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Relevant: https://nitter.1d4.us/powerfultakes/status/1588230563575504896#m

[33] Kappeler, The Russian Empire, 213–46, 328–69. This? If so, I'll get around to looking at it in due time. :)

Allowing the Polish language != allowing Polish independence.

Also, @Batrix2070, do you think that there is any realistic chance that we would see an EU-style union/confederation develop in Europe without one or both World Wars? I can think of Mitteleuropa if Germany wins WWI, but what else...

So, we get 1991 several decades earlier?

Are you sure? Stalin strikes me as being relatively cautious.

So, in real life, if France doesn't fall in 1940, the West is going to wage a war against the Soviet Union after defeating Nazi Germany?

Would self-governance include the power to restrict migration from the rest of Russia? And who exactly in Russia promised Warsaw self-government before WWI? Yeah, so Poland would very likely have to return to democracy before this would ever actually occur.

Why exactly would there be a war against the Soviet Union after Germany is defeated in this TL?

So, similar to the Ukrainian miracle at Kiev earlier this year? ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kyiv_(2022) By the way, in this TL, the Soviet Union avoids collapsing later on since its most subversive territories, specifically the Baltics and central + western Ukraine, never...

Would Hitler's September campaign have looked like Putin's special military operation in Ukraine in this TL?

Also, @sillygoose, had Poland indefinitely remained a part of Russia, it could have then received a lot of migration more easily from the East Slavic lands as well as the Caucasus and Central Asia, no? In such a scenario, Poland would have been one of the most developed parts of Russia and thus...

Interesting. But in theory this could change under future, more liberal Polish governments if they view this as a good way to help assimilation and to help nip Ukrainian separatism in the bud.

Didn't Poland have free internal migration? I always assumed it did; am I wrong?

Yass! Would we (the US) be the Third Rome in such a scenario? If so, then where is our homoeroticism? Or is our LGBTQ+fetishism enough to cover this lol? ;)

Russia could have won the Cold War if they weren't Communist and if they would have avoided the extreme demographic devastation that they suffered during the 20th century. One way to do this would have been for Russia to somehow avoid one or both of its revolutions in 1917.

I don't know if it will stop at Ukraine or not, but in any case, I don't like the idea of countries getting conquered for their human capital against the will of these countries' inhabitants.

Do you mean decades of Communist rule in East Germany? And Yeah, honestly, if I was a German, I wouldn't have cared all that much about Danzig and the Polish Corridor (Alaska is separated from the US and we don't need a corridor for it!). I'd have simply wanted good relations with Poland...

Had Poland succeeded in restoring its 1772 borders after the end of WWI and in permanently sustaining this arrangement afterwards, cities in western Poland such as Warsaw, Lodz, and Krakow could have had a significantly larger population right now due to the fact that there could have been a lot...

Had the KMT won the Chinese Civil War while the Chinese Communists would have managed to maintain a rump state in Manchuria, whatever city is chosen to be Manchuria's capital could end up being bigger, perhaps even significantly bigger, than it ended up being in real life since it would become...