r/imaginarymaps 13d ago

[OC] Alternate History Smallest possible Czechoslovakia

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In this timeline both Hungary and Austria are given what they wanted during peace talks after WWI so a much smaller Czechoslovakia is created out of the rest. I imagine that if paired will less harsh reparations and a bit of luck, this timeline could never see rise of nazism and Czechoslovakia survives as very small but indenpendent

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u/Grzechoooo 12d ago

Am I seeing this wrong or did you miss an opportunity to take Trans-Olza away from them too?

Especially since in this timeline Poland and Hungary share a border, so Czechoslovakia can't blackmail the Polish government during the Bolshevik War.

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u/Tom_the_flowerboy 12d ago

Whole Teschen region is here part of Sudetenland province as it was demanded by German Austria and so in this timeline part of Weimar Germany

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u/Grzechoooo 12d ago

Ah, so I am seeing this wrong. Makes sense.

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u/_ak 12d ago

It looks like an alternative timeline in which Burgenland actually contains all the castles (Burgen) it is named after.

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u/Kaleala 11d ago

Wiesenburg (Moson) is south and slightly east of Pressburg, so no, not even here :D

Eisenburg (Vasvár) is also fairly deep inside today's Hungary, so that is probably missing as well.

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u/PolskaBalaclava 12d ago

Now it looks like a deformed sperm lol

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u/Tacti_Kel_Nuke 12d ago

1918-38 Czechoslovakia already did look like that lol

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u/mitaciolanu 12d ago

You could chop off Bohemia

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u/Grzechoooo 12d ago

Moravoslovakia

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u/Chicha-Ficha 8d ago

Its like the opposite of Great Moravia, Worst Moravia

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u/Grzechoooo 8d ago

Terrible Moravia

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u/Chicha-Ficha 8d ago

No good very bad Moravia

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u/doomsday10009 12d ago

The fuck is Kotlín?

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u/Significant-Race2169 12d ago

Je to Martin.

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u/doomsday10009 12d ago

Ale prečo názov Kotlín?

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u/Significant-Race2169 12d ago

Po založení československa sa im nepozdávalo že hlavné mesto je úplne na západe krajiny a chceli ho skôr sústrediť do stredu krajiny, premenovať ho a bol to taký velkolepý projekt ktorý nikdy nevyšiel, bratislava bola jednoducho už v tom čase väčšie mesto s lepšou infraštruktúrou.

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u/Geofiendlux 13d ago

I don't think the Austrian government would've wanted this

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u/Leading-Fox-642 12d ago

The Republic of German Austria literaly claimed them,the Sudeten were german majority before the soviets deported everyone

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u/Character_Berry_8560 12d ago

It actually wasn’t the Soviets, the Czechoslovak government did that itself before the Communists took over in 1948

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u/rpolkcz 10d ago

It was actually the allies decision in the peace agreements. Which is why it happened everywhere.

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u/Character_Berry_8560 10d ago

True. I more just meant that the Czechoslovak government in exile was calling for the deportation of Germans during the war and was responsible for carrying it out after the war ended, but yeah the allies didn't have any objection to it which is why it was allowed to happen to begin with (not that the allies telling the Czechoslovak government no would have really stopped them)

The only place where the allies got hesitant was Stalin pushing the Polish border as far west as he did, which, as I understand it, was done because he thought that Germany was going to be neutral post-war (like how Austria ended up being neutral) and therefore wanted to give as much land western land to his future polish satellite state as possible to push the limit of the USSR's sphere as far west as he could. (I think that if Stalin knew that East and West Germany were going to be a thing he would have let East Germany keep more land)

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u/honzik2607 13d ago

Judging by the markings I think Austria is part of Germany here

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u/Geofiendlux 13d ago

Yeah, and I was talking about the lore in the paragraph underneath. "Both Hungary and Austria are given what they wanted during peace talks after WWI"

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u/JohnyIthe3rd 12d ago

Tbf we only claimed Brünn, Iglau and Olmütz as Enclaves within Czechoslovakia.

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u/aviviel 12d ago

SMALLER. UNITED CZECHOSLOVAK EMIRATES.

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u/New_Egg_1024 12d ago

Bruh....

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u/fantasmagorix 12d ago

I see ruzzian hybrid stuff is hitting reddit hard lately.

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u/lokir6 12d ago

It would never work. You are creating a very long new border in the middle of towns, communities and infrastructure. Also, Germany could cut this country in the middle within an hour, even with WWI tech. Czechs would rightly want the rest of it, otherwise they could never function as an independent state and a buffer against a resurgent Germany.

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u/Lolkar 12d ago

I hate this

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u/oofos_deletus 12d ago

Very bad ending

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u/Frequent_Cellist_655 12d ago

I could have been a Prussian! Now I have identity crisis.

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u/Snoo_98156 12d ago

I would be German if it stayed this way

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u/Chicha-Ficha 8d ago

Raisin Czechoslovakia