AHC: St Petersburg Neither Russian or Nazi...

With a POD after 1900, have St. Petersburg for at least a year during (relative peace) become part of a Nation which is neither Russian nor Nazi (nor Nazi clone).

I don't see a victorious WWI Germany taking it away from the Russians unless the Russians *completely* go to pieces (a *worse* Russian Civil War?) and probably not even then. (They might support a German aligned government in St. Petersburg, but making it a full part of the empire?).

Can the Finns take it (would they want it?), Estonia and the other Baltic States seem unlikely.

The other options would seem to be a post WWI Poland Wank or *maybe* a late 1940s WWIII.

Any other ideas?
 
Weimar Republic initiates WW2 over unresolved issues in WW1. They take St. Petersburg.

Done.
 
The Peace bit is the problem though you could have a victorious Kasierreich hold St. Petersburg for a few years after the war as a Rhineland style hostage for War Reparations. Would that qualify?
 
Finno-Estonian union grabs it for being traditional Uralic lands. Or would that be finnish nazis and a no go?
 
Russian Revolution gets much messier and the St. Petersburg area willingly joins Finland rather than being annexed by the Warlord of Tver?

Bruce
 
The Peace bit is the problem though you could have a victorious Kasierreich hold St. Petersburg for a few years after the war as a Rhineland style hostage for War Reparations. Would that qualify?

Note the "Part of a Nation" cavet, they might hold it as a hostage, but having it as actually *part* of the Kasierriech is a different story.
 
After the fire from the sky utterly destroyed the former Russian capitol and desolated hundreds of kilometers of Northwestern Russia and Grand Duchy of Finland in June 30, 1908, the death of the Romanov royal family and the heart of the Czarist bueraucracy pushed the former empire into chaos and disarray, it didin't take long for the international community to send in ships and troops to view the damage. As the parts of the former empire descended into warlordism and revolutions, neutral Sweden was ultimately tasked to administer the totally lifeless wasteland that had once been Ingermanland.
 
After the fire from the sky utterly destroyed the former Russian capitol and desolated hundreds of kilometers of Northwestern Russia and Grand Duchy of Finland in June 30, 1908, the death of the Romanov royal family and the heart of the Czarist bueraucracy pushed the former empire into chaos and disarray, it didin't take long for the international community to send in ships and troops to view the damage. As the parts of the former empire descended into warlordism and revolutions, neutral Sweden was ultimately tasked to administer the totally lifeless wasteland that had once been Ingermanland.

Ah. See https://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/archive/index.php/t-88832.html :)
 
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