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OTL: At the Yalta conference the allies agreed to repatriate all soviet citizens to the Soviet Union. Amonge these citizens were the Lienz Cossacks.

Nikolai Tolstoy quotes a General Alexander telegram, sent to the Combined Chiefs of Staff, noting "50,000 Cossacks including 11,000 women, children and old men".[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Cossacks_after_World_War_II
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Keelhaul
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victims_of_Yalta
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5069500.stm
https://ludmilaconfessions.com/tag/cossack-repatriation/
https://alexanderandsonsrestorations.com/end-honor-story-betrayal/
https://medium.com/@SteveAwriter/appeasing-stalin-forced-repatriation-after-wwii-1fff9ee97b5f

WI: What if the Lienz Cossacks managed to reach the offically neutral Switzerland or Liechenstein?

How would they be recieved? Would there arrival be met with armed resistance from natives? Would it have created a diplomatic crisis? How could this impact Western/Soviet relations? Would this alternate path have any impacts on the culture war of the 1960s? Would they have been expelled or handed to allies/soviets anyway? Would they stay there or would it be a stop on the route somewhere else like South-America? What would have happened to the Cossack organisation and community? Would the Cossacks have integrated, assimilated, isolated themselfes and to what degree? What do you as a reader think should have been done in this scenario?
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