Note that just the darkest shade depicts Polish majority, other shades show minorities of >30%, >20%, >10%, >5%, >3% and >1%.
Litvinski on
Map was made by me.
the_battle_bunny on
I believe this is late 19th century. Polish language was rapidly shrinking during the 19th century and reached much further west around 1801. Even WrocÅ‚aw/Breslau was still bilingual with the northern half of the city being called “Polish side”.
Yes, the decline of Polish was due to massive measures by the Prussian state. In fact if it happened today, it would be called cultural genocide.
Electronic_Doubt9234 on
Incredible
Itzhik on
This is getting silly. Not only are Masurians here marked as Polish, when they very obviously didn’t consider themselves so, but now we have Belarusian speakers in places like Latgale marked as Poles because “religion correlates with ethnicity better than language? Even though said population at no point had Polish self-identity and declared themselves Belarusians in both post-WW1 Latvian censuses AND current censuses?
EnragedKoala17 on
U forgot about Siberia
sraige4443 on
Methodology?
roma258 on
One of Stalin’s first and bloodiest purges was of the Polish minority in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. About 110,000 Poles were executed, 22% of the total Polish population in the Soviet Union: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Operation_of_the_NKVD
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Note that just the darkest shade depicts Polish majority, other shades show minorities of >30%, >20%, >10%, >5%, >3% and >1%.
Map was made by me.
I believe this is late 19th century. Polish language was rapidly shrinking during the 19th century and reached much further west around 1801. Even WrocÅ‚aw/Breslau was still bilingual with the northern half of the city being called “Polish side”.
Yes, the decline of Polish was due to massive measures by the Prussian state. In fact if it happened today, it would be called cultural genocide.
Incredible
This is getting silly. Not only are Masurians here marked as Polish, when they very obviously didn’t consider themselves so, but now we have Belarusian speakers in places like Latgale marked as Poles because “religion correlates with ethnicity better than language? Even though said population at no point had Polish self-identity and declared themselves Belarusians in both post-WW1 Latvian censuses AND current censuses?
U forgot about Siberia
Methodology?
One of Stalin’s first and bloodiest purges was of the Polish minority in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. About 110,000 Poles were executed, 22% of the total Polish population in the Soviet Union: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Operation_of_the_NKVD
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