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Come on, hn isn't a place for this historical revisionism and juggling with facts. If his parents were born in Kiew (Kyiv), then when they were born, it was a
by galkk 4y ago
Come on, hn isn't a place for this historical revisionism and juggling with facts.
If his parents were born in Kiew (Kyiv), then when they were born, it was a part of Russian Empire, and not a country that gained short independence in 1917-21.
- Asparagirl 4y agoIf his non-Anglo parents had been born in somewhere like Galway, Chennai, or Hong Kong in 1900, and had similarly come to the US in 1923, it is very unlikely that his New York Times obituary would read simply “born to British parents…” even if they had indeed lived as subjects under British colonial rule. They would more likely have been identified with the modern nationality (i.e. “born to Irish parents…”), or perhaps with an epithet acknowledging the colonialism, such as “British Raj”.
- selimthegrim 4y agoThey probably spoke Yiddish and Russian not Ukrainian correct
- Asparagirl 4y agoProbably, yeah — just like the current president of Ukraine, whose native tongue is Russian. That happens a lot when local people have a foreign language forced upon them by an empire that literally sent people to the gulag for decades for secretly opening schools to teach their children in native languages.