Welcome Back, Lenin! - An Alternate History of the 1996 Presidential Election
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Ooh, I'll definitely be following this. Should be interesting to see how (or if) the Asian financial crisis in 1998 affects Russia, if it's not outright butterflied away.
What is the defining difference between democratic socialists and communists who win elections? I don't think that the CPRF would throw the results out if they got voted out.It seems more like they are Commies, who happen to win elections.
But they probably won't get voted out anyway because:
a) the Russian presidential system overwhelmingly favors the incumbent. The closest a non-incumbent ever came to beating the incumbent was 1996, when there was a 13.5% (~10 million) vote difference in the second round of the election.
b) the institutional problems of 1990s Russia will be dealt with to a significant degree by the CPRF.
c) the general idea of the TL is "what if Russia was lead by the CPRF?" so removing the CPRF would be kinda counter to that. No guarantees that "our Sashka" won't wind up leading the union though.
since the commies are back in power might we see in america a continued republican revolution? If the repubs can play off the people's fear of a renewed cold war might they be able to distract the people from more presing domestic issues.
Hello Cyclone! Just stumbled across this thread and i have really enjoyed reading it. ^_^ Is this a dead thread or do you have any plans to continue it?
MarshalBraginsky
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This is rather good. Although what would Zyuganov do in the event that the Kosovo War would break out? Would Russia be a bit more aggressive in the Balkans against NATO?