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Poland's biggest historical blunder? [341]
Founded by Lithuanians for Polish people? I hope the rates were good for developers then ;0 ;)
So territory is governed by numbers and not who founded it or had original claim? Why not just call Kosovo Albania then? It has, after all, an Albanian majority. Did Vilnius residents (Lithuanian) do nothing to make the city theirs?
Germany, through the auspices of the EU, invests a huge amount in Polish cities. They also have historical claims to places like Gdańsk. Should it be restored to its former name of Danzig?
Largest city in "their" country? So how do you propose to classify the status of Vilnius retroactively? Province of Poland? Free city?
Assuming it was Lithuanian first, Poles then came later. Flooding or swamping to form a majority like Albanians did doesn't mean that the core right should change, does it? That would mean that all weak states with a legitimate claim to land would have to cede that territory to the greater number from outside.
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de jure, I meant that it was formally Lithuania's. It was within their territorial boundaries.