WI: Continued Latinisation of the Cyrillic alphabet in the Soviet Union?

I read that it had been instituted and ultimately abandoned.

That really only worked amongst the minorities, particularly in Central Asia and Azerbaijan, and even then were flipped to Cyrillic. I doubt that Latinization would have continued at any rate, anyway.
 
Based on the experience of other countries throughout history, I think that the latinization of Russian woud be done gradually (as in, Chirillic letters are gradually replaced with latin ones, a few at a time).
 
Based on the experience of other countries throughout history, I think that the latinization of Russian woud be done gradually (as in, Chirillic letters are gradually replaced with latin ones, a few at a time).
That would lead to total confusion. Most likely would be a transitional period with both alphabets used.
In any case, unlikely to happen. Those languages who switched to Latin, generally were unwritten before the reform or at least writing in another language predominated (languages in Central Asia). Note that Georgian and Armenian were not switched to the Latin alphabet and switching Russian would be even more difficult. That's why the Latinization campaign was so pointless: making most languages use an alphabet that differed from the most spoken language, only creating educational and practical difficulties.
 
That would lead to total confusion. Most likely would be a transitional period with both alphabets used.
Do you know of any historical paralells, where two alphabets were used together? To me it seems a bit too complicated.
Allso, introducing a whole new alphabet overnight would probably be met with greater resistance from the general public.
 
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