No communism, no expulsions: Czechoslovakia

How do you make Czechoslovakia stay neutral or NATO, capitalist and also avoid the expulsions of Germans? You're allowed to change only minor things in early WW2, major changes after Germany starts losing against the USSR and anything after WW2 ends, as long as it's realistic. Thanks.
 
Different battles play out leading to the U.S. capturing half of it - they split it with the USSR into a Western Zczech Republic and Eastern Slovakia. (Say, no Battle of the Bulge, some German slips-ups before on the wEstern Front, maybe some luck keeping the Soviets delayed a few weeks in moving West.)

That part, I think is somewhat easy, at least compared to the other. Although...is there a way that, instead of a Czech Republic/Slovakia split, the USSR agrees to let it stay neutral and Finlandize it?

Maybe; let's say that there is *huge* desire for the Czechs to join NATO. Would the Soviets, seeing a way to keep them from getting into NATO (because that would mean another area East Germany would have to guard against), be willing to give up their part of Slovakia in order to keep the peace?
Maybe... let's say that before NATO forms, in 1948, the Berlin Airlift sees a lot of flights come from the south. The Soviets would have to be willing to bend to negative publicity, but if there are protests in Slovakia against the split, and they see a way to cut off the WEst from that route into East Germany, they might decide, as a result of the airlift, to settle the dispute in part by agreeing to unify the countgry in return for it becoming non-aligned.
 
Well first of all there was 3 million Germans in Czechoslovakia in OTL, if we see them having the same birth rate as Czechs (very likely) that will mean 5 million Germans in the state in 1990. That gives us 10 million Czechs, 5 million Germans, 5 million Slovaks, 0,6+ Million Hungarians, if Czechoslovakia keep all its territory 1,2+ million Ruthenians. That gives us a Czechoslovakian state of roughly 22 million people.
 
Hard to negate both. The expulsions weren't ordered by the Communists - they were pushed by Edvard Benes, although the Czechoslovak Communists had agreed to them in the earlier Kosice program.

Really, IMO, the best way to prevent the expulsions are to have the Communist coup happen almost immediately and Stalin to go "hm, you know, these Germans are actually pretty convenient to have working for us."

Not entirely implausible as Stalin was deeply concerned about the possible resurrection of Germany as a Great Power and one way to stop that would to just stop all the Germans from being in the same country.
 
It's possible the Germans aren't oppresed to begin with and are a coherent part of the state, even having a palce the name Czechosudetenlandoslovakia that's a hell of a name, but if they're clearly not an under-represented group, hell once Germany is authoritarian you even have Germans fleeing there.
 
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