What if the USSR Never Fell? | Alternate History
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In today's alternate history scenario we ask what if the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was able to overcome the major causes of their collapse and survive the Cold War to the turn of the century? Does the Cold War just never end? Would the USSR never fall? Would the United States have "lost" the Cold War? Do Perestroika and Glasnost still change the foundational axioms of the way the USSR functions? Do the conflicts of this era... the Rhodesian Bush War, the Iran Iraq War, even 9/11, completely change? Who will be the leader of the Soviet Union in the year 2000?
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00:00 Intro
02:13 Scenario
06:31 The Three "Lucky Breaks"
18:02 The Liberman-Kosygin Reform Package
22:26 Early 1970s Europe
25:34 The Yom Kippur War
27:57 Africa, Portugal, and the Rhodesian Bush War
33:15 The Iranian Revolution, Iran Iraq War, and Afghanistan
46:07 China, America, and Deng Xiaoping
47:40 Yuri Andropov, the Soviet Caesar
56:36 Nursultan Nazarbayev
57:42 The 21st Century USSR
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