I'd like to apologize for the mistakes I made on this video regarding the mapping of not putting Crimea as Ukraines! This video was edited during some pretty late nights and I guess I didn't even notice the mistakes due to lack of sleep. Obviously, Crimea belongs to Ukraine! Sorry!
Crimea has been in hands of Russia for a decade now, so I don't know what you are talking about. Are you saying that Ukraine is controlling it? Are you high?
@@kacperzimowski4626decades? In 1991 they voted to join Ukraine democraticly. Decades or not, recently it's Ukrainian. And even decades is not correctly, Crimea belonged to Crimea Khane, not the butchers next door.
it's sad, of course, but at the same time funny: quite often I see videos with Ukrainian military men who speak Ukrainian, but suddenly a drone or an artillery shell arrives, and these Ukrainians almost always switch to pure Russian
@@HingalshDealer "Female Ukraine combat medic fires back as four Russian tanks attack her trench and wound comrades" from Daily Mail. They switch to both languages probably becuase they can´t all understand ukrainian fully and/or because of the stressful situation. Just one example.
@@HingalshDealer I've seen such videos in telegrams. In general, this is due to the fact that initially these are Russian-speaking people, before the war, the Ukrainian language was not very popular in Ukraine, so in a stressful situation, all these soldiers instinctively switch to Russian
Of course, who did really believe that the Ukrainian language was always preferred over the Russian language which is way more sophisticated? But don't worry as soon as this mess will end, and we all know how it will end, the Russian language will be spoken in Ukraine without problems again.
What a propaganda !!! I am Russian who was born in Donetsk, Donbass in Soviet Union ( Russian speaking territory in the east of " Ukraine " ). We were forced by the authorities of Soviet Union to study Ukrainian language, history and traditions in schools. Ukrainian culture was highly promoted. Ukrainian culture and ukrainian nationalism are two different things.
absolutely agree! people just don't understand that country can be multicultural, USSR was multicultural country, which Russia does also. But Ukraine decided to go the opposite way, more nationalism kind of way, no other cultures, only ukranian, burn crosses.... East part of the country was disagree with this derussification, but they haven't been asked.... This video tells that all the Ukrainian people suffered from the Russia influence which is total b.s. I don't support what Putin is doing now though, it's just craziness....
@galinagala8260 so now you have made a contradiction. you say this is propaganda, but all of a sudden you are blaming it on Soviet authorities for learning...Ukrainian?
@@leer1698Never mind. These are bots. Russia (USSR, empire) has always destroyed other peoples using assimilation. I am from Russia, from the Republic of Mordovia. Our people have also been destroyed for hundreds of years. They simply force us to speak Russian, they convince us that we are Russian. This is damn maniacal evil.
My wife is from Kharkov. And it has always been a Russian speaking city. I've visited there twice. First time in 2008 and the last time in April/May 2013. My father-in-law is from there too and always speaks in his native Russian and is proud of his native tongue. This video completely omits the attempted ethnic cleansing of Eastern Ukraine of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers. Particularly in the Donbass regions. It whitewashes the role of the Nazi-Banderite West Ukrainians and their odious ideology and reeks of Russophobia.
@@petroolenych9621 Should Ireland make everyone speak Irish instead of English? Whether you like it or not, Ukraine is a multilingual country like Swizerland and Belgium. Around 30% speak Russian as their main language. If Ukraine ever hopes to reintegrate their Russian speaking territories that are occupied by Russia and become a liberal EU country, they are going to have to accept this fact and give language rights to their minorities.
You're a liar. Russian bombed Kharkiv. Kharkiv voted to be Ukraine overwhelming 90% independence from Soviet, union> you're a Russian bot. Kharkiv people fought Russians and still fight as Ukrainians
@@redscorpion-se4hr What's your point? The guy said that Ukraine is a country and there is a language called Ukrainian, therefore everyone in Ukraine has to speak Ukrainian, which is a negative IQ argument. Same reasoning would suggest that everyone in Ireland should speak Irish. Ukraine also has many ethnic and linguistic groups, with 30% of people speaking Russian as their first language.
Nothing to be proud of. Hopefully after such comments foreigners won’t think we’re all like this. Many people are ashamed of the fact they allowed themselves to be so dissolved in russian language, content and info space, abandoning our owns. And they (inc. me) are returning to things as they’re supposed to be - to Ukrainian literally everything
Languages get dropped out of fear of losing jobs and avoid abuses, or straight up death, only giving RF better reasons to continue the onslaught. And why is that the soldiers on the frontline keep getting caught speaking the enemies' language to each other? The statistic you provided only proves that population of Ukraine is getting divided more and more, and Russian speaking half (literally) is getting forced to use Ukrainian instead of their native language.
@@azadthebutt the difference is that russians are not native to Ukraine, and they have their own country, unlike bashkirs and tatars, also russians have been trying to erase Ukrainian language for centuries, so Ukraine is just trying to de-russify itself
Very misleading history. Ukraine literally means borderland. In the 16th century no one spoke what is the modern standardized Ukrainian, certainly not in Slobodna Krajna, which literally means free border area. All Orthodox east slavic speakers, to the sense they had any national identity, considered themselves 'Rus'.
Well, in the 16th century there was no Russia either. They called themselves Muscovy or principality of Moscow. They only borrowed "Rus" thing into their name in the second half of 16th century and started to call themselves "Russia" The "Rus" was historically name of vast areas of territory, most of which was never ruled by principality of Moscow before 18th century
@@afghaajwhat you’ve heard is bullshit.. I’m Ukrainian and I don’t understand what you all are talking about. Ukraine is huge, and there are hella people who speak Ukrainian - in the west, middle, north. East and south are slowly but firmly expand usage of Ukrainian too. Don’t deceive people
Not quite. The Russian language was gradually ousted from education and television, allocating more and more quotas to Ukrainian from year to year. This was followed by a ban on teaching in Russian in schools. Only extremely famous and influential people could speak Russian on television. This was followed by the ban of Russian in public places, according to the type of shops. Russian literature has almost ceased to be produced, even the classics of Lermontov or Dostoevsky. Well, that's how we come to war, when the imposition of the Ukrainian language took the most disgusting form. Burning books and beatings for the Russian language - these shots are walking around the web. This is even more in contrast to the fact that there are 3 official languages in the "occupied" Crimea: Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar.
@@ArkalisTerrin Transnistria they also claim to speak 3 languages, but in fact, only Russian is spoken. So, I would not believe in “Russian multiculturalism.”
When Russia Russified all Soviet republics everything was fine. But when they started promoting the national language of the country is now called “banning another language" and "russophobia". Brilliant!
Before the Maidan coup Ukraine had the "regional languages law" which allowed to officially use Russian (and Romanian and Hungarian etc) in Ukrainian provinces if the parliaments of the province votes for that . The winners of Maidan cancelled that law right on the next day after their victory. That happened before the Crimea events. The true fact is that the winners of Maidan was Ukrainian ethno-nationalists.
He started his brief history nonesense in the 16th century when the Russian people go back to at least 1000 C.E.(A.D.) and that's not counting the first kings and baptism of the Kievan-Rus peoples prior to that.
В Кыргызстане Русский официальный язык, а кыргызский государственный. Мы при этом не проводим декоммунизацию. И развиваем 2языка сразу и уже взялись за развитие и продвижение 3го Английского. При не впали в национализм или фашизм как на Украине. Огромное кол-во Украинцев и Русских Переехало после войны в Кыргызию и как показывает годы они как-то живут спокойно. Может всё дело не в СССР который построил всю инфраструктуры Украине которую сами независимые депутату Рады и распродали. И никто не думает что РФ предлагало мирные соглашение аж с 2014 года УРже в свою очередь отказывалась и начала вооружать себя параллельно проводя политику декоммунизации чтобы получить очки от Евросоюза и Руссофобию чтобы получить очки у США.
росняві комуністи знову рвуть пердакі й закривають очі при цьому нагло брешучи. Бажаю тобі відчути всю любов твоїх улюблених рашистів своєю дупою, буквально та переносно теж.
I was in Ukraine in August 2023. I heard this quite a lot. In particular, when I was in Odessa, I met a woman whose native language is Russian who now refuses to speak it and tries to only speak in Ukrainian where possible, and only speaks Ukrainian with her children, even though she's not entirely proficient in it. She said she never wants to speak Russian again, and that it's caused huge strain in her family because she refuses to speak to her father unless he at least tries to answer in Ukrainian, which he can't speak well. That might be an extreme case, but it seems like it was a situation being repeated throughout the country.
I'm not surprised at all, I've seen in videos last year with interviews with Russian speaking Ukrainians who were on the fence before before Russia invaded not only refuse to speak Russian but despise the Russians, Putin scored a colossal "Own goal" here and it's going to hurt him long term.
This vid is all wrong. It was actually Russians that made sure Ukranian language did not dissapear back in 1922, by promoting it. My Dad was Ukranian who moved to Vladivostok back in the early 70s, just like millions of Ukranians have. ukranians are russians that were brainewashed that they are superior. all this was done by the west since 1991. more than 80 percent of ukranians have relatives living in russia and what the west did, was turning brothers against brothers. this happened twice before in ukranian history and when they will finally realize that they were used, they will turn back to russia, cuz west hates both russia and ukraine the same, but will use one against the other, given a chance.
1922 was Korenization. Soviet bureaucracy then realized that it could grow nationalism in Ukraine and other Soviet republics so they abolished it. This has happened MORE THAN TWICE bud. - When Bohdan Khmelnytsky died, the Moscow tsar began to centrallise the area of Zaporizhia, limiting the actual authority that the Zaporizhian Cossacks had as promised from Pereyaslav. - When Catherine the Great finally abolished the Zaporizhian Host, all those Cossacks were forced to return to serfdom, and the Ukrainian nobility became part of the Russian nobility. - During the Napoleonic Wars, there were some Ukrainians that supported the invasion of Russia. Those Ukrainians were silenced. - Emskyy Ukaze was a decree signed by Russia that banned the Ukrainian language. It got its name from a German city, Bad Ems. In the city there is a monument dedicated to the Emskyy Ukaze and its history and what it did. - Great Purge saw several Ukrainian figures as victims of the catastrophe. - Executed Renaissance saw figures of Ukrainian intelligentsia executed, one was targetted because he "loved communism too much". - Sixtiers is basically a repeat of Executed Renaissance, but since this was in the 60s, things were much more relaxed, but they still battled against each other. - When the Eastern Bloc collapsed, most countries from that Bloc immediately joined NATO or the EU. I wonder why? and why is Ukraine to eager to join it too? The thing about this is that if it was "brothers against brothers", Russia would NOT have silenced the Ukrainians. They would have allowed Ukraine to maintain its own autonomy and actually let them speak their language and avoid russification. But you only think this video is all wrong because of course the whole world that is against the repetition of imperialism is wrong, it is you who believes you are right, only your state, only your people, and Russian state textbooks. Do they narrate World War 2 differently in those btw? Russia made it clear that Ukraine is not their brother. If they were, Putin would never have said "Ukraine deserves no statehood".
@@Purdoons_ And I'm also studying History consistently. The difference between Eastern and Western textbooks is that there are truths and inaccuracies. But my archives have reports from journalists who have been in Russia (or USSR) and Ukraine to report these. We have students from Russia and Ukraine who make research projects on these. If I were to hear from you, then I'm sure 70% of the things you would say are inaccurate. Face the facts, it's stupid for you to say a university is wrong when professional documentation and journalism has been conducted, especially by a higher institution.
Another reason why so many people switch languages is because Ukrainian and Russian are very similar languages. Being proficient in one makes you understand at least some of the other. Close to the similarity of Czech and Slovak.
you are deluded. russians have a very hard time understanding ukrainian and the only reason Ukrainians understand russian is explained in the video. in terms of similarity. Ukrainian is more similar to Belarusian language then polish and then russian. dont spread bs if you have no idea what you're talking about
@@viktorias63 I am Latvian who has learned a bit Russian. If I read a text in Lithuanian (which is related to Latvian), I understand almost nothing. If I read a text in Ukrainian, I understand more than half of it.
@@janissturitis2386that’s not enough to speak it or to understand it. Many russians don’t understand Ukranian well. The reason why most people speak two languages is just saturation of russian everywhere
@@juliannawrites I did not say that it was enough per se. Just that anyone who is willing to learn the other language will be able to speak it within few months. On the other hands there are languages that would take years to learn even on a basic level.
