WI Yugoslavia Partitioned in 1945

A Slavic West-aligned country strikes me as a severe blow to Soviet propaganda.

The reason that Ukraine and Belarus in particular are held under tight grip by Russia is because they're East Slavic countries - and if democracy works in either of those countries it shows that democracy could work in Russia as well.

I imagine something similar would be the case in Western-aligned Yugoslavia - if the place is prosperous it's a huge thorn in the side for the Soviets, that shows that democracy works in Slavic cultures as well.
 
A Slavic West-aligned country strikes me as a severe blow to Soviet propaganda.

The reason that Ukraine and Belarus in particular are held under tight grip by Russia is because they're East Slavic countries - and if democracy works in either of those countries it shows that democracy could work in Russia as well.

I imagine something similar would be the case in Western-aligned Yugoslavia - if the place is prosperous it's a huge thorn in the side for the Soviets, that shows that democracy works in Slavic cultures as well.

On the other hand, Western-alinged doesn´t mean necessarily democracy. Also the ethnic and sectarian tensions might be too great ( WW2 genocides and ethnic tensions before that) ,to maintain a peaceful democracy.
 
In the aftermath of WWII there were rather major population shifts with one ethnicity exchanging places with another or being forced out (consider Sudentendeutsch & Germans east of Oder-Niesse line, Poles east of what was to become Russian border, India/Pakistan, and others). Assuming there is some sort of formal division of Yugoslavia, I would expect it would be along major ethnic lines, and you'll see movement of minorities across lines to join majorities whether voluntary or not. If one part communist, other not when communism falls apart I expect you may see further fracturing - do Slovenes and Croats get along? What about Serbs, Bosnians, Montenegrins, and Albania in a Sertbia?
 
In the aftermath of WWII there were rather major population shifts with one ethnicity exchanging places with another or being forced out (consider Sudentendeutsch & Germans east of Oder-Niesse line, Poles east of what was to become Russian border, India/Pakistan, and others). Assuming there is some sort of formal division of Yugoslavia, I would expect it would be along major ethnic lines, and you'll see movement of minorities across lines to join majorities whether voluntary or not. If one part communist, other not when communism falls apart I expect you may see further fracturing - do Slovenes and Croats get along? What about Serbs, Bosnians, Montenegrins, and Albania in a Sertbia?

The ethnic enclaves of Serbs in other parts of Yugoslavia are to be considered, too. They had been one of the triggers of the 90es OTL civil war. The Great Serbian idea lived on even under Tito´s anti-Nationalistic leadership, for Serbia remained Serb dominated ( as far as I know). One of the 1914 Franz Ferdinand plotters , Vaso Čubrilović , was a die hard Serbian Nationalist, and advocated ethnic cleansing against several etnic minorities, including Albanians ( in Royal Yugoslavia). He later advised Tito to so , in later life he finally distanced himself from Nationalistic Great Serbian rhetoric and ethnic cleansing. ( He die in 1990, a year before the outbreak of the war).
There is also the question regarding the fate of the Yugoslavian Germans, Romanians, Hungarians and other groups -would there be deportations like OTL ? Also Croatian Nationalist sentiment had a continuity from the foundation of Yugoslavia, the Ustase, the Cold War exile extremism up to the 90es war.
 
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