What if the USSR Defended Czechoslovakia in 1938? 

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Correct title if Poland ALLOWED USSR troops to pass to help Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia being saved instead of invaded by the Soviets. What a timeline

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I think this is an interesting timeline if the USSR helped Czechoslovakia, that thumbnail is wild and i like it.

This better not be removed, this is a great video

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Based on what I was reading yesterday Stalin offered to defend Czechoslovakia while or immediately before the Sudatenland conference was going on, but neither Romania or Poland allowed Soviet troops through (due to the obvious risk of the Soviets using this as an easy opportunity to get a new puppet state). However, I don’t think it’s impossible that Romania could have been convinced, and that is probably what I would use as a POD.

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Not even 1 minute in but i can already tell its very good! Your videos are always good.

”If compliance exceeds resistance” A hoi4 player might understand that but what does that actually mean?

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Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg mentioned, great video ❤

Poland would likely not interveen really They pursued politics of being strictly neutral with both USSR and Germany having multiple pacts with both. It was part of broader strategy in Poland that no matter what, Poland must not take part in anticipated German-Soviet war, or at least not at the beggining of it

Hi from Czechia. I have a few Czechoslovak Passports, out of which the closest to the year this scenario takes place is a Passport from The Czechoslovak Republic that was issued in 1923

The Little Entente will likely help Czechoslovakia too because with a strong Ally like Soviet Union they are more brave to help Czechoslovakia.

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7:04 maybe allies could agree but not Poland. Poland would likely refuse any teritorial demands from Soviets

Interesting video, keep it up!

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9:45 Yes, Rewriting history, that was indeed a very based reference

this is literally in the hoi4 focus tree

This scenario seems compatible with Trotsky replacing Stalin

Great video, I love those maps and the scenario. Also hi from Czechia.

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Do you use for your base map, modified hoi4 game map? Generaly I spotted a couple mistakes or simmilarities to hoi4 map, for example when you show Poland split in WW2 suwałki is part of the soviet occupation, like in hoi4, while it was German, simmilarly borders of zaolzie are the exact same as in hoi4 even though they are slightly innacurate. Map projecetion of hoi4 is also used which is kinda weird since most maps don't use it, and the borders have the same accuracy of hoi4 even in places where hoi gets the borders slightly off when other maps do not.

Poland once pushed bolsheiviks already in 1920, i think they would do it again in 1938, its worth mentioning that polish army was made specificly to fight agaisnt woods of USSR

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Cool Video I'm waiting for another one

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very nice video. Along the CO ŽE meme at end 🤣

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I have a feeling that this video will gain a ton of views

18:07 i think that even mars would be more hospitable...

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so, basically what happened in harry turtledove's book series "the war that came early"?

Rather Dead than red is the only thing I will say to this really fun alternative history

In the north of Moravia there are mountains and at the same time there is the best fortified part of the border with Germany, a lot of heavy fortifications and a lot of other fortifications (light fortifications) for the whole Czechoslovakia there were 263 heavy objects and 10014 light objects. Moreover, the czechoslovak mobilized army in 1938 had 1 250 000 men, and Germany had 1600 000, and as we know, for a attacking army, needs 3 times superiority. so the north would probably not have been completely won, it would have been more like the south of Moravia where there are lowlands, but there would have been deployed again a number of our tanks lt-35 which far exceeded the German Pzkpfw II.

18:16 MAN! The most based history youtuber for this reference!

Finally someone did this alt history!

As Czech historian not approved (if you want i can send some photos of Czechoslovak-Soviet military friendship 1934-38)

Great thumbnail.

Very good video, well done!

18:07 D@MN! I never knew you were *that* BASED!

The French would not be allowed to occupy all of the Rhineland as Britain would oppose it. They might occupy the Saarland again. 16:53 The USSR occupied the Baltics after demanding that the Baltics have Soviet garrisons within them, then helped to install Communist governments loyal to Moscow to be part of the USSR. The occupation of the Baltics and annexation has always been deemed illegal. 10:21 In geopolitics the first thing one does is look at their neighbor. The USSR did not have that big a stake in Spain as they did with Poland and Germany.

Can you do a scenario about what if the Little Entente defended Czechoslovakia

Czechia is awesome.

