Ethnic tension in Lithuania

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Poles are autochtones in Vilnius area, Irish in Massachusetts are not.
Poles are a majority in Vilnius area, Irish in Massachussetts are not.
Vilnius area was part of Poland, Massachussets was not part of Ireland.
Poles did a great job in wiping out the Lithuanian culture and taking Lithuanian territories after it formed that union.
 
Poles did a great job in wiping out the Lithuanian culture and taking Lithuanian territories after it formed that union.


People in the Vilnius area and elsewhere adopted Polish culture peacefully and gradually, over the course of several centuries, while, up to the Constitution of the Third of May, preserving the independance from Poland.
 
Do not worry, they know what they're doing:
You see ;)


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Poles did a great job in wiping out the Lithuanian culture and taking Lithuanian territories after it formed that union.

By the time of union, the Baltic-speaking population of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was already marginalized and backwater to the East Slavic, Rus' speakers.

It makes more sense to treat the GDL as a Belarusian state than a Lithuanian state.
 
Before WW1 Vilnius / Wilno was as much Lithuanian as Wrocław / Breslau was Polish.

Number of Lithuanian-speakers in Vilnius / Wilno:

1897 census - 2,0% (3,131 Lithuanian-speakers out of 154,532 population)

Number of Polish-speakers in Wrocław / Breslau:

1900 census - 2,0% (8,466 Polish-speakers out of 422,709 population)

Yet Lithuania wanted Vilnius after 1918. Poland didn't want Wrocław at that time.
 
HannibalBarka said:
bla bla bla Polish speaking people in Lithuania are Lithuanian bla bla bla

When they asked famous Duke of Wellington whether he was Irish, not English - because he was born in Ireland - he replied:

"Just because one is born in a barn does not make one a horse."

Mickiewicz and Żeligowski said similar things about their Polish ethnicity, despite them being born in Russian(Muscovite)-controlled Lithuania:

An excerpt from "Forefathers' Eve" Part III, by Adam Mickiewicz:

It is about Poles in Lithuania (Litva), which at that time was controlled by Moscow (Russia) - so it should be inhabited by Muscovites (Russians):

http://literat.ug.edu.pl/dziadypo/0008.htm

"KAMERJUNKIER:

From Litva and you speak Polish? I don't understand at all. -
I have thought, that in Litva all people are Muscovites.
About Litva, upon my word! I know less than about China"


And general Lucjan Żeligowski said:

"(...) I'm not a random newcomer to Lithuania, my family has a long tradition here and has served in defence of this land. My dream has been to live among my fellow countrymen from the Land of Wilno. I have not been dividing them neither for Poles, nor for Ruthenians, nor for Samogitians. While being a Litvin, I've never stopped to be a Pole. (...)"

Claiming that Poles from Litva or from Russian-controlled Litva = Lithuanians, is like claiming that Paul von Hindenburg or Heinz Guderian = Poles.

Even Lithuanian historian - Zenonas Norkus - has admitted, that "Polish-speaking Lithuanians" (as he calls Poles in Litva) were part of the "Polish macronation". Mickiewicz and other Poles in Litva - both today and in history - are as Lithuanian as Paul von Hindenburg or Heinz Guderian are Polish.
 
ywhtptgtfo said:
<< Talk about annexation of Wilno (Vilnius) by Poland after WW1 >>

Poland took Wilno from Russia after WW1, but Lithuania took W&#322;adys&#322;awów (Vladislavovas), Kalwaria (Kalvarija), Wy&#322;kowyszki (Vilkavi&#353;kis), Mariampol (Marijampol&#279;) and Kowno (Kaunas) from Poland. Between 1807 - 1918 all those cities belonged to Poland (the Duchy of Warsaw / Congress Kingdom of Poland).

Kowno was a city split in half by border river Neman - 1/2 belonged to the Duchy of Warsaw / Congress Poland and 1/2 to the Russian Empire.
 
taillesskangaru said:
kramerfan86 said:
so someone put a gun to Poland's head and made them annex a bunch of territory that, surprise!, had a bunch of Germans in it?

That's... not too far from the truth, actually.

That's very far from the truth.

The idea that Stalin gave Poland western territories which Poland didn't want is a misconception.

