If it wasn't for the August 1991 Coup, would This state exist today? If the Union was still largely intact, Russia might be able to meaningfully confront Western imperialism, but it seems like some Communist party sperglords (who had been revisionists for 40 fucking years at this point) fucking ruined it.
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Connor Gonzalez
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Lincoln Bailey
it was not a failure of the people but a failure of the system itself. the undialectical system.
Jacob Roberts
It would just be another capitalist nation. We have enough of those.
The August Coup was the last attempt to save socialism.
Julian Scott
Did it not also anger a lot of people who had previously opposed the transition to capitalism, pushing them towards Yeltsin?
Jonathan Richardson
Those people deserved to be shot.
Zachary Perez
It does exist in a sense today as the CSTO / CST and a collection of other post Soviet treaties signed by Yeltsin
Anthony Cruz
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Brayden Hernandez
At that point, the situation was already catastrophic, and the socialist system had lost its credibility in the eyes of enough people to be a serious issue. But it definitely angered Yeltsin supporters, but a bourgeois nationalist like Yeltsin shouldn't have existed in the first place.
Had Andropov lived longer, the USSR would likely still exist today. Maybe even with Gorbachev if Glasnost was done differently.
Check out /marx/ for all your detailed USSR history questions, there's a dedicated QA where you will get an academic answer with citations.
Isaac Gomez
100 citation post about Finland fired first in the war and Yagoda, Yezhov, and Beria were all traitors working for the UK which Stalin has no culpability for.
Lucas Morgan
I feel like we live in literally the worst timeline, like in any other timeline the Soviet Union would of become Soc-Dem, or had a civil war, or become basically Slavic China, or something else, not this fucking bullshit we have now. We basically slid back into fucking pre-WW1 politics. Everything about Russian politics is literally securing oil and economic trade connections, fucking kill me. You Russians fucked up and you fucked up bad.