What if Grigory Romanov had been elected Premier of the Soviet Union in 1985 instead of Gorbachev? He was his main rival for power.
Could the Soviet Union have survived through sheer repression?
Would the Cold War still be ongoing?
What would the world today look like?
>Romanov
>Soviet premier
>>3349848
As bizarre as it sounds, it checks out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigory_Romanov