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>>When did the USSR go wrong?
Uniroincally when the Politburo got the wrong idea from the Prague Spring and put Brezhnev and the conservatives in charge instead of Kosygin who wanted to do a Deng Xiaoping-style economic reform that still maintained the supremacy of the CPSU and state-owned enterprises. He likely would have mended relations with China sooner and brought them back into the Soviet fold while also giving the Eastern Bloc far more incentive to stay by opening up their markets and formally establishing COMECON as a real trade bloc.