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I wanted to do exactly this joke five minutes ago. On a more serious level, what about Balkan Confederation if Yugoslavia incorporates large non-Slavic territories like Albania or Greece?

Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, as it was known as until 1929.

You're forgetting that in 1919, at the latest, Germany would be able to extract agricultural as well as industrial goods from occupied Ukraine. Once Germany manges to fully exploit the territories gained at Brest-Litovsk, the British blockade will lose a lot of its effectivenes.

May I ask why?

I got the source for Stalin's claim: So these were, at least according to Stalin, the features an ASSR needed to become a SSR. Though his argumentation seems to be pretty sound, I would still argue that these were only guidelines (not even enshrined in the Soviet constitution), and that the...

Stalin once claimed that only Republics situated on the border of the USSR could become SSRs, because every SSR had the right to secede, and would only be able to use this right if it wouldn't be surrounded by other SSRs after the secession. But actually, whether a Soviet state would be...

Any sources for that?

It's not that they would change their mind, is that they would have been exchanged. The mutineers wanted to finally go home, and Alexander agreed.

While I initially agreed with you, I now think that your theory is flawed. Think of pre-modern societies like the Roman Empire or Imperial China. Consider Saudi-Arabia or contemporary China. There are a lot of examples of autocratic regimes achieving economic development and prosperity, despite...

Yes, but even lots of money can't make nonsense real...

Most Communist countries tend to do quite well in the first years before their developments slows down for different reasons (people getting upset about shortages, loss of revolutionary spirit, increasing bureaucracy means increasing corruption and inefficiency...), so I suspect that it might...

I would definetly add that the Romes themselves set up federal bodies were these didn't existed, especially in the western provinces, called provincial councils. You're right though that the power of these concils was heavily restricted.

I don't see the Seleucids converting to Buddhism if they don't shift their centre of power to the east. Most Seleucids diplomatic and military operations were directed against the west, Egypt, Greece and later Rome. They lost Bactria and western India after some decades, and after another couple...

No, in fact, Byzantine TLs are very common, while Roman TLs tend to be rare and then, most often, short.

Quite lenient, to be fair. Germany keeps Austria and most of the eastern territories. Sure, France gets to annex Rhineland, but we know how well this played out with the Saar...

Alexander wanted to unite the west and the east into a new civilization; at least, he wanted to merge Macedonians and Persians elites, and integrated Orientals into his army. Had he succeeded, the world would have become one polis united by a common culture, law and ruling nobility, combining...

Essentially have West Germany and the Allies accept the Stalin Note. Germany becomes a non-communist, neutral democracy like Austria and Switzerland, distinct from both western and eastern Europe. European integration would me much more restricted and limited to France, Italy and the Benelux -...

Fleet of Love and Peace.

You could have at least one possible answer had I ever finished this TL and this TL.

Meanwhile, the Byzantine Empire was under-administrated just like every other pre-modern country (though its administration was certainly more effective than the weak central authority of the European Early Middle Ages). Only since Absolutism, and really starting with the industrial Revolution...