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Say Stalin dies in 1948, and someone even more moderate than Khrushchev takes over afterward.
The USSR's border policy for immigration and emigration remain relatively lax (compared at least to OTL iron curtain)
What level of effect do you think said policy would have had on the health of the Soviet economy and it's satellite states?