DBWI: Czechoslovakia not divided in 1945.

The British got a rock. They seem more content with Frisia and Lubeck. For all the good it will go them. Pretty much a money sink. Back to the Slavs, though. Would this hypothetical union keep all of the Pre-WWII treaty rights it had to going along rivers that entered their country, as well as toll free access to ports at the mouths of the rivers?
Well, the cold war politics will result in NATO or the Pact Amending these treaties.
 
Well, the cold war politics will result in NATO or the Pact Amending these treaties.
Might keep them, make the whole country a new Switzerland. Though I imagine the Soviets would first want the Western Allies to give them half of whatever was in the Czech area, while simultaneously ransacking the Slovaks. If they even had anything. They always were the poorer of the Soviet puppets.
 
Assuming Czechoslovakia stayed together and then went communist in the post war world how does this impact the founding of the NATO and European Economic Partnership? NATO I can't see it changing much as it was always American led but would it mean West Germany would join sooner due to the lack of the anti German feeling western Czechoslovakia?
 
Assuming Czechoslovakia stayed together and then went communist in the post war world how does this impact the founding of the NATO and European Economic Partnership? NATO I can't see it changing much as it was always American led but would it mean West Germany would join sooner due to the lack of the anti German feeling western Czechoslovakia?
Maybe, but the main issue would be keeping Soviet missile basesthere. I presume that a lot of the southern areas that were German populated would added to the northern areas of former Austria. What do they call the provinces again? Upper and Lower Austria or Danube?

EDIT: Sorry, bad at geography. I am guessing that by the time the POD will have taken effect that the former Archuchy would have been united, while Tyrol, Carinthia, and Styria would have goten their own statelets. Still seems odd to me why they had such low populated ones, but I am guessing they just had to balance off the northern Germans.
 
Might keep them, make the whole country a new Switzerland. Though I imagine the Soviets would first want the Western Allies to give them half of whatever was in the Czech area, while simultaneously ransacking the Slovaks. If they even had anything. They always were the poorer of the Soviet puppets.
Slovaks were poorer? Well there was a lot of demages done by war moving through. Plus American and Soviet bombing rides. Demage to the industry was huge. However there were poorer Soviet puppets.
 
Slovaks were poorer? Well there was a lot of demages done by war moving through. Plus American and Soviet bombing rides. Demage to the industry was huge. However there were poorer Soviet puppets.
Which ones? Of course it is hard to compare who is poorer among supposedly classes societies, but the Slovak economy just didn't seem to handle things as well as some of the others. Less available for industrialization. Still, gotta give them this. They did make some fine sweets. Probably the coethnic love, but the Czechs did sell them a lot of fruit, sugar, and spice over the years. The Soviets always had to stretch their supplies and cut down on the quality of their consumer products, but the jams and candied fruits and peels of Czechoslovakia (splendid they both kept the name, as it also meant you could claim to have gotten goods from Slovakia rather than the Czech part) would fly off the shelves in any major Soviet city store. Though that was the same for most Eastern European products. Just to know something was foreign...
 
Which ones? Of course it is hard to compare who is poorer among supposedly classes societies, but the Slovak economy just didn't seem to handle things as well as some of the others. Less available for industrialization. Still, gotta give them this. They did make some fine sweets. Probably the coethnic love, but the Czechs did sell them a lot of fruit, sugar, and spice over the years. The Soviets always had to stretch their supplies and cut down on the quality of their consumer products, but the jams and candied fruits and peels of Czechoslovakia (splendid they both kept the name, as it also meant you could claim to have gotten goods from Slovakia rather than the Czech part) would fly off the shelves in any major Soviet city store. Though that was the same for most Eastern European products. Just to know something was foreign...
Probably you are mistaken. Slovakia while in Eastern block did to Soviets same service as to Germans during WW2 - were supplying them with higher quality food then they were able to obtain themselves. Slovak heavy industry was built around industry built shortly before WW2 by Skoda and CKD which were supplying Germans wit artillery. For a while Slovak communists and Soviets were playing with the idea Slovakia will become major supplier of tanks and armored vehicles for Eastern European countries and Martin factories even built few hundreds T-34s. However proximity of border with western Czechoslovakia made this somehow not best idea and it was decided these factories will supply trucks, cars, tractors and combains for Eastern block. Especially later these vehicles were lacking behind its western counterparts but in reality they were one of best available in Eastern block. Especially Tatra trucks and tractors were very popular.

Orava factories produced one of best consumer electronics in Eastern block and even licensed and further developed some computer system from west.
 
Probably you are mistaken. Slovakia while in Eastern block did to Soviets same service as to Germans during WW2 - were supplying them with higher quality food then they were able to obtain themselves. Slovak heavy industry was built around industry built shortly before WW2 by Skoda and CKD which were supplying Germans wit artillery. For a while Slovak communists and Soviets were playing with the idea Slovakia will become major supplier of tanks and armored vehicles for Eastern European countries and Martin factories even built few hundreds T-34s. However proximity of border with western Czechoslovakia made this somehow not best idea and it was decided these factories will supply trucks, cars, tractors and combains for Eastern block. Especially later these vehicles were lacking behind its western counterparts but in reality they were one of best available in Eastern block. Especially Tatra trucks and tractors were very popular.

Orava factories produced one of best consumer electronics in Eastern block and even licensed and further developed some computer system from west.
Even west Czechoslovakian industry were known as top quality in the west as well.
 
I wonder why they choose unification over indepencence?
Slovaks? Money, as part of former western Czechoslovakia basically becoming immediately members of NATO and forming EU. But honestly. It was close call. Movement for keeping independence ad to form some kind of neutral Slovakia similar to Switzerland was very strong. Their leader, Vladimir Meciar was very charismatic. If not his car accident and death on his way to Prague for meeting with Czech leaders and his Slovak opposition leader, proponent of reunification and former Eastern Czechoslovak communist reformist Alexander Dubcek, Meciar could achieve victory. Many are saying he would actually lead Slovakia again towards dictatorship.
Some conspiratorial theorists are actually saying Czech Secret Service had it fingers in his death!
 
Slovaks? Money, as part of former western Czechoslovakia basically becoming immediately members of NATO and forming EU. But honestly. It was close call. Movement for keeping independence ad to form some kind of neutral Slovakia similar to Switzerland was very strong. Their leader, Vladimir Meciar was very charismatic. If not his car accident and death on his way to Prague for meeting with Czech leaders and his Slovak opposition leader, proponent of reunification and former Eastern Czechoslovak communist reformist Alexander Dubcek, Meciar could achieve victory. Many are saying he would actually lead Slovakia again towards dictatorship.
Some conspiratorial theorists are actually saying Czech Secret Service had it fingers in his death!
How about the Czech?
 
How about the Czech?
I guess it was nostalgy for greatness of first Republic as well as continuetion of postwar policy. After all they claimed to be "real" Czechoslovakia. For whole time of Cold war anybody from other sode of border who made it across was automatically granted citizenship. And they were hoping they industry will take over state owned in the East. After all for years Slovaks somehow managed to be best in Eastern block. They didn't realize modernization will require so much. So later with costs came some doubts but well it was done. And I guess Prague was riding on the wave if German unification. If Germans us too was general thinking. Also I guess they werenafraid German companies will place themselve on Slovak market. With reunification ondeed Czech had lion share there.
 
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