WI: Smaller Soviet Union?

So, what if the Soviet leadership, never mind when ( Lenin, Stalin ), decides to keep Soviet Union smaller, by taking just OTL Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and say Kazakhstan, and leaving other socialist republics as "independent" countries, like OTL Mongolia? Don't know why, maybe to have greater "international support" or more votes in UN or never mind why ( wanting to have more homogenous Soviet Union-basicly a greater Russia, based on Slavs )?

So, People's Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Kyrigistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan ( or maybe even PR of Turkestan, by combining all of Central Asia )?
 
So, what if the Soviet leadership, never mind when ( Lenin, Stalin ), decides to keep Soviet Union smaller, by taking just OTL Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and say Kazakhstan, and leaving other socialist republics as "independent" countries, like OTL Mongolia? Don't know why, maybe to have greater "international support" or more votes in UN or never mind why ( wanting to have more homogenous Soviet Union-basicly a greater Russia, based on Slavs )?

That would mean that the Soviets were Pan-Slavic nationalists, which would've been really good for other Slavs, but that's practically impossible. Especially considering the fact Stalin was not Slavic.
More international support? Nope. But maybe, just maybe, the Soviet leadership could have chosen to make a couple of puppet states like for example Turkestani SSR, Baltic SSR etc. which would be totally under Soviet control. They would serve to please the people there, to have an apparent independence, but still keep them close.
They would not be called People's Republics, but rather (Like for example Bukhara) People's Soviet Republic or something like that. They would serve as colonies of central USSR and would slowly integrate into the Union.
About more votes...
Nope. Nobody would tear their country apart just to have more seats in the UN. Soviets would have a right to veto any decision anyways so I don't see the difference here.

But, if we are talking about Lenin... Well, in that time there were in fact many minor Soviet countries across Eurasia. So, I assume that if Spartacist uprising in Germany didn't fail, Lenin would realize that he can't unify all of the communist states, and he would probably keep many puppets. But I assume that Stalin would overturn these decisions once he gained power.
 
Yeah, i was actually thinking about Lenin-era POD, where he decides that he want's to have a lot of puppet-states. Later also Baltic PSR, Moldavian PSR etc.
 
So, what if the Soviet leadership, never mind when ( Lenin, Stalin ), decides to keep Soviet Union smaller, by taking just OTL Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and say Kazakhstan, and leaving other socialist republics as "independent" countries, like OTL Mongolia? Don't know why, maybe to have greater "international support" or more votes in UN or never mind why ( wanting to have more homogenous Soviet Union-basicly a greater Russia, based on Slavs )?

So, People's Republic of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkmenistan, Kyrigistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan ( or maybe even PR of Turkestan, by combining all of Central Asia )?

would not think any Soviet faction/leader would allow Greater Turkestan since there was great antipathy for Russian domination and, bulked up, they might resume contesting it? even IF not brought into USSR they would try to keep the component parts divided.
 
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