WI: Assad and Saddam Fall in the 1990s

So here it is :)

Could Assad and Saddam fall in the 1990s in the same manner as Ceausescu (like the army also siding with the revolution due to killing a liked military official)? Could they have fallen in the immediate aftermath of the 1989 Autumn of Nations (perhaps if China's succeeds) like after 1989 but before 1991?

Are there any possible ways to pull these?
 
The original creator of Ba'athism, Michel Aflaq, died in 1989. The Assad and Saddam regimes were technically both Ba'athist, but they later fell out and even became downright hostile (in 1991, Assad supported Operation "Desert Storm"). So a way to end both Saddam's and Assad's regimes simultaneously (on par with the end of Communism) could be to make Aflaq the actual leader of both the Syrian and the Iraq Ba'ath Party - not an ideological father, but a proper Lenin-esque party leader with Assad and Saddam as his loyal acolytes. Both regimes would be closer to one another - a bit like the United Arab Republic, but with a separated leadership. Egypt doesn't make peace with Israel, meaning that Syria stays a close ally of Egypt, and not Iran. Then somehow prevent the Hama massacre of 1982, which would leave intact the Muslim Brotherhood as an oppositional force. After the death of Aflaq, there could be simultaneus uprisings in Syria (by the Muslim Brotherhood), and Iraq (by Kurds and Shia Muslims), partly supported by Iran or the USA and the Gulf states. Gorbachev decides not to intervene on behalf of this Ba'athist allies, therefore both regimes are ridden by power struggles within the parties and popular uprisings. Though I think the result would not be Romania, but rather early-Nineties Yugoslavia.
 
Hmmm... nice @Brundlefly, but I really want to have a Romania-esque scenario where the revolution is guaranteed to be bloody, but nevertheless the dictatorial regime collapses, and a peaceful country is set on the horizon.
 
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