Re: Wilno and Vilnius Re: "Russia, Again Evading History"

On Jul 2, 7:53 am, "Ostap S. B. M. Bender Jr."
<ostap_bender_1...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You sure are like a fly in a bottle Ostap, buzzing round and round ...

 I think Stalin gave Vilnius to Lithuania to weaken Poland.

You need to read more. Yes, it was to weaken Poland, but also to
compensate Lithuania for the 30% of its territory that he stole and
"awarded" to Belarus. Breslauja, Sirgainys, Lyda, Ašmena and Gardinas
and all the surrounding areas were ethnographically Lithuanian
(polonisation and russifcation is irrelevant) and they should have
been made part of Lithuania. And don't forget that Poland got land
annexed from Germany in the West. It was a chain reaction, designed
to bolster the areas closest to Moscow the most. He stole from
Belarus and gave to Russia itself, he stole from Lithuania and gave to
Belarus, he did not steal Vilnius from Poland because it was never
part of Poland, but nonetheless he rightly left it in Lithuania, and
he stole from Germany and gave to Poland in the West and north
(Ostpreußen).

The Germans were idiots for not kicking up a fuss about Ostpreußen in
1990-1.

Maybe Russia should voluntarily give Finland the land taken in the 1940 aggression?

How come there is a non-stop stream of posts here concerning the Soviet
occupation of the Baltics 70 years ago?

Started then, but ended only 20 years ago. And it's for the same
reason that Jews are never ever ever ever ever going to "shut up"
about what the Nazis did to them. I would have thought you would
understand that and be empathic?

Unfortunately, there are too many
vicious despicable snakes around here who love to shut up their
discussion opponents by getting them fired from their jobs and
threatening their safety:

This is true. Vicious ad hominem attacks abound in SCB ....

It is against the Netiquette to harp on other people’s use pseudonyms:

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Hear hear.

That is almost as low as picking on non-native English speakers for
their less than perfect English. (Mostly, but not exclusively, done
by people who are resolutely monolingual in the language of Hollywood
and are no means aces themselves at English spelling.)
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