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519:" declared that many people who identified as Polish were in fact "polonized Lithuanians". The rural population was denied the right to leave Lithuania, due to their lack of official pre-war documentation showing Polish citizenship. Contrary to the government's agreement with Poland, many individuals were threatened with either arrest or having to settle outstanding debts if they chose repatriation. Soviet authorities persecuted individuals connected to the Polish resistance ( 503:
was considered a historical capital of Lithuania; however, in the early 20th century its population was around 40% Polish, 30% Jewish and 20% Russian and Belarusian, with only about 2–3% self-declared Lithuanians. The government considered the rural Polish population important to the agricultural
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The resettlement of ethnic Poles from Lithuania saw numerous delays. Local Polish clergy were active in agitating against leaving, and the underground press called those who had registered for repatriation
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527:). In the end, about 50% of the 400,000 people registered for relocation were allowed to leave. Political scientist Dovilė Budrytė estimated that about 150,000 people left for Poland. 404: 433:(PKWN). It stipulated the resettlement of ethnic Lithuanians from Poland to Lithuania and of ethnic Poles and Jews who had Polish citizenship before 17 September 1939 (date of the 244: 495:
The Lithuanian communist party was dominated by a nationalist faction which supported the removal of the Polish intelligentsia, particularly from the highly contested
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to Poland. After these hopes vanished, the number of people wanting to leave gradually increased, and they signed papers for the
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and Lithuanization of the city (80% of the Polish population was removed). Furthermore, the Lithuanian ideology of "
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Michael McQueen. "Collaboration as an Element in the Polish-Lithuanian struggle over Vilnius." Joachim Tauber.
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But the government encouraged expulsion of Poles from Vilnius, and facilitated it. The result was a rapid
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economy, and believed those people would be relatively amenable to assimilation policies (
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Taming Nationalism?: Political Community Building in the Post-Soviet Baltic States
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The Reconstruction of Nations: Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569–1999
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Redrawing Nations: Ethnic Cleansing in East-Central Europe, 1944–1948
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population exchange between Poland and Soviet Lithuania
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Population exchange between Poland and Soviet Belarus
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Population exchange between Poland and Soviet Ukraine
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Index

Polish population transfers (1944–1946)
a series
Forced population transfer
in the Soviet Union

Dekulakization
Evacuation
Forced settlements
Gulag
Azerbaijanis from Armenia
Balkars
Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina
Chechens and Ingush
Chinese
Crimean Tatars
Estonians
NKVD operation
Germans
from Romania
NKVD operation
Greeks
NKVD operation
Harbinites
Ingrian Finns
NKVD operation
Kalmyks
Karachays
Koreans
Kumyks
Kurds from Transcaucasia
Latvians
NKVD operation

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