Divide and concur — this radical plan from 1920, for "lasting peace" after WW1, proposed uniting central Europe into 24 wedge-shaped cantons which would radiate out from Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral: publicdomainreview.org/colle…

Nov 5, 2025 · 3:15 PM UTC

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i bet a French person thought of this
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Whoever randomly ended up being the majority ethnicity in each canton would immediately start to run the place like they were the only ones living in it - which urban elites do anyway. Europe would explode not into wars between states, but ethnic violence within nominal borders.
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@PdxInteractive how do I form this in Vic3???
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what a horrible idea lol
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I want to know how the annexation of Serbia and Albania to the Papal States would have gone down
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*radial plan
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historical reddit?
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almost certainly related:
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Even West Bank settlers don't claim quite so extensive a territory for the "Hebräisches Reich"!
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Maybe it would work
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The Antarctification of Europe.
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cc @TerribleMaps
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Brigham Young type plan
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Absolute retardation
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average YA dystopian world-building
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Choice artifact. The idea behind this was a balance of powers, and to put the ministers of power in these cantons out of a people which they could coherently master. We laugh but a radical idea was clearly necessary to close the theater of war.
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Danish hands had some involvement in this.
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Not much worse than what they did to the borders in the middle east...
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Each of the 24 wedges is to send one boy and one girl, called tributes, to fight to the death in a Vienna annual event?
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The people yearn for pizza Europe
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Para @EnricJuliana 😎💪
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This is brilliant, but re-establishing the Papal States and having Brittany governed from Munich is beyond even Fr Rolfe's glorious madness.
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Visiting 24 countries inside one building ftw!
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This is probably something out of a satirical magazine, no one was considering giving the whole Apennine peninsula to the Vatican and Sicily to Greece while also reverting Bulgaria to pre-WWI borders.
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They clearly knew how to shitpost back in the 1920s
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absolutely insane they should have done it for a laugh
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Four Corners?, eat your heart out.
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Європейці зуйово поділили Африку, і збиралися хуйово поділити Європу
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What the french did wrong that they are also put in this hell?
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Lasting peace my ass - the Belgrade and Sarajevo ones would not last a week lmao
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Fun fact: The occupational forces would have been picked to not be too culturally close to the inhabitants->hungarians in France etc.
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Always the Germans with the most autistic ideas
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