WI Soviet Coup in 1991 was succesfull?

In August 1991 Soviet hardliners officials attempted a coup and deposed Soviet President Michael Gorbachev....
However after instigations by Yeltsin and popular uprising the coup collapsed 2 days later in OTL...
WI the coup was succesfull and Yeltsin and his followers were neutralised somehow? How is that changing History? Any thoughts?
 
Soviet Union is bankrupt and a successful coup wont magically generate money and revive economy (just to note, economy back there and then was just in a coma, Yeltsin's privatizations and economical reforms killed a lot of it dead).

They have a bankrupted nation, Baltic republics wanting independence, last few years of lack of funds are already (1991) strangling the army. I see no way for them to keep USSR intact. Civil war, or even nuclear civil war are possible. Global one is unlikely, they aren't insane enough to believe they could gain anything from that. Conventional war of aggression against a third country to go steal some oil or cash is also undoable.

In best case scenario (yes, it would have really been a number or bad and worse choices if coup succeeded) disintegration of USSR turns into a very bloody and messy civil war.
 
The country was broke by this point, so the only way to get out of that hole is to invade a place with lots of resources. They'd almost certainly go attack Iran, but that bring the US into it. Look at Tome Clancy's Red Storm Rising to see one way how that could turn out.

The coup plotters did want to keep control of all of the USSR, which in the Baltics and Azerbaijan would be bloody near impossible. It would be a civil war for sure. How ugly it got depends on how far both sides were willing to go.
 
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