The very idea is absurd. Maybe Irish should ban English language, because Britain did so many harm to their country, and switch to Irish? Language itself is not guilty of anything. If you have English as your native language, it's a huge bonus in life regardless of history. Similar thing comes with Russian, which gives its speaker access to an enormous world of culture. And also, it was not forced upon Ukrainians. They spoke it natively for centuries and took a big part in the common culture. It's their language and their country at the same extent as Russians'. And now they are pushed by propaganda to give up all this away, something that belongs to them.
It is called wicked nationalism. Any normal people with common sense it will backfire. The Russian is not foreigner to Ukraine . After the dissolution of USSR 35% of Ukraine is Russian descent. Over 98 percernt of etnic Ukrainian speak fluent Russian.
It's a lie. Russians in Ukraine are Assimilated Ukrainians. The same Russians in the republics of Russia (Mari El, Udmurtia, Mordovia, Komi, etc.) are assimilated local peoples.
@@a_v2114 You messed up assimilation with accepting. Also, Ukraine in Russian language means "On the Edge" which basically means it is Russia on the border. There were no truth independence of Ukraine, even though given by Russia. But they didn't make it and turn the whole country into nazi's lair. Which is now getting fixed.
@@FXtrtzorYou are a complete victim of propaganda. I'm from Russia. I know what aggressive assimilation is All people know this: my (Finno-Ugric), Tatars, Chuvash, Checheans, Dagestanis, Yakuts and so on. So leave your "Russia Today" opinion for fools.
I don't think 98%, maybe if you exclude the western Ukraine. But the west is the most Ukrainian (maybe not because the Carpathians are just a bunch of weird dialects) Ukraine can get.
Funnily enough, you completely ignore the forced Ukrainianization by Lenin in the 1920s which forced ethnic Russians in Ukrainian Soviet territory to speak Ukrainian. Most of this "Ukrainian culture" was in fact invented during the 1920s from Lenin's mistake. The Holodomor came and this killed off mostly Russian speakers, this strengthened forced Ukrainianization of ethnic-Russian territories. An example would be Lwow, a Polish city where before 1939, less than 10% of the population were Ukrainians, but 80 years later, almost 100% of the population are Ukrainians, this is an example of forced Ukrainianization by the Bolshevik communists, started by Lenin. Now Ukrainian propagandists are trying to portray Ukraine as some kind of "victim" based on historical revisionism and twisting of facts (look at Volhynia genocide).
Схожую аналогию можно провести между Австрией и Германией: там и там немцы, но есть отличия по вере. У русских же просто гигантский этнос, который в советское время получилось расчленить. Генетика, которая врать не будет, определяет нас в одну гаплогруппу. Это некоторый аргумент для убедительности. По вере также нет отличий, но исторически северо-западные земли ещё во времена Смуты(из истории России) были под оккупацией Польско-Литовского княжества. Я не вижу особого смысла это обсуждать, потому что никакого этнонима «украинец» тогда и потом не было. Да, влияние было! Да, отдалились совсем немного от востока. Но после ситуация восстановилась, потому что такое событие ничего другого не отменило. Киев - мать городов русских. Нельзя эту часть Руси представить в отрыве от остальной, только во времена раздробленности. Но куда хуже заходить дальше, советская политика переселения народов превратила Украинскую часть России(«Украина» по этимологии в русском языке близка к слову «окраина», не путать с «краем», потому что уж тогда можно думать о значении слова, как о чем-то в отрыве от России) в большую кашу народов, нельзя представлять опять в отрыве, потому что 20-ый век и никакой народ не пощадил в СССР. Украина - это чуть ли не внутренняя политическая оппозиция России, которая по историческим причинам откололась в отдельное нежизнеспособное государство 😢 Вот как следует воспринимать этот конфликт - это ближе к междоусобице, чем к какому-то межэтническому противостоянию. Последнее настоящий бред. Это самоистребление одного народа, которое стоит прекратить поддерживать и спонсировать.
А почему не жизнеспособное государство?) от чего этот великоруский шовенизм, мол без вас никто прожить не может? Настолько не может, что обратно к себе приходится силой загонять 🤔
@@las_art Дорогой соотечественник, тебе место на грядке. Сужу по уровню аргументации. Ну либо ознакомься с политической теорией, узнай про страны сателлиты. Я считаю, что украинцы такие же ребята, как и русские. Генетика полностью на моей стороне! Язык их даже более исконно-русский! Мы в одной культурной среде, потому война - общее для нас поражение.
@@tonal_and_nagual я не говорю, что война это хорошо, нет конечно, война это преступление путина и рф против обоих народов, за которое, надеюсь, его в скоро все таки притащат в Гаагу на исполнение наказания. Но я о другом, схрена ли это Украина как отдельное государство - нежизнеспобное? Если рф не будет нападать, то вполне себе жизнеспособное и даже успешное, когда всё-таки вступит в ЕС. Украине рф не нужна, её там все ненавидят, ровно как язык и самих руских людей. Ничего общего иметь не хотят.
@@las_art Сателлит (от лат. Satelles) - формально независимое государство, находящееся под политическим и экономическим влиянием другого государства и пользующееся его протекционизмом на международной арене. Украина может быть независимым государством лишь формально. Раньше было просто как бессмысленное отдельное образование, а теперь у неё появляется смысл - противостояние себе же (РФ). Так эта страна живет ещё как. По поводу ненависти к «русским». Себя отменить никак не получится, никакого самоопределения не существует. Можно говорить, что Мыкола теперь другой, да и вообще другая форма жизни, но начинка в виде «Николай» никуда не денется. По-моему обсуждать нечего.
@@tonal_and_nagual ахахахахах, ясно объявим всех вокруг своим народом и будем насильно их переделывать в "правильных" людей. Гитлер в гробу перевернулся.
before making any statements you should better study the subject you want to cover. how can you ignore the Gallup Institute study, 2008 showing 84% of the state Ukraine population think in Russian? according to Gallup methodology people think in a language that is native to them or most conveniet if they are bilingual. so the moves to limit the usage of Russian language which started soon after 2014 coup led to the civil unrest especially in the eastern and southern regions. and the unrest turned into an open civil war after Kiev's anticonstitutional decision to start a military operation in the Luhansk-Donetsk city aglomeration
There’s language conflicts in Ukraine all the time. Southern parts of Ukraine will always speak Russian, no matter how much ppl are being harassed there for how they prefer to talk
There’s language conflicts in Russia all the time. Southern parts of Russian will always speak their native languages, no matter how much ppl are being harassed there for how they prefer to talk
As Ukrainian I really like the Russian language - it opens a big window to large RUclips content, books, old movies, and communication around the world. I feel really sorry about status of Russian language in Ukraine.
Then learn English, Spanish, etc. These are much better sources of information, but you are just looking for excuses in the language of murderers, looters and rapists.
@@Krilefhas the Russian language ever killed someone ? No. And didn’t the British have the biggest empire of all time and kill millions of Africans and Indians ? And didn’t the Spanish put millions of “native Americans “ into slavery and killed them in mass numbers? By that logic no one should speak any language
@@Krilef and the languages of these countries were never colonized or fought a war? Well, then you really need to learn sign language, because you have some kind of interesting and one-sided misconception
Before the war it was already illegal to speak Russian. People got beaten and tortured for speaking it in public. I have spoken to Russians who had to flee their homes because of fear of persecution.
No, not at all. Russian is a minority language (less than 20% as their native language) in Ukraine, while Irish in Ireland is barely spoken or known by an overwhelmingly majority of the people.
@@EonServoXA Most Ukrainians spoke Russian before the forced Ukrainianization started by Lenin in the 1920s. I hope Russia de-Ukrainianize their territories.
There will still be a problem for the middle aged and elder generation in the contact with any foreigner. Especially with those from former soviet republics. If a 50 year old Ukrainian meets a 50 year old Georgian or Lithuanian, they will have no other option than speaking Russian since the knowledge of English is very low. And for us foreign interpreters living abroad helping ukrainian refugees; most of us speak Russian and not Ukrainian since it is the most widely studied Slavic language among foreigners. So in any contact with foreigners or other nations as long as the majority of people don't have a good knowledge of English, they will still have to speak Russian.
The 50 Years olds will use Russian as international language (in that area), the Younger will use English, and the future generation likely also English.
@@abodabalo In any case, it can take 30-40 years at least before the Russian language is completely erradicated as a lingua franca between people of former soviet republics inkluding and not least Ukraine. And given the fact how many Ukrainians already have Russian as a first OR second language, and how few who have a good or fluent knowledge of English, that change won't come any time soon..
@@ElisSthlm74 My wife and all colleagues (age 40+) who grew up in the GDR (Eastern Germany) still know some Russian. Some schools in Germany are still offering Russian as second or third foreign language. So, I don't think Russian disappears soon, even much more West than Ukraine. However, this great schism between Russia and rest of Europe will certainly accelerate it.
@@abodabalo Then we share that analysis, and the example you took with GDR, who actually didn't even have any Russian-speaking population to talk about, and who were incorporated with Western Germany over 30 years ago, that says a lot how long things can take. I would assume that IF Ukraine will gain complete freedom and Russia would lose its grip of it completely, through a new collapse or something, and Ukraine will join EU and Nato, then of course the only spoken language in Ukraine will be Ukrainian. But I don't think that every middle aged and elderly ukrainian suddenly will learn English fluently and I don't think that Ukrainian is going to be more taught in foreign nations than let's say Bulgarian or Polish. So Russian will inevitabely still be a lingua franca for Ukrainians in any contact with non-ukrainians for at least a generation or so.
"If a 50 year old Ukrainian meets a 50 year old Georgian or Lithuanian" Ah yes, that happens so very often. Our linguistic policy is first and foremost oriented towards Ukrainians, not the "бальшой ахват" or other foreigners
There is nothing wrong with a language im currently learning German,Turkish and Russian but I dont feel gulity even though thay my heritage comes from places that was opressed by the creators of the languages
If I'm understanding correctly, the main issue is not that Ukrainians speak Russian, but that they don't speak Ukrainian. That's a sure way to gradually lose your culture. So, although I feel like prohibiting a language everywhere is restricting the freedom of speech, it's quite justified in the context of survival of your own culture. Also, what might be even more important, your whole population speaking a language of the foreign country opens the way to fall under the influence of that country. And as a leader of your country you don't want that, especially if that foreign country does not have a good relationships with yours.
good for you big man, but the Ukrainian people don't have a distant ancestral history with the Russian people, they are currently being attacked and murdered by them
My family are Russian speaking Ukrainians and the current language laws do nothing except alienate many Russian speakers in Ukraine, which is a terrible idea when we need national unity more than ever. I've seen people pushed to pro-Russia views directly as a result of these laws. We all understand Ukrainian, but we can't speak it perfectly and we're not going to change, because some nationalist larpers want a return to a 100% Ukrainian speaking country, as if that ever existed. Similarly, Ukrainian speakers understand Russian and it's very common to have conversations where one person speaks Ukrainian and the other speaks Russian with absolutely no problem. If Ukraine is serious about de-occupying their territory and reintegrating it successfully, which I hope they do, they need to accept that the Russian langauge is part of Ukraine, much like how the English language is part of Ireland nowadays.
All of my russian-speaking friends switched because they care about our culture. This is just lazy. Your comment shows how little respect you have for the Ukrainian language
I've heard the same complaint from Ukranian refugees in Canada. We've gone through similar language struggles in Canada with French and English. We require both languages on packaging and both languages available for government services. It incentivizes being bilingual for better jobs. I support Ukraine to the very end but I think they need to work hard not to alienate the people they want to liberate, or what's the point? At some point the ukranian only policy just breeds discontent in people who need to be brought closer. If that's not possible, certain places may not be worth trading patriotic ukranian soldiers lives for. Just my 2 cents, Slava Ukraini!
@@juliannawrites Good for them, let people speak whatever language they like. I'm personally for the promotion of Ukrainian culture and language, because it has been suppressed for a long time, but not forced use of it like we have now. The Russian language is also part of our heritage, it's the language we grew up speaking and undeniably part of Ukraine's culture considering around 30% of people in Ukraine speak Russian as their first language. If Ukraine is ever going to be united again, we need to accept Ukraine's culture as it is, not some idealistic view of what it should be. Anyhow, how is my position lazy? As someone who knows at least three languages, surely you must know how difficult it is to become profficient in a new language. You can become good at a new language, but you'll struggle to be as comfortable as you are in your first language. Considering Ukrainian and Russian are so similar, whenever I try to speak Ukrainian it just ends up being broken surzhyk. Sure I can improve over time, but I would have been far more enthusiatic about it if it wasn't for the laws trying to force me to change.
