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[edit] Expulsion or voluntary leave
Academic source states: "The agreements signed at the end of the Second World War by the LSSR and Polish Committee of National Liberation concerning the repatriation of former Polish citizens to Poland gave Lithuania’s Poles an alternative: to remain in Lithuania or emigrate to Poland. The people’s decision to remain in Lithuania or to emigrate to Poland was influenced by both external (territorial changes in Poland, the position of the Polish underground, and political-economic changes in Lithuania) and internal (subjective emotions) factors. The agitation by Polish underground organisations against repatriation and the Polish conviction that Vilnius and the Vilnius region belonged to Poland stopped the repatriation process. But NKVD-NKGB repressions against the Poles, the liquidation of the underground, and the changes in Poland’s state borders forced Poles to emigrate. Human factors also had a big impact on the decision of Poles to remain or emigrate. It was difficult to choose: to leave everything behind and emigrate into the unknown to a place where their countrymen lived or to remain in their homeland. Nevertheless the greater part of Poles chose repatriation to Poland."--Lokyz 14:59, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
Further reading on the subject: D. Sula, Dzialalnosc przesiedleñczo-repatriacyjna Pañstwowego Urzêdu Repatriacyjnego w latach 1944–1951, Lublin, 2002--Lokyz 15:09, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
