West Germany buys East Germany?

I'm loathe to call Kruschev competent. He is likely to squander much of the windfall trying and failing to transform the Ukraine into Iowa, with the remainder going to the military, and space program.
The Ukraine is pretty much like Iowa. You're alluding to the Virgin Lands campaign, which mostly took place in central Asia. Khrushchev did more than anyone to improve living standards, infrastructure, and consumer goods in the USSR.
 
The Ukraine is pretty much like Iowa. You're alluding to the Virgin Lands campaign, which mostly took place in central Asia. Khrushchev did more than anyone to improve living standards, infrastructure, and consumer goods in the USSR.

No, although its a corollary to the Virgin Lands Campaign (VLC).

The VLC was meant to create a second grainbelt made up of the marginal farmland of Siberia and Central asia. This implementation of such would allow the Ukraine to shift over agricultural land formally devoted to wheat towards the cultivation of livestock and feed-corn (in imitation of IA) Together, this would significantly increase the USSR's food security, and greatly increase its supplies of meat, eggs and dairy. Needless to say, neither parts of this plan functioned as intended. (the Ukraine doesn't possess a good corn growing climate)
 
Which raises the question, what would have happened to the ex-SED leadership? Surely they'll put up a fight and maybe turn the DDR into Albania in the process.
I seem to recall that Germany had pretty limited independence under the occupying powers, it's just that the Western Allies mostly let the West Germans take care of themselves without invoking their authority to interfere and East Germany didn't look any different from any of the Russians other finger puppets in Eastern Europe. So they may not have a choice technically. The major effect of this is going to be trying to export communism internationally, if people see you selling the communist government of a Warsaw Pact member down the river how much confidence are they likely to have in the Soviets supporting them in the future?
 
Well, presumably such a purchase would bring the issue of Germany's eastern border to the forefront.

I am assuming for such a deal to be accepted, West Germany would have to accept their "new" border in the east, and sign a treaty similar to the German-Polish Border treaty of 1990.

Hmm I wonder, was this a "buy one, get one free" sale? Buy East Germany for $20 billion, and get Austria for free.


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I seem to recall that Germany had pretty limited independence under the occupying powers, it's just that the Western Allies mostly let the West Germans take care of themselves without invoking their authority to interfere and East Germany didn't look any different from any of the Russians other finger puppets in Eastern Europe. So they may not have a choice technically. The major effect of this is going to be trying to export communism internationally, if people see you selling the communist government of a Warsaw Pact member down the river how much confidence are they likely to have in the Soviets supporting them in the future?

Germany wasn't legally a sovereign state until 1990, but if Ulbricht and the SED hardliners were being abandoned by the Kremlin, why wouldn't they put up a fight by all means possible to avoid being punished by the new Germany, or worse killed by their people? Ulbricht may be a Soviet puppet, but he still wants personal safety. Presumably the SED leadership will be evacuated to Russia, where they will gradually be picked off by the KGB.

And if West Germany could buy the DDR, they could also buy back Lower Silesia, Pommerania, and East Brandenburg (under the name of war reparations) from Poland and pay to resettle all the Poles back to where they lives only 20 years prior. Which in turn leads to the USSR ceding Lviv back to Poland. Then the question remains: will the expelled Germans even want to move back?
 
Kekkonen would surely use such a pretext to try to buy parts of Karelian Isthmus, namely Saimaa Channel and Viipuri, back from the USSR.

If they really started to trade territory for cash, Kuril Islands might also be on sale later on.

In OTL Yeltsin administration actually ordered a memo about the possible prizes of Kaliningrad, Karelian Isthmus and Kuril Islands, just in case they'd be desperate enough to use these "territorial reserves."
 
Beria actually proposed the idea of giving up East Germany in exchange for Economic aid from America and the western allies.

There were apparently other conditions, neutral Germany in exchange for a Finlandised but independent eastern Europe.
 
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