Soviet Boots on the ground trumped whatever PM Churchill wanted. There would need to be a stronger WAllied presence in the Balkans to make this happen which the US was not willing to support.Let's say that Churchill wanted more influence in the region and gets Bulgaria and Yugoslavia in the West zone of influence. What will happen next? How will their economies look like now? Will they join Nato and the EU?
Soviet Boots on the ground trumped whatever PM Churchill wanted. There would need to be a stronger WAllied presence in the Balkans to make this happen which the US was not willing to support.
I suppose the British could, if push came to shove, stage a regional attack as a unilaterial action outside of the broader coalition if they're willing to foot the cost in both material and US relations. Still, it would require making concessions to the Soviets elsewhere... maybe selling out Finland and allowing Austria to be part of the Eastern Bloc?
I suppose the British could, if push came to shove, stage a regional attack as a unilaterial action outside of the broader coalition if they're willing to foot the cost in both material and US relations.
See the British led Dodecanese campaign on the success of a regional attack. Not the British forces finest hour. Taking unilateral action or getting US support would be difficult after this fiasco.I suppose the British could, if push came to shove, stage a regional attack as a unilaterial action outside of the broader coalition if they're willing to foot the cost in both material and US relations. Still, it would require making concessions to the Soviets elsewhere... maybe selling out Finland and allowing Austria to be part of the Eastern Bloc?
What u need then if for a weaker Soviet Union which at time of D-Day is still fighting Germans deep in Ukraine. The Germans continue to loose ground to the soviet advance and western front still happens iOTL.
Here you have chance of western allies overtaking larger oration if Eastern Europe. Yalta conference never happens since it still under German control.
Germans surrender to western allies as Soviets get to their 1939 border with Eastern Europe.
US Truman and western allies agree to let Soviets occupy Poland, Romania plus eastern part of CzechSlovakia but keep other half half of eStern Europe under their control.
Stalin wants to attack west but US nuclear bombs over Japan causes him to reconsider.
There is one other way east Europe could not have gone Communist: Stalin decides he doesn't need Communist governments there, and is contented to have "bourgeois" ones if they are sufficiently "friendly" to the USSR. Before dismissing this as impossible, remember that this is what happened in Finland...
Solving that would be easy, instead of supporting Partisans in 1943, UK should continue supporting Chetniks, creating similar situation like in Greece IOTL, with Chetniks having upper hand over Partisans.Even if Stalin doesn't go as further east, that doesn't change Yugoslavia. Since it wasn't thanks to Stalin and the red army that Yugoslavia was liberated but Tito and the Partisans. There would need to be changes to Yugoslavia during the war to change it.