Wilno/Vilnius
Alina Israeli
aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
Thu Jun 13 15:45:20 UTC 2002
> 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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