I think its constitutional design is relatively apolitical
Relatively as long as we are talking about variations of parlamentary republic or other system without Great Leader. For example we can compare EU and USA of our timeline: one has functioning healthcare, public transport and labour laws, while other has system, that allows only for two right-wing parties to exist, both of which compete for sucking corporate dicks more. All this while election of Great Leader takes all attention from parlamentary and local elections.
And as you have said "if that's who won in the national + EP elections". Having oligarchy neigbour instead of leftist one makes domestic oligarchs more likely to win.
They were hired specifically to go overboard and risk reputation. To shield brand from reputational damage of scorching internet. It's even in their name.
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I feel drunk on polymers. Looks like what crossbreed of game industry and Apple would write.
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Now, why the entire domain was taken down, that is the question.
They emailed their registrar. Registrar deals only with domains. It's like telling asassin to deal with person and then act surprised after person was killed.
I think it would look like "better EU", but EU itself would be better than in our timeline.
EDIT: I think alternative timeline EU would be even better than our timeline because it would have example of union, that focuses on quality of life instead of "number must go up". Also it is worth noting, that I said this assuming USSR would either survive as it was politically in 1991 or reborn as result of parlament winning in October of 1993.
EDIT2: Also I said it with assumption that USSR would learn, that feeding people to military machine is bad for everything.
Is it worse than in Russia?
Here was a scandal, when paramedics could not drive to village and had to use sleds: