Talk:Dubingiai
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About Dubingiai. I haven't found data, how much Poles lived in in the village itself. It had about 300 inhabitants before WW II. But the situation there was something like this: Dubingiai parish consisted of approx. 3600 catholics (so, Poles and Lithuanians;- Jews and others are not included). In this region to South West from Vilnius ~50% of catholics considered themselves Poles and the rest ~50% - Lithuanians. However data from different sources vary, plus to it there was big percent of undecided men (till 1918-20).
I can't say it's NPOV, what you wrote, but we must accept, that all this situation was not specific exclusively to a little village, Dubingiai, - it was common for all Central Lithuania (if we look at Central Lithuania, as I proposed in its talk page, as at cultural unit, not only short-aged political). For example, conflicts in churches were typical of quite the all Vilnius region both on Polish side and on Lithuanian.
I think it's better to disambiguate sentence about priests. Studies in priest seminaries in Lithuania till 1918 (and in Vilnius also later) were in Polish language. So, before WW II quite all priests in Lithuania knew polish language. These conflicts mostly were (I speak generally, not specifically) for time and frequency of (sacred) services in one or another language.
But I haven't found data specifically on Dubingiai. Even I doubt, if such data exist in some encyclopedic non-archival form. So I think, its better in this case use more abstract sentences, avoiding concrete statements, which can be incorrect. Some statements must be fined down too. For example, statement about Polish inhabitants and massacre of Lithuanians are not contradictory, when we know, that its spoken about the village with 300 inh. in the first case, and about all parish in the second.
But I afraid, this revising concerns all the article and even its structure. I'd like to pay more attention to it; I think I'll do it a bit later.
Linas 15:13, 2004 May 20 (UTC)