AHC: Border changes in post-Warsaw Pact states.

Inspired by a discussion on another forum.

Is there any way for the post-Soviet and post-Warsaw Pact to exchange territories after the fall of communism? Either diplomatic are military solutions are acceptable. AFAIK besides some very minor adjustments nothing like that happened. Dissolution of Czechoslovakia and Unification of Germany were wholesome deals, so those don’t really count.

Ideas?
 
Perhaps maybe Finland gets back the territories it lost from the Soviet Union after the second world war?

Not sure how that would come about. There is also the longshot of Slovakia / Hungary, to a smaller extent, getting back eastern Carpathia from Ukraine. Border adjustments between Hungary and Romania are also possible but wouldn't be anything drastic.
 
The exchange of ethnic groups after WWII made a lot of Eastern Europe a lot more stable in terms of territorial claims. Maybe a Romanian invasion or annexation of Moldova and a Ukrainian/Russian defense of Trandniestria. But other than that, I can't really think of anything, other than maybe Russian-inhabited parts of Latvia seceding.
 
Inspired by a discussion on another forum.

Is there any way for the post-Soviet and post-Warsaw Pact to exchange territories after the fall of communism? Either diplomatic are military solutions are acceptable. AFAIK besides some very minor adjustments nothing like that happened. Dissolution of Czechoslovakia and Unification of Germany were wholesome deals, so those don’t really count.

Ideas?

Only if the events in Romania get out of hand and instead of just a war in Yugoslavia you get a general all out war in the territories of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Moldavia and Ukranie.
 
Well, Slovakia is no interested in Ruthenia at all, as there is very small Slovak community. On other hand, Hungarians could be interested in some Rytheniaa border areas as Hungarian minority there goes to around 150 000.
Independent Ruthenia would be interesting, app. 2 years ago I noticed on news some Ruthenian politicians asking for more autonomy, otherwise they will seek independence, but that's very long shot as Ruthenians were pretty much ukrainized and actually some of them always felt they are Ukrainians.

On other side, there were border changes between Czech Republic and Slovakia after dissolution of Czechoslovakia. ;) Two countries exchange some villages with mostly no permanent residents, where vocational houses were built and owners mostly were from other country because of better access roads.
Does it count.

Other example of border change is Czechoslovak Dam on Danube built with Hungarians which was finished in 1992. Hungarians cancel their part of deal after fall of communism and never finished their part, so project was somehow changed in Czechoslovakia. This changed Slovak border with Hungary somehow. Hungarians not keeping their part of the deal and change of the border from Slovak side brought some tension between Slovakia and Hungary and both parties met at International court later on. Hungary lost the case of jumping out of deal and Slovakia lost the part when they change the plans and as such border. Court advices both countries to find solution if I remember correctly.
 
There was a Hungarian minority in Romania, specifically Transylvania

How about Ceaucescu really turns up the heat on them (even more than OTL), and maybe hangs by diverting attention to them.

Meanwhile the "new" Communist regime, or post-Communist regime, in Hungary, gets annoyed at seeing Hungarians being oppressed, and decides on a military solution to the problem...
 
Perhaps maybe Finland gets back the territories it lost from the Soviet Union after the second world war?.

Information is rather fuzzy about this but it's possible that Russians and Finns had some discussions about Karelia in 1991.

The main problem is though that Finland doesn't really want the area. Developing it to the same level as other parts of Finland would be very expensive. Finland also had its worst economic depression in modern history in early 90's. This means there isn't too much money to use in this sort of vanity projects.
 
If I recognize this "other discussion" right, it was about bigger things, like Poland trying to get parts of pre-war teritory beeing inside borders od USSR since 1945, or Poles from Vilnuas region trying to get autonomy, or even independence in the moment of creation of independent Lithuania.
 
The exchange of ethnic groups after WWII made a lot of Eastern Europe a lot more stable in terms of territorial claims. Maybe a Romanian invasion or annexation of Moldova and a Ukrainian/Russian defense of Trandniestria. But other than that, I can't really think of anything, other than maybe Russian-inhabited parts of Latvia seceding.

Wouldn't have to be invasion, I think Moldovan's weren't that opposed to union with Romania. So Transnistria breaks away, Moldova joins with Romania and Transnistria becomes part of Russia.

Russian majority areas of Balts joining Russia is possibility as well.
 
I vaguely recall seeing on the news in the early 1990's (either ITV or BBC) some sensationalist rubbish with some Germans wanting parts of Poland back now they had reunified.

It was the main news, but was relegated to the 6.27pm slot or something.

I assume it was only run on British telly to show us all 'they haven't really changed at all, they're all still Nazi's'-meme often trotted out by British television.
 
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