| the comments above contained some misleading information. first, kaniukiai village was probably not all polish as stated. it was mixed polish-lithuanian or majority lithuanian, according to lithuanian sources (including ethnographic data on mixed SE Lithuania, bienkany area was an island of lithuanian speakers among polish but mainly belarusian speakers). second, lithuanians in vilnius: one comment stated lithuanians had become a minority in their own capital. that is not true. vilnius, vilna, wilno was almost entirely POLISH SPEAKING when stalin took it from Poland and gave it to Lithuania in 1940. Lithuanians were a minority in Vilnius for centuries. Both sides, Polish and Lithuanian, tried to hype their demographic in vilnius at the expense of the Jewish population figure in order to obtain a better bargaining position at the league of nations, with numerous proposals for solving the vilna problem including referenda/plebescites. in kaunas jews were minority, in some shtetls 100%. |
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