Great video but i have a feeling that you underrestimated the czechoslovak army, i personaly think that they would perform better.

That czech meme at the end is ansoluteli best

The comintern wasnt a military alliance it was a political one The ussr wasnt a "member" of the comintern, the bolshevik party was Many countries at this time had parties that were members of the comintern

I think we would deny it anyway, we were capitalist country and our politicians knew that help from USSR now = communism later. In case of at least little help in 1938 and finishing our fortifications in time, history would be completely different, Germany was not THAT strong in 1938 and our army was pretty modern and we have more than 1 milion men mobilised in 1938 and defenders have always advantage, if we fought and western countries admitted that we are victims, Hitler would be beaten already in 1938 or 1939. The biggest fail of our politics was to not getting Poland on our side, they had 20 years for that after WWI and they failed. If Poles believed to us that Hitler will be danger for everyone, we would totally smash him together in 1938, history is b**ch. You explained it actually pretty well, we were ordered to not fight by western countries and our allies France and UK, if we resisted in 1938, we could be seen as aggressors and those who are against peace, but Poles still believe that we just joined nazis, their version of history is always weird when I am confronted with that, they have no clue what actually happened in 1938 and 1939, they just learn Poland good, everyone else bad. Their point of view is actually pretty similar to how Russians see their history. BTW, I like Poland and Poles, don't take me wrong, but never speak about history with them, they really have no clue what actually happened in many historical events. Another thing that is needed to be mentioned is that Russians absolutely hated Czechs and Slovaks before WWII, because of our legions in Russia fighting against both - tsarists and reds and they also blame us from stealing their national gold. If Soviets helped us, it would not be actual help, but just occupation from other side.

I think Czechoslovakia in this timeline would've gained the entire Silesia and Lusatia and maybe some other disputed territories on the Slovakian side as war reparations

Czechoslovakia mentioned! :D very cool "what if" video!

"Red Europe would be as inhospitable to its citizens as the Red Planet of Mars." This quote made me unsubscribe from your channel. Sorry but this quote is just dumb.

That's complete and utter bullshit. Just few remarks: 1) The Seven-Day War, started by Czechoslovakia and ended only after strong pressure from the Allies (1918), was a major reason for the bad relations with Poland. In that 1938 the Poles only occupied the disputed territory previously occupied by the Czechoslovak army. 2) Czechoslovakia by no means had "good relations" with the Soviet Union. Prague was one of the places where a significant number of White Russian émigrés took refuge after the Bolsheviks coup. Czechoslovakia recognized the existence of the Soviet Union only in 1934 - at the insistence of France, which wanted to replace now dysfunctional Little Entente with a new system of bilateral treaties. Part of that project was the Czechoslovak-Soviet Treaty of 1935, which was explicitly tied to France and its actions. 3) After the Austrian Anschluss, Germany gained access to a virtually undefended part of the border - border fortifications were still being built there. When at this time the General Staff of the Czechoslovak Army organized war games on the subject, the result was unambiguous: "current situation is not solvable by military means"

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18:18 as a czech i can confirm this is infact ´´what ´´ momment

Good vid

Stalin had more “important matters” than helping Czechoslovakia 😅

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i like the thumbnail

Great video, but wouldn't france and Britain intervene to prevent the USSR from dismantling them?

18:15 COŽE?! Jolly good video

15:00 That communist Poland flag is cursed

No Molotov-Ribbentrop pact here...

Nice video

If Czechoslovakia try to defend itself and France and the UK hadn't betrayed us, Germany would have lost and World War II would not have ended with such losses as it did. In 1938 we had equal army to Germany, that’s why Hitler wanted to take just Sudets without war against us.

Nice video! I suggest another idea: what if Greater Romania survived and wasn't partitioned by the Axis

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Good alternative story more realistic!

Thanks for the video! My main complaint is the Poland-Soviet peace makes no sense…. The Soviets walk in, annex southern Poland and they are just like “👍🏼” ??? 😂 The Soviets and polish fought a massive war in the 20’s already, I don’t think they were gonna be okay with it.

Czech/Slovak here?

This is for sure what happened in the 40's of the Red world HOI4 mod.

I don't think soviets living in totalitarian state could make any difference to Czechoslovakians. What's the point to getting ,, allied " with totalitarian regime while you try to avoid same one?

