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  • Even while Molotov had been touring the countryside around Kaunas, the Polish Sejm had voted to make the area around Vilnius, which the Poles called Central Lithuania, into one of their autonomous "devos".

    Archive 2009-01-01 Johnny Pez 2009

  • Even while Molotov had been touring the countryside around Kaunas, the Polish Sejm had voted to make the area around Vilnius, which the Poles called Central Lithuania, into one of their autonomous "devos".

    DBTL 10: In Between Johnny Pez 2009

  • AD voice over: Herr Speer is best known as the architect who designed the Bundestag building in Berlin and its counterparts in the capitals of Poland's other devos.

    DBTL 33: And We're Living Here in Speerburg Johnny Pez 2009

  • The legislatures of Poland's other devos had insisted that Albert design their new meeting places as well, and the result was a series of long absences from Berlin on his part.

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  • Brandenburg is the oldest of the Polish Commonwealth's autonomous regions or devos as they are popularly known, having been established in October 1939.

    DBTL 20: Where Are They Now? - 1945 Johnny Pez 2009

  • Do you know what they call it in the German devos?

    DBTL 27: Sejm As It Ever Was Johnny Pez 2009

  • In the atmosphere of euphoria that pervaded Poland after the Second Soviet War, the half dozen political parties that made up the governing coalition, including the Socialists, the United Peasants Party, and the pro-government parties of the devos, united to form the Federalist Party.

    DBTL 20: Where Are They Now? - 1945 Johnny Pez 2009

  • The legislatures of Poland's other devos had insisted that Albert design their new meeting places as well, and the result was a series of long absences from Berlin on his part.

    DBTL 15: The Speer Squad Johnny Pez 2009

  • Passage of the Law of Devolution in 1939 led to the creation of half a dozen autonomous areas, or devos, among the regions of the country with non-Polish majorities.

    DBTL 35: Money Changes Everything Johnny Pez 2009

  • Schuman offers Indochina dominion status within the French Union, with Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia becoming autonomous devos.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Johnny Pez 2009

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