Okay, one interesting thing about the original Molotov Ribbentrop Pact is that it gave substantially more of Poland to the USSR, as seen here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ribbentrop-Molotov.svg
This would have given the USSR far more ethnic Poles than it received historically, and IMO a Polish Soviet Socialist Republic probably ensues.
<Insert Barbarossa and the march on Berlin here>
Okay, this doesn't matter at first; but in 1945, it's clear to the West that Poland isn't going to be reborn.
Does East Germany keep Silesia, then? Or does it get directly incorporated into the USSR as well?
What about the effects on the cold war?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ribbentrop-Molotov.svg
This would have given the USSR far more ethnic Poles than it received historically, and IMO a Polish Soviet Socialist Republic probably ensues.
<Insert Barbarossa and the march on Berlin here>
Okay, this doesn't matter at first; but in 1945, it's clear to the West that Poland isn't going to be reborn.
Does East Germany keep Silesia, then? Or does it get directly incorporated into the USSR as well?
What about the effects on the cold war?