@@lardstehbread Not Riga, Rigas He was a Greek nationalist of the era but instead of a Greek state he hoped of a Balkan union of equals and wrote a whole poem about it called Thourios (Θούριος) which is about 10 minutes long and you can find the full version on youtube on Ingen's channel
What if: Communist states actually joined the USSR the same way SSR's did? Imagine a Romanian SSR, Bulgiarian SSR, Afghan SSR, you get the point. Afghanistan and China would be interesting. BONUS: Countries that don't even share a border get annexed. Imagine a Cuban SSR!
If they go down the "Still collapses" route it'll be quite the mess, if they don't well... Let's say a United USSR and China would... Have some ramifications on geopolitics.
I'd say he's on the other end of the continent, but Serb nationalists have historically not cared about international borders besides their own. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand speaks of this fact
Novgorod did seem to have their eyes looking a bit more westwards than Muscovy during that era, from what little I know about them. Perhaps expansion into the Baltic region and Finland would be an immediately higher priority than expansion past the Urals? i could say it's less likely that Novgorodian Russia gets all the way to Alaska. Perhaps the ball doesn't get rolling on serfdom in this alternate Russia? Now there's an interesting thought.
I think there is a HUGE butterfly effect here, which just cant be ignored: Hungary palyed a MAJOR role in the disolution of the Warsaw Pact, it was the first country which opened its border with the West, leading to hundreds of thousands of East Germans fleeing into Austria while claiming to traveling into Hungary to have a "vacation" on Lake Balaton. Hungary's communist government was the first which started talk with the internal opposition and started the transition from a communist state to a liberal one. Hungarian PM who was elected shortly after was literally been the person who proposed the disolution of the Warsaw Pact and Comecon (and the Polesh literally called the idea "maddness" just before when József Antall told them what he plans to do) - which was only proceded, because Gorbachev himself said after József Antall read the proposal to "Da, harasho", which mean "yes, so be it". That and countless more. Hungary was the first nation which told the Soviets to they want the soviet soldiers OUT of the country, not in the next decade, but by next year (and again, the poles in this regard though its "too dangerous" of a demand). Czechoslovakia and Poland didnt even wanted to disolve the Comecon without a successor organization, József Antall literally had to convince them about this issue during the first ever Visegrád summit (which gonna be the founding moment of what we know today as the V4). In basically every single issue Hungary was the sledgehammer bashing the Iron Curtain, and surprisingly to great effect. Flatly, if Hungary was just been part of this Federation the Warsaw Pact and likely the USSR itself didnt disolve in 1990-1993 straight up. For anyone who want source, just listen to a video called "Antall József a Varsói Szerződés megszüntetéséről", there is english subtitle attached to it. József Antall himself reciting everything which happened during those days on a MDF congress just a few months before he died.
It's fascinating. With a more stable Balkan, with Hungary tied up in the internal politics of the federation, Gorbachev's plans to reform (reform, not abolish) the Soviet Union might've worked. I'd love to see a full alternate history for this scenario
@@ooi97 yes, i know, but like i said, its jsut straight up to big of an issue which cant be jsut hand-waved off nilly-willy. Its basically jsut the equivalent of wiping out the ENTIRE 1989-1993 events and just jumping to their conclusions regardless. Its like making pancakes, explicitly statzing to you dont gonna use milk and just straight up jumping to the "end product" without any footage of how its actually made, and calling yourself a "great cooking guide". If we go so far then we might as well remove the US from this alternative history altogether and not adress its effect on history, since its not like we would have any bigger unadressed changes in events and timelines anyway. I think you see the fundamental problem here, assuming some broad things due the unpredictability of the new scenario is FINE, but there is a point, where the brush is just WAAAAAY to broad...
the Soviets giving regions of Greek Macedonia to North Macedonia would easily make Greece easily one of the most hardcore pro-West countries in NATO, we are speaking Poland levels of NATO loyalty which is ironic considering that in our timeline Greece was one of the most pro-Serbian countries in NATO during the Yugoslav civil war
@@dacho707 Sucks to sucks , this has happened before in greece where slavs reached peloppense and so the byzantine emprerors moved greeks from anatolia to mainland greece. Its nothing new , greeks are greeks , doesn't matter the origin.
"yo fellow powers" "Yes?" "You remember how well the austro hungarian empire worked in the late 19th early 20th century?" "Uhhhhh??" "Lets do it with the most diverse region of europe, that already saw ethnic cleansing like 5 years ago" "Bet lmao"
Serbia forming an unstable multiethnic nation from the underbelly of the unstable multiethnic Austro-Hungarian nation will never not be ironic to me. Talk about becoming what you once disliked...
