eastern europe

Exactly what it says on the tin. Some ideas I had were a larger Saxon/Swabian population, a larger Hungarian population, a larger Muslim population (specifically in Christian majority countries like Romania, Croatia, and/or Serbia), and a stronger Protestant presence. Any other groups/ideas you...

By "Balkans", I'm including former the former Yugoslavia territories (Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, etc.), Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and Greece. If any of these territories seem too far-fetched, then just focus on the ones you think could feasibly end up with a larger Hungarian population...

I was recently browsing through some old threads (link, link, and link) and stumbled across a few discussing an independent Transylvania. Unfortunately, most responses only discussed how an independent Transylvania would form, but never what it would look like or how it would function after...

Aside from his authoritarianism, the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko is also known for his socialist-leaning economic policies that spared the country from the worst effects of shock therapy. To this day, Belarus' economy is still dominated by state-owned enterprises and has one of the...

Everybody knows about the Cyrillic script, the script used by the Orthodox Slavs in Eastern Europe, but few know that its position, although quite stable in the Balkans, was not as stable in... Russia? To illustrate the point I'll be making, I am going to get a generic central powers victory...

In the 1990s, in a number of Eastern European countries after the fall of communism, a severe crisis occurred - the economy collapsed, there was hyperinflation, rampant crime, agriculture and industry were greatly weakened, there was a moral collapse, population decline, ethnic conflicts...

Let's say that Wilson can't be budged from neutrality and there's a massive mutiny in the French army by mid 1918. Britain and France negotiate with Germany and agree to the following terms: Germany's colonial empire is dismantled. Britain and France will not pay the Central Powers any war...

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I was thinking about having a earlier independent Ukrainian state and started thinking about the alliance between the Cossacks and the Crimean Khanate during the independence war from Poland-Lithuania. What if Crimeans never betrayed the Cossacks and kept working together and survived into early...

I'm helping a friend work on their world for a video game, and part of it involves monarchism becoming a hot button issue during the cold war. Assuming that the USSR still collapses on schedule while monarchism is not only seen as a valid, but secures certain political alliances (at least...

The Czech Corridor was a proposal that was brought up after WWI to connect Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia together. It didn't make it far and was ultimately rejected. But let's say the idea is brought back up after WWII. Hoping to find a good excuse to punish the Austrians and Hungarians for...

Surprised that there isn't much discussion about this, at least none i can find. Given the depopulation of the southern Rus, would a different external power such as Poland or Muscovy conquer the region instead? or could a local kingdom such as Galicia–Volhynia fill the power vacuum in that...

Whenever I see people pondering what would've happened had the Jagiellonian Dynasty survived past Sigismund II Augustus it involves him fathering children. For all we know Siggie could've been infertile (he was married 3 times and had no children), although that is just a personal opinion. I've...

Introduction The stories is about the life of a young hospital knight who has the great Adventure in this Alternate 1600s. During his adventure, he will encounter different cultures and people, has many battles and adventures, even will has countless Romance. Turning Points -Ottoman fail to...

Surprisingly, not a single thread about this PoD seems to have existed anywhere on the foum prior to this. Guess there's a first time for everything. Anyway, while Lithuania was mostly ruled by Grand Dukes, there was actually one crowned King of Lithuania, sanctioned by the Pope: Mindaugas...

Let's say that, whatever the POD, the Warsaw Pact regimes still collapse in 1989, but the Soviet Union survives, maintains its territorial integrity. What would be the political and cultural effects effects of this, in Europe especially but also in the world at large? Would they be too bound to...

Hello all, So, Lithuania was a powerful realm in its heyday. Mindagaus -- the first Duke and later King of Lithuania -- fought and won many wars against Christian forces, defeating Polish and Crusader enemies and conquering land from the Baltic into Ruthenia. However, though Mindagaus was a...

If by say 1921 there exists a communist Germany on one side and the Soviet Union on the other, is there any way for Czechoslovakia, Poland, and the Baltics* to survive as fortress nations? Or will they inevitably be partitioned/ turned into satellite communist regimes? *I’m including a remnant...

I realize this is a very vague question and of course Eastern Europe is not a monolith but what might Protestantism look like if it developed in opposition to an Orthodox church rather than a Catholic one?

Chapter 1: The Fall of An Empire *** Chapter 8 of Last Empire of Europe: The Soviet Union by Alexei Trymoshenko “The reporters and officials of Moscow gathered at Vnukovo airport after the end of the August Coup in the early hours of August 22 to welcome the president on his return from his...