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What if Ferdinand the I returned to the bulgarian throne instead of Simeon the III (if im not wrong Ferdinand the I was still alive at that time)

Look... Poland had around 120,000 Active duty soldiers in 1938 and Czechoslovakia had 1 250 000. Not to mention that every Czechoslovakia division was equipped with machine guns, and had one of the best-equipped infantry divisions in the world. Poland would have been wiped out in a couple days, if for whatever reason they were in war against Soviet and Czechoslovakia... There were forts on the borders with Germany, so Czechoslovakia had enough to visit Poland... The "conquered territories"(that you draw) were literary random blobs... Hitler himself mentioned in his book, that his plan was to attack Brno and Ostrava to cut Bohemia from Slovakia. Not to mention, that you didn't mention at all, that Hungary also seized territory. For the reasons above, Poland didn't want a conflict with Czechoslovakia. Certainly, it couldn't afford to get into conflict, considering they had a 6-year plan and enemies on both east and west. Realistically speaking, if Czechoslovakia declined, then Hungary and Germany would attack them. They would use airspace advantage and bombard Prague and Ostrava. Considering Soviet interference, they would probably be sent to handle Hungaria, considering they divisions were worse in both experience and equipment. Czechoslovakia would probably try to surprise Hungaria at some point and get them capitulated with dominant ltz. Still, then again, Germany would probably help them and such a plan would have failed. I don't think there is a single point that you made, that would have made sense... which is probably caused by you getting knowledge from hoi4, but it might be something else. Either way, you seem to over-sympathize the power of the Soviets. Their army was at best third behind Germany and Czechoslovakia (of active parties), but considering their lack of equipment even Poland would probably caused quite a dense in the early days. In the end, Czechoslovakia couldn't win, cause Germany could just flatten it with ground.

USSR : “Saved? No, More like under new management.”

it should be mentioned that the Czechoslovak army in 1938 was a modern and well-armed force with more than a million soldiers. In addition, the German army of 1938 was not as strong as it was at the time of the attack on Poland and France. Although they had a three-fold numerical superiority, even at that time they lacked modern technology and ammunition. it is quite probable that if France had not betrayed, they would not have dared to attack at all. With their treachery, the Allies donated to Germany armaments for 45 divisions. Big part of tanks attacking poland, france and later soviet were czechoslowakina tanks...

great scenario

The only reason for Czechoslovak-Soviet alliance was Poland. Prague knew that Poland would've invited itself to Cieszyn if not for the Soviets, and at the same time Moscow used Czechs as pawn in their own game against Poland. Otherwise Soviet Union and CSR had no real reasons to be allies whatsoever.

3:54 The Germans would not go through the north. Czechoslovakia was building forts at the German border. After the anschluss of Austria Czechoslovakia had new southern border with Germany, but didnt had time to fortify it. So Germans would most likely push through the south. I think Germans would still get past the forts on north just not so fast. (As a Czech I visited the Forts myself and the big forts on north are like little Maginot line)

You keep repeating a lot of points in this video. It felt as if I was skipping backwards every 30 seconds.

Great video today funny thumbnail lol

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We didn't sell the sudetenland, the French and Brits sold it, we were forces to give that area up under the threat of war.

Idea for vid what if poland revolted aginst germany in ww1

Pettition for rewriting history to get all the balkan people to subscribe! Lets get him to 50mil subs!

They tried, but poland decided "nah, I'd win"

Great video, you should have Oversimplified's amount of followers

Wow, amazing video! I love that you try and do realistic scenarios based on facts and then do ones that are a little outlandish, its really cool and Im glad I found your channel

Is it mean to say that he sounds like he's constantly gurgling water?

Can you do the scenario where Germany was divided from south catholic and north Protestant

I tried to do this in HOI4 by aiding a communist revolt in Czechoslovakia, but Germany took Bohemia and Moravia so my ally was reduced to Slovakia. I at least had Yugoslavia and Romania in the Comintern as well.

”If compliance exceeds resistance”, ”the soviet union will avoid annexing them to prevent world tension”, ”Invite to comintern”. When can we have some non hoi4 content

7:04 Bro said Volyn and added Ternopil instead...

This is just historical, except instead of Russia saving Czechoslovakia from Poland it’s from Germany