Please do a follow up video! I would love this to be a potential series, since the balkans have so much bad history between each other it's awesome to see scenarios where they unite (either partially or totally) in some shape or form!
I would really like to see an earlier unification in the Balkans! It probably ends terribly too but it sounds really interesting. I've also heard it was not the most unpopular idea, with some enlightened figures, like Rigas Velestinlis proposing it.
I have a bunch of scenarios id like to see so im just gonna put them here: -What if the black death was a zombie virus? -What if the soviets were more competent during ww2? -What if everything went perfect for The Axis (I remember i saw it on your list of planned videos but you removed it so im guessing its not gonna happen at least for a while)? -What if everything went perfect for italy? -What if everything went perfect for the soviets? -What if Vinland survived as a colony? -An interactive video like the one you did for ww1, but for ww2 or maybe the napoleonic wars though these would be way more complex. -What if the US became fascist? -What if The weimar republic survived? -What if the cold war was avoided somehow maybe the soviets decide to leave eastern europe on its own for some reason and america ignores asia also for some reason? -What if Sablin started a civil war? EDIT After some more thinking here are a few more i thought could be intresting! What if china suffered a 'french revolution' even before france had it? What if instead of just austria hungary, croatia was immediatly added as a third kingdom? What if the UK joined the central powers? What if italy and germany remained united instead of being dissunited during the middle ages? What if nationalism as an idea never picked up steam? What if the 'briliant' german plans failed exactly how youd expect them to? Ie the royal navy cuts off the german army sent to norway, the french keep tanks in reserve and cut off the german spearhead going to the benelux and Stalin immediatly cuts off all trade with germany and prepares for war after the fall of france (if they still fall). What if everything went perfect for the native americans? What if austria hungary and the ottomans were compatant during ww1? What if china never stagnated? What if the suez crisis escalated into a uk + france vs us + soviet war?
I actually quite enjoy these more unrealistic ideas. Making scenarios based purely on realism can only take you so far, so it's nice to see something unorthodox
I doubt Bulgaria would get away with that much territory in the end, Romania and Serbia (and possibly even Albania) would end up trying to also settle border disputes.
Bulgaria had that territory early 20-th century to start with (and end of 19-th) together with Northern Dobrudja (Romanian part now - between Danube and Balck Sea)
You could have put certain regions which were disputed as autonomous zones instead of whole countries as regions but I guess it gets the message across anyways
What if everything went perfectly for Finland? What if the Allies invaded Japan in 1945? What if the Ottomans captured Vienna in 1683? What if the Nordic countries united? (Explore different scenarios where this could've realistically happened)
Something I really appreciate about your more recent videos is the amount I've been learning about the history of places that, as an American, simply weren't covered in depth in school, and frequently aren't covered in-depth in mainstream media either. Especially the recent video about Argentina, I feel like I learned so much about a region that hardly ever gets touched on elsewhere (it's even a meme in the alt-history community that nothing ever changes in South America)
I think a version of the balkan wars of independence where it's more general anti-ottoman/turk or pan-orthodox could be interesting, though I fear would have worse effects for the remaining Turkic or non-orthodox populations
I’d like to see an earlier attempt at the Balkan union because for one it is has a lot more time to affect things and two it’s much more likely to succeed and continue through time as they would have been unified for longer
I know you have many video plans but it would be really cool if you made a video about "What if Greco-Turkish Union did happen". Interesting but there is actually an ideology named Hellenoturkism.
What if the communist government of Granada stayed in power? Would be interesting to see how it played out considering they stayed as part of the commonwealth
No joke, me and my friend were making (carving up europe) european countries, and one we made was the "Slavic Empire(/Commonwealth)," which was every slavic country combined (Unrealistic, i know. These are joke cointries)
What about an alternate timeline where an alternative Napoleonic Wars leave Austria much stronger, and in the following century, they unite the Balkans all the way to Greece, and then become a much stronger state that doesn’t collapse but instead reforms into a multiethnic democratic state that lasts until the present?
