Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-90.176.49.84-20150827152124/@comment-26933773-20150908181641

I think it isn't so impossible. For one - don't forget that the fallout falls mostly in the wind direction, which is in this region mostly from west to east, somedays (mostly in winter) from norh-east to south-west. That meas that the fallout from Ostrava would fall to Poland in direction Těšín - Krakow, or alternatively into Moravia and maybe reach Brno. The fallout from Wroclaw would the same way hit most likely only a part of Lower Silesia, west Poland and the hit of Upper Silesia would not be that hard. The same thnig for the hits on the Vistula. And the fallout from Prague would be falling into the Sudetes (Giant Mountains, High Ash Mountains and the Eagle Mountains) or by a not so common wind direction to the east/south-east to south Moravia and than in a wave-move go to the Beskides and a offspring through the Moravian gate to Ostrava and Těšín and again to Krakow, but not north of the cca Opa river or even the Oder-hills. In fact, in a world in which East Germany isn't hardly hit by fallout from the west, the possibility of a low or at least not-so-hard hit Upper Silesia seems very possible. The second thing is the economical nature of the region - without Ostrava that was nuked and the triangle Ostrava-Bielsko Biala-Katowicze, which is the most likely fallout zone, there are still some points of coal-mining (Rybnik, Gliwitze ,...), but the far most of the land is agrarian. Futhermore - even when it isn't directly in Upper Silesia, there are wide forrests in the High Ash Mountains, that could be traded or claimed. And when the rebellion of the Silesians would begin before or hold until after the moment the polish and soviet troops dry out of fuel (which would came, sooner or later (more sooner)), they would loose their only real advantage and it could end in a not very nice situation with many deaths and the local authorities searching for a peace for lives-sake. An another thing - i've spoken about a idea of a "neo-patriotism" not dependent on the ethnical, but on the local principe - that means that a lot of the polish and czechoslowak and even of the russian soldiers would maybe join the rebellion (since it is still the start and the people still dont trust the communist, like they do in West Poland since the war with Prussia) for gaining peace, land and food. Since it is a region relatively far from a consolidating new government-center, it is possible that they would simply accept a little loss of influence, when it means that the rebelion stops. I admit - a fully free Upper Silesia isn't that realistic as I though at the moment the idea came to me (at least not until the Polish-Prussian war, in which a won pro-prussian rebelion would maybe cause a liberation and status-quo-until-we-lick-our-wounds-for-the-next-raid from the Polish), but I can see a possibility that a large rebellion during the first months or years after the Doomsday would maybe put the communist party into a position, in which they accept a partial autonomy of the cities with the motto: "it is better to let them do their semi-antonomous little comune-like city-federation project and let them support us with food, coal and wood than to burn a fertile and usefull and potentialy loyal region to ashes, because they are too small to realy be a threth for us and work for us with a better morale when they thing they are free..." So Upper Silesia would not be an direct antagonist of the Poles and could maybe be a experiment of the communist party, how a vassal-region could look like. And since the Silesians would the most things do for them selves, they would have a post-industrial-pre-capitalism started with redistributed land, free trade inbetween them selves and with surrounding comunities, a more to the local issues flexible semi-autonomous administration and would so maybe be a above average region in things of reconstuction, autarchy and stability and so a sample model region, which the Poles finaly use as a partial model for their almost-privatisation reforms after the Polish-Prussian war.

But nevermind, it was all just a idea that was not ment realy seriously.