Already on 29.07.1940 underground newspaper "Szaniec" ("Rampart") in occupied Poland published an article "Oczy na zachód" ("Eyes to the west"), in which they wrote that after the war Poland must have a new border along the Oder - Lusatian Neisse line (as it currently has).

In October 1940 BPP (Bureau of Political Tasks) of the Polish Underground State also proposed that the new border should be along the Oder-Neisse.

One of members of Polish radical nationalist camp - Ludwik Neymann (how ironic is his surname in this case!), pseudonym "Modrzew", proposed even more - he wanted Poland after the end of WW2 to annex areas up to the regions of Stralsund, Bautzen, Rostock and Kiel.

Neymann believed that about 80% of Eastern Germans were descendants of Germanized Slavs and that they could be easily Re-Polonized.

So, the initiative was from Polish side - Stalin only accepted Polish propositions.
 
That's actually very interesting, if true.

We might as well have taken those western territories though, if so many of our eastern ones were being taken from us. It seems that those would have been grabbed by the Soviets no matter what, but maybe I'm wrong about that..
 
Comparison of the situation of Polish minority in Lithuania and Lithuanian minority in Poland:

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Source - "The contemporary situation of Polish minority in Lithuania and Lithuanian minority in Poland from the institutional perspective":

http://www.geographiapolonica.pl/article/item/9408.html

http://rcin.org.pl/igipz/Content/42381/WA51_60143_r2014-t87-no1_G-Polonica-Barwinski.pdf

Of course the situation of Polish minority in Lithuania is still much better than the situation of Polish minority in Belarus and in Ukraine.

Recently a large number of Polish minority members from the war-ravaged region of Donbass have been evacuated to Poland.
 

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Concerning the origin of the current Polish-Lithuanian and Polish-Belarusian border - check this thread:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=13657182

Number of Poles deported by railway from Western Belarus after WW2:

1945 &#8211; 135,654
1946 &#8211; 136,419
1947 &#8211; 2,090
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1955 &#8211; 10,067
1956 &#8211; 30,639
1957 &#8211; 46,634
1958 &#8211; 13,290

Number of Poles deported by railway from Lithuania after WW2:

1945 &#8211; 73,042
1946 &#8211; 123,443
1947 &#8211; 671
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1955 &#8211; 5,849
1956 &#8211; 17,825
1957 &#8211; 16,044
1958 &#8211; 6,834

In total 274,163 from Western Belarus (areas which on 01.09.1939 belonged to Poland) and 197,156 from Lithuania in first repatriation (1944-1948) as well as 100,630 from Western Belarus and 46,552 from Lithuania in second repatriation (1955-1959).

However, as Polish geographer and historian - Piotr Eberhardt - noticed in article about ethnic Poles from Belarus:

"According to official data 274,2 thousand Poles came from Western Belarus to Poland [by railway]. But in fact a lot more came. Official data does not include all categories of Polish people who left former eastern Polish territories. During the German occupation many Poles from those Eastern territories were transported to Germany [as compulsory labour workers, prisoners of POW camps, concentration camp inmates, etc.]. They stayed in the West and after WW2 returned directly to Poland within its new borders, not to their former homes. Official data also did not include flights and groups of refugees, people recruited to the Polish Army [including Polish People's Army], as well as those who in 1942 left the Soviet Union with the Army of gen. Anders. After counting all these categories of people we can conclude, that the broadly understood first repatriation from Western Belarus affected over 400 thousand people of Polish nationality, who as the result abandoned forever the territory of Belarus. (&#8230;) In further years (1948-1959) remaining Polish population in Belarus experienced considerable natural growth. It was, however, entirely reduced by another repatriation conducted in years 1955-1959, which included around 250,000 [245,501] people permanently leaving the Soviet Union."

What can be added is that official data for first repatriation given above included deportations by railway, in addition to them also deportations by trucks took place &#8211; they transported in total 22,815 Poles from the Soviet Union to Poland, but no breakdown is given so we don't know how many of them were from Western Belarus and from Lithuania.

Numbers of Poles deported by railway from Eastern Belarus (pre-1939 Soviet Belarus) are also not included in those figures given above &#8211; they are included among Poles deported from &#8222;other parts of the Soviet Union&#8221;, who amounted to 266,833 in period 1944-1949 and 22,260 more in period 1955-1959 (these numbers also include Poles deported from pre-1939 Soviet Ukraine &#8211; while numbers of Poles deported from Western Ukraine were 787,674 in 1944-1948 and 76,059 more in 1955-1959).

