcome it.
 
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