Protestant Slavic country

How would one go about making a Slavic country predominantly Protestant? By protestant I mean close to what we understand as such though I guess you can tweek it a bit.

The problem I see is that these countries were either Orthodox so switching to Protestantism is not going to happen as there is no incentive to do it. Or they were dominated by Austria which will not tolerate it. Maybe if Hussites win decisively and also get large degree of autonomy? But if Reformation kicks in OTLish they could be seen as "basically same" and attacked later?

Not sure about Poland.

So, any ideas?
 
Bohemia seems like the easiest given it's OTL Hussite movement. If the Hussites win out in the end the goal is achieved. Otherwise this is hard because a large portion of slavic countries are Orthodox, so that vastly limits the number of states we can use.
 
And I think from the POD of a Hussite victory you could easily butterfly the rise of Austria as the dominant power among catholic central Europe. Especially since Hussite victory causes significant butterflies in the history of the Holy Roman Empire and Hungary.
 
I have read in other timelines that Poland was a possibility before the Reformation of Roman Catholic Church. Get the right King to assist Gustav Adolf and his help with Poland and you might see Protestants controlling the Baltic.
 
Poland was actually known during the Reformation as an area of religious tolerance, and Protestantism mad major inroads in Poland up until the counter-reformation. Poland's battles with the Vasa dynasty in Sweden may have had something to do with the end of toleration of Protestantism, as did the rising power of the Jesuit order.
 
And I think from the POD of a Hussite victory you could easily butterfly the rise of Austria as the dominant power among catholic central Europe. Especially since Hussite victory causes significant butterflies in the history of the Holy Roman Empire and Hungary.
Have Siemowit IV Mazovia win the Polish throne by marrying Mary of Hungary, he siezes Silesia from Bohemia weakening the Luxembourgs and later assists the hussites.
 
Have Siemowit IV Mazovia win the Polish throne by marrying Mary of Hungary, he siezes Silesia from Bohemia weakening the Luxembourgs and later assists the hussites.

Or you could have the Calixtines side with the rest of the major Hussite factions, thus bringing Prague fully into the Hussite Wars on the Hussite side and uniting the nation more thoroughly against the Holy Roman Empire.
 
As a far-flung possibility, Poland might go Lutheran, but I'm struggling to come with the series of events that causes this to happen...
 
Well had the Thirty Years' War not happened (or if the Protestants had won decisively at White Mountain) Bohemia would have remained Protestant Hussite. It's a reason why they elected the 'Winter King' (the Protestant Elector of the Palatinate, Frederick V) instead of Ferdinand II.

A really interesting (though might be ASB) idea could be for the Austrian Habsburgs to abandon their traditional stance of defending Catholicism during the 1583-88 Cologne War, maybe because Matthias really really really wanted a son to succeed him (and the Pope didn't let him have a divorce) or maybe because he judged it more important to constrain the power of the Wittelsbachs. Then in that case you would have a Protestant Austria, and so might also have a Protestant Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bosnia etc.
 
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What about Lutheranism's inroads into the Baltic area of OTL?
The people of the Baltic states [Lithuanians, Latvians etc.] are known as Balts, not Slavs, although they look somehow similar.And the Estonians, Finns etc. are Finno Ugric [same with Hungarians]. So, only Poland would be possible.
 
"The majority of the Sorbs are Lutheran, the only Slav nation with a Protestant majority." http://books.google.com/books?id=NwvoM-ZFoAgC&pg=PA639

Of course , if by "country" you mean an independent state, the Sorbs are so few in number that is hard to see a modern Sorbian state--hard but not impossible. In my post at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/jpNNwRUzLww/CvBPggtRvLIJ I suggest Stalin giving Lusatia to Czechoslovakia. Sorbia will become one of the federal units, along with the Czech lands and Slovakia. Then when Czechoslovakia falls apart in 1992, Sorbia might (or might not) opt for independence.
 
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When Ivan III, Russia was on the verge of Protestantism. Or rather a very close variant of church reform.
 
"The majority of the Sorbs are Lutheran, the only Slav nation with a Protestant majority." http://books.google.com/books?id=NwvoM-ZFoAgC&pg=PA639

Of course , if by "country" you mean an independent state, the Sorbs are so few in number that is hard to see a modern Sorbian state--hard but not impossible. In my post at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/soc.history.what-if/jpNNwRUzLww/CvBPggtRvLIJ I suggest Stalin giving Lusatia to Czechoslovakia. Sorbia will become one of the federal units, along with the Czech lands and Slovakia. Then when Czechoslovakia falls apart in 1972, Sorbia might (or might not) opt for independence.

If you want to pick that many nits, I'm pretty sure the Kashubians are mostly Protestant as well. They probably have a slightly greater chance of getting independence than the Sorbians.
 
If you count countries based on germanised Slavic populations (with some actual German immigration), then both Pomerania and Mecklenburg are Protestant-majority and could conceivably have remained as independent nations...
 
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