In this scenario the Soviet Union is a totalitarian dictatorship. It can still be communist but it must have a market economy that is not centrally planned. Furthermore the Soviet Union survived beyond 1991 and into the 3rd millennium. What do you think would have happened by 2010?
What if the Soviet Union was a totalitarian dictatorship with no command economy by 1980?
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I assume this is a still, since, well... Stalin
Legit question, is that possible? Because that sounds like a lot of unregulated private property that is anticommunist at its core
Honestly the PoDs involved in getting the other stuff, it's entirely likely that we have a radically different 70s that means no Reagan or Mujahadeen and those by themselves entirely reshape our world beyond recognition
I assume this is just asking for a Soviet Deng Xiaoping in only so many more words. As has been said my others, it’s a little difficult to pull this off given that the Soviet Union did not have the same benefits for international trade that the Chinese did and they are going to have a much harder time transitioning their economy to some form of a market system which gutting state institutions and throwing the entire system into chaos. This approach would have to take decades of careful striking reforms, I’d imagine.