A country split 3 ways

so during the Cold War (and in one case long after) a few countries were split in two (East and West Germany, North and South Vietnam, North and South Korea) where the difference was not ethnic or language or religion but politics, in most cases they both claimed to be the rightful government for the whole land, so I was thinking is there any country that could be split 3 ways between 3 political ideologies?
 
Not during the Cold War because there was only two bloc but in the future or ASB why not...
 
Well, you could have a colony become independant, splits into two parts then one part splits again. Oh, wait.......

I guess you could say British mandate in Palestine was split between Israel, Jordan and Egypt until Israel took everything in 1967. Not three independant states though.

Also by similar stretch you could say Cyprus was split into Cyprus (Republic of), Northern Cyprus (Turkish Republic of) and Sovereign Base Areas. Since last one isn't sovereign but rather British it's a stretch, as I said.

Overall, I think this was hard to happen in Cold War because it wasn't three sided with sides being each hostile to all others. When Sino-Soviet split happened Chine didn't have enough influence to achieve such splits.
 
Happened IOTL.
Post-war Germany was split into the pro-American Federal Republic of Germany, the pro-Soviet German Democratic Republic, and the neutral Republic of Austria.
The main difference between Austrians and Bavarians is that the former are successful secessionists and the latter are not.
 
Happened IOTL.
Post-war Germany was split into the pro-American Federal Republic of Germany, the pro-Soviet German Democratic Republic, and the neutral Republic of Austria.
The main difference between Austrians and Bavarians is that the former are successful secessionists and the latter are not.

Austria was independant before the war....
 
Well, Austria was a separate country from Germany by the start of WWI. There was the anchluss before WWII so it could be said they were the same country. OTOH, referendums where people vote with a nazi thug watching over their shoulders don't exactly have some kind of validity.
 

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My TL has an Italy split three ways. Not Cold War though..Communist North, Monarchy-Papal-Mafia South and a Hapsburg backed tiny Fruilia state.
 
Here's a long shot, but I was thinking an alternate Lebanon, where you see a civil war in the 1980s consisting of:

1) A pan-Arab Sunni faction, tied closely to Syria, and therefore the USSR

2) A more democratic faction that was made up of the various Christian and Druze minorities tied to Israel and (to a greater extent) to NATO

3) A Shi'a faction allied to an *Islamic Republic of Iran (a la Hizbollah)
 
In my TL on hiatus about Mussolini joining the allies, he gets Austria and Southern Germany in the Post-War deal, along with much of the Balkan region. A 3-Way Cold War between the Capitalists, Fascists, and Communists erupts, so there is a Democratic West Germany, Communist East Germany, and Fascist South Germany (Southern Germany + Austria).
 
Here's a long shot, but I was thinking an alternate Lebanon, where you see a civil war in the 1980s consisting of:

1) A pan-Arab Sunni faction, tied closely to Syria, and therefore the USSR

2) A more democratic faction that was made up of the various Christian and Druze minorities tied to Israel and (to a greater extent) to NATO

3) A Shi'a faction allied to an *Islamic Republic of Iran (a la Hizbollah)

Lebanon is too small for that. Besides Hezbollah areas don't allow for such split. It might be possible if Lebanon is made bigger but that would release whole set of butterflies so LCW might be different if it would happen at all.
 
Lebanon is too small for that. Besides Hezbollah areas don't allow for such split. It might be possible if Lebanon is made bigger but that would release whole set of butterflies so LCW might be different if it would happen at all.

I don't know, say Lebanon has a civil war, you know like OTL, Israel occupied the South and supports the South Lebanon Army, the Syrians occupies the North-east and the "middle" being a proxy zone between the two
 
I don't know, say Lebanon has a civil war, you know like OTL, Israel occupied the South and supports the South Lebanon Army, the Syrians occupies the North-east and the "middle" being a proxy zone between the two

Except then Syrians are in position to influence Lebanese government, as they did in OTL. It doesn't take much more effort and benefits are greater. Once Israelis decide to withdraw from most of Lebanon they aren't likely to go deep again against syrian moves. and if they seem to be going in that direction Syrians can use proxies far more easily than Israel.

What could happen (by a long stretch, I admit) is that other Arab states make serious inroads in Sunni camp. So you get Israeli Security Zone (as per OTL) and Israeli allied Maronites controlling central parts, pro-Syrian Sunnis and Shi'ias concentrated in E and NE parts and other Sunni camp backed by Libya (?), Saudis (?), Iraq (?) in NW parts. Maybe Syrians start spouting too radical republican rhetoric bringing tensions with Saudis. Of course Syria is in far better position as it can use their military directly to crush any opposition not closely allied with Israel while others can only act by extension.
 
British, american and french occupation zones of west germany?

San marino, the vatican and the rest of italy?

South africa, lesotho and swaziland?
 
Last time I checked, Austria had a very long and proud history that did not include rule from Prussia except for the eight years of the Anschluss.

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Statements like this one, make me glad that Prussia crashed and burned in the first half of thee last century.
Why are you thinking that Prussia equals Germany?
After 1871, Prussia dominated Germany, but it was Prussia who end up being absorbed by Germany, not the opposite.
Austria was German and would have probably remained German if not for the Entente and the (defeated) Nazis.
 
British, american and french occupation zones of west germany?

San marino, the vatican and the rest of italy?

South africa, lesotho and swaziland?

Swaziland and Lesotho were never part of South Africa, they were always British protectorates.

Hmm, but we could see something like this.

Civil war in South Africa in the 1980s.

We see most of the Cape province secede, becoming a kind of white and coloured homeland, KwaZulu-Natal also goes its own way, leaving a rump South Africa, made up of today's Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo and North West provinces.

Not very plausible but a starting point.
 
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