(OOC: Trying to establish a POD. Y'all can flesh it out. Also, I'm not trying, despite what the below might sound like, to make this into some kind of Nazi victory world-the base POD is them not existing. I think a 20th century where communists were the main villains would be interesting.)
Actually, I just remembered a (probably ASB) way something very similar to the map in the OP might have come about...
After WWII, when historians sifted through the archives of Soviet Russia, I believe they found a memo to Trotsky advocating that, if the USSR won the war, they "shift" Poland westwards, by forcing it to cede basically every territory with Belarussians or Ukranians in it. Poland was to be compensated for this massive territorial loss with equally massive German cessions-basically every part of Germany west of the Oder and Neisse rivers. The memo further goes on to outline a population transfer, in which the several million Germans who would now be inside Poland would be deported to Germany, to be replaced by ethnic Poles deported from the USSR. (Sounds nuts, but this sort of insanity is pretty much par for the course if you look at Bolshevik postwar plans)
Of course, to get this work, we have to figure out a way to make Trotsky prevail in WWII, and I believe we've had a million discussions as to why the Commies winning after their German adventure went bad and the entire rest of Europe united against them verges on ASB.
Actually, I just remembered a (probably ASB) way something very similar to the map in the OP might have come about...
After WWII, when historians sifted through the archives of Soviet Russia, I believe they found a memo to Trotsky advocating that, if the USSR won the war, they "shift" Poland westwards, by forcing it to cede basically every territory with Belarussians or Ukranians in it. Poland was to be compensated for this massive territorial loss with equally massive German cessions-basically every part of Germany west of the Oder and Neisse rivers. The memo further goes on to outline a population transfer, in which the several million Germans who would now be inside Poland would be deported to Germany, to be replaced by ethnic Poles deported from the USSR. (Sounds nuts, but this sort of insanity is pretty much par for the course if you look at Bolshevik postwar plans)
Of course, to get this work, we have to figure out a way to make Trotsky prevail in WWII, and I believe we've had a million discussions as to why the Commies winning after their German adventure went bad and the entire rest of Europe united against them verges on ASB.
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