Would there still be violence between the Caucasian states if the Transcaucasian nations were united into a federation by the soviet union?

[SuperSage125]

The Transcaucasian states were united into a federation during the 1910's and 20's; would there still be ethnic violence if the soviet union kept the federation ?

 

[Xenophonte]

The Transcaucasian states were united into a federation during the 1910's and 20's; would there still be ethnic violence if the soviet union kept the federation ?

While, it would depend of it's exact political organization/representation of the different national groups within it and as well of which group/s'd be hegemonic in this hypothetical Transcaucasian federation... But, I fear that after the Soviet Union dissolved, it would become in the 'Caucasus Yugoslavia'...

 

[David T]

If for whatever reason, Stalin (and his successors) decided to keep the Transcaucasian Federation going past 1936, [1] I would think that if anything 1990-2 would be even bloodier than OTL (which was bloody enough). There would in the first place be violence between those who wanted to keep the Federation going and those who wanted to break it up, and in the second place violence (as in OTL) about the boundaries of the individual republics, pogroms against minorities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baku_pogrom etc.

[1] It's very doubtful that they would so so, since it would be a departure from the whole structure of the USSR-- one titular nationality for each Union Republic.