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OK. Also, do the Baltic countries go Communist in the early 1920s in this TL?

And ditto for Finland, I'd presume? You're thinking of the Anglo-French easing the reparations burden on Germany in order to make Germany a stronger bulwark against the USSR and in order to avoid having Germany be too chummy with the USSR, right? Interesting. Sounds very plausible, frankly.

@sillygoose I have a question for you: Had the Bolsheviks defeated Poland in 1920, would they have later incorporated Poland into the USSR or made it its own nominally independent Communist country, as they did in 1945? Also, what effect would a Communist Poland starting from 1920 onwards have...

Interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Melno#Provisions

Their narrow pre-1923 coastline didn't contain a port? Then why not build one from scratch like Poland did with Gdynia?

Well, why did Lithuania make a move on Memel?

FWIW, Poland was rather restrained in its foreign policy in the interwar era, other than in 1938, of course. It didn't make any moves for Danzig in 1923 like Lithuania did for Memel during the same time, for instance.

Interesting. Thank you. I wonder if things would have been simpler had Danzig been set to return to Germany in 1940 (after around 20 years) as a part of the original Versailles Treaty. Or would Nazi Germany have still insisted on Poland joining the Anti-Comintern Pact, with Poland still refusing...

What was Poland's beef with German operations in the Ukrainian SSR? That this could eventually fuel violent Ukrainian separatism in Poland itself?

Having Ukraine in Poland's sphere of influence won't be worth very much without the territory itself due to the extremely totalitarian nature of Communist rule in Ukraine, no? Unless of course the Soviet Union will eventually collapse, but that won't occur until several decades later and wasn't...

Well, then this would require a change in the Soviet mentality in 1920. Interesting. But didn't Poland say that they wouldn't know what to do with such a gift (Ukraine) in their Nazi talks?

I'll respond to the rest of your post here in a bit, but in regards to this part, I was actually thinking of Poland remaining independent west of the Curzon Line in 1920 while becoming Soviet east of the Curzon Line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon_Line In such a scenario, I wonder if...

Yep, that's where I likewise see this color on that map. Upper Silesia is different because it is gray, which stands for the Catholic Center Party (Zentrum).

Could we see a right-wing paramilitary "state within a state" emerging in Weimar Germany in this TL? Similar to present-day Iraq or Lebanon, but with the Freikorps filling in the role of Shi'a militias such as Hezbollah?

Yes, please do. That said, though, did Germany really need Danzig all that much as a port when most of the territories south of Danzig were Polish? I would presume that Silesia could rely on Stettin as a port instead, for instance. And East Prussia had Konigsberg as a port.

I do want to point out one thing, though: When it came to Imperial German Reichstag elections, the Polish Corridor, other than its southernmost part, consistently voted for the Polish Party between 1871 and 1912. Meanwhile, in Upper Silesia, voting for the Polish Party only began on a huge scale...

Here's the map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Prussia#/media/File:Sprachen_Westpreussen_en.svg Also, territorial revisions would not have been possible without a new war with Poland, especially when they would have involved sovereign Polish territory like Weimar (unlike Hitler) wanted...

Here's a linguistic map of West Prussia in 1910: Kashubians were historically counted as Poles.

Technically speaking, the Locarno Treaty merely allowed Germany to make territorial claims in the East. It didn't actually mean that the Western Powers would actually recognize these territorial claims. And the ethnic makeup of the Polish Corridor was actually Polish-majority; it was Danzig that...

It's worth noting that, in real life, relatively few of the Kresy (eastern Polish) Poles actually resettled in indisputably Polish territories west of the Curzon Line after the end of World War II. Rather, most of them resettled in the Recovered Territories, which, other than Masuria and western...