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From: Egijus Sinkus <>
Subject: Re: [LITHUANIA-L] linguistic nationalism
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 18:35:33 +0100 (GMT+01:00)
> I think today Vilnius is Vilnius (and during the interbellum, when 80 % of
> the inhabitants was Polish, it was Wilno) and Warszawa is Warszawa (and not
Hello,
I You would took a look to genealogical trees of these "Polish" inhabitants, You would saw that almost all their ancestors were Lithuanians. When Poland had occupated Vilnius, Polish authority compeled Vilnius inhabitants to change their surnames into Polish forms.
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