@@Stevethelightingguy Agreed. If Canada can do it with English and French, or Switzerland with Swiss-German, French, Italian and Romansh, Ukraine surely can with Ukrainian and Russian which are much more similar.
@@chepatsanyanimehow many historically Ukrainian territories in Russia (long enough to actually make such programs)? Your point makes 0 sense considering other minorities (just some for this one) have even their own laws (that can't contradict the constitution, but that's a given) and can learn and speak whatever language they want (even on local bills)
@@BLET_55artem55 Кубань, Донщина, Зелёный Клин, Жёлтый Клин, Серый клин, временно оккупированные территории Украины. Хоть где-то украинский ещё преподаётся?
@@chepatsanyanime а зачем его преподавать Ингушетам или Черкессам? Нац. языки преподаются в отдельных регионах, зачастую с титульной нацией. Подожди пару лет, пока "временные" станут постоянными, и тогда уже возмущайся
@@BLET_55artem55 Названные регионы являются исторически украинскими, либо с большой частью украинского населения в них. Где сейчас преподают украинский язык, повторяю? Рашист в своём глазу бревно не видит.
The video contains factual errors. For example, the Russian Empire never owned all of modern-day Ukraine. Secondly, it ignores the similarity between Russian and Ukrainian languages, which allowed Ukrainians to more easily learn Russian. Thirdly, it greatly overestimates the significance of "Russification policies." We know from data that the areas that speak Russian the most are the ones that were under Russian control the least. In other words, if these policies were not in place, almost nothing would really change. In Soviet times, there was the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, whose existence compensated for any "Russification policies" in preserving Ukrainian identity. If there was truly a policy of Russification, then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic would not have existed. There is so much bias in how history is taught in the West.
The least controlled by russia are west regions, that are almost 100% Ukrainian-speaking even before the war has started, what are you on? Second, Ukrainian puppet soviet republic was set for propaganda reason, because it was shown as a continuation of UPR, that existed before, but with different "fancy" ideology called communism, which people believed would bring wealth and prosperity, but as we know, it did not at all, poor people.
@@ayararesara6253 Western Ukraine was never fully under Russian political control. The Soviet Union is not the same as Russia. The area that was under Russian control for the least amount of time is Crimea, but it is the most Russian part of Ukraine. Situation with Donbass is similar.
@@asdilia693 Mmm, I get your point, but it's not 100% accurate. Out of ukrainian territories of Russian empire the latest annexed one was Bessarabia in 1812. Northern part is as ukrainian as neighbouring Bukovyna, southern has a mix of bulgarians, ukrainians and russians. Yedisan was after crimea too. Crimea was annexed by RE relatively late (in 1783), true, but it doesn't speak russian not so much because of russification policy (language change within ethnicity), but because of migration. Since previous population simply got replaced by outsiders. First, christians were deported to other places (this is how crimean greeks became azovian greeks for example), and russians began to settle in peninsula. In 1897, the most popular language was still crimean tatar (35% of population) with russian second (33%), but 20 years later russians became the biggest ethnicity (>40%) and after 1944 tatar deportation it was settled by them again (at least 70% I think). Such a change witihin a single century. Meanwhile Donbas actually was a part of Moscow tsardom earlier than any other ukrainian land (in 1533 taken from golden horde? I don't remember) - buuut it wasn't properly settled because was seen as frontier against tatars and other. There are only like four cities founded before 1660s. Also it was settled primarily by ukrainians from Left bank who became a part of tsardom in 2nd half of 17th century. So it's technically the most "moscowian" land by the time of control, but not si much by ethnic composition. Despite migration within USSR (in 1989 17% of Donbas were born in RSFSR instead of Ukraine), in 2001 census ~60% declared themselves ukrainians. However, from 1897 to 2001 the percentage of ukrainian native language dropped from >50% to ~25%. So this is where russification played a main role. Replacement too, but much less than in Crimea.
It's cool to know English as your second, or some useful language, but russian culture will always contain propaganda and will be aimed at Ukrainian society only in destructive way. I used to speak Russian, but now i speak Ukrainian, my parents also try, the exception is my brother, but i won't force him ofc.
Russian isn't useful really, if you want to talk to russians, well, you don't want to talk with them, with belarussians goes the same, with other post-soviet nations you talk in English.
@@rinoku16 we're speaking English because of the colonialisation of the largest empire in world history. If you want to play that card we shouldn't he speaking English. In fact I'd say it's in fact racist to hold the opinions you do, defining an entire culture as one political opinion is racist
One of Russia's justification for the war is to protect "Russian-speaking people in Ukraine", the same how Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in WW2 to protect "German-speaking people in Czechoslovakia". The equivalent in the Anglosphere would be England invading all of Ireland to protect "English-speaking people in Ireland".
SHAME on this post! In 4 instances you have shown maps (4:50, 4:53, 30 sec from 7:24 to 7:54, and 8:48) with Crimea NOT being a part of Ukraine. You are in violation of the International law, and posting on this topic the least you could do is to respect the fight of Ukrainian people against the evil. Please remove or replace those maps immediately. Thank you for your concern about the restoration of Ukrainian language, your support of Ukraine and your condemnation of criminal genocidal regime currently ruling moskovy and ruzzia.
But German speaking people in Czechoslovakia were actually Germans not Czechs. I think many people in Ukraine before 2014 or even 2022 didn't really know whether they were Russians or Ukrainians.
@@Piter311no the German speaking citizens in Sudetenland were Chech citizens same as people in Austria are Austriean even they belonged to the German Empire in the past. History does not justify changing borders.
1. No one should feel guilty about speaking Russian. Languages don't invade countries, armies invade countries (if a psycho orders them). If people wanna switch to Ukrainian, fine, but nobody should be shamed into it. Freedom of speech includes freedom of speaking whatever language you want. 2. Stopping teaching Russian in schools is one thing but removing information boards? They are meant to convey information, the more languages they have, the better. This is overkill. 3. The biggest problem with these Ukrainian-encouraging laws is that minority languages (other than Russian) get caught up in the crossfire, like Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian and Ruthenian. Are their rights ensured?
Yes, we have laws to defend languages of native people like Crimean Tatars, but russian and other languages have their own countries and they don't need to be defended.
@@Anbopro Let's say the rest of South America decides to invade Brazil and force Brazilians to speak Spanish. You're saying that the Portuguese language in Brazil doesn't need to be defended, just because Portugal exists. Do you see the problem now?
@@gabor6259 Comparison and especially such stupid one is not an argument, sorry. Russians language will not be defended in any way, because it's a language of colonisers. What else do you need to hear from me? Do you understand who are colonisers and why it's bad to defend their language which is not supposed to even be here? We'll think about it after war and when ukrainian language will not be endangered by neighbours agressive culture. So don't tell us please what to do in our country. If you're bad at history. Do you know how many times ukrainian language was banned by russians? No? So go to wiki and read about it. It's about 100 times as I remember. We must to unite people with ukrainian language first and not to spread language which can replace ours.
But how does that happen?? How, after hundreds of years of Russia trying so hard to push Russian in the country, does Ukrainian get restored so quickly?
Ukraine has always had a strong will and cultural identity, even though Russia tried hard to supress it during many years. It flourished 'underground' or out of sight. But ukrainian culture started blooming openly again during the end of the Russian empire. But after that they got invaded by the USSR and they again began oppressing ukrainians, perhaps even more than before.
@@fredthefish581lol, he is an ethnic jew, and his parents are from Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. Of course, he starred in russian entertainment, but he also founded the biggest entertainment company in Ukraine called "95 kvartal". This company made a lot for ukrainian cinema and show industry.
as for decommunization, then, of course, they will not say that the USSR was led by Ukrainians most of the time, Georgians came second, and Gorbachev alone was among the Russians
@@user-qp1ge5su6z а, то ти з московії, там свинячим діалектом болгарської розмовляють. Скільки рубликів на місяць отримуєш за підтримку своєї недоімперії, ватне?
There is one ironic fact: most of those supporters of Russia are largely illiterate in anything Russian. In fact, not many people even bother learning Russian at all. Pro-Russian are plenty but they share a similar problem: zero knowledge in Russian history, language and culture - which made their support for Russia even more hypocritical. Take India, Vietnam, Iraq or Mali for example: a lot are delusional pro-Russian, but when asked about speaking Russian or understanding Russian history, they are completely absent of knowledge, they can't speak Russian, they don't know how Russian history is actually built for, as if it is a blackhole. That's why after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, almost every country formerly part of the Soviet sphere of influence drop Russian from education course. I am Vietnamese Czech, and talk less about my Czechia aside since most Czechs are ardently anti-Russian, the majority of Vietnamese who proclaimed "pro-Russian" can't even speak or communicate in Russian, have no understanding about how Russian political system is like, have no idea about Russian people's mental isolation and drug issues, and has no knowledge about Russia's barbaric history. Hopefully Ukraine will end this Russian menace.
@@FrutoseDeMorango Weird, because most anti-American people use English, the de facto lingua franca in the US, to express. But they have no qualm praising Russia in English. Right? You don't live in Russia so you do not understand. My parents lived there. I speak Russian perfectly. We knew how underdeveloped Russia is. Yet pro-Russians love Russia to a point they don't live in Russia but in the free world for what?
@@FrutoseDeMorango Plus, you pro-Moskal hypocrites should ask yourself: why don't you live in Russia if Russia is such a brilliant country for you? Why are so many Russians migrating to the other countries per years? Even China is better than Russia.
Pro-Russian people think Russia is the best country on earth, yet they prefer to migrate to the decadent West is more hilarious than that. Poor delusional pro-Russian trolls think Russia is the best but have no ball to live in Russia.
Russia is a multilingual country, so I doubt that they'll HAVE to. And I also doubt that the other 70% of Ukrainian won't be used to pay off all the military funding from EU (esp. Poland, they really want to get their Commonwealth borders back)
I have an old friend from Ukraine. She's bilingual but is technically Russian speaking, as that was the language she spoke at home growing up. Regardless, in all the years I've known her, I have never heard her refer to herself, or express herself in any way other than being Ukrainian. No sense of being kinda sorta Russian. Zero
There is huge mix. Both Russian and Ukranian may mean natinality or citizenship. And for many Ukranian means Ukranian Russian. Many consider it same nation, it's just other voices that much louder and get more room in media. Or she may be hardcore Ukranian indeed.
It seems to me that you missed a very important point when you talked about the ability of Muscovy to destroy Ukrainian culture throughout history, because despite the largest Ukrainian bans such as the Valuev Circular or the Ems Decree, Ukrainian culture, on the contrary, flourished among writers and artists, albeit underground. "Aeneid" of 1842 by Ivan Kotlyarevsky was the beginning of the revival of the Ukrainian language, after which writers, philosophers, playwrights, great scientists and doctors began to appear
@@Luka-rt7jy 🇺🇦Я спілкуюсь російською але я перейшов на українську повністю, і в мене є сумніви стосовно московитськох мови бо світ потихеньку її забуває так як національні мови важливіші у масах а ніж клята мова тисячолітніх загарбників 🇭🇷Govorim ruski, ali sam skroz prešao na ukrajinski, a oko moskovitskog jezika imam nedoumice, jer ga svijet polako zaboravlja, jer su narodni jezici narodnim jezicima važniji od prokletog jezika tisućljetnih osvajača 🇬🇧I speak Russian, but I switched to Ukrainian completely, and I have doubts about the Muscovite language, because the world is slowly forgetting it, as national languages are more important to the masses than the cursed language of thousand-year-old invaders
The second person in Zelensky government, Aleksey Aristovich who not long ago became a dissident and had to emigrare to USA speaks Russian in his interviews and strugles for multicultural Ukraine
"struggles". He was born in Georgia and raised in Belarus. In a Russian-speaking family. He's an opportunist hungry for money and recognition, which you are giving him.
@@thatguystalker8649 подивись на карту УНР і відкриєш для себе несподіванку. І до того ж там завжди жили українці яких в рос.імперії використовували як робочу силу.
@@MrPeterPanAccording to the Crimean Tatars and the Mejlis, Crimea is Ukraine. I'm 1/4 Crimean Tatar, and that side of my family would have committed a brutal Jihad against me if I would disagree with them that Qırım Ukrayna'dır.
