Yugobalkan Scenario?

What if instead of merely creating Yugoslavia post WW1 and re-establishing it in WW2, the Allies instead created Yugobalkania (or anything of that type) that also incorporated Romania, Bulgaria, Albania and Greece?

How would WW2 be affected?

Would Serbia still remain dominant over the Union, or would Romanians or Greeks or Bulgarians instead become the dominant force?

Would they still found the Non-Aligned Movement?

Would they still collapse? Earlier? Later? Would it be as bloody as IOTL?

Would they still adopt Communism, or go a separate route?

How would the Romanians, Bulgarians, Albanians and Greeks handle Yugobalkan Secularization?

Would a Tito-Stalin split occur, considering they would now share a border?
 
This is completely ASB. It is one thing to award land from disintegrated empires to allied countries, or recognise a fait accompli -during the Versailles conference Yugoslavia was already formed and the border with Italy was determined by the position of Italian troops at the end of the war- and another thing to abolish the countries of allies and let them merge in an entity with four completely different and mutually incomprehensible languages.
The Internarium project was, however unlikely, more realistic: it was supposed to be formed by mutual cooperation and not imposed by foreign countries, and the Internarium countries did not have a recent bloody history like thr Balkan nations.
 

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I can only second what @Pera has said. There is no way the WAllies would create such an... "artificial" nation, even in the aftermath of WWI.

There's also the fact that the population, military resources, natural resources and geographical location of the "Yugobalkania" would create a potential Great Power. Thats not how Edwardian power politics works. Great Powers elevate themselves, they aren't created by other Great Powers.
 
Romania and Greece are completely out of the question, as both are independant parts of the Entente. It is as realistic as Woodrow Wilson forcing France and Italy to merge.

Albania would theoretically be possible, given its very weak administrative structures at the time. However, Italy saw it as clearly within its sphere of influence, so Rome would prevent that.

Bulgaria would be a different thing. A beaten Central Power. Who knows? However, given the history of wars between Serbs and Bulgarians during preceding decades, this is a recipe for civil war. Oops, Yugoslavia was that already. The positive thing, however, is that Serbians could hardly be able to dominate such a realm long-term. And so they might themselves say.... "thanks but no thanks".
 
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