The Polish Interwar Puppet State – The Republic of Central Lithuania (1920 – 1922)

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The Republic of Central Lithuania (Litwa Srodkowa) was a short-lived state that existed between 1920 and 1922. It was created after the Polish-Lithuanian War when General Lucjan Żeligowski, with Polish support, staged a "mutiny" and seized Vilnius, a city contested by both Poland and Lithuania. The republic, centered around Vilnius, was envisioned as a buffer state, but it largely served as a means for Poland to gain control of the region.
The Republic held elections in 1922, but they were boycotted by the Lithuanian and Belarusian populations, leading to a Polish-dominated result. By March of the same year, the republic was officially annexed by Poland, a move that further strained Polish-Lithuanian relations. Lithuania never recognized the annexation, which remained a source of tension until World War II. The Republic of Central Lithuania was a key episode in the complex post-World War I reshuffling of borders in Eastern Europe.


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SOURCE
– On the State of Central Lithuania (Alfred Erich Senn) in the Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, Neue Folge, Bd. 12, H. 3 (OKTOBER 1964), pp. 366-374.
– The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (Christopher Clark).
– (23-10-2024).

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