A Cyril and Methodius wank? Where they don't just end up develop a Greek-based alphabet when trying to missionize the Moravians, but actually convert them and the Poles and Wends/Sorbs/Lusatians and priesthoods help local Slavic Kings (or Avar or Magyar ones) hold off German /East Frankish Drang Nach Osten. [In OTL, Cyril and Methodius failed to enduringly convert any west Slavs or keep any tied to their home patriarchate of Constantinople. The alphabet they designed was only used by south and east Slavs]. Greece gets colonized by Italians or Frankish Crusaders.Of course with a pod further back, you can probably have a greek rite Poland, which gets you some way there.
A Cyril and Methodius wank? Where they don't just end up develop a Greek-based alphabet when trying to missionize the Moravians, but actually convert them and the Poles and Wends/Sorbs/Lusatians and priesthoods help local Slavic Kings (or Avar or Magyar ones) hold off German /East Frankish Drang Nach Osten. [In OTL, Cyril and Methodius failed to enduringly convert any west Slavs or keep any tied to their home patriarchate of Constantinople. The alphabet they designed was only used by south and east Slavs]. Greece gets colonized by Italians or Frankish Crusaders.
The Baltics are possible if the Russian Orthodox Church had been more successful in missions there. However, Bohemia, Hungary and Poland are too close to the Holy Roma Empire, IMO. Maybe Eastern Poland could be possible, though. If Poland had been divided along the Vistula, Poland east of the Vistula could have become Orthodox.How could the spread of Orthodox Christianity be akin to the OTL spread of the Eastern Bloc? What would the consequences be of Eastern Orthodoxy in the modern day Baltics, Poland, Czechia etc.?
Cathars,Hussites,Jews,Muslims etc.What's the equivalent of non-aligned and Other Communist here?
Tbh the main point of this was just to have Orthodoxy spread to the areas where the Eastern Bloc was, as for other countries they can remain Catholic or you can have your own headcanon if you really want a Cold War analogue but they weren't the point of this thread.What's the equivalent of non-aligned and Other Communist here?
It's a bit cute that this map has divided the UK and the USSR into its constituent parts, but hasn't divided Yugoslavia, so it's not like they're doing some "historical situation overlaid on present day map" (as if the UK is divided in the present day anyways). That's an alternate history right there...How could the spread of Orthodox Christianity be akin to the OTL spread of the Eastern Bloc? What would the consequences be of Eastern Orthodoxy in the modern day Baltics, Poland, Czechia etc.?
It's a bit cute that this map has divided the UK and the USSR into its constituent parts, but hasn't divided Yugoslavia, so it's not like they're doing some "historical situation overlaid on present day map" (as if the UK is divided in the present day anyways). That's an alternate history right there...
English SFSRIt's a bit cute that this map has divided the UK and the USSR into its constituent parts, but hasn't divided Yugoslavia, so it's not like they're doing some "historical situation overlaid on present day map" (as if the UK is divided in the present day anyways). That's an alternate history right there...