thumb|175px|Rally in Minsk on 19 September 1991, one of the posters has the inscription: "Return to the people its old symbols: the coat of arms of Pahonia and the white-red-white flag, as well as the name of the country – Litva, the capital – Minsk!" Litvinism () is a term used primarily in Lithuania and by some critics in Belarus to describe a range of historical narratives and political ideas asserting the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) as a fundamental component of Belarusian statehood and identity. The term lacks a single, universally accepted definition and is often used as a pejorative
thumb|175px|Rally in Minsk on 19 September 1991, one of the posters has the inscription: "Return to the people its old symbols: the coat of arms of Pahonia and the white-red-white flag, as well as the name of the country – Litva, the capital – Minsk!" Litvinism () is a term used primarily in Lithuania and by some critics in Belarus to describe a range of historical narratives and political ideas asserting the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) as a fundamental component of Belarusian statehood and identity. The term lacks a single, universally accepted definition and is often used as a pejorative exonym in political discourse to characterize diverse phenomena—from mainstream Belarusian patriotism and claims to a shared GDL heritage to radical pseudohistorical theories that deny the Baltic origins of the Grand Duchy.
The term itself is rarely used as a self-identifier by proponents of these views. Instead, it is frequently employed by critics, mainly in Lithuania and Russia, as a derogatory label to characterize a wide spectrum of Belarusian historical narratives as revisionist or pseudohistorical. Adherents to these views generally identify simply as Belarusians reclaiming their lost heritage, or as Litvins, viewing the GDL not as a foreign conqueror but as their own historical state.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).