Finland gets what it deserves for being a nazi ally and gets completely taken by USSR
USSR keeps Finnmark and Bornholm which the Red Army liberated
USSR liberates whole Germany and Austria since the rest of the allies were slower
Partisan Resistance wins the Italian Civil War and takes power
Partisans win Greek Civil War
Albania and Bulgaria join Yugoslavia which also gets Carinthia and Friuli-Venezia Giulia as planned
Liberate Denmark as well and give the Pakt full control over the baltic sea, then perfect.
As a Romanian, i feel obligated to demand that you at least give us northern Bucovina…
I would give entire western Ukraine today, but idk if USSR would at the time.
Would probably give timeshenko and Kruschev a seizure
Nah, I’m fine with most of western Ukraine being USSR. I think for the most part there was a good reason for that. The USSR really only kept those regions where the population was majority Ukrainian. I even think it makes sense to keep Transcarpathia under the USSR (previously it was the “tail end” of Czechoslovakia) even with half of it actually being the northern part of the historically Romanian region of Maramureș, because it gives the USSR a direct connection to Hungary rather than having to go through Czechoslovakia or Romania.
I’m mostly joking about Bucovina too, because obviously the northern part was much more heavily Ukrainian than Romanian by that point. It’s just sort of a meme that Romanian irredentist nationalism constantly harps on about various historical regions like that.
Only thing i really dislike about the post war USSR borders is how they included the southern coast of Moldova into the Ukrainian SSR. I think the Moldovan SSR should have gotten its historical coast back. I think that would have greatly helped their economy.
Sharing a border with relatively unscathed France and Belgium feels way worse for a communist power than to have it with a weakened, albeit propped up West Germany.
Hoxha is rolling in his eternal bunker
Why did Cyprus turn communist? Also, if Italy turned communist, San Marino would 100% follow it. The Vatican would just remain neutral as usual.
Part of Greece. And yeah I was thinking about San Marino and Vatican which would be neutral but I wasn’t sure about San Marino.
I imagine OP was thinking of Cyprus doing enosis with Greece, though I don’t think that’s something that the British would allow for in that time period, and definitely not in this scenario.
On the topic of San Marino, they actually did turn communist! And they were that way until 1957, when the treacherous social-democrats and christian-democrats overthrew the democratically elected communist-socialist government with the aid of Italian tanks! (source is in Polish, sorry, try to bear with a translator)
No france?
There was a possibility of France becoming based? What was happening?
US doesn’t go in, or focus more on economic help, perhaps, so the Soviet Union has to liberate France too. Or something like it.
The communist party of France was a huge part of the resistance to fascism and played a large role in liberation. After the war, they were one of the most popular parties, winning more electoral votes in several elections than any other individual party, polling above all other parties until 1956, and making up 1/5th of the parliament. However in 1947 the ‘socialist’/socdem section of the governing coalition worked to kick them out of the government and succeeded. They pretended to have uncovered a coup plot that never existed, mobilized the military, and made a big show of their expulsion. All of this was done because the US ambassador told the leader of the socdems that if there were communists in the government, aid would stop, and they wanted those Marshall plan funds.
So in my opinion, the likelihood of France becoming a socialist country without US meddling was actually quite decent.
