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A quick Google search pointed out a couple old threads on this subject (and some PLC-wanks), but I'm interested to hear some ideas. With whatever PoD you see fitting post-1600, prevent the collapse and cannibalization of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

On the external scenario, I imagine the handicapping of Muscovy/Russia comes as a necessity (or at least as very convenient). Sweden's expansion into the Baltic also created some serious tensions that facilitated the ruin of the PLC, especially during the Deluge. Not sure about Austria, Brandenburg and the Ottomans. Despite their continued hostilities, I don't recall these powers being existential threats to the PLC.

On the internal scenario, I've read that perhaps the adoption of a hereditary monarchy might have helped, or perhaps a simple curbing of the aristocratic power. Even if their regime was atypical for the time, in the long run it has been claimed that the privileges of the szchlata created internal instability and facilitated external aggression. Is this statement true, in first place?
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