The Death of Russia - TL
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Wonder if a certain cult in Japan (Aum Shinrikyo) is going to get WMDs as a result--I'm having flashbacks to A Giant Sucking Sound, where they get WMDs and destroy the city of Nagoya with a nuclear weapon (on the upside, if there is any, this leads to an earlier shutdown of the Fukushima nuclear power plant and butterflies away that disaster)...
But do the cult have the resources to even get one? It's not like they got the expertise to nab one out of Russia themselves and nukes ain't coming cheap.
If anything, I'd consider Osama being able to escape with one more likely.
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And on that note, a certain Dear Leader might be interested in nukes as well, if you know what I mean by that.
The March of Suffering is about a year away though. Combine the UN being far more focused on Russia's collapse and said collapse being far more brutal than OTL, it's possible the Kims don't make it out of the 90s either unless China takes care of everything.
Guess Khamenei would be a better fit for a rogue state leader who could use this as a chance to get nukes.
I am not sure if Aum Shinrikyo is able to get nukes if then someone rogue war lord doesn't sell one to them.
Al-Qaida might have anyway capacity to get nukes. And perhaps too chemical and biological weapons.
Actually, as a Russian I don't get the "Grachev's defection" part really. The Supreme council had their own cabinet and recognized Achalov as the only legitimate minister of defence. Basically, they should've forced Grachev to publically resign or capture him as state criminal.
Yes, this remains correct, Grachev's arrival is more to give a visual that the army had sided with Parliament and Achalov will become the provisional defence minister, although there is more to the story going on behind the scenes.
The story mentions that it was Grachev who proposed to shell the Kremlin (which is a way to mirror the shelling of the White House by connecting this all to Grachev and not using the desperate appeal of Rutskoy to his Air Force past calling to bomb Kremlin)
It was his suggestion (that had backing among certain people in the Parliament group which will be elaborated on shortly) that was ultimately agreed upon, not a case of him ordering the group around.
Yea, but still Grachev acts here as the source of similarities with the IRL 1993 crisis. Overall, the question of what Supreme Soviet would have done if ousted Yeltsin remains uncertain. First of all, there was a slogan "Yeltsin's gang on trial!" ("Банду Ельцина под суд!") but IRL it became more popular by mid-to-late 90s and OTL only a Duma's pardon saved the Supreme Council supporters from jail. So, it looks possible that Yeltsin might have been tried and received a life sentence if the Supreme Council won.
The second possibility is that the Supreme Council might have taken a softer line and guaranteed a "Golden Bridge" for Boris. Yeltsin is ousted and then he flees Russia. After all, he ends up like Gorby but in UK or US rather than in Germany.
And the third option is presented in your TL.
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