WI Berlin Wall fall turns bloody?

I think, if anything, this would have sped up the fall of the DDR more than surviving it. Or, we'd be looking at something similar to what happened in Romania. Either way, with all likelihood, the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact members would have distanced themselves from the moribund DDR...
 
thank god it didnt turn out that way..

on the other hand.. to get things under control would require getting all of eastern europe under control since the whole mess was falling apart at the same time... and you can't shoot everyone .. most of the nations in question really didnt like the idea of shooting their own.

Poland was succumbing to the solidarity movement.. Czechoslovakia was under going its own casting off of the oppression along with hungry and Romania.. that baltics were stirring..

EVEN if the august coup was a success the leadership would be spending its time trying to quell the problems inside of CCCP boundries instead of marching around restless countries in eastern europe.

I think the POD would have to start sometime in 85-86 maybe a Gorbachev goes about face and goes all Stalinesque to impress his wife with his mad gulag building skillz :eek:
 
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