Could Hungary and Bulgaria have been forced to swallow population exchanges after WWI

raharris1973

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Could population exchanges have become part of the postwar settlement, if not at Versailles, after the defeat of Bela Kun, resulting in Slovaks having to leave Hungary, Hungarians being expelled from areas outside the Trianon borders, and Bulgarians being expelled from southern Dobruja?

If so, I imagine the Hungarians and Bulgarians would be all the more angry and eager to ally with Germany. If there are Nazis and a WWII, what difference does this advance ethnic cleansing make in the diplomacy and conduct of the war and postwar?
 
There wasn't so many minorties with the Trianon borders of Hungary, except for Germans, so with this POD you're gonna make Hungary more crowded, potentially resulting in overwhelming poverty and famine.
 
Would the Muslims in Bulgaria be expelled into Turkey?

Shit. I hope so. They would be immediately targeted and probably killed in religious pogroms, by angry and revanchist Bulgarians looking for someone to blame. War breeds war, as they say.
 

raharris1973

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There wasn't so many minorties with the Trianon borders of Hungary, except for Germans, so with this POD you're gonna make Hungary more crowded, potentially resulting in overwhelming poverty and famine.

Yes, it would have been an inhumane and very biased policy.
 
They would be immediately targeted and probably killed in religious pogroms
Why the hell would the Bulgarians blame the Muslims? The Muslims in Bulgaria are mostly Turks and the Turks fought on the same side as the Bulgarians did. Peoples belonging to Bulgaria's Christian neighbours who fought against them seem like the more likely targets of revenge.
 
You mean beyond the voluntary population exchange between Greece and Bulgaria that happened in OTL post Neully?
 
Shit. I hope so. They would be immediately targeted and probably killed in religious pogroms, by angry and revanchist Bulgarians looking for someone to blame. War breeds war, as they say.
This is an ridiculous assertion. If Romania expels the Bulgarian population, Bulgarians will hate the Romanians, not the Turks. And there weren't religious pogroms even in 1913, when the entire Bulgarian population of Eastern Thrace was driven out of there by the Ottomans.
 
Shit. I hope so. They would be immediately targeted and probably killed in religious pogroms, by angry and revanchist Bulgarians looking for someone to blame. War breeds war, as they say.

I'm lost. I don't think anything like this happened IOTL, so why, with nothing during the war changing here, do you expect this ITTL?
 
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