The Soviet Union under Mikhail Suslov

MrHola

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Let's say that Brezhnev dies before the Anti-Khruschev Coup of 1964. Suslov decides to take matters into his own hands and directly lead the coup himself. The coup is a success, like in OTL, and Suslov becomes General-Secretary.

Suslov was the chief ideologue of the CPSU. He was just as conservative as Brezhnev, however he was not as corrupt. He supported the invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 and intervening in Chechoslovakia in 1968. I can see the USSR pretty much go the way it went in OTL, I assume that corruption would be less since Suslov was motivated by beliefs and not by greed.

What do you think?
 
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Although Suslov might not be as "corrupt", wouldn't the same inefficiencies still be in place? That is, everyone producing things in such a rigid way that, for example, sheet metal was only made in specific thicknesses, that the people trying to make things then had to grind down to the thickness they actually needed...

Such things made Soiviet industry hugely wasteful. How would this be prevented?
 
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