The real number of Poles who left Western Belarus in 1944-1959 was therefore over 500,000 (including over 400,000 in 1944-1947) and the number of those who left Lithuania over 250,000 up to 300,000 (including over 200,000 up to 250,000 in 1944-1947).

We don't know how many left or were deported from Eastern Belarus &#8211; but according to pre-WW2 official Soviet census of 1926 Polish minority in Soviet Belarus numbered around 100 thousand people at that time (97,500). Add to this natural increase until WW2, and the number was much higher in the 1930s. Another question is how many of them survived Soviet pre-war persecutions (see the Polish Operation of the NKVD in 1937 - 1938) and then WW2. Anyway - according to 1959 census Eastern Belarus had a smaller number of Poles (see below).

Official data for number of Poles deported by railway and trucks &#8211; as already explained above - is not the full picture because apart from repatriation there were other ways how Poles from Kresy migrated to Poland after WW2. Already until 01.01.1947 almost 560,000 people who came through ways other than repatriation (including refugees, demobilized soldiers, those who before WW2 lived east of the Curzon Line but who after WW2 came from camps & forced labour in Germany and settled west of the CL, etc.). In total on 1 January 1947 there were 2,05 million &#8222;Soviet Poles&#8221; in new borders of Poland. And in December 1950 - 2,2 million &#8222;Soviet Poles&#8221;.

On 1 January 1947 out of those 2,05 million &#8222;Soviet Poles&#8221; &#8211; 1,7 million lived in former German territories (of them around 1,24 million deported by railway and trucks, 190 thousand who came from the west &#8211; for example from forced labour in Germany, POW camps, etc. - 200 thousand who were refugees from the Volhynian-Galician Genocide and similar events and around 70 thousand demobilized soldiers, mostly from the Polish People's Army) and 0,35 million in other parts of Poland (here we can estimate that no more than 0,25 million were officially deported and the rest of them were forced labourers returning from Germany, refugees, POWs, etc.).

In December 1950 out of 2,2 million &#8222;Soviet Poles&#8221; around 1,6 million lived in former German territories (Western Poland) and around 0,6 million in other parts of new Communist Poland (Central Poland). So proportion of those living in Central Poland increased).

Despite all those events &#8211; wartime deaths and post-war deportations, flights, emigration, evacuations, etc. of hundreds of thousands of Poles from former Polish territories, after WW2 belonging to the Soviet Union &#8211; the official Soviet census of 1959 still counted 1,380,282 Poles in the Soviet Union, with 768,988 of them (so over half of the total number) in Belarusian SSR and Lithuanian SSR.

Even if we go by this official Soviet 1959 census data, which &#8211; most probably &#8211; underestimated the number of remaining Polish minority in the Soviet Union, the following area had absolute Polish majority, and was still ethnically Polish in 1959, even though less so than before WW2:

Areas still inhabited by ethnic Polish majority as of 1959, after removal of most of ethnic Polish population

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According to official Soviet Union's 1959 census there were still 538,881 Poles in Belarus, of whom 454,348 (84,3%) were rural population &#8211; as flights and deportations of 1944-1959 as well as previous wartime mortality affected urban Poles more than rural Poles.

Number of Poles in Belarus by Oblast according to 1959 census:

In provinces located entirely in what used to be Polish part of Belarus before WW2:

Grodno Oblast &#8211; 332,300
Brest Oblast &#8211; 42,100

In provinces located mostly in former Polish territory, but partially in Soviet Belarus:

Vitebsk Oblast &#8211; 83,800
Minsk Oblast &#8211; 64,400

And in provinces located entirely in what was Soviet Belarus before WW2:

Gomel Oblast &#8211; 7,200
City Minsk &#8211; 5,600
Mogilev Oblast &#8211; 3,500

Districts of North-Western Belarus with highest percentages (between 90% and 30%) of Poles according to 1959 census (and there were many more districts in 1959 with between 15% and 30% Poles, but I won't list them here. Many of them had over 50% Poles in 1938):

