I've read a happy Changing the Times ATL, "Turkish Delight", in which an earlier Turkish intervention in WWII leads to a smaller Soviet Union, a Turkish protectorate over Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, and Marshall Plan aid distributed for the Balkans.
Now, I'd like a thread about Turkey reclaiming some lands in the Middle East after WWII, but this thread will instead focus on the Eastern European bit. Suppose that somehow or another, the non-communist Allies liberated the Balkans, southern East Europe, from the Nazis before the Soviets did. Everything west of Moldova, and south of Ukraine and Czechoslovakia is in the western camp. I have no idea what the result of the war there would be like. Maybe there's no Yugoslavia if Tito is removed in order to have the region firmly in the western camp (but I'm not getting rid of him if it's not necessary, why bother?). But in any case, the whole area gets the Marshall Plan.
What kind of place results? I'm a bit skeptical that aid, no matter how great, will ease the ethnic troubles of the Balkans. Maybe this could be the West's first crack as promoting democracy alongside liberty and freedom.
Now, I'd like a thread about Turkey reclaiming some lands in the Middle East after WWII, but this thread will instead focus on the Eastern European bit. Suppose that somehow or another, the non-communist Allies liberated the Balkans, southern East Europe, from the Nazis before the Soviets did. Everything west of Moldova, and south of Ukraine and Czechoslovakia is in the western camp. I have no idea what the result of the war there would be like. Maybe there's no Yugoslavia if Tito is removed in order to have the region firmly in the western camp (but I'm not getting rid of him if it's not necessary, why bother?). But in any case, the whole area gets the Marshall Plan.
What kind of place results? I'm a bit skeptical that aid, no matter how great, will ease the ethnic troubles of the Balkans. Maybe this could be the West's first crack as promoting democracy alongside liberty and freedom.