huh, never thought of thatAnyone else find it odd that AH is the only place where a wank is considered better than a screw?
No Proto-USSR please, by Russia , i meant Russia. The Union Treaty was very unrealistic anyways to make any real headway.Avoid the August coup and have the New Union Treaty implemented. “Russia” becomes a federation of Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Belarus and Ukraine with a common president, armed forces and foreign policy.
As said by others crash course scrap all old military forces and consolidate on a high tech western style small peacetime force with only a few hundred nukes.
Otherwise renounce militarism/foreign policy aggression and do everything conceivable to portray the new Russia as peaceful, liberal and European (realistically this probably would generate a very negative reaction in Russia that would swing them back the other way politically though).Join the EU and NATO, and use all means possible to portray China as the new baddie and Russia as a strategic country to contain them.
Economically I guess a slow transition from communism and opening up to the world, avoiding letting mobsters effectively take over the economy, and avoiding the breakdown in law and order that followed the OTL collapse.
Was it not voted on and approved, simply not implemented? But apologies, the rest of what I said applies to Russia either way.No Proto-USSR please, by Russia , i meant Russia. The Union Treaty was very unrealistic anyways to make any real headway.
voted and approved.....yes. however the treaty made all the republics quasi-independent; like a more tightly knit commonwealth than an union. They could have their own diplomacy; only a shared military and going to war as one; absolutely no central power.Was it not voted on and approved, simply not implemented? But apologies, the rest of what I said applies to Russia either way.
was Gennady a good politician enough to reform Russia......?You could have the communists win the 1996 election? They probably would've had it not been for the American interference. Anyone would do a better job than the embarrasment that was Yeltsin.
It would not have turned out well.You could have the communists win the 1996 election? They probably would've had it not been for the American interference. Anyone would do a better job than the embarrasment that was Yeltsin.
yeah wasnt he a hardcore communist?It would not have turned out well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Gennady_Zyuganov
There simply was no money left to do what he wanted; instead he would have to use force.
No way. Depopulation was predetermined by WWII losses with a little help by famines.Population
Emm... You mean like Crimea grab?Territory
The only way to do that was a Russian Pinochet with tough anti-Western policies.1. Diplomacy
2. Economics
3. Military
The Polish method WAS a shock therapy.Avoid the failed economic shock therapy, implement Yavlinsky's 500 Days programme instead for better handled structural reforms that avoid the mass consolidation of power. Use the Polish method of post-communist transition to capitalism
Yeltsin's and early Putin's policies in nuce. They tried all that.Otherwise renounce militarism/foreign policy aggression and do everything conceivable to portray the new Russia as peaceful, liberal and European (realistically this probably would generate a very negative reaction in Russia that would swing them back the other way politically though).Join the EU and NATO, and use all means possible to portray China as the new baddie and Russia as a strategic country to contain them.
He wasn't and he isn't. All the bosses in his party are capitalists. He's for the patriotic type of crony capitalism.yeah wasnt he a hardcore communist?