I know that you wont see this PH, but i have an amazing scenario to discuss. "What if Austria and the Ottomans collapsed in 1815?" The scenario starts as Austria tries to centralize too much (or some other stupid internal thing) and hungary rebels. Czechs, slovaks, polish, ukrainian, croatian, italian and romanian people rise up soon after as prussia, saxony and bavaria invade the crumbling empire as the german confederation collapses. The ottomans, serbs and romanians invade to conquer and help the relvolts. Romania ad serbia decide that they also want independence and revolt from the ottomans as bulgaria, albania, bosnia and greece revolt, followed by kurdistan. Algeria and tunesia both gain independence as britian invades egypt, libya and israel. Saudi arabia also invades and conquers ottoman territories nearby. Austrian Peacedeal: Hungary gains hunagrian majority areas of transylvania (including szekely land) alond with a thin strip of territory to connect their country.Hungary also gains carpathian ruthenia, southern and eastern slovakia and burgenland. Bavaria gains austria proper and german majority regions of tyrole and adds them to the german confederation. Saxony gains some border territories and prussia gains the rest of silesia along with a little more. Czechia and slovakia gain independence but not united. A new italian state gains italian speaking parts of austria (venice, lombardia, italian speaking tyrole) Croatia gains full independence (all territories in the croatia slavonia crown) and slovenia including istria. Serbia gains the entirety of banat and romania gets the rest of transylvania Ottoman peacedeal: Serbia gains most modern day territories excluding southern kosovo and some other small southern land. Albania gains the rest of kosovo and part of macedonia. Bulgaria gets most of the remaining macedonian land exept some southern land while gaining part of dobruja and thrace. Greece gains the previously mentioned southern macedonian land and all their modern day borders exept the ionian islands (british). Britain gains egypt and libya along with israel while arabia gains ottoman hejaz. Kurdistan gains full independence. THERE'S STILL MORE. Prussia and russia also fall to revolt as poland and ukraine both revolt with russia losing both and prussia falling into chaos as hanover and france invade with guerrilia war setting in. I almost forgot, hanover annexes several small states also including oldenburg. ITS DONE.
You have definitely butterflied away the conclusion of our own timeline's Cold War, as it was Hungary opening their border with Austria that allowed East Germans to reach the west, and the subsequent Soviet nonintervention would discredit not just the Berlin Wall but also the entire Iron Curtain. I think the post-Soviet part of this scenario could only come about as you hypothesized if Hungary wasn't folded into the "Balkan experiment" after that failed revolution.
Maybe at first Serbia and Bulgaria unite in 1878, in 1885 they jointly march in Eastern Rumelia and Montenegro. Let’s say, after the 1905 Revolution in Russia, in Moldova breaks out a revolt and Romania seeks to integrate it in itself. Russia plans to swiftly invade both Moldova and Romania to return the status quo, but Serbo-Bulgaria proposes a solution: Romania will get Moldova in the following years, but accept to join the Balkan union and thus be in the Russo sphere of influence. Russia will accept this and the plan will go through, because Romania was heavily influenced by France, but France is an ally of Russia and if they get financial guarantees in the Balkan Union, they won’t mind nothing. So now we won’t have the rivalry of Serbia and Bulgaria, Serbia has a coastline, Dobrudja won’t be disputed, Bosnia is still Turkish (not invaded by AH) and Romania is waiting for Moldova, but Russia has a plan foe when to give it away. I suppose the First Balkan war will still happen, but now we will have a very easy division of the Ottomans: Serbia gets Bosnia and Kosovo, Bulgaria gets Macedonia and Thrace and now Romania gets Moldova! Greece will annex the lands as in after the Second Balkan war(because Bulgaria was rewarded more this time), but they won’t be satisfied until they achieve the Megalli idea, so they will seek to join the Central powers. Oh and Albania gets independence. WW1 will erupt even earlier and we have even weaker Axis. Ottomans are 50/50 to get involved in the conflict. After the Entante win we get strong Russian empire with Galicia and polish lands from Germany (Poland and Finland get independence, but in Russian sphere). Hungary gets proposed a deal: they will still control southern Slovakia and parts of Transylvania, but join the Russian sphere(they will gladly accept). Bulgaria will get Kavala , but Russia won’t allow them to annex Thessaloniki , this way they won’t hold a grudge and enter the Russo sphere. Czechoslovakia will be like: All of Eastern Europe is part of the Russian alliance and I need protection from Germany - they immediately join it. And so we enter a strange world - Russia already has an expanded Eastern bloc, Germany is a wild card wether to be part of the Allies or Russia, Japan will still invade China, but America wouldn’t have entered ww1, so either they will become super isolationist, or will seek a new conflict to become a world power!
Southern Greece would have already joined the EU and NATO before the collapse of the Balkan Union, in fact it would have probably joined the EU earlier than in our timeline. Greece also has much better odds to integrate the entirety if Cyprus, as the Americans and British would want to prop up Southern Greece against the Balkan Union. Greece is also unlikely to drop its claims on Northern Epirus. In general, I'd expect a better ending territorially for Greece, as the only part of the Western alliance, while a much better economic result is guaranteed for the northern parts of the country
I'm not sure a balkan federation would have a Yugoslavian federation inside it - why not just each of their parts separately inside the big federation? Of course this still creates questions about the autonomous provinces inside serbia.
