Austrian division permament

Had the immediate postWW2 division of Austria and Vienna into French, British, US, and Soviet occupation zones continued, could this have radically altered the course of the cold war. Had the cold war ended more or less as in OTL, could this have made a new anschluss possible with western acceptance?
 
well, i could imagine an "anschluß" in 1949, then. because 2/3s of austria (much less the eastern part alone) wouldn´t be a viable nation.

The russians would propably give their part as a kind of federated province to tschechoslovakia, so uniting tschechians and slovaks against the new third nationality.

the western part: although the prospect of austria as a german state in the FRG looks kind of bizarre to me, at least for the Americans it should have brought up no problem.

other thought: what if de Gaulle, in his goal (what a pun) to create a french.controlled rhine frontier, offers not only Southern Baden and Hohenzollern, but also the Innsbruck-centered french occupation zone for the rhineland, would the British accept?
 
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