Would oligarchs still loot throughout the Soviet Union during the transition to capitalism in this TL?Yes, for at least a few more years and possibly for the forseeable future. There was (and continues to be) enough support in the nine remaining SSRs for it to keep on trucking.
The 1990s would probably be tough, but not quite as tough as a total collapse was.
I don't see why not.Would oligarchs still loot throughout the Soviet Union during the transition to capitalism in this TL?
So, in other words, the 1990s Soviet Union is in for a world of hurt?I don't see why not.
So, in other words, the 1990s Soviet Union is in for a world of hurt?![]()
I never said that, though.What you really think the coup not happening get Rids of all the problems od tranistioning to a capailistic
econamy?
Inferring the USSR will suffer frommalmost all rhe problems of the Russian FederationI never said that, though.
In your honest opinion, would the Soviet Union have survived if it wasn't for the August 1991 coup attempt?
Do you have a source that the SSRs were already seeking to have their own foreign policies before the August 1991 coup attempt?If your PoD is the coup itself, then no, not even in name, and certainly not as any sort of real, cohesive central state. The New Union Treaty, which was due to be signed the day after the coup took place, would have changed the state's name to the Union of Sovereign States, and effectively stripped the central government of almost all powers. Such absurdities as the Republics pursuing their own foreign policy independent of the Kremlin were already a reality before the coup. I suspect the USS would have quickly dissolved into the same sort irrelevance as the Commonwealth of Independent States 'enjoys' today.
Do you have a source that the SSRs were already seeking to have their own foreign policies before the August 1991 coup attempt?
The Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR) of the Soviet Union began developing a separate foreign policy and diplomacy some time before the collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991. The Russian Republic had possessed a foreign ministry and the "right" to conduct foreign policy since the 1936 Soviet constitution was amended in 1944. This power remained undeveloped, however, until the election of Boris N. Yeltsin as president of Russia and Russia's declaration of sovereignty in June 1990. Among the foreign policy institutions and procedures that emerged in Russia in this early period, some paralleled and others competed with those of the Soviet Union.
In your honest opinion, would the Soviet Union have survived if it wasn't for the August 1991 coup attempt?