Concepts that could work for this as well: Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania all somehow get into the same royal line (Bulgaria was Saxe-Coburg & Gotha-Kohary, Romania was Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and Greece was Glucksberg), and due to a series of events all wind up with the same monarch. While unlikely, it would very much tie together their countries and potentially lead to a union similar to that of the United Kingdom. Hungary, following WWI (assuming Austria-Hungary winds up in the same boat), could adopt the monarch and be accepted into the union, same with Albania. Yugoslavia presents an issue, but one that could be butterflied away partially, maybe a Hohenzollern on the throne of Bulgaria means Prussia backs up Russia at the Treaty of San Marino, giving Bulgaria far larger borders than OTL?
Short answer: instant Civil War
long answer:
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not instant, only when communism falls
Long answer: delayed civil war
Long answer: War with Turkey for reconquest of Constantinopol xD
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Okay now let's do the far more unrealistic version of having Rigas' plan of a Balkan Federation succeed in 1814
wait I'm so confused, why would a baltic nation's capital have a plan for that?
@@lardstehbread lol
@@Hu_Li out of history, did you contribute to the manga in your bio?
Kaiserreich real???!!!!
@@lardstehbread Not Riga, Rigas
He was a Greek nationalist of the era but instead of a Greek state he hoped of a Balkan union of equals and wrote a whole poem about it called Thourios (Θούριος) which is about 10 minutes long and you can find the full version on youtube on Ingen's channel
Fun fact: Romania, at some point or another, proposed an unification with 3 out of its 5 neighbours.
Being?
actually, those neighbours proposed romania to unify
@@Drippyundcursed Moldova, Bulgaria and Hungary (this one is a bit of a stretch though)
@@buffsqueak2427 Hungary? I'm Hungarian and I've never heard of this. Closest I can think is the communist regime after WWI...
@@teodorionescu7639not really true. After the Russo-Turkish war Bulgaria and Romania were close to unifying and it wasnt a Bulgarian effort
Impossible History 🔥🔥🔥
Most unrealistic scenario
Truly a moment
ah yes... impossible history... the spinoff channel which was left in the dust
An earlier Balkan unification would be more interesting, since it'd have much more time to effect world history.
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@@Gabo_Koopa Hello Gabo! First time ever meeting someone I know in a random video's comment section!
@@servantmapper8893 :OOO
What if: Communist states actually joined the USSR the same way SSR's did? Imagine a Romanian SSR, Bulgiarian SSR, Afghan SSR, you get the point. Afghanistan and China would be interesting.
BONUS: Countries that don't even share a border get annexed. Imagine a Cuban SSR!
Chinese ssr would probably have different uyghur and tibetian ssrs or assrs
@@Sadnessiuseless yeah
If they go down the "Still collapses" route it'll be quite the mess, if they don't well... Let's say a United USSR and China would... Have some ramifications on geopolitics.
angolan ssr
That would be interesting
As a Serbian, I can bet the nation would dissolve in 0.0000001 seconds
Edit: HOLY MOLY! Thanks for the likes guys!
Don't be hopelessly naive, it'd never last that long
Haha, funny that was
Oh come on, last time it only dissolved because of racism, maybe this one-
Who am I kidding its probably gonna get even more racist than the Serbs did
That's actually a very long time
@@BlackStar2161 It seems I have overestimated this nation
1:00 you are so brave to say that. Stay safe and I pray for your safety, they are coming for you! I can never say that and not die :D
When a Dutchman says it its somehow less hurting than when a Bulgarian does
Oh how the world works
Possible History has the biggest balls to say that.
@@onits462 +1 if I say that I'd get so much hate
I'd say he's on the other end of the continent, but Serb nationalists have historically not cared about international borders besides their own. The assassination of Franz Ferdinand speaks of this fact
Lmao it's the Serbian
What if everything went perfect for Italy? No I won't stop
Respect the dedication bro
I hope he doesn’t disappoint you like someone else did with me
I support that idea!
isn't that already a video
@@yeetadog no
What if Novgorod united Russia instead of Muscovy?
I would say it’s Almost nothing russia still conquers the steps for trade and conquers Siberia because they can, just a Russian republic
Well, thing is, why would novgorod even do that?
They already had Baltic trade routes, so they wouldnt really expand east like muscovy did
@@Blazer7713-l9bIf I'm not mistaken, Novgorod wanted to expand to the west, right?
Novgorod did seem to have their eyes looking a bit more westwards than Muscovy during that era, from what little I know about them. Perhaps expansion into the Baltic region and Finland would be an immediately higher priority than expansion past the Urals? i could say it's less likely that Novgorodian Russia gets all the way to Alaska.
Perhaps the ball doesn't get rolling on serfdom in this alternate Russia? Now there's an interesting thought.
I think a north-south split between Moscow and Novgorod is more realistic.
