Without Gorbachev

In 1985, OTL, Mikhail Gorbechov was elected the General Secratry of the Soviet Union. In this ATL, Gorbechev, who in OTL and the ATL, was born into a pesant family in the U.S.S.R, and hence forth he contracted, along with the rest of his family, a fatal case of Influenza, ending his life before he could talk. As he never was born, the Soviet Union continued on without a General Secratary for the next 10 years.

1991-Present Day
In the year 1990, the Soviet Union still exists, but the Cold War has ended with a peace treaty signed in 1989.