What if Czechoslovakia keep Carpathian Ruthenia after WWII

[Valdemar II]

Would Carpathian Ruthenia have stayed part of Slovakia when Czechoslovakia was dissolved or would it become a independent State?

[Gladi]

Bright day
The answer is, my friend, in that blown fifty years.

Early 90's were years of ethinc fervor, parties that would never manage to get into parliament, did get in. Ethnicity was the brave new world.

So how is Subcarpathia ITTL? Is it too rich to worry about drowning in Ukraine, or is the national fervor high enough for "Heim in die Ukraine" party to win elections for Subcarpathian Russian National Council? Are there even National Councils if the federations has three lands?

Well long story short, Subcarpathian Rus may be enough to keep Czechoslovakia together, otherwise it would join Ukraine, most probably.

[Valdemar II]

I think it would be a lot richer than Ukraine, and it will have a few years to observe newly independent Ukraine, so I think a unification with Ukraine is unlikely. But would the Slovakians really accept staying in Czechoslovakia?

[Gladi]

Originally Posted by Valdemar II

I think it would be a lot richer than Ukraine, and it will have a few years to observe newly independent Ukraine, so I think a unification with Ukraine is unlikely. But would the Slovakians really accept staying in Czechoslovakia?

Why not? Mečiar's HZDS did not run on platform of breaking Czechoslovakia- there was no large-scale mobilization in either land of the country. No doubt, people were more mindfull of their ethnic descent in the period, even Moravian parties scored high (for example census in 1991 showed 13,2 percent of Czechia to be "Moravians", but only 3,7 in 2001- as I caanot find elections results ATM).

Of course the federation, established in 1990, was pretty much doomed to some sort of failure ( Czech National Council, Slovak National Council, Federal Gathering, national ministers, federal ministers, it was a mess). But that is the beauty of Subcarpathia- the OTL solution could be made unacceptable, setting the stage for some real consensus based on compromise.