16:04 I'd love to see that.
Me too
Same
Me three
It is an interesting concept which wasn’t impossible
Me four 👍
If you thought that the breakup of Yugoslavia was a messy affair, wait until the breakup of this bad boy
We have the same picture
I think there is a HUGE butterfly effect here, which just cant be ignored: Hungary palyed a MAJOR role in the disolution of the Warsaw Pact, it was the first country which opened its border with the West, leading to hundreds of thousands of East Germans fleeing into Austria while claiming to traveling into Hungary to have a "vacation" on Lake Balaton. Hungary's communist government was the first which started talk with the internal opposition and started the transition from a communist state to a liberal one. Hungarian PM who was elected shortly after was literally been the person who proposed the disolution of the Warsaw Pact and Comecon (and the Polesh literally called the idea "maddness" just before when József Antall told them what he plans to do) - which was only proceded, because Gorbachev himself said after József Antall read the proposal to "Da, harasho", which mean "yes, so be it". That and countless more. Hungary was the first nation which told the Soviets to they want the soviet soldiers OUT of the country, not in the next decade, but by next year (and again, the poles in this regard though its "too dangerous" of a demand).
Czechoslovakia and Poland didnt even wanted to disolve the Comecon without a successor organization, József Antall literally had to convince them about this issue during the first ever Visegrád summit (which gonna be the founding moment of what we know today as the V4).
In basically every single issue Hungary was the sledgehammer bashing the Iron Curtain, and surprisingly to great effect.
Flatly, if Hungary was just been part of this Federation the Warsaw Pact and likely the USSR itself didnt disolve in 1990-1993 straight up.
For anyone who want source, just listen to a video called "Antall József a Varsói Szerződés megszüntetéséről", there is english subtitle attached to it. József Antall himself reciting everything which happened during those days on a MDF congress just a few months before he died.
He did address it somewhat at 7:16, saying "it is also possible we have butterflied away the conclusion to the Cold War of our timeline"
It's fascinating. With a more stable Balkan, with Hungary tied up in the internal politics of the federation, Gorbachev's plans to reform (reform, not abolish) the Soviet Union might've worked. I'd love to see a full alternate history for this scenario
@@ooi97 yes, i know, but like i said, its jsut straight up to big of an issue which cant be jsut hand-waved off nilly-willy. Its basically jsut the equivalent of wiping out the ENTIRE 1989-1993 events and just jumping to their conclusions regardless. Its like making pancakes, explicitly statzing to you dont gonna use milk and just straight up jumping to the "end product" without any footage of how its actually made, and calling yourself a "great cooking guide".
If we go so far then we might as well remove the US from this alternative history altogether and not adress its effect on history, since its not like we would have any bigger unadressed changes in events and timelines anyway. I think you see the fundamental problem here, assuming some broad things due the unpredictability of the new scenario is FINE, but there is a point, where the brush is just WAAAAAY to broad...
Guys my tummy hurts…
What if my tummy didn’t hurt video when?
if your tummy didn't hurt poland would conquer all of eastern europe before conquering the world
Can we make it a two-parter with "what if my head didnt hurt"?
the Soviets giving regions of Greek Macedonia to North Macedonia would easily make Greece easily one of the most hardcore pro-West countries in NATO, we are speaking Poland levels of NATO loyalty
which is ironic considering that in our timeline Greece was one of the most pro-Serbian countries in NATO during the Yugoslav civil war
That's why I love Greece for helping us out. Greeks are our true brothers! 🇬🇷❤🇷🇸
Macedonians used to, and still live in northern Greece.
@@dacho707Used to and still are slavs , just becamse you migrated there doesn't make the territories yours.
@@Haksrax the majority of the greek population in northern greece is from pontus and izmir
@@dacho707 Sucks to sucks , this has happened before in greece where slavs reached peloppense and so the byzantine emprerors moved greeks from anatolia to mainland greece. Its nothing new , greeks are greeks , doesn't matter the origin.
"yo fellow powers"
"Yes?"
"You remember how well the austro hungarian empire worked in the late 19th early 20th century?"
"Uhhhhh??"
"Lets do it with the most diverse region of europe, that already saw ethnic cleansing like 5 years ago"
"Bet lmao"
Serbia forming an unstable multiethnic nation from the underbelly of the unstable multiethnic Austro-Hungarian nation will never not be ironic to me. Talk about becoming what you once disliked...
Possible history try to not make greater bulgaria challenge impossible:
Based possible history
Please do a follow up video! I would love this to be a potential series, since the balkans have so much bad history between each other it's awesome to see scenarios where they unite (either partially or totally) in some shape or form!
