History / POLAND: EASTERN or CENTRAL European country? [1080]

Just to add. In these days Baltic states like to show their self as northern countries. Especial Estonia.


It depends who is positioning and by what criteria. For example geographically center of Europe is in south eastern part of Lithuania.
From the moment Poland became member of EU it stopped being eastern country in political map.

If you see Poland as eastern country then it is your problem... end of discussion. :)

History / What proportion of the Polish population collaborated with the Nazis? [125]

Lyzko

What was the case with Lithuania? Lithuanian government did not collaborated with Nazis nor there was Lithuanian SS division. There were some Lithuanians who collaborated and killed Jews but there were also some who tried to rescue them. In general Germans and Russians were considered as enemies of the country, both of them were equally bad.

History / What proportion of the Polish population collaborated with the Nazis? [125]

Lyzko

If you put it like this - I support you.
Simply Lithuania is usually drawn like monster who drank Jews blood. Actually Lithuanians should be blamed for passiveness in this matter. As I wrote previously there was small number of people who participated in killings. However majority simply did nothing. It seemed everyone tried not to see what happened and to be quiet. It could be that people were already scared by soviet invasion, exile to Siberia and subsequent Nazi invasion.

Later soviet rule tried to erase memory of the Jews (at that period Jewish tombstones were used for staircases - I remember that from my childhood).

About my English - somehow I can't develop the sense for article placement :)