like North Korea did?
Probably not since North Korea is 99% Korean while the USSR was a multikulti shithole.
>>1795574
so set up cult of personality puppet regimes in the places with different etnicities
Yes most likely I think. There would have been no Polish October, 1953 GDR or 1956 Hungary uprising.
Kadar was released after Stalin's death to pressure the 'Stalinist' Rákosi. The USSR then had to intervene to depose Nagy but then Kadar assumed leadership. Under Molotov, Kadar and Nagy would have been condemned as the revisionists they were and Yugoslavia would have been
>>1796603
been *treated like an enemy for seeking alliance with the West
>>1795570
North Korea would not have survived if it was not propped up by China. Nobody could similarly prop up the U.S.S.R.