What if a Balkan Federation was created in 1947?

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[Heiseieditz]

Short answer: instant Civil War
long answer:

[justagreekhistorian]

Okay now let's do the far more unrealistic version of having Rigas' plan of a Balkan Federation succeed in 1814

[buffsqueak]

Fun fact: Romania, at some point or another, proposed an unification with 3 out of its 5 neighbours.

[servantmapper]

An earlier Balkan unification would be more interesting, since it'd have much more time to effect world history.

[rewriting-history]

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

[DisKKJ]

What if Novgorod united Russia instead of Muscovy?

[domschra]

"yo fellow powers"

"Yes?"

"You remember how well the austro hungarian empire worked in the late 19th early 20th century?"



"Lets do it with the most diverse region of europe, that already saw ethnic cleansing like 5 years ago"

"Bet lmao"

[konnosx]

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

[dontforgetyoursunscreen]

It's always interesting to find a video so new that nobody has had time to watch all of it without speeding it up

[garamtf]

1:36 what about the Albanians in Macedonia?

[ZeKermet]

We got a holy balkan empire before gta 6

[Andrej.....]

Possible history try to not make greater bulgaria challenge impossible:

[mariusviljamaa]

Could you make a video about "What if the Possible History guy was equally loud in both my headphones"? Could be really interesting...

[theicepickthatkilledtrotsk]

The wars in 90s wars would have been 10x worse.

[shintomokashi]

Loving how the Balkan federation at 6:30 is very much the Habsburg Empire without Austria

[mxcokoko]

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?

[martianpotato]

One of the weirdest omissions was the language one, because a country like this, with so many different languages simply cannot afford to not have a lingua franca, whose name would be Russian.

Now before you try to kill me please let me cook, the idea of using Russian isn't ao crazy since all these countries were already teaching it in school and were in an organization which used Russian as THE official language: The Warsaw Pact, the only difference is that now Russian would not just be the Language of communism but the glue language in the same way that French is for the DRC or English for Nigeria AKA russian would be the language of government and communication between people and would be taught in school (slavs would probably have more hours in Russian).

[danielsantiagourtado]

Possible history! You're amazing! Love your maps

[georgios_]

14:13 no? This isn't a real argument. Even Cyprus joined the EU while being divided

[____-dzdb]

Damn, I'm early. I've been waiting for this scenario for some time