poland

I've been curious to how strong was Soviet Union in 1939 and how was it compatible with Nazi Germany. What if Molotov and Ribbentrop Pact wasn't signed and in this scenario Germany still invades Poland without agreement. I know this obviously sounds completely impossible but what if in this...

So Stalin was one of the military commanders against the Poles in this war, and he disobeyed orders from superiors to assist at Warsaw, focusing on the Ukrainian city of Lvov. What if Stalin had been killed at Lvov, or after for disobeying orders? Does this have any impact on the P-S War? Does...

June 1297, Czech King Wenceslaus II dies in some accident during celebrations of his coronation in Prague. Duke Henry of Głogów, one of Wenceslaus' guests is equally unlucky. He returned from Prague to his duchy seriously ill and died few weeks later. Two big rivals of Władysław Łokietek, ruler...

Instead of the wars and conquests against one another, could Russia and Poland-Lithuania instead unite though marriages between one another and whatnot? There’s definitely been a tense relationship between the two, but could they possibly overcome that and become a united nation peacefully? What...

So I've currently been reading a lot about the political awakening that occurred within the Jewish community of Eastern Europe around the late 19th and early 20th century with writers such as Chaim Zhitlovsky advocating for Jewish Territorialism which differed from Zionism in that Zionism...

Pan-Slavism was the ideology that the Slavic groups (Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Croats, Serbians, Bosnians, Montenegrins, Bulgarians, Macedonians) should unite and form a country. If these people groups were able to overcome differences like religion...

Which would not last 13 years in such case of course. It is really not easy. Elites of Grand Duchy of Lithuania were more interested in further expansion into Ruthenian territory than in gaining mouth of main river of Lithuania and serious access to the Baltic. It was Poland's success that...

Louis X, Duke of Bavaria Landschut (1495-1545) was consideted as candidate for hand of Hedwig Jagiellon (born 1513), oldest daughter of king Sigismund I. IOTL negotiations were broken, because Louis wanted part of Masovia as Hedwig's dowry. Say in ATL his demands are more moderate and marriage...

Andrew Jagiellon (Andrzej Jagiellończyk), future King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania was born on 15 July 1478 as twelfth child and seventh son of Casimir IV, having 6 older brothers (youngest of them was 10 years older than him) he had little expectations to ever sit on the throne, but...

Change is simple-Elizabeth of Luxembourg is not pregnant when her husband, Albert Habsburg died on 27 October 1439. Thus Elizabeth could not hope that she'll give birth to a son who will inherit his father's and grandfather's thrones. Hungarians would still elect 15 years old Vladislaus III of...

If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's the tendency to attach Suvalkija up to the Nemunas River to an independent Poland, often in the form of a panhandle, in AH maps and timelines. If you are not picturing it in your mind yet, here is a visual representation of what I am talking about...

Władysław II Jagiełło, King of Poland and Supreme Duke of Lithuania has a healthly son born in 1408 (instead of daughter Hedwig) named Władysław after father. IOTL Jadwiga/Hedwig was proclaimed heiress to Polish throne in 1413 during congress of Jedlnia. It should be even easier with son (whose...

In 1602 the spanish empire was in deep debt and in order to pay this debt one of their diplomats went around to friendly catholic countries looking for help. One of these countries was poland, due to the relative chaos of the polish court a fraction of noblemen made a deal with spain to buy an...

This is the first official post of my new TM, formerly known as A Prussian Blitz. The premise is that a certain Prussian prince has a different personality than OTL. People who have shown interest: @Zagan @SkylineDreamer People who helped draft this TL: @Gukpard Prologue (November 1801): As...

I never expected to find English information about this plan (well known in Lithuania, not so much elsewhere) on the Vilnius dispute. But I did. And on Wikipedia, too, so now I can talk to you about this. The most defining trait of Interwar Lithuania is, undoubtedly, it's dispute over the...

11 April 2017 | Article by Valdemar Tomaševski The 2018 Winter Olympic Games turn hotter as Lithuania declares it's boycott at last WILNO - After six years of tensions and protests ever since the IOC declared Wilno, the fifth largest and one of the most northern cities in the Republic of...

Because it's not really something that you see very often, I want to see some balkanized Polands with a POD no earlier than the mid 19th century. The more balkanized the better, the more realistic the scenarior the better and, uh, some maps would be cool too.

What are the best possible PODs for a successful restoration of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, either as a monarchy or republic, after WWI?

Say that Jogaila's third wife Elżbieta Granowska outlived him, thus he dies without sons and do not start new dynasty. He still have daughter from his second marriage, Jadwiga (Hedwig) born in 1408. She was engaged with Frederick Hohenzollern, born in 1413, son of Elector of Brandenburg but...

As you all know, Poland is a protestant-majorty country since reformation. So I have a challenge: make Poland Catholic-Majorty with POD from 1475 without ASB.