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> A "myth" recorded in Ukraine's laws by passing bills like 5670-d that effectively made the Russian language illegal in most aspects of public life. Doing so i

by _kbh_ 3y ago

> A "myth" recorded in Ukraine's laws by passing bills like 5670-d that effectively made the Russian language illegal in most aspects of public life. Doing so in a multi-ethnic nation in any other part of the world would have raised howls of fascism and anti-democracy by the US mass media and state dept and extensive condemnations in the UN. But hey, its Ukraine - a promised NATO partner - who cares about the folks affected ? That law is merely about recording the offical language of the country as being Ukrainian, and having it be used, an attempt to preserve the national identity of Ukraine, as _Ukrainian_ and not as _Russian_. This desperate attempt to look oppressed by Russia is pathetic at this point.

lenkite 3y ago
"This desperate attempt to look oppressed by Russia is pathetic at this point." This desperate attempt to deflect the actual and real ramifications of the law which made Russians pariahs in their communities is utterly laughable. Maybe you should take some time to investigate yourself. No Russian in theatres, no Russian on documents, No Russian film dubbings, be careful talking Rusian or get beat up or killed - spend some time talking to folks from Donbass and understand the kind of oppression they faced, before you call oppression as pathetic.
- CamperBob2 3y ago
  Gee. I wonder why the interests of ethnic Russians might not be respected by the majority of the Ukrainian populace. It's not prejudice when you have a Holodomor in your history books.
- _kbh_ 3y ago
  > spend some time talking to folks from Donbass and understand the kind of oppression they faced, before you call oppression as pathetic. I don’t need to speak to FSB and GRU agents to know what the Russian intelligence community is trying to push as the narrative in Ukraine thanks. If they think that the main language of the country they are in being the offical language of the area then perhaps they should move to a country where that language is the offical language. But I don’t expect that to happen because Russians are forever imagining oppression and have forever something to gripe about.

by _kbh_ 3y ago

lenkite 3y ago

"This desperate attempt to look oppressed by Russia is pathetic at this point." This desperate attempt to deflect the actual and real ramifications of the law which made Russians pariahs in their communities is utterly laughable. Maybe you should take some time to investigate yourself. No Russian in theatres, no Russian on documents, No Russian film dubbings, be careful talking Rusian or get beat up or killed - spend some time talking to folks from Donbass and understand the kind of oppression they faced, before you call oppression as pathetic.

CamperBob2 3y ago
Gee. I wonder why the interests of ethnic Russians might not be respected by the majority of the Ukrainian populace. It's not prejudice when you have a Holodomor in your history books.
_kbh_ 3y ago
> spend some time talking to folks from Donbass and understand the kind of oppression they faced, before you call oppression as pathetic. I don’t need to speak to FSB and GRU agents to know what the Russian intelligence community is trying to push as the narrative in Ukraine thanks. If they think that the main language of the country they are in being the offical language of the area then perhaps they should move to a country where that language is the offical language. But I don’t expect that to happen because Russians are forever imagining oppression and have forever something to gripe about.