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Originally Posted by Nowhere Man 1966
I remember talking with T.R. (RIP, my friend) about this and he made a good point where a good POD to extend the USSR might have been where the 1991 coup could/would have succeeded if a sniper or two was less drunk and took out Boris Yeltsin as he stood on top of the BMP. What Yeltsin did might have rallied his cause but it is not a wise thing to do, especially when there is a ring of snipers around you just waiting to "bust a cap in ya." I think we could have extended the USSR to even today if that happened and onto 2020 at least.
Chuck
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That was essentially what happened in V2.0 and 2.2. The 1991 coup failed and the hardliners took over. I can't recall if both Yeltsin or Gorbachev were killed, imprisoned, exiled or escaped. But it would be an interesting T2k scenario for a NATO spec ops team to rescue Gorby or Yeltsin from prison or gulag.
man, if I had more time, I'd GM something like that.
TR RIP