Would they actually fight Stalin over that, though?Any further and you all but have Berlin on the Polish border... or within it. I can't see the WAllies going for that.
Would Stalin want to do that? He had a pragmatist side, and the Soviets were exhausted from the war - hell, there's an interesting argument hinted at in Moorhouse's The Devil's Alliance that the Soviet Union never truly recovered from the war. What's in it for him to take more of Poland especially with him completely occupying it? If there was something more he wanted, he would have taken it OTL.Would they actually fight Stalin over that, though?
Oh, I completely agree with you that there was absolutely no point to Stalin doing this; after all, in addition to occupying all of Poland, he also occupied east Germany up to the Elbe!Would Stalin want to do that? He had a pragmatist side, and the Soviets were exhausted from the war - hell, there's an interesting argument hinted at in Moorhouse's The Devil's Alliance that the Soviet Union never truly recovered from the war. What's in it for him to take more of Poland especially with him completely occupying it? If there was something more he wanted, he would have taken it OTL.
The Lusatian region of East Germany could have been added to Poland for 'ethnic' reasons, as the Sorbs are a Slavic-speaking minority.
Though it probably would have made more sense to make them part of Czechoslovakia.
That's pretty much what the Poles did to the Germans OTL in the lands Stalin gave them. Half of OTL present-day Poland shouldn't even be Polish.The East Germans are told that they are now Polish, and they can either go west and leave their stuff to the Poles, or learn Polish, everything German being banned by the USSR and the Poles.
Maybe have a union between Poland and Czechoslovakia in the name of internationalism.
So a Polish eastern Saxony with Berlin and western Pomerania remaining in German hands?
For logistical reasons?
The East Germans are told that they are now Polish, and they can either go west and leave their stuff to the Poles, or learn Polish, everything German being banned by the USSR and the Poles.
Wasn't the original plan to expel the Hungarian Slovaks, though?Partly, but also because it might fit into the multinational nature of the inter-war concept of Czechoslovakia. As Slovakia had a Hungarian minority, the Sorbs could be the Czech counterpart here.