WI: Czechoslovakia divided between West and East in 1945?

What if Czechoslovakia had been divided between the Western Allies and the Red Army after WW2 so that the present day Czech republic had been a non-communist state?
 
Possibly similar dynamics to east/west Germany during the Cold War, sans reunification thereafter.
Actually in reality I suspect there would be little desire for reunification from both sides. Would be some from Slovak for economical reasons and some from Czech from let say emotional. But in reality Czech and Slovaks would had much less common. However some form of close cooperation could come of it. Maybe Czechs being sponsors of Slovakia entering EU and NATO.
 
Exactly how does this happen? Even in Patton liberates Prague, Benes is still president, and he will still press for a united Czechoslovakia. And as I noted here some months ago, "Benes had already made up his mind well before the liberation in favor of the policies which ultimately led to February 1948: a Soviet-friendly foreign policy, giving up Capatho-Ruthenia to the USSR, expulsion of the Sudeten Germans, a temporary government with representatives both from the London government-in-exile and from Communists who had been in Moscow, etc. The government he formed in March-April 1945 seems to have been on quite favorable terms for the Communists--they got the very important Interior Ministry (i.e., the police), the pro-Soviet General Swoboda got the Defense Ministry, and the pro-Communist nominal Social Democrat Fierlinger got the Premiership, etc. All this was decided on before the question of whether Patton should liberate Prague. Moreover, even if the Americans liberated Prague, the Red Army would still be in some parts of Czechoslovakia, and Benes would still want to preserve good relations with the USSR to get them out." https://www.alternatehistory.com/fo...-communist-coup-in-1948.418279/#post-15111148
 
Benes is not immortal. He could have died prior to 1945, e.g. during the Blitz, which OTL forced him to evacuate London. Just have a couple of Luftwaffe bombers hit Putney prior to November 1940, and Benes might well be no more.
 
Benes is not immortal. He could have died prior to 1945, e.g. during the Blitz, which OTL forced him to evacuate London. Just have a couple of Luftwaffe bombers hit Putney prior to November 1940, and Benes might well be no more.

Someone else from the London Government then becomes President--and will be just as opposed to the division of Czechoslovakia.
 
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