Eastern Europe in a Central Powers Victory?

The conditions for victory in the west are Jean Jaurès isn't shot at the beginning of the war when nationalistic fervor distracted even the staunchest French socialist. In 1917, after the disaster of the Nivelle Offensive, he calls for a general strike only to be gunned down which gives rise to mass public unrest and riots leading to the fall of the French government and peace with Germany. With France knocked out of the war, the British and the Americans keep the war going for a bit in the Middle East and the Balkans through Greece and the Italians keep fighting Austria-Hungary but they are very demoralized. Ultimately without the Eastern or Western front they can't beat the Central Powers and we get a negotiated peace.

Assuming the Soviet's win the Russian Civil War will they be able to make the kind of advances into Eastern Europe they did in OTL? Will the German supported The Hetmanate survive or will the Soviets gobble it up? Would German plans to make Poland remain under German sovereignty 'for all time' be feasible or would a economically and militarily exhausted German Empire be forced to concede greater autonomy to Poland?
 

shiftygiant

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Eastern Europe would have been carved into nations along ethno-linguistic lines, as was see under Germany's brief rule. There would be annexation, although Poland and the other nations would have seen a degree of autonomy. There autonomy and self determination however would have been dictated by what Germany broadly wanted, and would have been under economic imperialism. It would undoubtedly avoid much of the Chaos of the Interwar IOTL, however at the cost of the peoples self determination.

And yes, Germany would act against the Soviets. They were a good destabilize, but are a threat to national interest; Germany may be exhausted, however many of the new states under Germany's influence are undoubtedly not want to be under Russian control once more.
 
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