'30s Poland Wank

What can be done to wank the situation of Poland in the 1930s if the POD is no earlier than 1925? The country itself was relatively strong anyway IOTL, but not to the extent where they can pull a Polish-Soviet War of 1920 on Nazi Germany and reign as preeminent regional power in Eastern Europe. How can this be done?

For some bonus points, I read on here (no sauce) that they considered installing George, Duke of Kent as King of Poland.

More bonus points if you can somehow feasibly have Poland team up with (or, given their 1930s relations, incorporate by force) Lithuania to reestablish the Commonwealth.

Extra bonus points if Poland can into space in your ATL.
 
what comes in the 30s determines what comes after. Are you interested in the long term, or onlygetting poland to 1940 safely? The former is a big discussion and I have no time before the afternoon so I'll only make some general remarks for now.

If Poland makes the reforms necessary to structure parliament in a way permitting the formation of stable governments by granting more seats to the larger parties (doable - iirc it almost happened in 1922 or so) Pilsudski won't see the need to intervene, and the country may hope to remain stable without his intervention.

I don't see how monarchy would really help.

Lithuania was too weak to really count for much. Annexation would do more harm than good.

An optimistic scenario for 1939, provided international events go as otl until then, is probably to give in to the early demands for Danzig and have Germany attack France and lose.
 
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Send the secret service to assassinate Hitler in the 1920s. Stalin would be unlikely to attack Poland without Germany's help.
 
The goal here, if I didn't make myself clear, was Poland strong as an ends to itself, not simply to survive 1939.
 
What can be done to wank the situation of Poland in the 1930s if the POD is no earlier than 1925? The country itself was relatively strong anyway IOTL, but not to the extent where they can pull a Polish-Soviet War of 1920 on Nazi Germany and reign as preeminent regional power in Eastern Europe. How can this be done?

No Sanacja would help, as they simply screwed up responding to the Great Crisis (loss of GNP in % twice as big as other countries with similiar economy).

But no Sanacja means more screwing by French companies...

For some bonus points, I read on here (no sauce) that they considered installing George, Duke of Kent as King of Poland.

First I heard of it. Monarchists were the fringe anyway (like less than 1% support)

More bonus points if you can somehow feasibly have Poland team up with (or, given their 1930s relations, incorporate by force) Lithuania to reestablish the Commonwealth.

Poland wasn't interested in annexation and reestablishment of Commonwealth is impossible, as Lithuanian nationalism is built upon anti-Polonism.

Extra bonus points if Poland can into space in your ATL.

If you're talking about sending satellites, then it's no problem. Without Poland being completely overrun IATL and remaining sovereign, space program of some kind is more likely than not - with USSR and Germany on both sides, it's likely for Poland to get nukes on ballistic missiles for deterrent, and space program is an off-shot of that.
 
it's likely for Poland to get nukes on ballistic missiles for deterrent, and space program is an off-shot of that.
Nukes, Yes. If Poland survives and MAD is still established, Poland will all but bunkrupt itself to get nukes. Ballistic missiles on the other hand, I'm not so sure. Since the distance to Berlin and Moscow is so short and missile research is expensive Poland might opt for bombers.
 
Nukes, Yes. If Poland survives and MAD is still established, Poland will all but bunkrupt itself to get nukes. Ballistic missiles on the other hand, I'm not so sure. Since the distance to Berlin and Moscow is so short and missile research is expensive Poland might opt for bombers.

ICBMs are expensive, but SRBMs (against Germany) and IRBMs (against USSR) would be more affordable.
 
Nukes, Yes. If Poland survives and MAD is still established, Poland will all but bunkrupt itself to get nukes. Ballistic missiles on the other hand, I'm not so sure. Since the distance to Berlin and Moscow is so short and missile research is expensive Poland might opt for bombers.

There may be bombers used at first, but considering the amount of AA defences both neighbours can put in, missiles will be the main component of nuclear deterrence sooner or later, as they're much harder to intercept. Besides, as hx87 noted, they're not going to be ICBMs - more like Pershings.

Also, while nuclear force will be expensive, it doesn't have to harm economy as much, as conventional forces would be reduced.

Interesting knock-on effects ITTL would be existence of nuclear power plants in Poland - probably 1 close to Gdynia, another in Central Poland and - if lands east of Bug were retained - 1 powering Wilno and Lwów each.
 
The operation vegetarian thread makes me wonder if anthrax can be a viable alternative deterrent. Nothing beats a good nuke, but building 20-50 of these, or waiting until someone might sell them, will take a while.
 
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If they wanted a Poniatowski for whatever reason (given that it all went to hell under Stanislaw II August), André, a descendant of Stanislaw's older brother, was kicking about. Can you say "L'Etat...c'est moi?!" :p
 
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