Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
Borachio said:
We can fix that.
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Warpus,
Domen said:warpus said:
And so is the entire area around the city of Wilno (the city itself was more affected by post-war deportations).
In the map below "A" is area with Polish majority today ("B" and "C" - areas with Polish majority in the past):
After the end of WW2, 197,156 ethnic Poles were deported from Soviet Lithuania in period 1944-1948 and 46,552 more in period 1955-1958. Among those deported in 1944-1948, a very high proportion - 44.1% - were urban dwellers, 55.9% were rural dwellers and 107,613 were either from Wilno City or Wilno County. According to 1959 census in Lithuania, there were still 230,107 ethnic Poles in that country, including 70.2% (161,523) rural dwellers and 29.8% urban dwellers. So as you can see, Wilno ceased to be a majority-Polish city because deportations affected urban Poles more than they did affect rural Poles.
In 1959, after the end of deportations, districts with highest % of ethnic Poles in Lithuania were (according to official census data):
Vilnius County – 64,467 Poles (80,3%) and 5,546 Lithuanians (6,9%)
Vilnius City – 47,226 Poles (20,0%) and 79,363 Lithuanians (33,6%)
Salcininkai – 37,182 Poles (85,2%) and 2,918 Lithuanians (6,7%)
Trakai (+ Elektrenai) – 24,332 Poles (43,4%) and 5,103 Lithuanians (9,1%)
Svencionys – 18,158 Poles (45,7%) and 5,901 Lithuanians (14,9%)
In Vilnius City Poles were 20%, but in districts around they were still absolute (Vilnius, Salicininkai) or relative (Trakai+Elektrenai, Svencionys) majority.
Today ethnic Lithuanians are slightly over 50% in the city of Vilnius (in 1959 they were still just 1/3 of inhabitants).
Percent of Poles in the city of Vilnius IIRC either stayed at around 20%, or even increased to 25% since 1959 (due to rural-urban migrations).
warpus said:
Hungarians are still majority in two districts, IIRC. Percent of Hungarians is constantly decreasing according to official Romanian censuses.
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As for the deportation of Poles from Lithuania after WW2, and bringing in new people to settle houses abandoned by deported Poles:
Most of deported Poles were replaced by ethnic Russians (so that today Lithuanians can complain about two ethnic minorities, instead of one). That was because Soviet Lithuania simply had not enough ethnic Lithuanians to replace population lost in deportations. They had to bring in Russians, etc.
And precisely for that reason many Poles in rural areas were not deported. Not enough people to replace such a demographic loss.
So we can still ejoy Polish language and culture in the Wileńszczyzna (Wilno Region) today.
And it can't be classified as a map. It's definitely a cat not a map.
