General Zod
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Would Poland need Gydnia if it's getting all of Lithuania? Give them Posen, and nothing more(from Germany).
Well, Posen had a sizable german minority (40%) as well but was seen by Poland as the cradle of their nationn, was Polish majority and was fall in Polish hands when the Kaiser fell, so I suppose it has to be sacrificed anyway. Too bad for those Germans. I suppose most of them shall flee to Germany. Maybe a balanced population echange might be set up between Germans in Posen and Poles in West Prussia and Silesia. This ought to quell any serious irredentist claims from both parts and build a quite stable border.
In order to compensate Poland, perhaps instead it is decided that Germany assist them in safe guarding Ukraine and the Baltics from a Revanchist Bolshevik Russia? While nominally independent, this would effectively allow Poland a free position on the Black Sea.
Yup, but how is Poland going to wrest Ukraine from Bolshevik clutches in the first place ? They need to win the Polish-Soviet War decisively. They need boots on the ground, financial support alone from completely demilitarized Germany won't cut it (and in 1919-21, Germany is hardly in the position to give much of that; since the late 1920s, it is a wholly different picture). Two possbilities, either an Anglo-French intervention, or German veterans (the ones that don't go in the Freikorps to quell Communist insurgencies) are organized in an expeditionary corps, under close Entente supervision, to fight the Bolsheviks. Or maybe a mix of both. Hmm, the German "foreign legion" mgiht actually be a rather good idea to accomplish some much-needed German-Polish reconciliation and win back some clout with the Entente powers (esp. Britain).
It isn't that out-there, all things considered.
Indeed.
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