User blog:Whipsnade/USSR Mk2

What would have the demise of the former USSR been like if the 17th of  March, 1991  Soviet referendum had been honoured and Boris Yelstin had not  declared Russian independence on 25th  December, 1991, but had chosen to sit it out and see what had happened.

My view is that a reduced USSR continued as only the 6 states who always wanted out any how would have left (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Georgia and Armenia). Moldavia would have tried to go, had a civil war with Transnistria and/or Gagauzia and been split between it’s neighbours, Romania and the Ukraine.

Boris Yelstin and Russia would have won out in the end and dominated the new state with nubers and resorces. The econamy would have grown under Vladimir Putin.

Both Yulia Timoshenko and Ukrainian ex-president Viktor Yushchenko would have probably ended up in a Siberian gulag.

Gen. Alexander Lukashenko would have more clout since Russia could make up for his state’s poor air-defence and send all the teddy bears to Siberia!

The fate of the Georgian Rose Revolution (2003), Kyrgyzstan Tulip Revolution (2005) ,Ukrainian Orange Revolution (2004–2005), Serbia's Bulldozer Revolution (2000) and Belarusian Jeans Revolution (2006) would have been much different to reality.Whipsnade (talk)