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 Encyclopedia: Polonization   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Polonization was especially noted in the history of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth or Republic, when Polish drew to itself the upper classes of the Lithuanian, Belarusian and Ukrainian communities, leading to those classes' lesser or greater alienation from their ethnic roots.
Polonization is considered to be the main factor of forming of the Polish community of the Belarusian—Lithuanian land in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.
The notion of «polonization» itself in the Polish historiography is interpreted as «self-polonization».
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Polonization   (695 words)

  
 Belarusian Review :: Ten Years of Uninterrupted Struggle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Even the primary channel of Belarusian TV switched to Russian.
However, the Belarusian people, who have survived many waves of polonization and russification, did not give in this time either.
According to the 1999 census 73.6% of Belarus' citizens referred to Belarusian as their native language, and almost 37% use it in their daily life.
www.belreview.cz /articles/2911.html   (522 words)

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