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It was probably too late to save the Warsaw pact and the USSR, but without Yeltsin coming to power and cracking down on the communist party, socialism would have a much better chance of recovering in Russia at least and would be in a much stronger position without going through neoliberal shock therapy. The DPRK could also be in better position today if they had a socialist Russia there to support them during the famine in the 90s.