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Originally Posted by simonmark6
At present there are about 70,000 such farms in Austria and they are located in areas that wouldn't necessarily be ravaged by war.
So by deciding how many of these farms survived in your version of Austria, it is feasible to support populations that are larger than the available arable land would suggest: maybe not much larger but enough to give you more confidence in being able to support the factions you are imagining. The diet would be boring: skimmed milk and potatoes as standard with a small amount of mutton or beef with the occasional egg or foul or bit of pork. The sugar beet is a big advantage as it can be processed and provide a nutritious winter feed for the animals as well as providing some sugar in the diet (probably in the form of alcohol as you'd need to be smashed regularly to endure such a boring diet).
I hope this helps and isn't too boring to read.
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This is quite helpful and not the least bit boring to read. You've considerably alleviated my concerns about Austria's capacity to feed its surviving population outside of the prime agricultural region controlled by the Soviets. In fact, a countryside of scattered smallholders/yeoman farmers is in many ways ideal for what I've got in mind.