на украине как говорили на русском, так и говорят. да временно люди перешли на украинский из-за страха или обид на Россию, но что в соцсетях или чат-рулетке спокойно переходят на русский. по большому счету украинский язык кроме как в украине нигде и не нужен, но украинизация страны уже приводит к обратному эффекту. люди переходят на польский, английский, русский языки лишь бы не говорить на украинском. это как маркер свой - чужой. говоришь на украинском - значит селюк, рагуль, окраинец. а после окончания конфликта, когда украина окончательно свалится в руину, миллионы людей поедут во все стороны и на чужбине украинский язык забудут очень быстро.
Ukrainian itself is a very ugly language. Very blunt and hard sounding, almost exaggerated by Ukrainians so that they make themselves out to be as separate from Russians as they can. Russian is a lot more pleasant to my Polish ears, very sharp.
I don't think there will be any problems if there is no peace soon. If Russia takes Kharkiv and Odessa, Ukraine will be halved compared to today, and Ukrainian is already spoken there. Then when the Ukrainians find out about all the peace drafts that NATO opposed, Zelendski may become so unpopular that he will be forced to flee the country if he survives until then. There are already divided opinions in the government.
За весь период УССР не скажу , только за конец 1970 -х и начало 1980 -х. Моя мать в этот период училась в Ворошиловграде ( сейчас это Луганск) и по её словам, даже задолго до начала обучения в УССР телевизионное и радио вещание велось на двух языках в обязательном порядке. Та же система была и в других советских республиках, все важные новости и программы, включая развлекательные обязательно переводились на местный язык или наоборот на русский. Единственной особенностью конкретно Украины было то, что представители других республик более спокойно относились к вещанию на русском, так как перемещаясь по огромной стране это было удобнее для них, ну не удобно грузину или узбеку изучать целых 3 языка ( например родной язык, русский, украинский), тоже касается документооборота. Например когда произошел взрыв на ЧАЭС, то туда пошла помощь со всего СССР и если бы везде документы заполняли на местном языке, то это сильно затянуло бы работы по консервации станции. Русский язык по СССР распространяли по 2 основным причинам, первая вполне логичная, проще управлять народом, который говорит на одном языке, вторая также не лишена логики, людям. которые говорят на одном языке проще общаться между собой, а значит и вероятность конфликта между ними становится ниже. Так что не все видео правда и не имеет основание считаться истиной. P.S. По работе часто общаюсь с представителя разных народов и какой-то непонятной причине на работе пара рабочих бригад состоящих полностью из украинцев думали, что я тоже украинец, хотя на самом деле я русский с примесью татарской, калмыцкой и казахской крови, (выгляжу как русский, но скулы немного выше, глаза сероватые и кожа почти белая, не совсем типичный русский, а двоюродный брат так вообще почти рыжий), а все так думали из-за того, что я часто говорил используя донской говор, который так или иначе использует схожие слова, звуки и построение речи, что и кубанский говор и запорожский говор. Так что ещё одна палка в колесо незалежной, их язык это по большой части один из диалектов русского языка и старорусского языка ( заимствование никто не отменял).
Russia did that for sure, but why should Ukraine follow Russia's example? Would it not be better to follow more democratic and tolerant countries like Belgium and Swizterland which accept their linguistic minorities?
@@mistyautumnwoods Manx was just a dialect of Irish, and irish language is almost dead. And once half of Europe spoke celtic languages, how many in Europe speak them now?
This directly affects US policy. And US policy affects all of Europe. Everything is interconnected. After the US defeat in Ukraine, trust in the US as a reliable ally will greatly decline. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have already broken away from the United States. Previously, these were serious allies of the United States. If this continues, the US influence on world politics will quickly collapse.
Here's an interesting fact: employers publish vacancies in Ukrainian because they are required by law (do they dictate in your country what language to speak?). Look for statistics in what language people make queries on Google in Ukraine - Russian (from 65-75% according to various statistics).
It takes a special kind of restart (😉) to look at your "history" explanation and not turn of immediately after seeing that YOUR history of the region starts in 16th century with some fucking Sloboda.
As a Russian-speaking Ukrainian, this is outrageous. Our government spends money on removing historical statues because there's a letter "ы" in it? Or because it's in another language I'm sure most of Ukrainians undertstand. I'm just being forced not to speak the language, not to listen to Russian songs which I absolutely love, and it's just sad to be honest. I understand Ukrainian well but most of Ukrainians probably speak it better than I do. The best way this country could've gone is 2 official languages, Russian and Ukrainian. But hell no, nobody wants a logical decision and peace, right?
Strange. I visited Ukraine a decade ago and everyone spoke Russian. Yeah, I know the situation has changed, but this still seems fairly odd to me. Russian used to be the lingua franca of Ukraine. Many Ukrainians, especially those living in the southeastern parts of the country, do not even speak Ukrainian. Dunno how they're gonna do this
It largely depends on what area you visited. The western part speaks Ukrainian (big cities and rural areas), but big cities of East and Kyiv were almost 100% russian speaking before the war. Same happened in old empires with a dominant culture/language and their "small" nations.
Русский язык не зря великий и могучий, на нем огромное множество выражений, научных трудов, поэзии и другого литературного искусства, современный язык европейского человека, но если люди хотят вернуться в село, балакать и квакать, нет проблем, это их дело. Думаю многие слыша Украинский говор воля не волей улыбаются, звучит довольно весело, но как серьёзный язык, я лично не могу его воспринимать, это что-то из древней руси чудом дожившее до наших времен.
There is a Significant Russian Minority in Ukraine Mostly in Eastern Ukraine so no Ukraine can't completely get rid of Russian but Ukrainians would not pass it on to Newer Generations Russians still would though
You'll see the Russian speakers in the Donbas region stop speaking Russian and not teach their children it after this war ends. I have two friends from Eastern Ukraine who refuse to speak the Russian they grew up speaking and only speak English or Ukrainian now.
@@richlopez5896 Те территории, что приобрела Россия, останутся с ней навсегда, чтобы вернуть эти территории, Украине прийдëтся поставить свой народ на грань вымирания, после чего скорее всего про Украину более не вспомнят
Бред полнейший. Наоборот, в СССР происходила украинизация населения Украины, в школах преподавался родной (украинский) и русский язык, плюс немецкий, английский или (местами) французский, на выбор. То есть гражданин украины по выпуску знал три языка - украинский, русский и любой из трёх прикладных. В Киеве и восточных регионах преимущественно говорили на русском, в портовых городах юга Украины и Крыма - равно на русском и украинском, на остальной части Украины - преимущественно на украинском. У нас дома до сих пор хранятся учебники и книги, напечатанные типографиями СССР на украинском языке.
As a former Ukrainian citizen, I was born in Ukraine with Russian as my first language. Unfortunately, I didn't have the opportunity to learn proper Ukrainian when we moved to Europe, so I mainly communicate in Russian with my friends and family. There is a growing sentiment of anger towards Russians, leading to a boycott of the Russian language, which in turn results in discrimination against those who still speak Russian. For instance, my uncle, who voluntarily joined the army to protect his country, is facing discrimination solely because of his Russian language proficiency. On the flip side, my grandparents and some family friends, who struggle with Ukrainian, feel threatened by other people. Despite living in the country they wer born in, they no longer feel at home. In post-Soviet countries, Russian serves as a practical means of communication, much like English in Western Europe, facilitating interaction among diverse groups of people.
To be honest I don't ever see discrimination of russian language at any rate in Kyiv and nearby region. The same can be said about all cities of central and eastern Ukraine. I know plenty of people there, they speak russian and feel ok. Idk though, what's the case for rural areas and more Western Ukraine, but I believe that people who do violence because of language are extremely rare in Ukraine. Throughout last 5 years before and after invasion, I would say ukrainian language was more harassed than russian. Як українець підтверджую, що ніфіга не бачу насилля на вулицях і ніхто нікого не притісняє)))
@@rosty8344 you could not leave Ukraine before the Crimean War for two reasons: firstly, the Crimean War took place in the mid-19th century, and secondly, Ukraine was not on the map at that time.
One thing I found from pro-Russian hypocrites are why these people love Russia, but never dare to settle in Russia but frequently arrive in the decadent West and settle. I have seen that with numerous Russian émigré groups in France, Canada, Uruguay, the US, Mexico, Argentina and the UK. One side they praise Russia but at the same time they want to keep the current style of living and do not want to return to Russia at all. This is even more hilarious than just the language debate. Pro-Russian fans think Russia is the best country in the world yet Russians don't even want them to live in their country. Notable impact is the story of Indians in my ancestral India, many praise Russia but when asked to migrate, Russia is never on top of their agenda, but rather Germany, France, Italy or the US. Much for decadent West. The same is on with even the people elsewhere in the world, they want to raise the Russian flag and cheer Russia but as always, their destinations are either countries in Europe, North America or Latin America. Ha!
Put some more research in. We love our own countries and speak our own languages and not Russian. Russia has much better values than what our current leaders have in place.
Just because we like a country doesn't mean that we have to move there. It is such a bad talking point to make and has makes no sense at all. How about you move to Ukraine then if you love them so much 🤣
It will be very easy. After Russia wins, only Ukrainian speaking territories will remain with Ukraine. It will be hardest for Volodya, his native language is Russian and he still doesn´t speak Ukrainian as good.
@@daguy9305 Yes, I already did some research, including from official reports from the OCSE team that stayed on the Donbass from 2014 to 2021 (which are freely available online), and that thing about the genocide of the Donbass is simply not real. I mean, even Wagner personnel and Igor Girkin debunked that, saying it was all fake and 100% propaganda. About NATO expansion, it's even more nonsensical. First of all, no real agreement was signed between NATO and Russia about NATO expansion - there was informal talking about that and we know that due to several interviews with Gorbachev, but no legitimate and legal agreement was actually signed on paper. Also NATO didn't invade anything, the countries themselves joined NATO. If the goal of Russia in Ukraine was to stop any more countries to join NATO, they clearly failed then since Finland and Sweden already applied for NATO membership and Finland has already joined the alliance this year.
There are a lot of videos on the Internet where language patrols from local lunatics demand to speak Ukrainian, although there is no such law. You can't force a person to speak a certain language. Especially if this person was born in this city and speaks Russian since childhood. And when these crazy people are rudely sent, they complain to the SBU, which then forces them to apologize on camera and confess their love for the Ukrainian language.
I don’t think you’re quite right on the subject of people not getting jobs because of not speaking Russian in USSR. Ukrainian is very similar to Russian and that’s why we never had a problem with anyone speaking on it. Yes if you want to work in Russia’s part of USSR, than you need it to write documentation, but not to speak on it.
He compared the difference in language at least into a deeply awkward situation right after he related the difference between the authentic Ukrainian language vs. Russian (that weren’t as free-willing and honest for anyone who’d to encounter that…. People were forced into Russian speaking and reading.) And the example he’d given was to compare it with English speaking and reading vs. the rest of the world…. He could’ve just said that English instead of Scottish, Welsh and Irish was sort of gestured towards the citizens of those countries to be the native language.
Strictly speaking, Mandarin is native to the part of China where Beijing is, so Chinese from other parts of the country or Chinese in other countries whose ancestors were not from Beijing might argue that while they can speak Mandarin, they might consider their mother tongue to be other Chinese dialects/languages instead e.g. Foochow/Hockchew, Teochew, Shanghaiese
@@lzh4950Mandarin is not native only to Beijing area, it is native in huge part of china, it cover the entire country except for tibet, inner mongolia, southeastern coast, and xinjiang. So Qinghai, Sichuan and many other province natively speak a different dialect of mandarin, but they still speak mandarin. And both the province I mentioned is located far away from Beijing
Why do you keep showing Crimea as not a part of Ukraine? That's ridiculous. It's occupied just like other eastern territories, which you correctly show as Ukrainian. There is absolutely no difference in status of these territories.
Crimea is not a part of Ukraine also in real life. For over a decade. Are you living in a cave? Yes, he should have updated the map and he should have shown much less territory belonging to Ukraine than he did in the video.
You can at least draw Moscow as part of Ukraine. You can draw any maps, but it won't change the fact. Crimea is an annexed territory with almost only a Russian population.