Radun - 25,842 Poles (87,4%) and 1,705 Belarusians
Voranava &#8211; 16,117 Poles (86,8%) and 1,342 Belarusians
Ivyanets &#8211; 27,529 Poles (75,6%) and 7,830 Belarusians
Svir &#8211; 20,898 Poles (72,0%) and 6,320 Belarusians
Astravyets &#8211; 17,966 Poles (65,5%) and 6,831 Belarusians
Lida &#8211; 40,117 Poles (55,1%) and 22,048 Belarusians
Vidzy &#8211; 9,468 Poles (51,2%) and 5,176 Belarusians
Shchuchyn &#8211; 19,032 Poles (50,4%) and 14,781 Belarusians
Vasilishki &#8211; 16,496 Poles (49,9%) and 15,648 Belarusians
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Pastavy &#8211; 18,912 Poles (43,3%) and 17,173 Belarusians
Braslaw &#8211; 14,873 Poles (40,6%) and 14,482 Belarusians
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Dunilovichi &#8211; 13,857 Poles (47,0%) and 14,024 Belarusians
Ivye &#8211; 12,877 Poles (41,5%) and 16,552 Belarusians
Grodno &#8211; 50,159 Poles (38,1%) and 51,570 Belarusians
Valozhyn &#8211; 14,063 Poles (37,8%) and 21,652 Belarusians
Vawkavysk &#8211; 21,924 Poles (35,4%) and 32,140 Belarusians
Zelva &#8211; 11,175 Poles (29,1%) and 26,001 Belarusians


In total according to 1959 census these 17 districts had 713,988 inhabitants, including 351,305 Poles, 275,275 Belarusians, 66,537 Russians and 20,871 people of other nationalities (including the Romani people and others brought in to replace expelled Poles).

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According to official Soviet Union's 1959 census there were still 230,107 Poles in Lithuania of whom 161,523 (70,2%) were rural population - as flights and deportations of 1944-1959 as well as previous wartime mortality affected urban Poles more than rural Poles.

Districts with highest percentages of Poles according to 1959 census:

City Vilnius &#8211; 47,226 Poles (20,0%) and 79,363 Lithuanians (33,6%)
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Vilnius &#8211; 64,467 Poles (80,3%) and 5,546 Lithuanians (6,9%)
Salcininkai &#8211; 37,182 Poles (85,2%) and 2,918 Lithuanians (6,7%)
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Trakai (+ Elektrenai) &#8211; 24,332 Poles (43,4%) and 5,103 Lithuanians (9,1%)
Svencionys &#8211; 18,158 Poles (45,7%) and 5,901 Lithuanians (14,9%)


In total according to 1959 census these 6 districts had over 455,000 inhabitants, including 191,365 Poles, 98,831 Lithuanians and about 165,000 other people (mostly Russian immigrants, as well as for example the Romani and others brought in to replace expelled Poles).

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In total those 23 districts of Western Belarus and Lithuania according to 1959 census had ca. 1,170,000 inhabitants including - according to official data - ca. 543,000 Poles (or over 70% of all ethnic Poles living in these two Soviet republics at that time), despite previous ethnic cleansing.

All of Belarus and Lithuania had 768,988 ethnic Poles according to official 1959 data - including 615,871 rural people (80,1% of the total) and 153,117 urban people (19,9% of the total) - even though before WW2 ethnic Poles in Belarus and Lithuania were more urbanized than all other ethnic groups living in these regions, with the only exception of Jews. That was because post-war deportations and wartime losses affected ethnic Poles in cities (such as for example Vilnius and Grodno) more heavily than ethnic Poles in the countryside. Due to that expulsion of Poles from cities (and from villages as well, only to a lesser extent) and replacement by other ethnic groups, in 1959 Poles were actually the least urbanized (only 19,9%) of all ethnic groups in Belarus and Lithuania (the opposite of the 1938 situation, when Poles were the 2nd most urbanized group after Jews).

Soviet authorities left a larger % of rural Poles, hoping that Polish peasants were easier to De-Polonize (Lithuanize/Russify/Belarusify).

On the other hand a larger % of urban Poles - with a higher level of national consciousness (sense of Polishness) - got deported.

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Despite this, modern studies carried out recently by the Grodno University and by the Minsk University show that vast majority of Roman Catholics in Belarus identify as Poles and an even larger percent declare Polish ancestry (i.e. some no longer identify as fully Poles, but still declare Polish ancestry).

