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1Blomma — Balkan Socialist Federation, 1964
Published: 2016-01-21 21:02:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 54118; Favourites: 321; Downloads: 580
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The basic premise is a more successful Bled Agreement.The Bled Agreement is signed in 1947, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia join to create the Balkan Federation in late 1948 (Dimitrov sided with Tito in the Tito-Stalin split). Albania joins the federation in 1949. After supporting the communists in the Greek Civil War for several years, the Federation actively engages in the conflict on the communist side. Together with the NLF and the Greek Communists they manage to win the war and join both Greece and Macedonia to the Federation.
The Federation is communist but more West friendly than the Soviet faction (basically just a large Yugoslavia), so the West sees this state as a counterweight to the Soviet Union and their satellites.
The current year is 1964 and there has just been an administrative reform to streamline the internal divisions of each Republic. Modelled on the French départements, special care was put into avoiding any regional nationalism when drawing the borders of each district. To solve the problem of where to place the capital for the Federation, a completely new city named Balkania (other names suggested were Balkanograd and Balkanopel, Balkania was chosen as it was neither Greek nor Slavic) was built in the Nišava valley on the Serbian side of the border with Bulgaria. Tito is serving as President of the Federation, and has been since the office's inception.
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Hey Blomma, if you don't mind me asking, what fonts did you use for the map?
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KOSOVO IS SERBIA! Le Kosovo est Serbie! KOSOVO JE SRBIJA! Косово е Сърбия! Kosovo ist Serbien! Το Κοσσυφοπέδιο είναι η Σερβία! Kosovo is Servië! Kosowo to Serbia! O Kosovo é Sérvia! KOSOVO ESTE SERBIA! Kosovo es Serbia! Kosovo är Serbien! КОСОВО ЭТО СЕРБИЯ! Kosovo je Srbsko! Косово є Сербія!
KOSOVO IS THE HEART OF SERBIA !!!
KOSOVO ËSHTË ZEMRA E SËRBISE !!!
КОСОВО ЈЕ СРЦЕ СРБИЈЕ !!!
KOSOVO & METOHIA IS FOREVER SERBIA !!!
AМИН / AMEN
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Kosovo is a place where some unique individuals humans live
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Serbia started in wgat is now Kosovo before the KEBABS moved in thus... REMOVE KEBAB
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No, Kosovo is Kosovo.
Not serbian, not albanian. Giving it, whole, to either would cause too much trouble.
How about a partition? Albania gets most of the kosovar land while Serbia gets the serb-majority enclaves. All through plebiscite, of course.
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Kosovo is rightful Albanian clay.
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Calm your autism lad.
Is Kosovo is Serbia Krajina should be bosnian
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Awesome map with exquisite cold-war style. A question: I noticed that the Greek provinces (the only ones I am familiar with since I am Greek) are named after the rivers in them. Is this naming theme present in all Balkan states and, if yes, what is the reasoning behind it? Is it a Communist method to try to deal with nationalism-separatism?
In any case, this is my favourite map here on DeviantArt (even though terrifying). Great job!
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Well, it's not a Communist method, it's a local Yugoslav method. The Banovinas of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia were named this way, until the Croats forced the creation of the Banovina of Croatia in 1939.
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Yes, as I wrote in the description the subdivisions are based on the French départments and most are named after geographical features to reduce any kind of internal nationalism.
And thank you!
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Добрый вечер! Я помню, ты была карта Балкан под нацистами. Она была похожа на карту Австро-Венгерской империи. Теперь я не могу найти его
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Sorry but that depiction never existed. Only in some Communists' dreams. The name Macedonia for all that region was a Communist dream as well. Never the area above lake Ohrid was named Macedonia before. From the Romans to WWII.
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SHUT THE FUCK UP YOU LITTLE SKANK ASS WHORE!!! MACEDONIA IS MACEDONIA YOU STUPID FUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!!!
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Marvellous map!!!
Only a point: I had located Balkania over river Timok, in a federal district between Serbia and Bulgaria. Distances to Belgrade and to Sofia would be similar.
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I don't think the Greeks would ever agree to this.
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Neither would Bulgarians
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Not a chance. They were Greeks first, commies second.
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A varyingly unpopular communist Greek government with a globalist streak might.
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well the real greek communist rebels actualy wanter de facto parts of grreece to be ceded to a macedonian state (if it ever existed) they thought that ceeping them whould be an imperialist move.
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Awesome! That *Macedonia reminds me of a very similar idea that I had for a (as of yet unpublished) TL I'd had a couple years ago.
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Very cool but why does FYROM have Northern Greece?
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Most of that area is what is Greek Macedonia, which where the naming dispute comes from and why we call Macedonia FYROM. On that note, it's not really the 'Former Yugoslavian Republic' on this map, so not quite correct to call it that '^^.
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I know it's just cringey for me seeing it.
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Two questions come to mind:
1. With such a state created in the Balkans, would the Warsaw Pact survive (if at all created?) Stalin's control over Eastern Europe would not be what it was in 1945.
2. Would the Federation survive Tito's death? Would there be a Third Balkan War in the early 1990s?
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Well, Bulgaria benefited a lot from alliance with the USSR(as well as being rather cool toward the Serbs at the time). The territory lacks a lot of materials required for industrial production. I think their(our) entry to such a federation is the most unlikely part. Kosovo is the only area I know of that has any large presence of industrial resources(metal, coal). If Turkey(or someone) had opted to support them economically, then it could be possible. But otherwise there's very little to economically incentivize entering a greater Balkan Federation over siding with the USSR. If someone else saw the opportunity and offered a secondary agreement to help with this situation, then it would certainly usurp the Warsaw Pact.
I think it would have survived Tito's death. I feel like the fact that Bulgaria/Macedonia/Greece stayed out of those later hostilities could leave the possibility that they'd act as an arbiter to quell the hostilities or enforce peace. Especially if Bulgaria saw an opportunity to assert greater authority within the Federation and become the preeminent state and if the prior condition of some kind of economic support were present, then Bulgaria would have probably put their foot down in some way. Nationalist/separatist sentiments generally only pop up with economic hardship. If the economic support by some other party were there, relations probably wouldn't have deteriorated the way they did in the first place. However, if that got pulled away for some reason....then you'd definitely have another Balkan War and it would be much uglier with many more belligerents. But I suspect other large states would have had a more vested interest in maintaining such a large state that had counteracted the influence of the USSR. Or they'd be seen as no longer necessary and allowed to just collapse the same way.
Hard to say, it depends on a lot of assumptions about how things went during the Cold War.
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It looks really awesome! Keep up that fenomenal work
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This is exquisitely beautiful!
What is the sans serif font?
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Thank you, the font is called Semplicitá.
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The new age of Blommassaince has fully begun! Seriously, great map and great idea. How do the Serbs and Bulgarians feel about each other and sharing power within the federation?
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Not as bad as the Greeks feel after having to give up Macedonia
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Love the colours and style you chose and I really envy your patience 
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Awesome map, I even love the frame and all the info in it^^
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Interesting!
Given how much the region was in flux after WWII it could have easily come true!
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Poor Greece... And that little bit of territory left up north make it so weird.
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