But yeah, the Katsuragi being nuked at Bikini Atoll as the largest IJN warship to survive the war with the lack of surviving IJN battleships to nuke does work, especially as it could be used to help demonstrate the effect of nukes on carriers?
I must note that this, with the border on Plovdiv, was proposed seriously by some people. Just saying.
IOTL, Stalin and the Bierut government cooperated in moving Ukrainians east of the new border and Poles westward (to simplify a rather complicated situation). Even with Lviv's importance as a center of the Ukrainian world, I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happens TTL and Lviv's Ukrainians are moved east.
That's contigent on Lvov staying Polish and I'm of too minds on that one. Will the Americans and British insist on Curzon line B when it looks Poland will be turning into a Polish puppet? Possibly they would. They may be selling out Sikorski's government but Sikorski should have sufficient personal influence left for that at least and it shouldn't matter to a Polish patriot supporting it what government Poland has at the moment. That's temporary, borders are not.
Let me help. Google maps!Maybe the USSR keeps just Konigsberg as a port and gives the hinterland sliver to Poland?
The map still labels it as Philippopolis, that’s almost Byzantine levels of hilariously outdated names
Get Poland - Germany border via Oder river would be too good for Germany and even Poland get whole East Prussia should not be enough compensation for polish eastern loss.If the Eastern Neisse river is being gone for the proposed plan was to follow the Oder river until Upper Silesia, then follow the administrative border down to the Czechoslovak border.
The interesting question will now be to see what happens to Stettin.
I wonder if East Prussia goes entirely to Poland and Grodno stays Polish, if the border ends up being line B on this map.
Map of Occupation Zones | Harry S. Truman
An American map titled "Germany: Zones of Occupation." The map shows American, British, French, and Soviet occupation zones, including joint administration areas such as the Bremen Enclave and Berlin. An attached sheet, hiding portions of the map and the legend, refer to the "Polish-German...www.trumanlibrary.gov
I really love this map. The Bavaria-Austria is something that I really want to see, especially if they still merge with Germany at the end for extra 'why did we do this for Germany do reunify' vibes even though I'm perfectly happy with Bavaria-Austria staying as its own thing, and Yugoslavia being split between the monarchists in Serbia and an extra chunky Croatian Yugoslav state is very cool too. Italy keeping the Slovanian parts before WWII is a fair trade too and makes things don't look as bad on the map lol. Poland gaining Pomerania is also painful asf if you ask me. At least Poland has Cursor B...
be honest, you're loving it hurting me 🤣I must note that this, with the border on Plovdiv, was proposed seriously by some people. Just saying.
Well, the local Greeks did call it that name, and the exiles of the 1900s were still alive in 1945. Also the rule of thumb of greek names for locales is to follow church names, which are of course helleno-eastern Roman. I mean officially the Patriarchate of Constantinople/Istanbul does not use Turkish names in the titles and administrative divisions (the family cult of the Turkortodoks does). So for example the ruined Greek school at Beshiktas writes Diplokondylion on its facade. I would hazard most greek living there would probably had said Beshiktas in everyday life, but Diplokondylion in their community papers.The map still labels it as Philippopolis, that’s almost Byzantine levels of hilariously outdated names