For research carried out by Grodno University, which shows that 83,3% of Roman Catholics in the Grodno Oblast identify as fully Poles (the rest of Roman Catholics there identify as both Poles and Belarusians or just Belarusians) and even more - because 95% - declare Polish ancestry (including also mixed Polish-Belarusian ancestry) check this source:

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In another survey from 2003, as many as 82% of Catholics in Belarus declared that they have Polish ancestry, including 66% with fully Polish ancestry and 16% from mixed families. In the westernmost Diocese of Grodno 95% of Catholics declared Polish ancestry, while in the easternmost Archdiocese of Minsk-Mogilev still as many as 73%.

This 2003 survey found out that 80% of Catholics in the Diocese of Grodno identify as fully Poles - so slightly less than according to that 2000 research by the University of Grodno (which showed 83,3%). In other dioceses percentages of Roman Catholics who identify as fully Polish are 70% in the Diocese of Pinsk, 57% in the Diocese of Vitebsk and just 35% in the Archdiocese of Minsk-Mogilev (compared to 73% who declared Polish ancestry in the Archdiocese of Minsk-Mogilev).

In the nationwide scale (entire Belarus on average), 63% of Roman Catholics identify as fully Poles (2003 data), 66% declare fully Polish ancestry, and 16% declare mixed Polish-Belarusian or Polish-other ancestry (in total 82% declare Polish ancestry). Regional breakdowns above.

There are also a lot of Non-Catholic (Atheist, Orthodox, etc.) Poles in Belarus, because in some regions % of Poles is higher than % of Catholics.

Belarusians are slowly becoming Russians.

In 1959 census only 6,8% of people who declared Belarusian ethnicity declared that Russian is their native language.

By comparison, in 1999 census only 41,3% of people who declare Belarusian ethnicity declared that they speak Belarusian in daily life (among urban population who declare Belarusian ethnicity, only 23% spoke Belarusian in daily life in 1999).

Poles in Belarus are also increasingly adopting Belarusian and Russian languages. Currently percent of ethnic Poles who speak Belarusian language in their daily life is higher than percent of ethnic Belarusians who speak Belarusian in daily life.

According to official data of 1999 census there were 1,141,700 ethnic Russians in Belarus, of whom 1,092,700 (95,7%) spoke Russian and 48,500 (4,2%) spoke Belarusian in daily life. By comparison, out of 8,159,100 ethnic Belarusians only 3,373,300 (41,3%) spoke Belarusian and 4,783,000 (58,6%) spoke Russian in daily life. So instead of being a Pole-hater Gudas should rather start trying to prevent extinction of Belarusian culture.

Nowadays in Belarus ethnic Poles are culturally more Belarusian than Belarusians themselves. Belarus is turning into Russia:

Why does Lukashenko speak Belarusian on Independence Day?

In the future perhaps Eastern Belarus will be annexed by Russia, just like Crimea and Donetsk-Lugansk recently. Then Western Belarus - inhabited largely by people who declare Polish ancestry and mostly still identify as Polish - will maybe want to join Poland again, by a democratic decision of its inhabitants.

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And below some data from 2003 "Ethnic Groups and Population Changes in Twentieth-Century Central-Eastern Europe" by Piotr Eberhardt. After WW2 expelled Poles were replaced mostly by Russian (as well as Ukrainian/Belarusian/Lithuanian, but to a lesser extent) immigrants:

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There is a typo in the number of Russians in 1959 Ukraine. It should read 7,091,300 - check:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russians_in_Ukraine

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Below some data illustrating the effects of post-war deportations on ethnic Polish population in the Grodno-Vilna areas of Belarus:

This data is from an article written (in Polish) by a Belarusian from Grodno - Siarhiej Tok&#263;:

http://kamunikat.fontel.net/pdf/bzh/22/03.pdf

Examples from three raions (counties) - Wasiliszki, Wo&#322;kowysk and Skidel. If we count these three counties altogether then their total population in 1945-1947 (Skidel in 1947, the other two counties in 1945) was - according to Belarusian data - 124.451 including 60.615 Poles, 61.295 Belarusians, 1.407 Russians and 1.134 others. By 1959 their population was 136.382 including 43.356 Poles, 80.307 Belarusians, 9.637 Russians and 3.082 others.

So the percentage of Russians among the population increased from 1.13% in 1945-1947 to 7.07% in 1959.

