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Previously, I'm sure some of you have already some maps in this site that depicted the whole North of Eurasia east of Baltic countries and Ukraine under the colonial rule of a western European nation(and it was almost always, if not always, under the english), with the best among them being Nugax's EPIC map series in this site that I'm afraid I can never find it anymore.... :(

But realistically, this will be able to happen by overcoming many, many factors. I don't exactly what those would be, maybe the Rus is simply be in a to much devastated place with no one in immediately next door is in the position to exert effective control over the whole Russia, or at least the northern part. Maybe Poland is also badly devastated or tied to somewhere else, while the steppe Turks at best can only get nominal vassalage over much of the Rus and maybe also are having more pressing commitment elsewhere. Basically, no one is in the position to supply goods that originate from or flow through the Rus needed by Europeans west of Baltics, so some of the said Europeans have this idea to take advantage. Slowly but surely, this will then roll into a deeper involvement in the east, with convergences with that of OTL's cases of British in India and/or the Dutch in Indonesia respectively, and eventually they will end up a possession of magnanimous land stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Sea, not unlike OTL's Russia itself.

Now is, how exactly to produce a situation that can enable such scenario, with PoD after 1100. My first thought was a more devastating Mongol invasion, enough to overrun all of Poland and for the Mongol invasion to actually enter HRE and cast the horror over the whole HRE by put its eastern most frontier marches into mess. Will that be enough, or we still need something else ?

EDIT : Okay, I'll save my own personal preference for the time being ? ;)
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