Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-90.176.49.84-20150827152124

Hi there,

I don't know, if this is the right place for a suggestion for a new/different country in your timeline, but (And I am sorry for my english, im still a learner now, the most i know of english is from hearing):

I see a very real possibility, that Silesia (or parts of it - Upper Silesia) would get or at least try to get independent on Poland, especially since most of the important cities on the Vistula get nuked and in Silesia it was only Wroclaw (and Ostrava, when you count the silesian part of the city). The Silesians, the slavic and the germanic, were always very proud of their country and in opposition to the Poles and Czechs, and despite there are disputes between those two groups even in our timeline, i can imagine that in a situation of a declaining polish government and hunger- and anti-communism riots a new "all-silesian" feeling of unity would rise among the upper-Silesians, where around 150.000 Silesian Germans and 500.-800.000 native Silesians live even today in our timeline (not in Lower Silesia, because that is since the expulsion of the Germans inhabitet mostly by native Poles). These are mostly in the countryside, so they are in the stronger, better position to survive hunger years and fatal epidemics. And don't forget that a small, but perceivable number of Germans with silesian roots from Prussia or from who knows where could try to go back to the "lost homeland", when they hear rumors about a anti-communist maybe-free Silesia where Slaves and Germans live along in a form of an "legendary brotherhood in arm". And of course there are the Silesians formaly "occupied" by the Czechoslovaks in the region of Prajzska ("Prusia" - today missknown as Hlučínsko - the land around the city of Hultschin), whose would for sure rebel against the communist at the moment they get a chance to not be slaughtered by red brigades and czech nationalists and even get support from other Silesians from the north (Ratiborz, Gliwitze, ...).

If you are still interested in the thing, I will now draw a short picture of this Silesia and his after-Doomsday history: in some moment during the "dark days" of total chaos, mass-movements of refugees from Ostrava and cities, that became unhabitable due to crashes of the infrastructure (of water, food, ...) support, in some upper-silesian cities and villages a very strong anti-communist-movement occured and expeled the communists succesfully from most of the land (who would not go, was hanged on trees on the village/city borders as scarecrows). The communists had bigger problems at the time (nuclear holocaust and stuff...), so they could not manage to stamp the riots into the ground. Since the local communist authorities did fight back, conflicts between Germans, Silesians and "Mudlings" (people not native in Silesia, that came there after SWW) declined because of the common enemy, and, under the ideological-political influence of a new movement called in silesian "Ślůnsk Ślůnzokum!" (Silesia to the Silesians! silesian-german: Schläsing den Schläsingern!), they mostly accepted, that they are all natives, that they fight for each other and theyre old (or new-old) homeland and against the communist monsters and warmongers (since they believe, that the communists begunn the holocaust). So in a short time a lose confederacy between the villages and cities of Upper-Silesia was established, mostly agrar in its nature, that proved to defeat even later attemts of the polish communists to reclaim the land. The Poles then accepted the existance of this small confederacy and abandoned for almost twenty years all attempts to invade the land.

During that time, Silesia fought back many raider groups and armys that gone wild, even more joining together. A common parliament was established in Ratibor, called simply Rada or Dorada (Council), they established economical contacts with the people surviving in the neighbourhood (Silesia became one of the most important grain-deliverer for polish Lower-Siliesa down the Oder-river), some cities joined the confederacy (Těšín, Poruba, ...). They made contact with the Prussians and many Silesians (mostly of german ancestry) would not have anything against it, when the Prussians anex the land to their state (the whole silesian society is due to the search for an anti-(polish)communist ally very prussian-friendly). In 2006, when the Polish-Prussian war begunn, they joined the Prussians (the Poles and the Silesians are arguing, who attacked first). The Poles lost the war inter alia due the food-dependence of the Oder-region on Silesia and because they had a need to watch they back in Silesia (even when the Silesians were not realy a threat, since they were enough in number to effectively defend themselves, but never to start an invasion against the Poles). When the war ended, the Poles had to pay to the Silesians "protection money" in form of munition, drugs and other valuable comodities. Today Silesia is a stabile self-sufficient confederacy on its way to a wider centralisation, is an ally of Prussia, has a working school-system (every village bigger than 100 people has to have a teacher, teaching the basics of education in the language the village vote for - silesian, german, czech or polish), most of the younger generation is at some level bilingual (mothertung + german due to connection to prussia), a huge part (cca 18% of the youth) is trilingual (mothertung + german + silesian due to silesian nationalism)....

It is not in details, just sketched from my head. What do you say to it? And again - sorry for my english, it must feel like as a desecration of your language, i try to learn more....

contact to me: batman3265@seznam.cz 