I would really like to see an earlier unification in the Balkans! It probably ends terribly too but it sounds really interesting. I've also heard it was not the most unpopular idea, with some enlightened figures, like Rigas Velestinlis proposing it.
It's always interesting to find a video so new that nobody has had time to watch all of it without speeding it up
Just a suggestion, however a “what if everything went perfect for Austria or Austria-Hungary” would be an interesting video.
I have a bunch of scenarios id like to see so im just gonna put them here:
-What if the black death was a zombie virus?
-What if the soviets were more competent during ww2?
-What if everything went perfect for The Axis (I remember i saw it on your list of planned videos but you removed it so im guessing its not gonna happen at least for a while)?
-What if everything went perfect for italy?
-What if everything went perfect for the soviets?
-What if Vinland survived as a colony?
-An interactive video like the one you did for ww1, but for ww2 or maybe the napoleonic wars though these would be way more complex.
-What if the US became fascist?
-What if The weimar republic survived?
-What if the cold war was avoided somehow maybe the soviets decide to leave eastern europe on its own for some reason and america ignores asia also for some reason?
-What if Sablin started a civil war?
EDIT After some more thinking here are a few more i thought could be intresting!
What if china suffered a 'french revolution' even before france had it?
What if instead of just austria hungary, croatia was immediatly added as a third kingdom?
What if the UK joined the central powers?
What if italy and germany remained united instead of being dissunited during the middle ages?
What if nationalism as an idea never picked up steam?
What if the 'briliant' german plans failed exactly how youd expect them to? Ie the royal navy cuts off the german army sent to norway, the french keep tanks in reserve and cut off the german spearhead going to the benelux and Stalin immediatly cuts off all trade with germany and prepares for war after the fall of france (if they still fall).
What if everything went perfect for the native americans?
What if austria hungary and the ottomans were compatant during ww1?
What if china never stagnated?
What if the suez crisis escalated into a uk + france vs us + soviet war?
Loving how the Balkan federation at 6:30 is very much the Habsburg Empire without Austria
Could you make a video about "What if the Possible History guy was equally loud in both my headphones"? Could be really interesting...
0:08 the idea of a bunch of guys discussing the geopolitics of the 1950s is for some reason funny to me not an insult dtw love your vids
The video was amazing, and I would love to see part 2 of this
I actually quite enjoy these more unrealistic ideas. Making scenarios based purely on realism can only take you so far, so it's nice to see something unorthodox
I doubt Bulgaria would get away with that much territory in the end, Romania and Serbia (and possibly even Albania) would end up trying to also settle border disputes.
Bulgaria had that territory early 20-th century to start with (and end of 19-th) together with Northern Dobrudja (Romanian part now - between Danube and Balck Sea)
Feels good to see your video on top of my youtube feed in the morning :)
You could have put certain regions which were disputed as autonomous zones instead of whole countries as regions but I guess it gets the message across anyways
This sounds like a great idea in theory, but it would only last 0.0000001 secs 💀
What if everything went perfectly for Finland?
What if the Allies invaded Japan in 1945?
What if the Ottomans captured Vienna in 1683?
What if the Nordic countries united? (Explore different scenarios where this could've realistically happened)
Something I really appreciate about your more recent videos is the amount I've been learning about the history of places that, as an American, simply weren't covered in depth in school, and frequently aren't covered in-depth in mainstream media either. Especially the recent video about Argentina, I feel like I learned so much about a region that hardly ever gets touched on elsewhere (it's even a meme in the alt-history community that nothing ever changes in South America)
The wars in 90s wars would have been 10x worse.
This sounds like something Churchill would've done when he was drunk.
Where Spain possible history at (I won’t stop)
We got a holy balkan empire before gta 6
I think a version of the balkan wars of independence where it's more general anti-ottoman/turk or pan-orthodox could be interesting, though I fear would have worse effects for the remaining Turkic or non-orthodox populations
That would be a major advantage tbh
Mate please do the Spanish Federal Empire Please please please
Video idea: what if Bulgaria managed to capture Constantinople during the first Balkan War?
I’d like to see an earlier attempt at the Balkan union because for one it is has a lot more time to affect things and two it’s much more likely to succeed and continue through time as they would have been unified for longer
can you do a "What if everything went perfect" for other asian countries like China, north Korea, etc
Love giant blob nation what ifs! Would enjoy to hear those other scenarios.
I know you have many video plans but it would be really cool if you made a video about "What if Greco-Turkish Union did happen". Interesting but there is actually an ideology named Hellenoturkism.
Yes a follow up vid would be great
Insane scenario
What if the communist government of Granada stayed in power? Would be interesting to see how it played out considering they stayed as part of the commonwealth
I'm actually really interested in both options presented at the end of the video.
