If they didn’t drop the claims then the US, Britain, France, and USSR/Russia wouldn’t have allowed German reunification.If you have Germany continue to make their pre-ww2 claims on Poland it could prevent the expansion of NATO into the Baltic states and Poland.
What becomes of Belarus?In 1993 parliament wins the constitutional crisis, and a nationalist semi-socialist regime is established with Alexander Rutkosky as president. He reverses a lot of Yeltsin's economic policies, and declares a revival of socialism in Russia. Russia starts building up it's military again, and annexes Crimea during the 1990s, believing it to be rightful Russian territory.
Annexation is likely, Russia and the Belarus are culturally and politically close. If the Russians ask, Belarus would probably join.What becomes of Belarus?
If they didn’t drop the claims then the US, Britain, France, and USSR/Russia wouldn’t have allowed German reunification.
An entrenched, unmodifiable clause was added to the German Basic Law preventing Germany from claiming any territory beyond its borders after the 2+4 Treaty. If the Basic Law was abolished altogether, America and France would intervene to “restore constitutional order” in Germany, assuming the Germans didn’t rectify the situation on their own.They could just renege on their renunciation of claims.
Its not like they weren't under duress at the expense of a really paranoid Thacherian UK, and a trembling France.
In 1993 parliament wins the constitutional crisis, and a nationalist semi-socialist regime is established with Alexander Rutkosky as president. He reverses a lot of Yeltsin's economic policies, and declares a revival of socialism in Russia. Russia starts building up it's military again, and annexes Crimea during the 1990s, believing it to be rightful Russian territory.
To have post soviet Russia retain more geopolitical power, you need the russian economy not to collapse as dramatically as it did OTL.
Annexation is likely, Russia and the Belarus are culturally and politically close. If the Russians ask, Belarus would probably join.
Ukraine is also a possibly in the early 2000s and 1990sAnnexation is likely, Russia and the Belarus are culturally and politically close. If the Russians ask, Belarus would probably join.