To be fair, you will see any other nation doing that if it feels threatened by another power. Like in west african countries there is also complete removal of french from schools, everyday life and government institutions because of colonial history of those nations. But I think that in the long run that is a really bad idea to completely drop language and cultural as it goes agaisnt the rights of the minority which is one of the pillars of modern democratic societies.
we don't delete russian culture. every ukrainian who stopped speaking russian and started speaking ukrainian, did it of his own free will. Nobody here forces people speak ukrainian. Even our president before going in politics, spoke only in russian. So, the russian culture will always continue to exist, it's just we make the percentage of our culture bigger and bigger because it will make the influence of Russia on us less powerful in the future.
just because someone speaks a language it doen´t mean they belong to the country of origin of that language, why don´t we give latin america to spain then?
@@markoofski unless people who speak the language say they want to be with the country of origin. You can't respect self-determination and territorial integrity at the same time or do it only if it suits your agenda. Those are exclusive. If you think Putin would invade territories, where people hate Russians, you would be mistaken. It's almost impossible to assimilate such populations and usually lead to more problems. Ukraine was a deeply divided country. There is a bunch of people who will flip-flop the minute Russian military establishes firm control. Melitopol, Berdyansk. Most people there were glad they skipped the "war" part.
There are a lot of policies being tried to be implemented to make Ukraine literally a bilingual in Ukrainian and English, making all cinemas in English, doubling everything with both languages, making less screen time in Ukrainian (from 90% to 50% or lower), so more can be in English and other languages (because government wants to open borders for migrants from all over the world) etc., we will see if all those project will come to life, politicians and ministers are in support of most of this.
I'd like to apologize for the mistakes I made on this video regarding the mapping of not putting Crimea as Ukraines! This video was edited during some pretty late nights and I guess I didn't even notice the mistakes due to lack of sleep. Obviously, Crimea belongs to Ukraine! Sorry!
Obviously, except for the Russians that temporarily live there. What should happen to them?
DE FACTO Crimea = Russia, DE JURE = Ukraine...
So you're not wrong either...
Crimea has been in hands of Russia for a decade now, so I don't know what you are talking about. Are you saying that Ukraine is controlling it? Are you high?
@@tomweiss9600they would most likely leave? As all Ruski Mir lovers do after Ukrainian land so freed.
@@kacperzimowski4626decades? In 1991 they voted to join Ukraine democraticly. Decades or not, recently it's Ukrainian. And even decades is not correctly, Crimea belonged to Crimea Khane, not the butchers next door.
it's sad, of course, but at the same time funny: quite often I see videos with Ukrainian military men who speak Ukrainian, but suddenly a drone or an artillery shell arrives, and these Ukrainians almost always switch to pure Russian
You mean like blyad or something ? bc I've watched a lot of Ukrainian war footage and never saw what you described.
@@HingalshDealer "Female Ukraine combat medic fires back as four Russian tanks attack her trench and wound comrades" from Daily Mail. They switch to both languages probably becuase they can´t all understand ukrainian fully and/or because of the stressful situation. Just one example.
@@HingalshDealer I've seen such videos in telegrams. In general, this is due to the fact that initially these are Russian-speaking people, before the war, the Ukrainian language was not very popular in Ukraine, so in a stressful situation, all these soldiers instinctively switch to Russian
alright got you @@Dias-hq8jd
Of course, who did really believe that the Ukrainian language was always preferred over the Russian language which is way more sophisticated? But don't worry as soon as this mess will end, and we all know how it will end, the Russian language will be spoken in Ukraine without problems again.
Russian is the president's first language.
The second not the first!
@vlen5615 No, he is a native Russian speaker, his Ukranian is not even at a native level.
Not anymore it isn't.
Слава Україні!
But it doesn't stop him from speaking Ukrainian. Слава Украïнi! 🇺🇦
Now he forgets how speak it, chances are coming
You missed the part when apes did evolved from ancient Ukrs
И выкопали несколько морей, не забывай
What a propaganda !!! I am Russian who was born in Donetsk, Donbass in Soviet Union ( Russian speaking territory in the east of " Ukraine " ). We were forced by the authorities of Soviet Union to study Ukrainian language, history and traditions in schools. Ukrainian culture was highly promoted. Ukrainian culture and ukrainian nationalism are two different things.
absolutely agree! people just don't understand that country can be multicultural, USSR was multicultural country, which Russia does also. But Ukraine decided to go the opposite way, more nationalism kind of way, no other cultures, only ukranian, burn crosses.... East part of the country was disagree with this derussification, but they haven't been asked.... This video tells that all the Ukrainian people suffered from the Russia influence which is total b.s. I don't support what Putin is doing now though, it's just craziness....
@@kirsanov2008 total bs...?
please, google up:
-Emskyy Ukaze
-Korenization
-Executed Renaissance/Shot Revival
-Sixtiers
@galinagala8260 so now you have made a contradiction. you say this is propaganda, but all of a sudden you are blaming it on Soviet authorities for learning...Ukrainian?
@@leer1698Never mind. These are bots.
Russia (USSR, empire) has always destroyed other peoples using assimilation.
I am from Russia, from the Republic of Mordovia.
Our people have also been destroyed for hundreds of years.
They simply force us to speak Russian, they convince us that we are Russian.
This is damn maniacal evil.
@@leer1698 зачем нам что то гуглить, если мы сами жили в это время и знаем как было? Переписанную историю читать и фейки???
My wife is from Kharkov. And it has always been a Russian speaking city. I've visited there twice. First time in 2008 and the last time in April/May 2013. My father-in-law is from there too and always speaks in his native Russian and is proud of his native tongue. This video completely omits the attempted ethnic cleansing of Eastern Ukraine of ethnic Russians and Russian speakers. Particularly in the Donbass regions. It whitewashes the role of the Nazi-Banderite West Ukrainians and their odious ideology and reeks of Russophobia.
this is Ukraine. There is ukrainian language. So all people in this country gotta know/speak it. If you dont want to - russia is your place
@@petroolenych9621 Should Ireland make everyone speak Irish instead of English? Whether you like it or not, Ukraine is a multilingual country like Swizerland and Belgium. Around 30% speak Russian as their main language. If Ukraine ever hopes to reintegrate their Russian speaking territories that are occupied by Russia and become a liberal EU country, they are going to have to accept this fact and give language rights to their minorities.
You're a liar. Russian bombed Kharkiv.
Kharkiv voted to be Ukraine overwhelming 90% independence from Soviet, union> you're a Russian bot. Kharkiv people fought Russians and still fight as Ukrainians
@@Rb39-ej5hh Ireland has many ethic groups Muslims, blacks, it's 2023, not 1983. Ireland is like USA now. Go do research
@@redscorpion-se4hr What's your point? The guy said that Ukraine is a country and there is a language called Ukrainian, therefore everyone in Ukraine has to speak Ukrainian, which is a negative IQ argument. Same reasoning would suggest that everyone in Ireland should speak Irish.
Ukraine also has many ethnic and linguistic groups, with 30% of people speaking Russian as their first language.
I live in Kharkiv. I spoke Russian all my life. Even when the war began, I did not speak Ukrainian. And I never will.
You must feel pretty proud. Being fluent in just one language is quite appealing. 😂
@@Bellsfrombayhe knows English
Nothing to be proud of. Hopefully after such comments foreigners won’t think we’re all like this. Many people are ashamed of the fact they allowed themselves to be so dissolved in russian language, content and info space, abandoning our owns. And they (inc. me) are returning to things as they’re supposed to be - to Ukrainian literally everything
@@Bellsfrombay 1-Delta-10-Tango
@@Bellsfrombay Ukranian sounds like fucked up version of Russian.
Languages get dropped out of fear of losing jobs and avoid abuses, or straight up death, only giving RF better reasons to continue the onslaught. And why is that the soldiers on the frontline keep getting caught speaking the enemies' language to each other? The statistic you provided only proves that population of Ukraine is getting divided more and more, and Russian speaking half (literally) is getting forced to use Ukrainian instead of their native language.
Does that mean Russian minorities should stop speaking tatar, bashkir, ulrainian, udmurtian etc or that’s different, how dare I compare?
no? how is that even comparable?
@@sndx2 Russian are minority in Ukraine, Bashkirs/Tatars/Ukrainians etc are minorities in Russia. Much comparable.
@@azadthebutt the difference is that russians are not native to Ukraine, and they have their own country, unlike bashkirs and tatars, also russians have been trying to erase Ukrainian language for centuries, so Ukraine is just trying to de-russify itself
@@sndx2 so you’re ok if Ukrainians stop speaking Ukrainian in Russia, after all, they aren’t native to Russian land. Or it’s a different story again?
@@azadthebutt everyone should speak whatever language they want to, just don't enforce your language to the local people
Very misleading history. Ukraine literally means borderland. In the 16th century no one spoke what is the modern standardized Ukrainian, certainly not in Slobodna Krajna, which literally means free border area. All Orthodox east slavic speakers, to the sense they had any national identity, considered themselves 'Rus'.
Well, in the 16th century there was no Russia either. They called themselves Muscovy or principality of Moscow. They only borrowed "Rus" thing into their name in the second half of 16th century and started to call themselves "Russia"
The "Rus" was historically name of vast areas of territory, most of which was never ruled by principality of Moscow before 18th century
how to rewrite history just by youtube and 2000$/ month
And thats was written by russian kid😌
I mean, he did say some bullshit. But it’s mostly correct. Ukraine is trying to wipe the Russian language from its pages. Russia wants to keep it.
@@IAmDekwritten
@@saooran7364 well, thanks for fixing
and why a kid ?
Nobody on the ukraine speaks pure ukranian, because nobody knows it. They speak "surjik" - combo of two languages.
That's right. I've heard that there is about 10 people in whole Ukraine who know pure Ukrainian
lol. Nobody is a big word. How do you know, Ivan?
@@afghaajwhat you’ve heard is bullshit.. I’m Ukrainian and I don’t understand what you all are talking about. Ukraine is huge, and there are hella people who speak Ukrainian - in the west, middle, north. East and south are slowly but firmly expand usage of Ukrainian too. Don’t deceive people
The combo does exist yes, as well as dialects for example. But to say "nobody" is totally wrong, plenty of people do speak Ukrainian
First, that's not true. Second, no one is obligated to speak "pure" standart language. Ukraine is not Russia who hates dialects.
Wasn't Russian language banned before the war started? I think it was banned even before the annexation of Crimea.
Not quite. The Russian language was gradually ousted from education and television, allocating more and more quotas to Ukrainian from year to year. This was followed by a ban on teaching in Russian in schools. Only extremely famous and influential people could speak Russian on television. This was followed by the ban of Russian in public places, according to the type of shops. Russian literature has almost ceased to be produced, even the classics of Lermontov or Dostoevsky. Well, that's how we come to war, when the imposition of the Ukrainian language took the most disgusting form. Burning books and beatings for the Russian language - these shots are walking around the web. This is even more in contrast to the fact that there are 3 official languages in the "occupied" Crimea: Russian, Ukrainian and Crimean Tatar.
@@ArkalisTerr This is 100% bull-shit. Even in Azov battallion they speak Russian.
@@ArkalisTerrin Transnistria they also claim to speak 3 languages, but in fact, only Russian is spoken. So, I would not believe in “Russian multiculturalism.”
When Russia Russified all Soviet republics everything was fine. But when they started promoting the national language of the country is now called “banning another language" and "russophobia". Brilliant!
Before the Maidan coup Ukraine had the "regional languages law" which allowed to officially use Russian (and Romanian and Hungarian etc) in Ukrainian provinces if the parliaments of the province votes for that . The winners of Maidan cancelled that law right on the next day after their victory. That happened before the Crimea events. The true fact is that the winners of Maidan was Ukrainian ethno-nationalists.
He started his brief history nonesense in the 16th century when the Russian people go back to at least 1000 C.E.(A.D.) and that's not counting the first kings and baptism of the Kievan-Rus peoples prior to that.
That's the history of Ukrainians whose capital is Kiev
@@svitlana2653ahahah, lol nah
@@svitlana2653история усраинцев это о том как черное море копали выдэлками, чтобы львовские пирамиды в египет сплавлять?
@@brohava380 геть і з Криму геть !
@@svitlana2653как же, обязательно😂
В Кыргызстане Русский официальный язык, а кыргызский государственный. Мы при этом не проводим декоммунизацию. И развиваем 2языка сразу и уже взялись за развитие и продвижение 3го Английского. При не впали в национализм или фашизм как на Украине. Огромное кол-во Украинцев и Русских Переехало после войны в Кыргызию и как показывает годы они как-то живут спокойно.
