Just curious, but a good part of what become the Eastern Block was given to the Soviets because they had 'liberated' the area first, with the dividing of Germany in a sense recognizing that pushing the Soviets eastward was politically impossible and severely unlikely military wise.
So my question is what changes can happen in the war that ties up the Soviets long enough that Germany, and maybe even a few others, would fall under NATO control in the Cold War.