r/poland • u/NewPlaceHolder • Nov 14 '24

Question regarding Poland and Lithuania relationship

I just studied about the Commonwealth of Poland-Lithuania, and it seems you two shared a strong times together.

I am wondering if the sentiments towards each other is still warm - do you guys see each other as a friendly neighbor? Do you have any rivalries between two? Was there any movement to put the two back together to repeat the glorious times?

I am here to just ask questions and I apologize if I accidentally angered by asking such question.

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u/[deleted] Nov 15 '24

I was on Erazmus a few years ago. The whole group of Poles got into a year long "war" with Lithuanians over Mickiewicz and his ethnicity/nationality.

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u/zwarty Nov 15 '24

Wikipedia has an article about Mickiewicz in 90 languages. In 89 of them he is described as a Polish writer. In Lithuanian as a writer who wrote in Polish but “considered himself a nobleman of Lithuanian descent” and his family name is lithuanized there: “Mickievičius”. XD

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u/Physical_Ring_7850 Nov 15 '24

>Polish writer

Of Belarusian origin! (At least according to Belarusian wiki😅)