Which of these Interwar states are viable?

Which of these ATL states would be able to survive the Interwar period without being absorbed into neighboring states? Which of these states would be able to remain reasonably independent and avoid becoming buffers, clients or puppets?
1. Rump Slovakia (without Upper Hungary, Kosice and Bratislava)
2. Subcarpathian Ruthenia
3. Rump Ukraine (without Lviv and Kiev)
4. Rump Belarus (Soviet Socialist Republic of Belarus first borders)
5. East Prussia
 
I don't know about the other ones (except Subcarpathian Ruthenia, which is way too small and poor to become independent - let alone survive the Interwar), but East Prussia will stay independent about as long as Entente Bayonets prop the local dictatorship up. So the answer to your question regarding EP is quite simple. Either it is a French puppet, or it is a part of Germany. There is no possibility for a truely independent East Prussia at all, and all the points which have been mentioned here about the unfeasibility of an independent Rhineland or Bavaria apply to EP as well.
 
1. Rump Slovakia (without Upper Hungary, Kosice and Bratislava)

Theoretically possible. I could certainly see a Czechoslovakia with less Slovakia, and that CZS might somehow fragment, for instance. Nothing impossible about the borders themselves, although the idea of a Slovak state wasn't going far in 1919.

2. Subcarpathian Ruthenia

This I don't see: it would have to be utterly dependent on somebody (Poland or Romania, maybe) and I don't see why they'd go to the trouble when they could give it to a chum (Hungary or CZS).

3. Rump Ukraine (without Lviv and Kiev)

Pretty well impossible. Without Lviv means Ukrainian Galicia has gone Polish, since if the Poles can take it and push on, the UGA run out of bullets eventually. Without Kiev reduces the Dniepr Directorate to an army on the run and litte more.

4. Rump Belarus (Soviet Socialist Republic of Belarus first borders)

Not happening. Belarus is Soviet or Polish. Nothing there that can sustain a state: no widespread national consciousness, no resources, no tradition, no army. I could see all of the first BSSR going Polish, and possibly being made part of some sort of Intermarum, but that's obviously going to be very Polish-dominated.

5. East Prussia

The idea of a leftist Germany and a Junker Taiwan in East Prussia - semi-dependent on Poland but never going to admit it in a hundred years - is a favourite little hang-up of mine, so I'll have to say it's viable. ;)
 
As for Ruthenia, I'm planning on having it independent. This is essentially because WWI is very different, Austria collapses more slowly, and it is propped up by a mixture of Poland and a stronger LoN.
 
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