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In the thread on WI Muscovy had not formed a Russian Empire (and nobody else, either), I brought up the issue of the non-inevitability of an economic imbalance working against Eastern Europe. It was present by the time of the thread's PoD (the 15th century), but I posited that it could well be overcome until the present.

I thought maybe this makes for a good AH challenge:

With a PoD after 1000 CE, make it so that Eastern Europe is, on average, economically more developed than Western Europe. You have some leeway with defining East and West. Economical development means a higher GDP per capita, higher work productivity and overall wage levels, earlier industrialisation and/or move towards an economy based on informational services etc.

Good luck!
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