Talk:Wacław Michniewicz

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Sources say this man was Lithuanian

According to the Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia, this man was an ethnic Lithuanian from Strebeikiai [lt] village: https://www.vle.lt/straipsnis/vaclovas-michnevicius/. After his military service in the Imperial Russian Army, he lived in Kaunas in spring 1919–1925. Until his death, he mostly switched living places between Kaunas and his native village. In 1925, he published a Lithuanian-language book Vieškeliai ir paprastieji keliai, jų taisymas ir laikymas (lit. 'Roads and common roads, their repair and maintenance'). His gravestone is also written in Lithuanian. +JMJ+ (talk) 22:38, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The article is not finished yet, I didn't have time to finish it today. Michniewicz was a Pole living in Lithuania, according to the source: "Lietuviškai kalbėjo prastai, save laikė lenku, tačiau nepritarė kitų dvarininkų lenkomaniškoms apsiracijoms." (lit. 'He spoke poor Lithuanian, considered himself a Pole, but did not approve of the other landlords' polonomaniac manifestations') After the war, his entire surviving family emigrated to Poland.Marcelus (talk) 23:30, 10 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What do we do when WP:RS clash and provide different information about the same person? The source you point to says that his son emigrated to Poland in 1941 to escape repression. His daughter Irena and her family were exiled to Krasnoyarsk in 1946 (1). Your source states that the architect's wife Karolina asked to be exiled with her daughter and died in exile in 1948 (aged 93). Irena's husband also died there, and Irena went to Poland in 1956.

It is known that ethnic Lithuanians did leave for Poland when they could in order to either live a better life than was possible in the Soviet Union as well as escape the harsher repression. Leaving for Poland is not proof that the person was Polish. Even now, thousands of Lithuanians and their descendants live in parts of Poland that were never part of Lithuania, either the Grand Duchy or the modern state, precisely because they were fleeing the Soviet Union for the less bad Polish People's Republic.--+JMJ+ (talk) 14:22, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I am fully satisfied with the term "Polish-Lithuanian architect", I guess there is no point in continuing this discussion.Marcelus (talk) 15:42, 11 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]