ukraine

In the vibrant city of Berlin within the walls of the embassy of the USA, the esteemed Ambassador engaged in vital discussions with the Chancellor of Germany about the nation Belarus but rather to be more precise about its state. The focus of their negotiations revolved around the delicate...

I just found out about "optimal borders survey" days ago and i found them interesting so I spend most of Saturday making a border survey. I know there already is one, but this one isn't for WW1, more really for modern day. this one has almost 60 choices to choose from. If there are any errors...

Everybody knows about the Cyrillic script, the script used by the Orthodox Slavs in Eastern Europe, but few know that its position, although quite stable in the Balkans, was not as stable in... Russia? To illustrate the point I'll be making, I am going to get a generic central powers victory...

Novgorod and its surrounding regions had a distinct history from the rest of Russia until fairly recently in the grand scheme of things. Until the fall of the Republic of Novgorod in 1478 its political institutions were drastically different from the ones found further south, as a Merchant...

In the 1990s, in a number of Eastern European countries after the fall of communism, a severe crisis occurred - the economy collapsed, there was hyperinflation, rampant crime, agriculture and industry were greatly weakened, there was a moral collapse, population decline, ethnic conflicts...

What if Russia was removed from Europe in crimean war ? POD is Napoleon III and Palmerston convince Austria to join the Crimean war and that a panslavic Russia is more dangerous for them than independent Poland and Ukraine. They create rebellions in Finland, Belarus, Poland and Ukraine while...

What is the plausibility that the Russian civil war could drag on for so long that these states could break away permanently from Russia and avoid being reincorporated into the USSR or just Russia again if the whites win? Who would have the best odds of surviving long term independently?

After WW1 Ukraine and Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia became independent along with Finland and Baltic states but got conquered by the Bolsheviks in the Russian civil war and incorporated into the Soviet Union which invaded by Nazi Germany in WW2 but what if Ukraine and Belarus and...

Under the rule of Boris Yeltsin Russia was so weak that it was defeated the small region of chechenia despite itself being the largest country in the World and it so weak that he had to bring his military into the legislature to put down dissent. In this period Russia failed to stop accession of...

What would be the consequence IF everything that can go wrong GOES wrong for the Germans and their allies in Operation Barbarossa and after? What if they CANNOT even reach cities like Vilnius, Minsk or Khmelnytskyi ?

I'm working on a timeline with a less colonized America, and something that I'm thinking about is how a lot of the counter-reformation was funded by new world silver. How much would a timeline where such organizations weren't as large change the history of Poland? It seems like the Khmelnytsky...

Fraction of OUN lead by conservative and more moderate Andriy Melnyk lost internal struggle against revolutionary and radical OUN-B fraction. But what if Melnyk's fraction prevails over Bandera? Was it even possible at all? Does it require Bandera's death? And if Melnyk prevails should OUN...

While looking at maps of Romania before and after WW2 I've been wondering about the incorporation of Moldova in the USSR and the territories it was assigned. While the bulk of what was acquired from Romania was made into the Moldovan SSR, Budjak and the northern parts of Bukovina and...

Disclaimer: The text is based on an edited Google translation, so if you see errors anywhere, please let me know. And so, I decided to write a TL about the absence of Yeltsin. The specific PoD that led to Boris Yeltsin not becoming a political leader in the late 1980s is not particularly...

What if Ukraine didn't apologize to the Japanese but instead kept exposing the war crimes Hirohito and the Japanese Empire committed?

On 1349, Dmirto Dedko of Halych would defeat and kill Casimir III in battle with the help of his former brother in law, Liubartas which would cause Poland to have succession issues due to Casimir III having no sons and the King of Hungary wanting the succession of Poland, the succession issue of...

In 1991, many republics of the Soviet Union expressed interest in recreating the union into a new federation of sovereign states, where things such the army and foreign policy would be United and agreed on. While it did express interest in joining the new union of sovereign states, Ukraine...

Is it possible for Ukraine to be ruled by the Lubomirski family since the direct descendants of the house that ruled Ukraine/Galicia-Volhynia turned out to be the Lubomirskis via the Masovian Dukes.

Quoting the much-maligned Wikipedia: I'm aware that the Cossacks weren't major fans of the Turks, but for the sake of a thought exercise, let's suppose that the Cossack Hetmanate becomes a Turkish vassal without too much trouble. What are the effects on Ukraine's and Russia's developments as...

What I mean is let's say that after the Bolsheviks decisively win the Russian Civil War, they content themselves with the borders of modern day Russia and Kazakhstan with the addition of Crimea and the Donestk so that the Sea of Azov becomes a Russian lake and there's a natural land bridge to...