IOTL, Stalin and the Bierut government cooperated in moving Ukrainians east of the new border and Poles westward (to simplify a rather complicated situation). Even with Lviv's importance as a center of the Ukrainian world, I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens TTL and Lviv's...
A good update! Seems as if all the (somewhat overheated) speculation about a divided Poland TTL came to naught.
If Stalin is talking about directly annexing Cannakale, that would seem to run counter to the idea of the Soviets being relatively soft on Turkey, and seeking to bring Sivas under...
Honestly I wouldn't put too much stock in the Danube meaning anything outside of a strictly Yugoslavian context-IIRC, Soviet troops are already in Bulgaria.
You're probably right, but in all honesty I've never understood why the Soviets directly annexing the Baltic States was "thinkable", and annexing Finland-which became independent under similar circumstances and at roughly the same time-wasn't.
Was annexation on the table during the Winter War...
I also think this is plausible, at least as something Greece would try to do. It might end up like the situation of the Polish minority in contemporary Lithuania (though ofc for different historical reasons)-while Poles in Poland are generally anti-Russian, Lithuanian Poles are chiefly organized...
Thanks for the detailed response!
Yeah, makes sense that Rome could maybe have gotten a better overall outcome but the same structural factors limiting Roman influence and power (both hard and soft) would still apply.
A very good point about how fears of a Syrian Muslim fifth column are much...
I've just caught up on the last few years of this wonderful TL over the last couple days (and revisited some earlier sections as well). Getting back into the TL that prompted me to join AH in the first place feels like a homecoming-and it feels very weird to read old comments from a much younger...
Just caught up.
The siege of Bonifacio ends in farce after all the valor of the defenders, but at least it's a relatively bloodless farce. A shame the Corsicans weren't repulsed-saying that for the first time in all this thread. My sympathies are firmly with the Republic. Here's hoping the...
Great stuff, as always. It's somewhat ironic that, of all the changes that happened to Bonifacio's arms during French rule, the "Cross of Lorraine" is apparently original.