Wilno/Vilnius

[Alina Israeli]

>                 Vilnia (Vilnius) was truly a Belarusian capital.

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>       It is well-known that Vilnia historically has  been a Belarusian
>capital, but Joseph Stalin gave it  to Lithuanians.


This is news to me. When exactly was it a Belarusian capital? When did
Stalin give it to Lithuanians? I am well aware of the fact that it used to
be a Polish city (with a vibrant Jewish cultural community indeed) which
later became ethnically Lithuanian. We have Milosz-Venclova correspondence
on the subject of the city as 20th century testimony.

So when was it Belarusian?

AI

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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University
4400 Mass. Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20016

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