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The challenge is, starting with the first free elections in Poland at the end of the People's Republic (that is, June 4, 1989), to have Ukraine join the Visegrad Group as its fourth/fifth member, to drift much more closely toward Europe and integrate its economy with its western neighbors, and to join the EU with the rest of them before 2005. What would be necessary for Ukraine to commit to the West? Would Russia's economy have to tank even worse than IOTL? Is there even a place for Ukraine among the Visegrad states? And what would be the consequences of Ukraine joining the EU before Russia's late 2000s resurgence, and visibly moving toward it before Yeltsin's fall?
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