During the several months-long period of retaking of Lithuanian capital, which Poles considered a Lithuanian occupation, roughly 50,000 Lithuanians mostly officials of state ministries and their family members came to the city.
[ ] Many historians argue [ ] that the main reason behind the Soviet agreement with Lithuania was to weaken Poland and hand the disputed territories to a weaker state, which Lithuania was at the time, to reconquer the area more easily after the 's retreat had halted.