Kresy ("Borderlands") are the eastern lands that formerly belonged to Poland and held a sizable amount of Polish population. In 1921, after a soviet invasion, Polish troops crossed the Curzon Line and re-conquered some of the formerly Polish territories, now inside of the borders of Ukraine and Belarus, which were taken from Poland during the Partitions of Poland, and also seized 7 percent of Lithuania's territory, due to its large Polish population in 1920. These territories were violently annexed by the Soviet Union in 1939 under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact after the Soviet-German invasion of Poland, and include major cities, like Lviv (Lwów) (nowadays Ukraine), Vilnius (Wilno) (today the capital of Lithuania), and Hrodna (Grodno) (Belarus), which all had majority Polish population. Even though "Kresy", or the "Eastern Borderlands", are no longer Polish territories, the area is still inhabited by a significant Polish minority, and the memory of the Polish "Kresy" is still cultivated. The attachment to the "myth of Kresy", the vision of the region as a peaceful, idyllic, rural land, has been criticized in Polish discourse.