The deputy of the Lithuanian Sejm Matas Maldeikis called on Lithuania’s authorities to demand the return of Smolensk.
The initiative of Maldeikis was a response to the actions of the Russian deputy Yevgeny Fedorov, who introduced the bill on the abolition of the recognition of the independence of the Lithuanian Republic.
“If Russia denounces the recognition of Lithuania’s independence of 1991, then Lithuania will denounge the Polyanovsky Treaty of 1634 and demand that Putin submit to the authorities of Vladislav IV and return the occupied territories to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Smolensk is Lithuania!”, The Lithuanian deputy said.
Recall that earlier the State Duma deputy Yevgeny Fedorov introduced the bill “On the recognition of the independence of the Lithuanian Republic.” In the explanatory note to the document, he substantiated his proposal by the fact that after amending the Constitution, the Russian Federation was recognized as the successor of the USSR on its territory.
The deputy also recalled that in March 1991 a referendum was held in the USSR, following which most of the country’s inhabitants spoke to preserve the Soviet Union as a single state.
But in September of the same year, at the first meeting of the State Council of the USSR, under the chairmanship of the President of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, a resolution of the State Soviet Soviet No.-1 “On the recognition of the independence of the Lithuanian Republic” was adopted. According to Yevgeny Fedorov, this decision was illegal, since it was adopted by the unconstitutional body and in violation of a number of articles of the Basic Law of the Soviet Union
It is worth noting that under the terms of the Polyanovsky agreement, the Russian state and the Commonwealth retained the boundaries that were established under the conditions of the Deulinsky truce of 1618. Taking advantage of the Troubles in the Russian state at the beginning of the 17th century, the units of the Commonwealth, after a multi -month siege, captured Smolensk.