In 1945 Poles were an absolute majority in Wasiliszki and Wo&#322;kowysk. By 1959 they were still a relative majority (49.2%) only in Wasiliszki:

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Oh yeah, he does that.

Perhaps he's forgetting (or never learned) that there are people who aren't obsessed about nationalities and ethnic origins.

Pretty much. Even Al_da_great didn't mention race this much.

If the Polish in Lithuania are anything like the ones in cfc is it any wonder they are being treat badly?

I'm glad they got Civ V in the game, but they have made it quite impossible to escape them even outside it. :(

And many Germans have ancestors who lived in what is present-day Poland. I guess the Germans need to re-invade Poland, to apply your way of thinking.

This whole nationalism-driven reminiscing over who did what to whom decades and centuries ago is UTTERLY POINTLESS. It's a WASTE OF TIME that is moreover completely DIVISIVE and creates stupid feelings in people which only make life worse. If you want to indulge in all that, fine, but don't do it in public. I can't even quantify how much better off Europe would be if all people stirring such sentiments just disappeared.

Amen brother. :goodjob:

And that advise could be fairly applied to the whole world, not just Europe.
 
Winner said:
And many Germans have ancestors who lived in what is present-day Poland. I guess the Germans need to re-invade Poland, to apply your way of thinking.

This whole nationalism-driven reminiscing over who did what to whom decades and centuries ago is UTTERLY POINTLESS.

Writes Winner who is Czech (hello Sudetenland!).

One of key differences is that Germans no longer live as a majority national group in any of former German territories which now belong to Poland, while Poles still do live as a majority national group in a large part of former Polish territory which now belongs to Lithuania (and Belarus too - since historical Wile&#324;szczyzna region is now partitioned between these two countries).

Therefore talking about Poles in Lithuania and Belarus is not "nationalism-driven reminiscing over who did what to whom", but rather "realism-driven showing of who does what to whom currently". It is not a problem of the past, but a problem of the present day.

Particularly troubling about the fate of the Polish minority in Belarus nowadays, is the fact that Belarus is 1) an undemocratic, authoritarian dictatorship which does not respect human rights and 2) not a member of the European Union and of the Schengen Zone, which artificially divides Polish people by borders. Lithuania is part of the EU and of Schengen, therefore this problem does not apply to Poles in Lithuania, but there we experience other problems - such as discrimination of the Polish minority, especially of their native language.

So no - it is not utterly pointless, and Poland has to constantly remind Lithuania and Belarus that Polish rights must be respected.

Poland is a democratic country in which national minority rights are respected. This cannot be said about Lithuania and Belarus.

Winner said:
I can't even quantify how much better off Europe would be if all people stirring such sentiments just disappeared.

People "strirring such sentiments" are people who are members of the Lithuanian and Belarusian governments and local authorities.

They are discriminating the Polish national minority, as well as their culture and language, in their respective countries.

I've posted the comparison of rights of Polish minority in Lithuania and of Lithuanian minority in Poland here: in post #131

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Previously I wrote:

Number of Poles deported by railway from Lithuania after WW2:

In total 274,163 from Western Belarus (areas which on 01.09.1939 belonged to Poland) and 197,156 from Lithuania in first repatriation (1944-1948) as well as 100,630 from Western Belarus and 46,552 from Lithuania in second repatriation (1955-1959).

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According to official Soviet Union's 1959 census there were still 230,107 Poles in Lithuania of whom 161,523 (70,2%) were rural population - as flights and deportations of 1944-1959 as well as previous wartime mortality affected urban Poles more than rural Poles.

Among the 197,156 from Lithuania in first repatriation, more than half - 107,613 - were from the city and the county of Wilno.

44.1% among those 197,156 were urban population, while 55,9% were rural population (or maybe the other way around?). In terms of occupation 31.2% of the deported were craftsmen, 30.5% were intelligentsia (white-collar workers, teachers, professional soldiers, health-care workers, clergymen, etc.), 18.4% were peasants and 10.4% were workers. Other groups were 9.5%. These numbers are from this article:

http://www.akwilno.pl/pdf/Ekspatriacja.pdf

According to this article areas annexed by Lithuania in October 1939 (6880 km2 incl. the city of Wilno) were inhabited by 549 thousand people:

- 321,700 Poles
- 107,600 Jews
- 75,200 Belarusians
- 31,300 Lithuanians
- 9,000 Russians
- 4,200 others
 
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