Pan-Slavism was the ideology that the Slavic groups (Russians, Ukrainians, Belorussians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenes, Croats, Serbians, Bosnians, Montenegrins, Bulgarians, Macedonians) should unite and form a country. If these people groups were able to overcome differences like religion and geography could they be able to form a stable, united country? How do other nations respond to this? What would the borders look like? Could other non-Slav nations be forced into this? And how can it form?
 
The Great Powers of Europe would never allow a complete pan-Slavic Union to form, it’s just too powerful IMO. This nation would stretch from Kamchatka to Istria and include nearly the entirety of Eastern Europe!

If it did form, it would be after a few decades of super-Russia trashing Europe for sure.
 
The Great Powers of Europe would never allow a complete pan-Slavic Union to form, it’s just too powerful IMO. This nation would stretch from Kamchatka to Istria and include nearly the entirety of Eastern Europe!

If it did form, it would be after a few decades of super-Russia trashing Europe for sure.

Maybe they take advantage of the distraction between the Western European powers and use this to gain something for their own advantage?
 
Maybe they take advantage of the distraction between the Western European powers and use this to gain something for their own advantage?

Well, it could happen in the wake of a Great War—Russia was able to advance and claim massive swaths of territory during WWII.

You just need the other powers to be drained after a long war, I guess.
 
Well, it could happen in the wake of a Great War—Russia was able to advance and claim massive swaths of territory during WWII.

You just need the other powers to be drained after a long war, I guess.

Pretty much. Maybe a stronger and longer lasting Napoleonic Empire distracts Western Europe far enough for Russia to waltz in.
 
I think in the long term the best we could get would be a relatively successful nationalism among the east Slavs (russians, Ukrainians and Belarus) and a united Yugoslavia, with both countries having close ties with each other.

I think it's hard to see the West Slavs united, either among themselves or with the others (except if in a subordinated state, like the poles on the Russian Empires)
 
I think in the long term the best we could get would be a relatively successful nationalism among the east Slavs (russians, Ukrainians and Belarus) and a united Yugoslavia, with both countries having close ties with each other.

I think it's hard to see the West Slavs united, either among themselves or with the others (except if in a subordinated state, like the poles on the Russian Empires)

West Slavs has Czechoslovakia so it isn’t too far off. I will agree that Poland will not have a comfortable place in any of this though.
 
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