Может всё дело не в СССР который построил всю инфраструктуры Украине которую сами независимые депутату Рады и распродали. И никто не думает что РФ предлагало мирные соглашение аж с 2014 года УРже в свою очередь отказывалась и начала вооружать себя параллельно проводя политику декоммунизации чтобы получить очки от Евросоюза и Руссофобию чтобы получить очки у США.
А что потом делать с очками от США?
росняві комуністи знову рвуть пердакі й закривають очі при цьому нагло брешучи. Бажаю тобі відчути всю любов твоїх улюблених рашистів своєю дупою, буквально та переносно теж.
@@39exposures Terep uzhe nichego, krome kak v zhopu sebe zasunut.
I was in Ukraine in August 2023. I heard this quite a lot. In particular, when I was in Odessa, I met a woman whose native language is Russian who now refuses to speak it and tries to only speak in Ukrainian where possible, and only speaks Ukrainian with her children, even though she's not entirely proficient in it. She said she never wants to speak Russian again, and that it's caused huge strain in her family because she refuses to speak to her father unless he at least tries to answer in Ukrainian, which he can't speak well. That might be an extreme case, but it seems like it was a situation being repeated throughout the country.
And I refuse to speak Spanish in america even though I can’t speak it.
@@moebarragan1681😂😂😂 that is good
Is she auto-chauvinist?
@@moebarragan1681
That doesn’t even make sense 😂
I'm not surprised at all, I've seen in videos last year with interviews with Russian speaking Ukrainians who were on the fence before before Russia invaded not only refuse to speak Russian but despise the Russians, Putin scored a colossal "Own goal" here and it's going to hurt him long term.
This vid is all wrong. It was actually Russians that made sure Ukranian language did not dissapear back in 1922, by promoting it. My Dad was Ukranian who moved to Vladivostok back in the early 70s, just like millions of Ukranians have. ukranians are russians that were brainewashed that they are superior. all this was done by the west since 1991. more than 80 percent of ukranians have relatives living in russia and what the west did, was turning brothers against brothers. this happened twice before in ukranian history and when they will finally realize that they were used, they will turn back to russia, cuz west hates both russia and ukraine the same, but will use one against the other, given a chance.
1922 was Korenization. Soviet bureaucracy then realized that it could grow nationalism in Ukraine and other Soviet republics so they abolished it.
This has happened MORE THAN TWICE bud.
- When Bohdan Khmelnytsky died, the Moscow tsar began to centrallise the area of Zaporizhia, limiting the actual authority that the Zaporizhian Cossacks had as promised from Pereyaslav.
- When Catherine the Great finally abolished the Zaporizhian Host, all those Cossacks were forced to return to serfdom, and the Ukrainian nobility became part of the Russian nobility.
- During the Napoleonic Wars, there were some Ukrainians that supported the invasion of Russia. Those Ukrainians were silenced.
- Emskyy Ukaze was a decree signed by Russia that banned the Ukrainian language. It got its name from a German city, Bad Ems. In the city there is a monument dedicated to the Emskyy Ukaze and its history and what it did.
- Great Purge saw several Ukrainian figures as victims of the catastrophe.
- Executed Renaissance saw figures of Ukrainian intelligentsia executed, one was targetted because he "loved communism too much".
- Sixtiers is basically a repeat of Executed Renaissance, but since this was in the 60s, things were much more relaxed, but they still battled against each other.
- When the Eastern Bloc collapsed, most countries from that Bloc immediately joined NATO or the EU. I wonder why? and why is Ukraine to eager to join it too?
The thing about this is that if it was "brothers against brothers", Russia would NOT have silenced the Ukrainians. They would have allowed Ukraine to maintain its own autonomy and actually let them speak their language and avoid russification. But you only think this video is all wrong because of course the whole world that is against the repetition of imperialism is wrong, it is you who believes you are right, only your state, only your people, and Russian state textbooks. Do they narrate World War 2 differently in those btw?
Russia made it clear that Ukraine is not their brother. If they were, Putin would never have said "Ukraine deserves no statehood".
@@leer1698from reading what u said u got ur history from Wikipedia wich is really wrong
@@Purdoons_ No, it was from university archives and books.
@@leer1698 well ur university is heavily wrong cs as a Russia who’s studying History Constently ur info isn’t correct in 70% of what u said
@@Purdoons_ And I'm also studying History consistently. The difference between Eastern and Western textbooks is that there are truths and inaccuracies. But my archives have reports from journalists who have been in Russia (or USSR) and Ukraine to report these. We have students from Russia and Ukraine who make research projects on these.
If I were to hear from you, then I'm sure 70% of the things you would say are inaccurate. Face the facts, it's stupid for you to say a university is wrong when professional documentation and journalism has been conducted, especially by a higher institution.
Wel of course every official employer and government member would switch to ukranian, do you know what happens to people speaking russian in Kiev now?
Another reason why so many people switch languages is because Ukrainian and Russian are very similar languages. Being proficient in one makes you understand at least some of the other. Close to the similarity of Czech and Slovak.
you are deluded. russians have a very hard time understanding ukrainian and the only reason Ukrainians understand russian is explained in the video. in terms of similarity. Ukrainian is more similar to Belarusian language then polish and then russian. dont spread bs if you have no idea what you're talking about
Ukrainian is closest 1. Belarus 2. Polish 3. Slovak 4. Russian
So not "very similar"
@@viktorias63 I am Latvian who has learned a bit Russian.
If I read a text in Lithuanian (which is related to Latvian), I understand almost nothing. If I read a text in Ukrainian, I understand more than half of it.
@@janissturitis2386that’s not enough to speak it or to understand it. Many russians don’t understand Ukranian well. The reason why most people speak two languages is just saturation of russian everywhere
@@juliannawrites I did not say that it was enough per se. Just that anyone who is willing to learn the other language will be able to speak it within few months.
On the other hands there are languages that would take years to learn even on a basic level.
The very idea is absurd. Maybe Irish should ban English language, because Britain did so many harm to their country, and switch to Irish?
Language itself is not guilty of anything. If you have English as your native language, it's a huge bonus in life regardless of history. Similar thing comes with Russian, which gives its speaker access to an enormous world of culture. And also, it was not forced upon Ukrainians. They spoke it natively for centuries and took a big part in the common culture. It's their language and their country at the same extent as Russians'. And now they are pushed by propaganda to give up all this away, something that belongs to them.
It is called wicked nationalism. Any normal people with common sense it will backfire. The Russian is not foreigner to Ukraine . After the dissolution of USSR 35% of Ukraine is Russian descent. Over 98 percernt of etnic Ukrainian speak fluent Russian.
It's a lie. Russians in Ukraine are Assimilated Ukrainians. The same Russians in the republics of Russia (Mari El, Udmurtia, Mordovia, Komi, etc.) are assimilated local peoples.
@@a_v2114 You messed up assimilation with accepting. Also, Ukraine in Russian language means "On the Edge" which basically means it is Russia on the border. There were no truth independence of Ukraine, even though given by Russia. But they didn't make it and turn the whole country into nazi's lair. Which is now getting fixed.
@@FXtrtzorYou are a complete victim of propaganda. I'm from Russia. I know what aggressive assimilation is All people know this: my (Finno-Ugric), Tatars, Chuvash, Checheans, Dagestanis, Yakuts and so on. So leave your "Russia Today" opinion for fools.
@@FXtrtzor Based. This is all you need to know about Ukraine
I don't think 98%, maybe if you exclude the western Ukraine. But the west is the most Ukrainian (maybe not because the Carpathians are just a bunch of weird dialects) Ukraine can get.
Oh my god. SO why in every USSR country they had Russia and their native language education
Funnily enough, you completely ignore the forced Ukrainianization by Lenin in the 1920s which forced ethnic Russians in Ukrainian Soviet territory to speak Ukrainian. Most of this "Ukrainian culture" was in fact invented during the 1920s from Lenin's mistake. The Holodomor came and this killed off mostly Russian speakers, this strengthened forced Ukrainianization of ethnic-Russian territories. An example would be Lwow, a Polish city where before 1939, less than 10% of the population were Ukrainians, but 80 years later, almost 100% of the population are Ukrainians, this is an example of forced Ukrainianization by the Bolshevik communists, started by Lenin. Now Ukrainian propagandists are trying to portray Ukraine as some kind of "victim" based on historical revisionism and twisting of facts (look at Volhynia genocide).
There was no "Holodomor" as such. THere was a nation-wide famine which was due to incompetence and poor yields from land.
That start before Russian start spec opp so stop lying
Никто не говорит в этом видео про 2014 год, когда на майдан приезжала Виктория Нуланд, раздавала пирожки , и украинцы кричали - москаляку на Гиляку
Схожую аналогию можно провести между Австрией и Германией: там и там немцы, но есть отличия по вере. У русских же просто гигантский этнос, который в советское время получилось расчленить. Генетика, которая врать не будет, определяет нас в одну гаплогруппу. Это некоторый аргумент для убедительности. По вере также нет отличий, но исторически северо-западные земли ещё во времена Смуты(из истории России) были под оккупацией Польско-Литовского княжества. Я не вижу особого смысла это обсуждать, потому что никакого этнонима «украинец» тогда и потом не было. Да, влияние было! Да, отдалились совсем немного от востока. Но после ситуация восстановилась, потому что такое событие ничего другого не отменило. Киев - мать городов русских. Нельзя эту часть Руси представить в отрыве от остальной, только во времена раздробленности.
Но куда хуже заходить дальше, советская политика переселения народов превратила Украинскую часть России(«Украина» по этимологии в русском языке близка к слову «окраина», не путать с «краем», потому что уж тогда можно думать о значении слова, как о чем-то в отрыве от России) в большую кашу народов, нельзя представлять опять в отрыве, потому что 20-ый век и никакой народ не пощадил в СССР.
Украина - это чуть ли не внутренняя политическая оппозиция России, которая по историческим причинам откололась в отдельное нежизнеспособное государство 😢 Вот как следует воспринимать этот конфликт - это ближе к междоусобице, чем к какому-то межэтническому противостоянию. Последнее настоящий бред. Это самоистребление одного народа, которое стоит прекратить поддерживать и спонсировать.
А почему не жизнеспособное государство?) от чего этот великоруский шовенизм, мол без вас никто прожить не может? Настолько не может, что обратно к себе приходится силой загонять 🤔
@@las_art Дорогой соотечественник, тебе место на грядке. Сужу по уровню аргументации. Ну либо ознакомься с политической теорией, узнай про страны сателлиты. Я считаю, что украинцы такие же ребята, как и русские. Генетика полностью на моей стороне! Язык их даже более исконно-русский! Мы в одной культурной среде, потому война - общее для нас поражение.
@@tonal_and_nagual я не говорю, что война это хорошо, нет конечно, война это преступление путина и рф против обоих народов, за которое, надеюсь, его в скоро все таки притащат в Гаагу на исполнение наказания. Но я о другом, схрена ли это Украина как отдельное государство - нежизнеспобное? Если рф не будет нападать, то вполне себе жизнеспособное и даже успешное, когда всё-таки вступит в ЕС. Украине рф не нужна, её там все ненавидят, ровно как язык и самих руских людей. Ничего общего иметь не хотят.
@@las_art Сателлит (от лат. Satelles) - формально независимое государство, находящееся под политическим и экономическим влиянием другого государства и пользующееся его протекционизмом на международной арене. Украина может быть независимым государством лишь формально. Раньше было просто как бессмысленное отдельное образование, а теперь у неё появляется смысл - противостояние себе же (РФ). Так эта страна живет ещё как.
По поводу ненависти к «русским». Себя отменить никак не получится, никакого самоопределения не существует. Можно говорить, что Мыкола теперь другой, да и вообще другая форма жизни, но начинка в виде «Николай» никуда не денется. По-моему обсуждать нечего.
@@tonal_and_nagual ахахахахах, ясно объявим всех вокруг своим народом и будем насильно их переделывать в "правильных" людей. Гитлер в гробу перевернулся.
Smart move, you can't speak Russian in Ukraine if Ukraine doesn't exist
At this rate it’ll take a few lifetimes but hey gotta restore Russia right.
Crazy man!!
