What If The USSR Abandoned Communism? | Alternate History

What if the Soviet Union had abandoned Communism under Mikhail Gorbachev, became more of a Democracy, reformed it's economy by adopting more Capitalist policies like China, allowing it to never collapse, and gradually, reunite the lands which Russia had lost when the USSR fell in our timeline, maintaining Greater Russia's place in Eurasia?
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Music Used: Russian Dance, Kalinka

[Neatling]

Hope everyone enjoys the video! And thank you to Monsieur Z for making this collaboration happen.

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

While I miss the USSR, I’m just glad Wide Putin exists and he’s one of my best friends

[patrickconnors]

The rise of computers, the USSRs blatant ignoring of it and the USSRs dependence on traditional manufacturing is a huge part of why the USSR collapsed.

[kevinhixson]

What if Britain stayed Roman after the fall of western rome.

[jesper]

I dont believe a strong Russia means Finland joins NATO. Finland enjoyed good relations with both the west and east during the cold war. Finland has always had a pragmatic foreign policy and a stronger Russia would only mean Finland would maintain better relations with them.

[lukebaker]

“This getting out of hand, now there are two of them”

[indiekiddrugpatrol]

The SSR's didn't leave Russia behind, Russia and Ukraine were the first to leave it was Kazakhstan that was the last member of the USSR

[eternalmapper]

What if the Soviets remained Stalinist Authoritarian after the death of Stalin in 1953?

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

What if Denmark actually let the Faroese become independent in 1946

[SorryIamBored]

So basically the best timeline we unfortunately missed.

[Ypog_UA]

Your mistake was basing this new Union around Russia and Russian identity, which went against all the previous decades of Soviet identity building. One of the main reasons the non-Russians of the Tsarist regime wanted to overthrow it was because they had been persecuted and forced into becoming Russian. It's the same reason why the USSR had separate republics, and why people from the USSR and post-USSR states don't like it when you use Russia and the USSR as synonyms, because they are not the same country, and it diminishes their unique identity. Russia is just one part of the USSR, even if it is the biggest, it does not control the whole country. The Soviet government does.

[newfoundlandmapping]

What if Newfoundland joined the United States rather than Canada in 1949?

[simplymarshal]

Alternate title : "what if Yeltsin didn't fuck up"

[RhelrahneTheIdiot]

I would Imagine India becoming a key partner with the Union Of Sovereign States, they would both have mutual interests in preventing Chinese domination and historically had been quite friendly with each other to the point of India reportedly having leased or buying multiple of the gargantuan Akula Class SSBN's. I also imagine Venezuela, Cuba and potentially Egypt joining The USS's alliance.

[infantjones]

Perestroika was a major cause in the economic collapse of the 1980s, letting it continue further is basically what we saw in real life during the 1990s and it was devastating. A better scenario for the economic aspect would be if Perestroika was more gradual, akin to China (which still saw its economy destabilize for a good 15 years after reforms, very unstable growth, massive inflation, etc.).

[Newbmann]

Wait who is that new voice?
Either way he can't have a idea for what caused the great acceleration no one does.

[Shadowgunner]

When you hear Kalinka in the background and start singing!!!

[zionmolina]

This is a really interesting one you've out done yourself on this one Monisuer Z.

[MrAlepedroza]

Wondering how the Middle East wars of the 2000's would have played out. Would this neo Russia oppose the American invasions of Irak and Afghanistan, and prevent the Arab Spring craze?

I'd say yes. They would have been more than ten years into their reforms and be far more prosperous and stable than in our timeline. Since they would have Iran within their sphere of influence, it would be of their best interest to keep the rest of the region in check. They may have negotiated a different solution to deal with Al Qaeda without necessarily toppling Saddam, and a situation resembling the current Syrian war may have took place. Afghanistan was lawless and anarchic, so its harder to know what would have happened there. Since Russia would arguably still experience terrorism inside their borders from their muslim minorities, they may reach an agreement with the Americans to deal with the Taliban too.

The situation would not have been necessarily better than in our world, and I would have liked the video more if the author adressed those topics a little bit more.

[jdftrains]

1:09 weirdly enough Russia wasn't actually the last member to leave, when Boris Yeltsin's government was elected into power they declared sovereignty within the union before many other republics did creating a weird situation where Moscow had 2 governments, then when the union started to dissolve, Russia declared independence 4 days before Kazakhstan which made Kazakhstan the last member of the union before they themselves left and the soviet government was dissolved