WI:Warsaw pact members become republics in the Soviet Union

Instead of a defence treaty, The Warsaw pact turns all Eastern European communist countries into republics of the USSR
 
One of the POINTS of the satellite states that became WarPac was to buffer the USSR from the West. If they absorbed them instead, they'd directly border on the West.

It would require a really strong reason to do it. IMO.
 
One of the POINTS of the satellite states that became WarPac was to buffer the USSR from the West. If they absorbed them instead, they'd directly border on the West.

It would require a really strong reason to do it. IMO.
They would be stronger with all these new nations,but would the people like it?
 
I think it extremely unlikely that such a thing could occur. The only time such things were contemplated in Comintern was during the period of major revolutionary elan during the 1918-1921 years where it seemed possible that a revolutionary Germany might come about and there were mass movements in Italy, Hungary etc. There was a feeling amongst some of the revolutionaries involved that all these potential workers states should unite as one organism with Amadeo Bordiga even suggesting that the USSR as it existed should be run by a body made up of people from all across the world, even if it only controlled a small section of territory - of course, the other revolutions were stillborn and the USSR isolated. The difference between this situation and the Warsaw Pact was, of course, the military takeover following the second world war - as in, there wasn't the general movement of proletarian internationalism but rather a war between nations that led to conquest and regime change. The general Stalinist theory of 'Socialism in One Country' had basically replaced proletarian internationalism by 1930 onwards.
 
Yugoslavia was never part of the Warsaw pact and Albania was a part of Warsaw pact in 1955,so yes Albania will become a republic.
Then Yugoslavia is surounded by a hostile powers. Wonder what Tito would do. Also Greece could be invaded during Civil war in favour of the Communist and added to the Soviet Union. A further question is the loyalty of the Republics towards the USSR and their narive armed forces.
 
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Then Yugoslavia is surounded by a hostile pwer. Wonder what Tito would do. Also Greece could be invaded during Civil war in favour of the Communist and added to the Soviet Union. A further question is the loyalty of the Republics towards the USSR and their narive armed forces.
The people won't be happy,but the republics still keep their language and the republics have their own leader but the main republic is the Russian SFSR
 
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