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This is somewhat off-topic, but why exactly did Ruthenia (Ukraine) in the proposed 1658 Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth not include Galicia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Lithuanian%E2%80%93Ruthenian_Commonwealth Can any Poles or at least anyone here answer this question?

Why didn't Bulgaria adopt Paulician Christianity in real life?

In what time period? Because for whatever reason, Turks were much more deadly to Byzantium than Arabs were.

Russia is by far the biggest Slavic state, though.

You can personally decide about the World Wars part. And a lot. Also, are the Gastarbeiters actually going to bea llowed to permanently stay in Russia and to eventually acquire Russian citizenship for themselves and/or their descendants?

Here's an interesting question for you guys (@Agent23 @History Learner @stevep @Zyobot @Skallagrim et cetera): What is the largest realistic number of East Asians plus Vietnamese that a non-Communist Russia could have realistically accepted as immigrants over the last 110 years?

Constantinople needs a land connection to the rest of the empire! ;) Considering that Gorby ultimately lived to age 90+, I think that he's quite capable of remaining in power for a very long time. Plus, would Lukashenko actually be notable enough by the mid-1990s? He was only just elected...

Would integration become much tighter after Putin or someone likes him comes to power?

So, an EU-style confederation?

The Donbass and Viktor Yanukovych are some of the best examples of Sovoks nowadays, as are Transnistrians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Sovieticus

Do you think that the USSR would have survived had Yeltsin died in 1990?

What's Miller's first name? Also, I find it interesting that Ukraine's secession was done by the Communists rather than by an opposition party. But Yes, the legalization of other parties did allow Yeltsin to challenge Gorbachev in Russia, which was not a very good move on Gorbachev's part...

Or in the United States right now? ;) FWIW, I suspect that it would have been easier to avoid the Soviet collapse even with bad management had the Soviet Constitution not included a (nominal) right to secession for the various SSRs...

Well, Gorby already existed in 1940, though his future life course would not have necessarily been the same one. For that matter, Yeltsin likewise already existed in 1940.

You mean factors such as a largely destroyed 1910s-1920s-born male cohort, which was still felt in the late 1980s? Or, alternatively, the need to subsidize a vast Eastern European empire?

@History Learner Thoughts on my question here?

Do you believe that the USSR's collapse would have likewise been prevented had France not fallen in 1940?

But in the long(er)-run, it's still likely to lose its satellites, isn't it? Though its odds of regathering Ukraine post-Soviet collapse should look more promising if eastern and southern Ukraine have suffered less demographic devastation due to WWII and also if more Russians move to Ukraine in...

But you could get an even bigger Slav-wank by having the Russian Empire survive and avoid almost all of the extreme demographic devastation that it suffered during the 20th century rather than only avoiding a part of it!