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Ok. I know there are a million and a half "WI the Soviet Union was still around today?" threads (say the quotes with as sarcastic a Lisa Simpson voice as you can. 'Tis great. ). But I'm working with a friend of mine on a steampunk timeline and Gorbachev's New Union Treaty entered the conversation and I figured I would ask the AH community their opinions. (Our steampunk POD butterflies away everything after WWI, so this really has no bearing on it. Just for my own curiosity.)
Basically, WI Yeltsin is less of a douchebag and the August 1991 coup never happens, and Gorbachev's New Union Treaty that would recreate the USSR into the USSR (this time the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics! How clever!) minus the Baltic Republics goes into effect, with full implementation by 92-93. How would this effect NATO and EU expansion eastward? How long until the Soviet Union collapses anyway? Without the collapse of the Soviet Union, does Yugoslavia still implode like a crackbaby full of crack (by which I mean delicious candy!) or is it a more peaceful breakup or negotiated reform similar to the Soviet reforms? How long until Putin is elected President of the USSR?
These are all questions I am concerned about, especially because I accidentally envisioned a post-Communist, quasi EU arrangement in Eastern Europe growing out of this and didn't want to have that particular wet dream unless it was at least semi-plausible.