Post by futurist on Jan 8, 2019 1:14:05 GMT
I strongly hope that I didn't ask about this scenario here yet. Anyway, here goes:
What if Britain and France would have declared war on Nazi Germany over the Sudetenland issue in 1938--thus resulting in an anti-Nazi coup occurring in Germany and in an early end to WWII. The new German leadership wants to revise the border with Poland but is too afraid of the possibility of a new war with Britain and France to actually do anything about this issue. Thus, the German-Polish border remains as it was set at Versailles in 1919. Without Germany also attacking Poland, the Soviets never dare to attack Poland--fearing the possibility of a multinational anti-Communist coalition being developed in response to such a Soviet move. Thus, Poland permanently keeps the Kresy--the territories in the east which often had a Ukrainian-majority, Belarusian-majority, or Lithuanian-majority population.
The Soviet Union still eventually breaks up (in the late 20th or early 21st centuries) in this scenario due to its stagnation, but with hyper-nationalistic western Ukraine still being a part of Poland, Russia finds it much easier to regather the former Soviet lands and create a new Empire. Without western Ukraine, pro-Russian forces in Ukraine are supreme and agree to join Russia's Eurasian Union project (or whatever it will be called in this TL; remember, there will be a lot of butterflies in this TL as a result of the 1930s PoD).
Anyway, how would this new Russian Empire/Eurasian Union fare in this scenario? With most of Ukraine being a part of it (and with the rest of Ukraine being under Polish rule), one would think that this union would have a huge advantage in comparison to our TL. Also, the U.S. will remain isolationist in this TL and is thus probably going to be disinclined to pursue an aggressive policy against the Eurasian Union.
What are your thoughts on this scenario?
What if Britain and France would have declared war on Nazi Germany over the Sudetenland issue in 1938--thus resulting in an anti-Nazi coup occurring in Germany and in an early end to WWII. The new German leadership wants to revise the border with Poland but is too afraid of the possibility of a new war with Britain and France to actually do anything about this issue. Thus, the German-Polish border remains as it was set at Versailles in 1919. Without Germany also attacking Poland, the Soviets never dare to attack Poland--fearing the possibility of a multinational anti-Communist coalition being developed in response to such a Soviet move. Thus, Poland permanently keeps the Kresy--the territories in the east which often had a Ukrainian-majority, Belarusian-majority, or Lithuanian-majority population.
The Soviet Union still eventually breaks up (in the late 20th or early 21st centuries) in this scenario due to its stagnation, but with hyper-nationalistic western Ukraine still being a part of Poland, Russia finds it much easier to regather the former Soviet lands and create a new Empire. Without western Ukraine, pro-Russian forces in Ukraine are supreme and agree to join Russia's Eurasian Union project (or whatever it will be called in this TL; remember, there will be a lot of butterflies in this TL as a result of the 1930s PoD).
Anyway, how would this new Russian Empire/Eurasian Union fare in this scenario? With most of Ukraine being a part of it (and with the rest of Ukraine being under Polish rule), one would think that this union would have a huge advantage in comparison to our TL. Also, the U.S. will remain isolationist in this TL and is thus probably going to be disinclined to pursue an aggressive policy against the Eurasian Union.
What are your thoughts on this scenario?
