DBWI: No expulsion of Hungarians after WW2

After WW2 Hungarians were ethnically cleansed from Yugoslavia, Romania and Czechoslovakia just like the Germans were from central and Eastern Europe.
Although controversial today at the time it was seen as a fair punishment for Hungary’s alliance with Nazi Germany.

What if they had not been cleansed?
How would it be an ethnic minority of Hungarians in Romania, Slovakia or Serbia? I think it would cause some tensions even if they’re all in the EU and the Schengen Space.
 
Oh boy, this is an interesting question.

Well, Hungary joined up because they wanted pretty much control over Southern Europe and really played up the pre-Christin Hungarian myths in the same way the Nazis did with their Germanic folklore. It was a pretty large clusterfuck.

Granted, Hunary's invovlement also soured reationships between the Axis and Bulgaria and Romania so they joined the Allies prety quickly. It's why the Iron Curtain was where it was and why Poland was beefed up, tp serve as a good buffer state, since they liberated Eastern Europe alongside Turkey after Romanian intelligence revealed it was Italy who behind the Refah Tragedy

German explusions were pretty much the first trouble after Nazi Germany got split into Greater Austria and Northern German Federation.

But back to Hungary, pretty much the Hungarian resistance got the nation for themselves while many Hungarians were sent over to a state within the USSR for them over in their original homeland of the Ural Mountains.
 

BigBlueBox

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What if they had not been cleansed?
How would it be an ethnic minority of Hungarians in Romania, Slovakia or Serbia? I think it would cause some tensions even if they’re all in the EU and the Schengen Space.
Not exactly hiding your bias their are you? It might be tempting to think Yugoslavia is just Greater Serbia after Slovenian and Macedonian independence and the centralization reforms, but Yugoslavia is still the official name and the Croatians and Bosnians are still treated relatively fairly. And after Slovenian and Macedonian independence 99% of the population speaks Serbs-Croatian (I’m sure you’re aware that the entire Albanian population was expelled after WWII for collaboration with the Axis).
 
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