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comment - "on 1922 February 20 the whole area returned to Poland" seems not very correct to me as Vilnius was never part of Poland, so it cannot be returned...

appropriate here. It merely reflects Baltic POV at expense of the Soviet POV from which it was "liberation" rather than "occupation". (Igny (talk) 03:09, 28 December...

to be the basic. Main reasons: Vilnius for centuries was the geografical center of Ethnic Lithuania. Lithuania Propria or Ethnic Lithuania is the former...

western Vilnius region. I know they successfuly attempted to win the support of Polish minority there in the 1980/90-ies, but I've not heard of any support...

are mentioned instead of "Polish kings", and the 1944 seizure of Vilnius by Soviet troops is not anymore described as "liberation") latter will only result...

didn't have any of these outcomes. Liberation of Vilnius from Nazis was achieved thorugh a joint operation: an attack of Soviet army and the internal uprising...

some. For the others, I will stress that we are not using 'Polish occupation/liberation of Vilna (Wilno, Vilnius, whatever) of 1919/1920' for the same...

of Lithuania prior to nazi occupation; it was not added by the Soviet Union. The situation with Western Vilnius region was similar. Eastern Vilnius and...

28 April 2009 (UTC) 1."The map seems interesting and is probably more accurate then any of those we have"... 2."Vilnius, for example, is erroneously...

February 2013 (UTC) The Treaty of Riga was not a white peace. As for the aggressor, the Soviets attacked (in 4-6, January 1919) the Vilnius where they were...

uses the Polish name (Wilno) 19 times in the article for all historical periods. The Lithuanian/English name of Vilnius is mentioned only once in the header...

in the course of Vitebsk-Orsha, Minsk, Vilnius and Kaunas operations. During August the troops of the Army were the first to cross the border of East...

"liberated from Nazi occupation". The Soviet Union occupied the city and expelled its population. Can one call this "liberation"? —Preceding unsigned comment...

call '39 "a liberation of Belarusians and Ukrainians" similarly to what whoever called the Polish advance in 1920. I don't use liberation for '39 still...

fought for liberation of Lithuania, because after the Red Army occupied Lithuania again the same partisans fought against the Soviet Union, and for the Russians...

Baltic states did not liberate the USSR, the USSR liberated them (let them go) in 1991. Why territorial gain of Vilnius isn't mentioned in infobox? Is...

Courland gubernya - Latvian and a bit of Lithuanian, Vilnius gubernya - Lithuanian and Byelorussian and so on. The peace treaty was signed whcih recognised...

Nazi Germany and Soviet Union - they never became allies. The main obstacle in forming an alliance was the question of Vilnius..." Addhoc 19:19, 13 September...

probably a typo, and Av0id3r meant "liberation". It is true that Russian Federation, as did its predecessor, Soviet Union, engages in denying its history...