Revolutionary Republic of Byzantium

That is your challenge. Using any POD that you want after about 600 AD or so, get a state called the Revolutionary Republic of Byzantium, that is basically a heavily militerisitic and powerful communist state.
 
Emperor Staurakios (who was paralysed after the battle of Pliska and had to abdicate because of that...) threatened to abolish the Empire and proclaim a Republic if the crown didnt went to his wife... But he was deposed by his sister Prokopia and her husband Michael Rangabes...
Even if a Republic of any kind is being proclaimed in Constantinople its only a matter of months or days before any General takes his troops marches to Constantinople and claims absolute power as i have said to many previous post about Byzantine Republic...
Besides the Republican model was defunct since Emperor Augustus times... Romans saw how power is conquered and they wanted it...
 
have greece hold onto the lands it gained in asia minor after WW1. Assume that whatever WW2 analogue happens results in greece being occupied by/become part of the axis.

If the major partisan groups are communist and manage to self liberate, you could have them declare the Revolutionary Republic of Byzantium. If we then get them going their own way as yugoslavia did and having to build up their military to dissuade the USSR from preventing this, we have a powerfu Revolutionary Republic of Byzantium. Not sure how likely this is though
 
pretty much ASB kellineil... if Greece manges to safeguard their territorial gainings Britain and USA would never allow USSR to have indirect control over them...
Besides a Byzantine Republic is quite unlikely even in 600 AD... it would have been a matter of months before some power-hungry General raises an army and marches to Constantinople seizing power...
 
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