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There was a real attempt to create a confederacy or commonwealth spanning from the Baltic to the Mediterranean. The idea began as the reconstruction of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after the release of Poland in post-WWI.

The project was led by the Polish general and later "dictator", Józef Piłsudski. His intention, aside from strenghten Poland, was to create a strong country to prevent any other partition or invasion, either west or east-originated, of Poland or any other Eastern European country. A confederacy to stand against Germany and Russia.

The plan was to convince Hungary, Luthuania, Czechoslovaquia, Yugoslavia and the nationalist revolters in Bielorussia and Ukraine that this confederacy was good for the future of their nations.

Here's a map of the project:



I think that if, during the Polish-Soviet war, there was turmoil in Russia, the project might (might) have come to reality. Crazier projects did came to be real, like the Soviet Union itself. It is true that Piłsudski found problems and oppositions among most of the peoples he wanted to join this commonwealth, but in Hungary there was some approval, and in Ukraine some nationalists, instead of regarding this as a threat to their aspirations, saw the opportunity to ensure them.

Let's put some coup d'État led by a Soviet General, or more Western funds to the White tsarist supporters in Russia, and Piłsudski might have had a chance to lead this union effectively.

What do you think? What could have been the turning point? What should have happened for this Intermarine Commonwealth to become a reality?

Take care!

EDIT: Yes, there's a typo in the title, it should be "Intermarine". But it seems I can't change it...
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