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Stalin hated poles a lot, but to have two buffer states between the USSR and the west he pushed poland west and annexed their eastern lands.
Let's say that he did something different, he let east germany to be the buffer state and annexed poland as a SSR, as the map below shows.
Is that possible? What changes could happen?