Wilno - Vilnius - Vilne. Whose city is it anyway?
ENFollowing the emotion-laden Polish–Lithuanian struggle for Vilnius, in the nationalistic atmosphere of inter-war Polish Wilno, the idea of a ‘neutral’ urban society was no more than a mirage. Moreover, relationships between different ethnic groups deteriorated rapidly, and, as Tomas Venclova wrote, ‘all ethnic groups except the Poles were increasingly isolated and ousted to the fringes of society’.36 Thus the struggle over the nature of the city became a constant point of contention. During the 1930s the fragile threads of the local social web gradually disintegrated, and the citizens of this ‘Civitas Dei’ - the Poles, the Lithuanians, the Belorussians, the Russians, and the Jews - all constituted their own old-new Vilnius/Wilno/Vilne/Vilna. [Extract, p. 230]
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