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    Thoughts on consequences of a total Polish defeat in the Soviet war of 1920

    Help me out in case I'm color-blind. I noticed the label for the anti-semitin party is brown in the legend. The splotches of brown appear sort of randomly places on the map, one in southwest Pomerania, one in Saxony, and a cluster around Hesse. Is that where all y'all see these fuckers...
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    Thoughts on consequences of a total Polish defeat in the Soviet war of 1920

    OK - and I think this is actually somewhat more likely to happen and be a stable result than the alternative in the OP of the Soviets seizing Warsaw and all of Central/Congress Poland, Posen, Galicia. Maybe, and maybe not, but the Czechs would be willing to fight, and the Soviets would...
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    Thoughts on consequences of a total Polish defeat in the Soviet war of 1920

    Of course they will *want* western pledges! And action! They *might* even wait for them before lifting a finger, not wanting to be stuck alone. But they also may not want to wait inactive while Hitler gobbles up territory. First of all, this alternative USSR has a history of winning its...
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    Thoughts on consequences of a total Polish defeat in the Soviet war of 1920

    I don't think there's anything objective in the strategic geography of Poland and the Baltic states that makes Finland more militarily vulnerable. Now subjectively, the Finns in the interwar might *feel* more vulnerable, might be more panicky and right wing, and have a harder time representing...
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    Thoughts on consequences of a total Polish defeat in the Soviet war of 1920

    The Ottomans fucked up first when they decided to jump in on a private Christian-on-Christian knife fight to the death (WWI) and started attacking Suez. What did they expect, candy and roses? The Young Turks might have been young, but they weren't children. They were every bit the adults...
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    Thoughts on consequences of a total Polish defeat in the Soviet war of 1920

    A scenario occasionally raised is a different outcome for the Soviet-Polish war of 1920, sometimes what if Poland did better, or what if the Soviets marched to the Curzon line, but most often, and most dramatically, what if the Red Army conquered Warsaw and liquidated the second Polish Republic...
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