A different Yalta

The big three meets in Yalta, and discusses the future postwar development of Europe.

Americans are very needy for Soviet support in Asia, and are very uninterested regarding future of Europe.
For the Soviets, the goal was to press as far west as possible.
However Churchill was to have none of that. He was most dedicated to securing the independence of Poland: fir it alone was the reason why Britain entered the war in the first place.
His reply: "I am not to accept any changes of Polish borders.That is up to Raczkiewicz"(1) became legendary.
However, Stalin was pressing hard, and Churchill decided that East Prussia with exception of Ermland and Masuria was to be given to the Soviets as reward, while the two areas were to be given to Poland.
Furthermore an occupied Germany was decided: A soviet Pomerania,Mecklenburg, Brandenburg, Lower Silesia, Saxony and Thuringia,an American Bavaria and Wurttemberg with Hesse, a French Baden and Rhineland a the rest British.

The border changes in the rest of Europe were unmentioned, but it was presumed that they would be reversed back.

Meanwhile Czechoslovak emigrants proposed ceding Egerland to Germany and getting Kladsko in return. Yugoslav exile was trying to restore prewar borders as well.

Lobbying by the Baltic states concerned their independence, and Romania wanted to restore prewar borders as well.

The Potsdam conference decides:
  • 4Ds of Germany
  • Allenstein region and Heilsberg district to be ceded to Poland, rest of East Prussia to Soviet Union.
  • Gdansk and Posen-Westpreussen with Upper Silesia to ceded to Poland.
  • Egerland exchanged for Kladsko, rounding of the Czech borders.
  • A U.N. plebiscite about Slovak independence to be held.
Further changes in Europe after WW2
  • U.N. plebiscite in Budjak to be held, north Bukovina to Ukraine
  • Hungarian-Romanian border corrections-Hungarian areas directly adjacent to the border to join Hungary
  • Yugoslavia to gain Dalmatia, and twothirds of Istria


(1) Wladislaw Raczliewicz led the Polish government in exile
 
This is an interesting possibility is this a timeline or discussion
This is a timeline, where a different culture and attitude to border changes prevails, and what would be the results, if the ethnic principle remains dominant post WW2.

And what cause the change of US foreign policy all of sudden?
Not that USA had a radically different policy, but they did not have their priorities in east central Europe
 
Along the same lines of the Slovak pleblicite for desperation with Czech in 1945, what was the attitude of Slovenes, Croats, Serbs and the other cultures that make up Yugoslavia?
 
Along the same lines of the Slovak pleblicite for desperation with Czech in 1945, what was the attitude of Slovenes, Croats, Serbs and the other cultures that make up Yugoslavia?

Yugoslavia was in the midst of a war between Ustases, Chetniks, Muslims and Partisans. If Tito is not recognised as the leader of Resistance, I guess there is room for autonomous Banovina Hrvatska, or even independent on the Macek Cvetkovic agreement.
Maček could get hold of Croatia while exiled Yugoslav govment of Serbia
 
Stalin smiles, nods, and then after the conference when Molotov asks him about it he says what he said OTL: "Never mind! We'll do it our own way anyway."

Churchill can moan all he wants about that later, but the Soviets are the ones who have a massive military force Eastern Europe and the British are in no condition to take on the Red Army, especially without American backing which (going by the OP) is even less forthcoming ITTL then OTL.
 
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Would this be acceptable?
 
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