Pretty much what it says on the tin, but if we were to assume that Mikhail Gorbachev somehow succeeded in reforming the USSR to become a semi-democratic, nominally socialist mixed economy, and that the Cold War ended somewhere in the mid-90s (Warsaw Pact pretty much dissolved, yet no NATO expansion east of the Elbe), yet major OTL events continued to unfold (War on Terror, ‘08 global financial crash, etc.) to the point where Trump is still elected, far-right parties successfully contest European elections, and the responses to the failures of neoliberalism on the left (democratic socialism) and the right (alt-right white supremacy) continues, how would this Soviet Union respond to the events we are witnessing today?
I just like to imagine the inverse of the Brezhnevite gerontocracy meme, wherein a young and vibrant 30-something Y/O Soviet General Secretary shakes Trump’s hand, before he lectures him on how racist violence in the United States is the inevitable result of capitalism. Or would he be more subtle in his response?
I just like to imagine the inverse of the Brezhnevite gerontocracy meme, wherein a young and vibrant 30-something Y/O Soviet General Secretary shakes Trump’s hand, before he lectures him on how racist violence in the United States is the inevitable result of capitalism. Or would he be more subtle in his response?
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