Posted on 03/11/2023 4:31:35 PM PST by ganeemead
Outlawing the Russian language...
Linguistic Nazism...
A couple of the more unstable Zeepers said I was lying when I posted last year that poor Russian-Ukrainians in the Donbas were being punished for speaking Russian in the markets. They claimed Ukraine wouldn’t be that petty and cruel. 🤣
The video is about government officials being required to use the Ukrainian language.
That is the big shock?
The shock is that this guy is mayor of a Russian-speaking city and the hohos are demanding that he make public pronouncements in a language that most of his people will not understand.
So the government official has to use the Ukrainian language and after his second violation, he was fined $93.00 and now he is countersuing.
The horrors of war, a $93 dollar fine and a countersuit for using the language of the enemy as they invade instead of the official language.
Sounds really serious.
Imagine if here in America all of a sudden Congress spoke only in Spanish because there are more spanish people than Americans. Would we put up with that?
How does an enemy silently take over a country? take away the language.
The Russian-speaking people were there before the pseudo-state of ukraine was.
I don’t get it, most Ukrainians speak Russian as a first-language, even Zelenskyy.
You are trying to make a mountain out of nothing.
Kinda explains the russians rule in Ukraine.
Ukraine became a free country 30 years ago. How old is zelensky? That generation was brought up as russians although they were Ukrainian. I see nothing wrong with zelensky wanting Ukrainian to be spoken in Ukraine. Nothing wrong with being a patriot, is there?
I think even more younger Ukrainians speak primarily in Russian, I know the ones I saw in Poland were mostly Russian speakers.
Ukrainian is kind of like Gaelic in Ireland.
“”Ukrainian is kind of like Gaelic in Ireland.””
How do you figure that?
Poles had to learn Russian for years, so Ukrainians might find Russian more useful there.
What I’ve heard is that Ukraine is divided in three parts: Russian speakers in the East, proud Ukrainian speakers in the West and no man’s land in between.
With the Russian invasion and the war, more and more Ukrainians are using their national language, or so I’d assume.
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