No joke, me and my friend were making (carving up europe) european countries, and one we made was the "Slavic Empire(/Commonwealth)," which was every slavic country combined
(Unrealistic, i know. These are joke cointries)
What about an alternate timeline where an alternative Napoleonic Wars leave Austria much stronger, and in the following century, they unite the Balkans all the way to Greece, and then become a much stronger state that doesn’t collapse but instead reforms into a multiethnic democratic state that lasts until the present?
8:21 EVERY MODERN EMPIRE IS SOOOOOOOOOO BACK!!!!!!!!
It isn't, it has been there for years
I know that you wont see this PH, but i have an amazing scenario to discuss.
"What if Austria and the Ottomans collapsed in 1815?"
The scenario starts as Austria tries to centralize too much (or some other stupid internal thing) and hungary rebels. Czechs, slovaks, polish, ukrainian, croatian, italian and romanian people rise up soon after as prussia, saxony and bavaria invade the crumbling empire as the german confederation collapses. The ottomans, serbs and romanians invade to conquer and help the relvolts. Romania ad serbia decide that they also want independence and revolt from the ottomans as bulgaria, albania, bosnia and greece revolt, followed by kurdistan. Algeria and tunesia both gain independence as britian invades egypt, libya and israel. Saudi arabia also invades and conquers ottoman territories nearby.
Austrian Peacedeal:
Hungary gains hunagrian majority areas of transylvania (including szekely land) alond with a thin strip of territory to connect their country.Hungary also gains carpathian ruthenia, southern and eastern slovakia and burgenland.
Bavaria gains austria proper and german majority regions of tyrole and adds them to the german confederation.
Saxony gains some border territories and prussia gains the rest of silesia along with a little more.
Czechia and slovakia gain independence but not united.
A new italian state gains italian speaking parts of austria (venice, lombardia, italian speaking tyrole)
Croatia gains full independence (all territories in the croatia slavonia crown) and slovenia including istria.
Serbia gains the entirety of banat and romania gets the rest of transylvania
Ottoman peacedeal:
Serbia gains most modern day territories excluding southern kosovo and some other small southern land.
Albania gains the rest of kosovo and part of macedonia.
Bulgaria gets most of the remaining macedonian land exept some southern land while gaining part of dobruja and thrace.
Greece gains the previously mentioned southern macedonian land and all their modern day borders exept the ionian islands (british).
Britain gains egypt and libya along with israel while arabia gains ottoman hejaz.
Kurdistan gains full independence.
THERE'S STILL MORE.
Prussia and russia also fall to revolt as poland and ukraine both revolt with russia losing both and prussia falling into chaos as hanover and france invade with guerrilia war setting in. I almost forgot, hanover annexes several small states also including oldenburg.
ITS DONE.
Sure they may be poor but ngl Bulgaria looks pretty fine 🔥🔥
Possible history! You're amazing! Love your maps
NICIODATĂ !
More alternated united balkan scenarios please!
I love your videos, (Im)possible History❤
Day 1 of asking for What if everything went perfect for Portugal.
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The Pink Map succeeds and Portugal has a massive foothold in Africa
@@isg4 ye maybe but I mean also more ancient no Portuguese succession crisis with the Dutch stealing a large amount of their colonies etc.
I'd love to see the "what if everything went right" for this hypothetical
You have definitely butterflied away the conclusion of our own timeline's Cold War, as it was Hungary opening their border with Austria that allowed East Germans to reach the west, and the subsequent Soviet nonintervention would discredit not just the Berlin Wall but also the entire Iron Curtain. I think the post-Soviet part of this scenario could only come about as you hypothesized if Hungary wasn't folded into the "Balkan experiment" after that failed revolution.
Damn, I'm early. I've been waiting for this scenario for some time
The ottoman unification scenario would be very interesting, please do it if you can
0:08 damn wish I had some friends I could sit around and talk speculative geopolitics
Even in alternative scenario is unlikely Macedonia and Bulgaria to end up together
I’m mostly interested in the early starting date scenario but the other concept could be interesting as well.
Nice video ❤
how many civil wars do you want?
this video: yes!
Video 32 of asking Possible History for a video about "If Valery Sablin was succesful"
Maybe at first Serbia and Bulgaria unite in 1878, in 1885 they jointly march in Eastern Rumelia and Montenegro. Let’s say, after the 1905 Revolution in Russia, in Moldova breaks out a revolt and Romania seeks to integrate it in itself. Russia plans to swiftly invade both Moldova and Romania to return the status quo, but Serbo-Bulgaria proposes a solution: Romania will get Moldova in the following years, but accept to join the Balkan union and thus be in the Russo sphere of influence. Russia will accept this and the plan will go through, because Romania was heavily influenced by France, but France is an ally of Russia and if they get financial guarantees in the Balkan Union, they won’t mind nothing.
