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Which Poland? In general Poland can ge a prfectly viable state, the problem was not its location but its inhabitants. Now, on some other forum I saw a proposition that to provoke Russians in 1812 to invade, Nappy completely thrashes Prussia under some rather doubtful pretext (being late with...

If Poniatowski survives, they could marry her with him. If not, there's grand prince Constantin or one of the Habsburgs.

Poland had a succession crisis every time ruler kicked the bucket and left more than one heir until the Restored Kingdom of Poland. Then for the next 350+ years we have reasonably peaceful power transfers with the short interruption for war between the supporters of Habsburgs and Vasas until...

Not only majority of Eastern Europeans was half-slaves themselves as serfs, but also for centuries they were victims of Tatar raids and Black Sea slave trade, those who didn't fell directly under the Ottoman domination. And they benefitted from Atlantic about as much as Americans benefitted from...

Which would end Conchian struggle in 5 minutes because the locals would not want to be associated with USSR and USA would not allow them meddling with American internal affairs But perhaps USA could recognize its independence by some freak accident.

Who are also white, more priviledged than those peasants, and last but not least, like those peasants they didnt benefit in any way from the atlantic slave trade

Maybe, but Poles would still want Ukraine and other areas the Crown gained after the Union.

I don't think you are supposed to do that, because it determines the next round too much.

What if Frederick was removed from the line of succession due to the Katte Affair? Monarchs in Prussia 1713-1740. Frederick William I (House of Hohenzollern) 1740-1740. Sophia Dorothea as Regent (House of Hannover) 1740-1746. Augustus William I (House of Hohenzollern) [1] Monarchs of Prussia...

I claim the next

Shouldnt he be Henry II of Poland? Of course Poland's numbering of rulers can be somewhat odd in places ...

Exactly. In this scenario, the PLC state apparatus would support polonization. Now how it exactly look, would depend on the exact POD and historical circumstances - urbanization would most likely help with Polonization (people moving into cities would likely intermix and default to the most...

Still, Poland would have fifty more years or so of unopposed polonization, and then still there would be no germanization or russification opposing their effort or playing one nationality against the other.

I dont think it existed in the rest of Europe too, except for the Ottomans. Not that the lot of serfs was that much better. IIRC about some time before that, the so-called enlightened rulers of Russia allowed them to be officially sold and bought separately from the land they lived on

Huh. I knew that Russians usually had smaller wages even in times when their GDP per capita was similar to Poland's (I guess more of the money landing in oligarch pockets), but that's quite bad. Did Russia have free currency exchange rate back then?

Give someone in Europe 2000 years to do the usual business and they will get similar results.

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The problem was that Russians could not be told anymore "Work for the local equivalent of a bowl of rice, comrades, and in 50 years we will catch up with the Western world" because this was why the USSR had fallen.

Really? Because in Poland it was more than 200$?

Or almost any country that developed any meaningful industry