Czechoslovakia sans WWII?

The thread on an earlier war over Czechoslovakia got me thinking:

How would Czechoslovakia have fared had there been no WW2 or other disaster (i.e. no Soviet takeover either) and she was basically allowed to develop in peace?

She had a very well developed and growing industrial sector and a number of good exportable products. IIRC she was supplying steel to the UK and others. She also IIRC had a good university system and a number of good scientists/engineers.

Could Czechoslovakia have become a major economic or even regional power were it not for Nazi annexation and later Soviet stripping/domination? Ok, that last part sounds like something else entirely, but you get my gist.

Thoughts?
 
The thread on an earlier war over Czechoslovakia got me thinking:

How would Czechoslovakia have fared had there been no WW2 or other disaster (i.e. no Soviet takeover either) and she was basically allowed to develop in peace?

She had a very well developed and growing industrial sector and a number of good exportable products. IIRC she was supplying steel to the UK and others. She also IIRC had a good university system and a number of good scientists/engineers.

Could Czechoslovakia have become a major economic or even regional power were it not for Nazi annexation and later Soviet stripping/domination? Ok, that last part sounds like something else entirely, but you get my gist.

Thoughts?

I believe Czechoslovakia was an economic and regional power in the interbellum. Certainly it would have continued so.

While its possible to make general statements and I'll leave that to the experts, I can say that conext is important here. How has war been averted? Who is in power in Germany, or indeed Hungary or Poland? Ulltimatly, Czechoslovakia has to settle the issue of the Sudetenland if it is to continue as a working state, but without a drum-banging natioanlist rgeime in Germany this is easy enough. But a nationalist German government that is in no position to fight anyone, like say a Nazi Germany rebuffed in the Rhineland, would be in a position to cause all manner of bother and make a nice peaceful clean solution very hard to implement.
 

Valdemar II

Banned
Czechoslovakia will stay a rich Central European country, but it will have ethnic and political trouble with the large non-Czech groups and the divide between the modern and industrial Czechia and the backward and agricultural Slovakia.

As a power Czechoslovakia will be growing less and less important with Germanys return to normalcy and will likely in time focus their economy to the German marked. So Czechoslovakia will be around as important as Netherlands is today.

Likely Czechoslovakia will have a population of around 20 millions of which half are Czechs, a quarter German, a fifth Slovakian and the rest mostly split between Ruthians and Hungarians.

As a comparison Germany will have 90+ millions people without Austria and 105 millions with Austria, and Poland between 50-60 million people.
 
Czechoslovakia will stay a rich Central European country, but it will have ethnic and political trouble with the large non-Czech groups and the divide between the modern and industrial Czechia and the backward and agricultural Slovakia.

As a power Czechoslovakia will be growing less and less important with Germanys return to normalcy and will likely in time focus their economy to the German marked. So Czechoslovakia will be around as important as Netherlands is today.

Likely Czechoslovakia will have a population of around 20 millions of which half are Czechs, a quarter German, a fifth Slovakian and the rest mostly split between Ruthians and Hungarians.

As a comparison Germany will have 90+ millions people without Austria and 105 millions with Austria, and Poland between 50-60 million people.

The figure is based on current population?
Without the loss of Further Pomerania, Silesia and East Prussia, I think Germany could have supported even more people.
Around 105-110 millions if not more even excluding Austria, I estimate.
 
So, maybe we see a small but relatively wealthy nation that's mostly integrated into the larger economic sphere of the dominant regional power, likely Germany or Russia? Perhaps with the notable German minority in the Sudeten it becomes close to Germany.

Do we still see a Czech-Slovakia split as per post-CW OTL? Or might the eastern farmlands be more integrated culturally and economically in such a scenario?
 

Valdemar II

Banned
The figure is based on current population?
Without the loss of Further Pomerania, Silesia and East Prussia, I think Germany could have supported even more people.
Around 105-110 millions if not more even excluding Austria, I estimate.

The population is based on likely population growth based on the average of several different other contignental Germanic nations (with somewhat similar economy). For Germany to get over 100 million alone it would need a population modifier similar to the Dutch which had the biggest growth after WWII (for a lot reasons that Germany couldn't duplicate), while the Danish growth came in second and would give Germany a population in the high 90ties (but this was based directly on Danish economical incitaments).
 
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