So now we won’t have the rivalry of Serbia and Bulgaria, Serbia has a coastline, Dobrudja won’t be disputed, Bosnia is still Turkish (not invaded by AH) and Romania is waiting for Moldova, but Russia has a plan foe when to give it away.
I suppose the First Balkan war will still happen, but now we will have a very easy division of the Ottomans: Serbia gets Bosnia and Kosovo, Bulgaria gets Macedonia and Thrace and now Romania gets Moldova! Greece will annex the lands as in after the Second Balkan war(because Bulgaria was rewarded more this time), but they won’t be satisfied until they achieve the Megalli idea, so they will seek to join the Central powers. Oh and Albania gets independence.
WW1 will erupt even earlier and we have even weaker Axis. Ottomans are 50/50 to get involved in the conflict. After the Entante win we get strong Russian empire with Galicia and polish lands from Germany (Poland and Finland get independence, but in Russian sphere). Hungary gets proposed a deal: they will still control southern Slovakia and parts of Transylvania, but join the Russian sphere(they will gladly accept). Bulgaria will get Kavala , but Russia won’t allow them to annex Thessaloniki , this way they won’t hold a grudge and enter the Russo sphere. Czechoslovakia will be like: All of Eastern Europe is part of the Russian alliance and I need protection from Germany - they immediately join it.
And so we enter a strange world - Russia already has an expanded Eastern bloc, Germany is a wild card wether to be part of the Allies or Russia, Japan will still invade China, but America wouldn’t have entered ww1, so either they will become super isolationist, or will seek a new conflict to become a world power!
We need many more of these videos
As a balkaner i can say that this is inpossible and was once an idea in the USSR but wasnt realised
Bro we NEED the balkan union in the 19th century PLEASEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think a scenario with the Balkan federation uniting in the 19th century would be really interesting
Do a scenario where it survives
Can we also have a "what uf yuguslavia survived" video since we already are in the theme?
I would love a part 2 with the early union scenario
A Greco-Albanian state was an interesting concept
The thumbnail made the Balkan union look like a mutant monster with many eyes.
In the Greek Civil War, Ephirus was the main hot spot of Greek Communists
Southern Greece would have already joined the EU and NATO before the collapse of the Balkan Union, in fact it would have probably joined the EU earlier than in our timeline. Greece also has much better odds to integrate the entirety if Cyprus, as the Americans and British would want to prop up Southern Greece against the Balkan Union. Greece is also unlikely to drop its claims on Northern Epirus. In general, I'd expect a better ending territorially for Greece, as the only part of the Western alliance, while a much better economic result is guaranteed for the northern parts of the country
Is this even possible in real life in modern day?
Hey could zu please do a video about what if everything went perfect for Romania? Please. You did the same with Bulgaria, and it would be very nice
YESSS PLEASE PART2
Also please do another video about the balkan uniting in 1800
I think an earlier balkan federation would be very interesting, although how much Russian influence it had could make it go 2 very different ways
I'd love to see an earlier start date for this
I want a second part that doesn't end in amazing action
When does the video come about britain not joining ww1
Idea: what if Serbia/Yugoslavia won the Yugoslav wars?
Video 13 of asking for what if sun yat sen’s china survived
You should try what would happen if the US officially joined the war for Napoleon.
Yo make the earliest possible scenario please
I'm not sure a balkan federation would have a Yugoslavian federation inside it - why not just each of their parts separately inside the big federation? Of course this still creates questions about the autonomous provinces inside serbia.
14:13 no? This isn't a real argument. Even Cyprus joined the EU while being divided
Concepts that could work for this as well:
Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania all somehow get into the same royal line (Bulgaria was Saxe-Coburg & Gotha-Kohary, Romania was Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, and Greece was Glucksberg), and due to a series of events all wind up with the same monarch. While unlikely, it would very much tie together their countries and potentially lead to a union similar to that of the United Kingdom. Hungary, following WWI (assuming Austria-Hungary winds up in the same boat), could adopt the monarch and be accepted into the union, same with Albania. Yugoslavia presents an issue, but one that could be butterflied away partially, maybe a Hohenzollern on the throne of Bulgaria means Prussia backs up Russia at the Treaty of San Marino, giving Bulgaria far larger borders than OTL?
Day 2 of asking a "Red flood scenario"
I think you should do this scenario but in the late 19th century where the ottomans are defeated as a future video.
The Third Balkan War: Electric Boogaloo
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I saw the thumbnail and I immediately said out loud, "OH GOD NO!"
I would love to see an alternative scenario to this one. It was fun to watch as balkaner.