First map (from Mariusz Kowalski):
Light + dark = Polish majority in ca. year 1920
Dark alone = Polish majority in ca. year 2000
Second map (from Piotr Eberhardt):
C = Polish majority before the census of 1959
B = Polish majority before the census of 1999
A = still Polish majority in the 21st century
Changes between 1945/1947 and the census of 1959 for a few counties in Belarus:
Amount of ethnic Russians increased the most (between ~6 times and ~17 times):
And the consequences of importing Russian settlers to former Polish habitats are such:
http://stara.belsat.eu/en/articles/unde ... a-borders/
^^
"Under Ukrainian scenario: Russian nationalists want revision of Belarus-Russia borders"
http://stara.belsat.eu/en/articles/noto ... azakhstan/"Everyone knows that in 1954 Crimea was illegally transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR, many people heard that the Donetsk-Krivoy Rog Soviet Republic joined Soviet Ukraine in 1918, but few know that regions of Vitsebsk, Mahiliou and Homiel, previously owned by the Russian Federation, were forced into the Byelorussian SSR. Vitsebsk, Mahiliou and Homiel were transferred to Soviet Byelorussia as a sack of potatoes," the article says. (...)
"If Comrade Lukashenko keeps sticking to this heresy, one cannot rule out that people's republics will arise in the east (and then, perhaps, in the west) of the Republic of Belarus,” the author stresses.
He also predicts that these ‘Bolshevik gifts’ [territories] that the Byelorussian SSR got in 1924 and 1926 will be recognised illegal.
Kiryl Aviaryanau-Minski has repeatedly published his articles on ‘Sputnik i Pogrom’. Its editor-in-chief Yegor Prosvirnin called on Russia to seize or even destroy Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan.
"The return of Novorossiya [New Russia], Malorossiya [Ukraine / Small Russia], Byelorussia [Belarus / White Russia] and South Siberia (the so-called “Northern Kazakhstan”), which is still home to tens of millions of Russian people, is part of building of a Russian nation-state", Yegor Prosvirnin declares.
"The so-called “Ukraine”, “Belarus” and “Kazakhstan” (artificial state formations created by the Bolsheviks) are alien nation-states implementing alien national projects, and sooner or later Russians who still live there will get assimilated", he stresses.
Taking into account the undeclared war in Ukraine, these calls to invade Belarus do not seem strange or fantastic. Gleb Pavlovsky, a Russian political analyst, who worked the Kremlin project, has suggested that Belarus will share the fate of Ukraine (...)