@@SinkingShips1998 for sure keep going at it Putin maybe God bless you
before making any statements you should better study the subject you want to cover.
how can you ignore the Gallup Institute study, 2008 showing 84% of the state Ukraine population think in Russian?
according to Gallup methodology people think in a language that is native to them or most conveniet if they are bilingual.
so the moves to limit the usage of Russian language which started soon after 2014 coup led to the civil unrest especially in the eastern and southern regions. and the unrest turned into an open civil war after Kiev's anticonstitutional decision to start a military operation in the Luhansk-Donetsk city aglomeration
This is untrue on so many levels, what are you smoking bro? 😂
There was no Ukrainian language back in 16th century and there was no such a state as Ukraine until the end of the 20th century.
there was no Russian either :)
@@siyacerHey guy, I think you have schizophrenia
@@siyacer read Wikipedia
@@alexbayer2365 read a real article
There’s language conflicts in Ukraine all the time. Southern parts of Ukraine will always speak Russian, no matter how much ppl are being harassed there for how they prefer to talk
meanwhile, reality: my entire family and friends switched to ukranian (i´m southern)
@@markoofski как часто сало роняешь?
There’s language conflicts in Russia all the time. Southern parts of Russian will always speak their native languages, no matter how much ppl are being harassed there for how they prefer to talk
@@markoofski my family lives in Dnipro and we made a switch too. Butt hurt Russians in the comments are so comedically delusional
@@palar4195 расіся вже встала з колін чи досі смокче?
As Ukrainian I really like the Russian language - it opens a big window to large RUclips content, books, old movies, and communication around the world. I feel really sorry about status of Russian language in Ukraine.
Then learn English, Spanish, etc. These are much better sources of information, but you are just looking for excuses in the language of murderers, looters and rapists.
@@Krilefhas the Russian language ever killed someone ? No. And didn’t the British have the biggest empire of all time and kill millions of Africans and Indians ? And didn’t the Spanish put millions of “native Americans “ into slavery and killed them in mass numbers? By that logic no one should speak any language
@@Krilef Russian is 2nd language of Internet content. And yeah I will excuse Russians until Ukraine will trade with them.
@@Krilef and the languages of these countries were never colonized or fought a war? Well, then you really need to learn sign language, because you have some kind of interesting and one-sided misconception
Before the war it was already illegal to speak Russian. People got beaten and tortured for speaking it in public. I have spoken to Russians who had to flee their homes because of fear of persecution.
This is like the Irish abandoning the English language 😂
Which they should do, or at least go back to their native
No, not at all. Russian is a minority language (less than 20% as their native language) in Ukraine, while Irish in Ireland is barely spoken or known by an overwhelmingly majority of the people.
@@EonServoXA many Ukrainians speak Russian at a native level, even Zelensky doesn’t speak Ukrainian
@@EonServoXA Most Ukrainians spoke Russian before the forced Ukrainianization started by Lenin in the 1920s. I hope Russia de-Ukrainianize their territories.
@@baatar Zelenskyy is bilingual like most Ukrainians. He speaks Ukrainian in majority of public appearances
There will still be a problem for the middle aged and elder generation in the contact with any foreigner. Especially with those from former soviet republics. If a 50 year old Ukrainian meets a 50 year old Georgian or Lithuanian, they will have no other option than speaking Russian since the knowledge of English is very low. And for us foreign interpreters living abroad helping ukrainian refugees; most of us speak Russian and not Ukrainian since it is the most widely studied Slavic language among foreigners. So in any contact with foreigners or other nations as long as the majority of people don't have a good knowledge of English, they will still have to speak Russian.
The 50 Years olds will use Russian as international language (in that area), the Younger will use English, and the future generation likely also English.
@@abodabalo In any case, it can take 30-40 years at least before the Russian language is completely erradicated as a lingua franca between people of former soviet republics inkluding and not least Ukraine. And given the fact how many Ukrainians already have Russian as a first OR second language, and how few who have a good or fluent knowledge of English, that change won't come any time soon..
@@ElisSthlm74 My wife and all colleagues (age 40+) who grew up in the GDR (Eastern Germany) still know some Russian. Some schools in Germany are still offering Russian as second or third foreign language. So, I don't think Russian disappears soon, even much more West than Ukraine.
However, this great schism between Russia and rest of Europe will certainly accelerate it.
@@abodabalo Then we share that analysis, and the example you took with GDR, who actually didn't even have any Russian-speaking population to talk about, and who were incorporated with Western Germany over 30 years ago, that says a lot how long things can take. I would assume that IF Ukraine will gain complete freedom and Russia would lose its grip of it completely, through a new collapse or something, and Ukraine will join EU and Nato, then of course the only spoken language in Ukraine will be Ukrainian. But I don't think that every middle aged and elderly ukrainian suddenly will learn English fluently and I don't think that Ukrainian is going to be more taught in foreign nations than let's say Bulgarian or Polish. So Russian will inevitabely still be a lingua franca for Ukrainians in any contact with non-ukrainians for at least a generation or so.
"If a 50 year old Ukrainian meets a 50 year old Georgian or Lithuanian"
Ah yes, that happens so very often. Our linguistic policy is first and foremost oriented towards Ukrainians, not the "бальшой ахват" or other foreigners
Not that I dispute what you're saying, but I highly recommend putting sources in the description/in the the video.
There is nothing wrong with a language im currently learning German,Turkish and Russian but I dont feel gulity even though thay my heritage comes from places that was opressed by the creators of the languages
If I'm understanding correctly, the main issue is not that Ukrainians speak Russian, but that they don't speak Ukrainian. That's a sure way to gradually lose your culture.
So, although I feel like prohibiting a language everywhere is restricting the freedom of speech, it's quite justified in the context of survival of your own culture.
Also, what might be even more important, your whole population speaking a language of the foreign country opens the way to fall under the influence of that country. And as a leader of your country you don't want that, especially if that foreign country does not have a good relationships with yours.
good for you big man, but the Ukrainian people don't have a distant ancestral history with the Russian people, they are currently being attacked and murdered by them
@@Skolkostoitsamoletyou’re very much right!
My family are Russian speaking Ukrainians and the current language laws do nothing except alienate many Russian speakers in Ukraine, which is a terrible idea when we need national unity more than ever. I've seen people pushed to pro-Russia views directly as a result of these laws. We all understand Ukrainian, but we can't speak it perfectly and we're not going to change, because some nationalist larpers want a return to a 100% Ukrainian speaking country, as if that ever existed. Similarly, Ukrainian speakers understand Russian and it's very common to have conversations where one person speaks Ukrainian and the other speaks Russian with absolutely no problem. If Ukraine is serious about de-occupying their territory and reintegrating it successfully, which I hope they do, they need to accept that the Russian langauge is part of Ukraine, much like how the English language is part of Ireland nowadays.
All of my russian-speaking friends switched because they care about our culture. This is just lazy. Your comment shows how little respect you have for the Ukrainian language
I've heard the same complaint from Ukranian refugees in Canada.
We've gone through similar language struggles in Canada with French and English. We require both languages on packaging and both languages available for government services. It incentivizes being bilingual for better jobs.
I support Ukraine to the very end but I think they need to work hard not to alienate the people they want to liberate, or what's the point? At some point the ukranian only policy just breeds discontent in people who need to be brought closer. If that's not possible, certain places may not be worth trading patriotic ukranian soldiers lives for. Just my 2 cents, Slava Ukraini!
@@juliannawrites твой уркаинский язык- смесь русского и польского. Какое уважение еще нужно к нему проявлять?
@@juliannawrites Good for them, let people speak whatever language they like. I'm personally for the promotion of Ukrainian culture and language, because it has been suppressed for a long time, but not forced use of it like we have now. The Russian language is also part of our heritage, it's the language we grew up speaking and undeniably part of Ukraine's culture considering around 30% of people in Ukraine speak Russian as their first language. If Ukraine is ever going to be united again, we need to accept Ukraine's culture as it is, not some idealistic view of what it should be.
Anyhow, how is my position lazy? As someone who knows at least three languages, surely you must know how difficult it is to become profficient in a new language. You can become good at a new language, but you'll struggle to be as comfortable as you are in your first language. Considering Ukrainian and Russian are so similar, whenever I try to speak Ukrainian it just ends up being broken surzhyk. Sure I can improve over time, but I would have been far more enthusiatic about it if it wasn't for the laws trying to force me to change.
@@Stevethelightingguy Agreed. If Canada can do it with English and French, or Switzerland with Swiss-German, French, Italian and Romansh, Ukraine surely can with Ukrainian and Russian which are much more similar.
03:30 А Украина на их карте без Крыма. Привыкают.
Thank you so much biden…
For this chaos
yeah sure, Biden's fault. Not Putin's or anything xD
And is this EU human rights? In Serbia every manority had schools on their mother langvige!?!
How many ukrainian schools in Russia?
@@chepatsanyanimehow many historically Ukrainian territories in Russia (long enough to actually make such programs)? Your point makes 0 sense considering other minorities (just some for this one) have even their own laws (that can't contradict the constitution, but that's a given) and can learn and speak whatever language they want (even on local bills)
@@BLET_55artem55 Кубань, Донщина, Зелёный Клин, Жёлтый Клин, Серый клин, временно оккупированные территории Украины. Хоть где-то украинский ещё преподаётся?
@@chepatsanyanime а зачем его преподавать Ингушетам или Черкессам? Нац. языки преподаются в отдельных регионах, зачастую с титульной нацией. Подожди пару лет, пока "временные" станут постоянными, и тогда уже возмущайся
@@BLET_55artem55 Названные регионы являются исторически украинскими, либо с большой частью украинского населения в них. Где сейчас преподают украинский язык, повторяю? Рашист в своём глазу бревно не видит.
The video contains factual errors. For example, the Russian Empire never owned all of modern-day Ukraine. Secondly, it ignores the similarity between Russian and Ukrainian languages, which allowed Ukrainians to more easily learn Russian. Thirdly, it greatly overestimates the significance of "Russification policies." We know from data that the areas that speak Russian the most are the ones that were under Russian control the least. In other words, if these policies were not in place, almost nothing would really change. In Soviet times, there was the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, whose existence compensated for any "Russification policies" in preserving Ukrainian identity. If there was truly a policy of Russification, then the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic would not have existed. There is so much bias in how history is taught in the West.
The least controlled by russia are west regions, that are almost 100% Ukrainian-speaking even before the war has started, what are you on? Second, Ukrainian puppet soviet republic was set for propaganda reason, because it was shown as a continuation of UPR, that existed before, but with different "fancy" ideology called communism, which people believed would bring wealth and prosperity, but as we know, it did not at all, poor people.
good point
"areas that speak Russian the most are the ones that were under Russian control the least"
Western Ukraine? Definitely not
@@ayararesara6253 Western Ukraine was never fully under Russian political control. The Soviet Union is not the same as Russia. The area that was under Russian control for the least amount of time is Crimea, but it is the most Russian part of Ukraine. Situation with Donbass is similar.
@@asdilia693
Mmm, I get your point, but it's not 100% accurate. Out of ukrainian territories of Russian empire the latest annexed one was Bessarabia in 1812. Northern part is as ukrainian as neighbouring Bukovyna, southern has a mix of bulgarians, ukrainians and russians. Yedisan was after crimea too.
Crimea was annexed by RE relatively late (in 1783), true, but it doesn't speak russian not so much because of russification policy (language change within ethnicity), but because of migration. Since previous population simply got replaced by outsiders. First, christians were deported to other places (this is how crimean greeks became azovian greeks for example), and russians began to settle in peninsula. In 1897, the most popular language was still crimean tatar (35% of population) with russian second (33%), but 20 years later russians became the biggest ethnicity (>40%) and after 1944 tatar deportation it was settled by them again (at least 70% I think). Such a change witihin a single century.
Meanwhile Donbas actually was a part of Moscow tsardom earlier than any other ukrainian land (in 1533 taken from golden horde? I don't remember) - buuut it wasn't properly settled because was seen as frontier against tatars and other. There are only like four cities founded before 1660s. Also it was settled primarily by ukrainians from Left bank who became a part of tsardom in 2nd half of 17th century. So it's technically the most "moscowian" land by the time of control, but not si much by ethnic composition. Despite migration within USSR (in 1989 17% of Donbas were born in RSFSR instead of Ukraine), in 2001 census ~60% declared themselves ukrainians. However, from 1897 to 2001 the percentage of ukrainian native language dropped from >50% to ~25%. So this is where russification played a main role. Replacement too, but much less than in Crimea.
I support encouraging Ukrainian but discouraging Russian or any other language is bad. Multilingualism is something everyone should strive for
Unless that multilingualism is the reasoning for occupation
It's cool to know English as your second, or some useful language, but russian culture will always contain propaganda and will be aimed at Ukrainian society only in destructive way. I used to speak Russian, but now i speak Ukrainian, my parents also try, the exception is my brother, but i won't force him ofc.
