> Occitan native speakers: Estimates range from 100,000 to 800,000 total speakers (2007–2012) No assimilation and cultural genocide policy in any form. It has

> Occitan native speakers: Estimates range from 100,000 to 800,000 total speakers (2007–2012) No assimilation and cultural genocide policy in any form. It has just dwindled to these numbers on its own. Also has no relation to the topic that we discuss. Don't forget to call whataboutism. I gather that reflection is not a strong side of Western Europeans. > those very same Russians that are currently bombing the shit out of anything Ukrainian That's called "a civil war", and that's how it viewed by many Russians and some Ukrainians. Indeed that's not a great condition to be in. > who wish to eradicate the Ukrainian nation and culture Again, this accusation is coming from a proud member of a nation who eradicated a couple of cultures very recently. "While I had already been born" recently. People of Donbass were fed up with Ukrainization to the extent that these two Republics do not have Ukrainian as co-official. But Crimea, and the "new territories" of Kherson oblast and Zaparozh'ye (whatever left of them, arguably) have Ukrainian as co-official. Crimea also has Crimean Tatar as co-official. If anybody wants they can study their language and their culture, including in schools. That's what was not permitted to Russians in many, many ex-USSR countries.