Polish-Ukrainian Commonwealth

OTL the Polish plan in the Polish-Soviet War was to establish a Ukrainian client state.

What if the result of the Kiev Offensive was the Soviets agreeing to cede Ukraine as recognized by Kerensky (the oblasts of Volyn, Kiev, Podolie, Chernigov, and Poltova) west of the Dnieper as well as the Minsk border offered OTL to the Poles? From there, a confederation of Poles and Ukrainians is established.
 
I discuss this at https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/ukraine-partitioned-along-dnieper-in-1920.400253/ As I note there, "Petliura had to concede eastern Galicia, western Volhynia, etc. to Poland in the Treaty of Warsaw http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Warsaw_(1920) as the price for the military alliance against the Bolsheviks. This was, needless to say, an unpopular decision among many Ukrainians, especially West Ukrainians." For this and for other reasons, Petliura will probably not be very popular, and may have to be sustained by Polish bayonets and be regarded as a Polish puppet.
 

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Further to what David has said, absent a prior PoD that makes the Polish leadership be seen (and act I suppose) as significantly more pro-Ukrainian as opposed to attempting to dominate the Ukrainian state as a vassal or colony, I cannot see this coming off. The Ukrainians has no desire to simply change Russian overlords for Polish ones.
 
Further to what David has said, absent a prior PoD that makes the Polish leadership be seen (and act I suppose) as significantly more pro-Ukrainian as opposed to attempting to dominate the Ukrainian state as a vassal or colony, I cannot see this coming off. The Ukrainians has no desire to simply change Russian overlords for Polish ones.
Agreed; somehow I doubt Warsaw would be as kind (ha!) to Ukraine as Moscow was. You would probably either have a massive war that would lead to the Ukrainian SSR in any case or have Ukrainians turning to Prague for help. While it would work better under a federal arrangement, even in OTL Czechoslovakia seemed to work well for Subcarpathian Rus, so that would be the precedent used for bringing Ukraine into the Czechoslovak fold, only then the name would have to be changed to something like Zapadoslovakia (West Slavia) or something similar.
 
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