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Sources? I'm really interested to learn who has been killed for speaking Ukrainian.
by vadman 13y ago
Sources? I'm really interested to learn who has been killed for speaking Ukrainian.
- lcedp 13y agoJust overall scope of history: [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Ukrainian_language_bans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Ukrainian_langua... [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDeujOxl3jc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDeujOxl3jc (they are talking about this in the video: [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bykivnia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bykivnia ) [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnytsia_massacre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinnytsia_massacre As the policies of Ukrainisation were halted (1931) and replaced by massive Russification approximately four-fifths of the Ukrainian cultural elite, intellectuals, writers, artists and clergy, had been "eliminated", executed or imprisoned, in the following decade. The term was coined for this - Executed renaissance. Many would argue that Holodomor (1932-33, 2-10 millions of Ukrainian speaking people died) was a part of Russification campaign.