Recent content by Dragorun

"Free Russia"... Bwahaha! More like Dead Russia. Aaaand nuclear apocalypse in 3... 2... 1...

Gorbachev? The Soviets are doomed, rest in peace, USSR.:teary:

I often notice one minor mistake - new Union Treaty on the creation of Union of Sovereign States did not at all assume that state itself would be called that. According to treaty draft, from name of the USSR would only disappear word "Socialist", and instead it should have been called...

I doubt that flag of the Union of Soviet Sovereign Republics will turn blue, having lost the Hammer and Sickle along the way. Considering that symbols of the CIS were created specifically for the Commonwealth of Independent States, and not for the renewed Union

New union treaty did not assume full separation of RSFSR into parts, only that all autonomies will be raised to the status of full-fledged union republics. PS: by the way, a considerable part of Yeltsin motivation against signing new union treaty was exactly the fact that he did not want to...

The first Lithuania has a destiny to become Russia in the end. And the second, in principle, too.

Considering that Romania voluntarily fought on the side of Third Reich, and actively participated in genocide of slavs and jews in the USSR, the term "liberated" is really not entirely correct. For example, in Soviet Union there were medals "For the liberation of Warsaw / Prague / Belgrade", but...

There was nothing deliberately caused there, and even more so in areas populated by minorities. Russians suffered from famine in 1932-1933 no less than others. As for intentionality - idiocy and stupid decisions are not always made intentionally. And during collectivization in USSR, there many...

You speak so as "a giant argument over the Soviet Union" it is something bad...

For some reason, people constantly forget that mass famine was a PERMANENT problem in tsarist Russia. And Soviet Union simply inherited this problem, being further aggravated by the past civil war.

High rates of industrial growth in the Russian Empire are mainly due to low base effect. Moreover, this effect would have been exhausted very quickly, because overwhelming majority of russian population was illiterate. And for sustainable growth of industry, it is precisely literate people that...

By the way, yes, one Pan-Slavic SFSR as a counterweight to Chinese SFSR in the Union - it makes much sense.

Then it wouldn't be not "Union of Sino-Soviet Socialist Republics" but "Sino-Soviet Union of Socialist Republics". Since in "USSR" adjectives referred to each republic of Union, not just to some of them. While the word "Sino" literally refers to only one republic of this fictional state. In...

In such a scenario USSR most likely will not just leave northern Iran (without benefits), and also will try to push through its OTL claims to Turkey. Stalin also wanted to keep part of Aegean Sea coast (Kavala) for Bulgaria.

In contrast to these territories, Urals, Siberia and, to a lesser extent, the Far East, have many strategically important industrial centers. Of the 15 cities with a population of over one million in Russia, 9 are located in the Siberian and Ural regions. With this approach you might as well...