Larger Belarus

How could Belarus become larger than it is OTL in the aftermath of WW2 and post WW2, without expanding into Ukraine or Russia?

See my thread "'Smolensk and Bryansk Are Ours': Maximum Belarus" at https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/smolensk-and-bryansk-are-ours-maximum-belarus.421882/ Of course some of the expansions I suggest there are at Russia's expense but other plausible ones would be at Lithuania's expense (Vilna/Wilno/Vilnius) or Poland's (Bialystok, which indeed was part of the Belorussian SSR from 1939-41).
 
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If Lithuania decided to resist Soviets in 1940, Stalin may give Vilnius to BSSR to punish Lithuanians. Stalin may also decide, that territory once held by USSR, should remain in Soviet hands forever (so Białystok stays in BSSR), if you add Kaliningrad to Belarus, then BSSR is either severely underpopulated as result of forced population transfers, or have very large non-Belarussian population.
 
The 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact is more favorable for Germany in the Baltic area than in OTL, giving it both Lithuania and Latvia; however, Stalin gets both Wilno/Vilna/Vilnius (which had been part of Poland but claimed by Lithuania) and Dvinsk/Daugavpils (part of Latvia but with a large East Slavic and Jewish population) both of which are incorporated into the Belorussian SSR.
 
I will agree. the soviets could enforce some crazy borders.. however that does now mean that they will make things stable once .. or if things fall apart.


everyone has a claim on Belarusian territory.. Belarusians really don't want or need another war on their territory. can history give these people a break. real thing is that these people are Belarusian..
 
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