@@rinoku16 Кому вообще нужен английский?
Зачем его знать?
Он никакого значения не представляет.
Russian isn't useful really, if you want to talk to russians, well, you don't want to talk with them, with belarussians goes the same, with other post-soviet nations you talk in English.
@@rinoku16 we're speaking English because of the colonialisation of the largest empire in world history. If you want to play that card we shouldn't he speaking English. In fact I'd say it's in fact racist to hold the opinions you do, defining an entire culture as one political opinion is racist
One of Russia's justification for the war is to protect "Russian-speaking people in Ukraine", the same how Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in WW2 to protect "German-speaking people in Czechoslovakia". The equivalent in the Anglosphere would be England invading all of Ireland to protect "English-speaking people in Ireland".
Reddit users be like:
SHAME on this post!
In 4 instances you have shown maps (4:50, 4:53, 30 sec from 7:24 to 7:54, and 8:48) with Crimea NOT being a part of Ukraine. You are in violation of the International law, and posting on this topic the least you could do is to respect the fight of Ukrainian people against the evil.
Please remove or replace those maps immediately.
Thank you for your concern about the restoration of Ukrainian language, your support of Ukraine and your condemnation of criminal genocidal regime currently ruling moskovy and ruzzia.
Or france invading canada for the french speakers
But German speaking people in Czechoslovakia were actually Germans not Czechs. I think many people in Ukraine before 2014 or even 2022 didn't really know whether they were Russians or Ukrainians.
@@Piter311no the German speaking citizens in Sudetenland were Chech citizens same as people in Austria are Austriean even they belonged to the German Empire in the past. History does not justify changing borders.
1. No one should feel guilty about speaking Russian. Languages don't invade countries, armies invade countries (if a psycho orders them). If people wanna switch to Ukrainian, fine, but nobody should be shamed into it. Freedom of speech includes freedom of speaking whatever language you want.
2. Stopping teaching Russian in schools is one thing but removing information boards? They are meant to convey information, the more languages they have, the better. This is overkill.
3. The biggest problem with these Ukrainian-encouraging laws is that minority languages (other than Russian) get caught up in the crossfire, like Hungarian, Romanian, Bulgarian and Ruthenian. Are their rights ensured?
You missed Bulgarian.
@@HeroManNick132 Added it.
Yes, we have laws to defend languages of native people like Crimean Tatars, but russian and other languages have their own countries and they don't need to be defended.
@@Anbopro Let's say the rest of South America decides to invade Brazil and force Brazilians to speak Spanish. You're saying that the Portuguese language in Brazil doesn't need to be defended, just because Portugal exists. Do you see the problem now?
@@gabor6259 Comparison and especially such stupid one is not an argument, sorry. Russians language will not be defended in any way, because it's a language of colonisers. What else do you need to hear from me? Do you understand who are colonisers and why it's bad to defend their language which is not supposed to even be here? We'll think about it after war and when ukrainian language will not be endangered by neighbours agressive culture. So don't tell us please what to do in our country. If you're bad at history. Do you know how many times ukrainian language was banned by russians? No? So go to wiki and read about it. It's about 100 times as I remember. We must to unite people with ukrainian language first and not to spread language which can replace ours.
But how does that happen?? How, after hundreds of years of Russia trying so hard to push Russian in the country, does Ukrainian get restored so quickly?
Lots of European countries have citizens who know multiple languages, so official languages can change more easily
@@BrightWendigo Ah, thank you!
Many countries in former Soviet sphere managed to get rid of Russian since restoring independence in 1991.
Ukraine has always had a strong will and cultural identity, even though Russia tried hard to supress it during many years. It flourished 'underground' or out of sight. But ukrainian culture started blooming openly again during the end of the Russian empire. But after that they got invaded by the USSR and they again began oppressing ukrainians, perhaps even more than before.
Not hundred of years, in the past those languages converged in to one
Fun fact: Zelenskyy knows how to speak Russian
He's an ethnic Russian that got popular in Ukraine due to Russian language entertainment that he starred in.
@@fredthefish581he's jewish
@@fredthefish581lol, he is an ethnic jew, and his parents are from Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. Of course, he starred in russian entertainment, but he also founded the biggest entertainment company in Ukraine called "95 kvartal". This company made a lot for ukrainian cinema and show industry.
@@fredthefish581 he is an ethnic jew and russian native speaker
@@fredthefish581he is a russo-speaking jew
Isn't this another kind of repression and stigmatization on the Russian speaking Ukranians inflicted by their own country?
as for decommunization, then, of course, they will not say that the USSR was led by Ukrainians most of the time, Georgians came second, and Gorbachev alone was among the Russians
I thought Ukraine dont supress russian language western media said so😂😂😂
It started doing so after 2014 Crimea theft.
@@mikitadouэто началось в 90х братец)
@@user-qp1ge5su6z як називається твій діалект болгарської?
@@user-qp1ge5su6z а, то ти з московії, там свинячим діалектом болгарської розмовляють. Скільки рубликів на місяць отримуєш за підтримку своєї недоімперії, ватне?
@@user-qp1ge5su6z Хрюсский захрюкал! Наконец-то на своём родном хрюсском заговорил.
There is one ironic fact: most of those supporters of Russia are largely illiterate in anything Russian. In fact, not many people even bother learning Russian at all. Pro-Russian are plenty but they share a similar problem: zero knowledge in Russian history, language and culture - which made their support for Russia even more hypocritical. Take India, Vietnam, Iraq or Mali for example: a lot are delusional pro-Russian, but when asked about speaking Russian or understanding Russian history, they are completely absent of knowledge, they can't speak Russian, they don't know how Russian history is actually built for, as if it is a blackhole.
That's why after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, almost every country formerly part of the Soviet sphere of influence drop Russian from education course. I am Vietnamese Czech, and talk less about my Czechia aside since most Czechs are ardently anti-Russian, the majority of Vietnamese who proclaimed "pro-Russian" can't even speak or communicate in Russian, have no understanding about how Russian political system is like, have no idea about Russian people's mental isolation and drug issues, and has no knowledge about Russia's barbaric history. Hopefully Ukraine will end this Russian menace.
Remember that while you're PRO-USA, they' aren't because they experienced a USA that you didn't. You saying this bullshit is just hypocritical.
@@FrutoseDeMorango Weird, because most anti-American people use English, the de facto lingua franca in the US, to express. But they have no qualm praising Russia in English. Right?
You don't live in Russia so you do not understand. My parents lived there. I speak Russian perfectly. We knew how underdeveloped Russia is. Yet pro-Russians love Russia to a point they don't live in Russia but in the free world for what?
@@FrutoseDeMorango Plus, you pro-Moskal hypocrites should ask yourself: why don't you live in Russia if Russia is such a brilliant country for you? Why are so many Russians migrating to the other countries per years? Even China is better than Russia.
Pro-Russian people think Russia is the best country on earth, yet they prefer to migrate to the decadent West is more hilarious than that. Poor delusional pro-Russian trolls think Russia is the best but have no ball to live in Russia.
why r u so russophobic 😢
how will ukraine do that when it becomes russian territory? its gonna have to speak russian lol
Russia is a multilingual country, so I doubt that they'll HAVE to. And I also doubt that the other 70% of Ukrainian won't be used to pay off all the military funding from EU (esp. Poland, they really want to get their Commonwealth borders back)
I have an old friend from Ukraine. She's bilingual but is technically Russian speaking, as that was the language she spoke at home growing up.
Regardless, in all the years I've known her, I have never heard her refer to herself, or express herself in any way other than being Ukrainian. No sense of being kinda sorta Russian. Zero
There is huge mix. Both Russian and Ukranian may mean natinality or citizenship. And for many Ukranian means Ukranian Russian. Many consider it same nation, it's just other voices that much louder and get more room in media. Or she may be hardcore Ukranian indeed.
Back in the 19th century, the Russian people (in the ethnic sense) were called the inhabitants of modern Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
It seems to me that you missed a very important point when you talked about the ability of Muscovy to destroy Ukrainian culture throughout history, because despite the largest Ukrainian bans such as the Valuev Circular or the Ems Decree, Ukrainian culture, on the contrary, flourished among writers and artists, albeit underground. "Aeneid" of 1842 by Ivan Kotlyarevsky was the beginning of the revival of the Ukrainian language, after which writers, philosophers, playwrights, great scientists and doctors began to appear
Dragi ja ne znam jel tebe neko nešto pita? Koji pisci brate, pa daj mi još jedno djelo navedi.
@@Luka-rt7jy Вибачте пане, але я не п'ю, хіба що Сидр на свята але хто Кудзі є не знаю. Може ви про твори запитували ?
@@user-mt5wq3hx8k brate ča si ti sada napisa, daj napiši na ruskon ili na hrvatskon da te ceo svet razume
@@Luka-rt7jy 🇺🇦Я спілкуюсь російською але я перейшов на українську повністю, і в мене є сумніви стосовно московитськох мови бо світ потихеньку її забуває так як національні мови важливіші у масах а ніж клята мова тисячолітніх загарбників
🇭🇷Govorim ruski, ali sam skroz prešao na ukrajinski, a oko moskovitskog jezika imam nedoumice, jer ga svijet polako zaboravlja, jer su narodni jezici narodnim jezicima važniji od prokletog jezika tisućljetnih osvajača
🇬🇧I speak Russian, but I switched to Ukrainian completely, and I have doubts about the Muscovite language, because the world is slowly forgetting it, as national languages are more important to the masses than the cursed language of thousand-year-old invaders
@@user-mt5wq3hx8k pa dobro, lipo je i to znat
It's called Ukrainization, not Derussification.
The second person in Zelensky government, Aleksey Aristovich who not long ago became a dissident and had to emigrare to USA speaks Russian in his interviews and strugles for multicultural Ukraine
"struggles". He was born in Georgia and raised in Belarus. In a Russian-speaking family. He's an opportunist hungry for money and recognition, which you are giving him.
There's a map error at 3:32. You show a map of Ukraine just after independence, but Crimea is not shown as part of Ukraine.
Yes because Crimea is not Ukraine
@@MrPeterPan it is Ukraine
@@irlandiapoukrainsky
What Khrushchev did with Crimea during his rule ?
@@thatguystalker8649 подивись на карту УНР і відкриєш для себе несподіванку. І до того ж там завжди жили українці яких в рос.імперії використовували як робочу силу.
@@MrPeterPanAccording to the Crimean Tatars and the Mejlis, Crimea is Ukraine. I'm 1/4 Crimean Tatar, and that side of my family would have committed a brutal Jihad against me if I would disagree with them that Qırım Ukrayna'dır.
на украине как говорили на русском, так и говорят. да временно люди перешли на украинский из-за страха или обид на Россию, но что в соцсетях или чат-рулетке спокойно переходят на русский. по большому счету украинский язык кроме как в украине нигде и не нужен, но украинизация страны уже приводит к обратному эффекту. люди переходят на польский, английский, русский языки лишь бы не говорить на украинском. это как маркер свой - чужой. говоришь на украинском - значит селюк, рагуль, окраинец. а после окончания конфликта, когда украина окончательно свалится в руину, миллионы людей поедут во все стороны и на чужбине украинский язык забудут очень быстро.
Ukrainian itself is a very ugly language. Very blunt and hard sounding, almost exaggerated by Ukrainians so that they make themselves out to be as separate from Russians as they can. Russian is a lot more pleasant to my Polish ears, very sharp.
Ты это говоришь как кто? Россиянин?
Я можу тобі і українською мовою відповісти можу і нє перехадіть 😀 але ви там часто не розумієте що ми кажемо.
So many cameos of a Georgian when you speak about russification. I don't know how to start even - there are so many hole in this story.
And remember... No Russian...
So when they saying "Russian Speakers in Ukraine" are they Ethnic Russians or Ukrainians that Speak Russian ?
they mean ethnic ukrainians who speak russian. There are not so many ethnic russians in Ukraine.
Ответа на этот вопрос не знает никто 😂
Both, as well as mixed.
@@user-lf6ih6mq3j Wut? ethnic ukrainians since 1991 ?
@@gunzishere you are very uneducated, go back to school.
I don't think there will be any problems if there is no peace soon. If Russia takes Kharkiv and Odessa, Ukraine will be halved compared to today, and Ukrainian is already spoken there. Then when the Ukrainians find out about all the peace drafts that NATO opposed, Zelendski may become so unpopular that he will be forced to flee the country if he survives until then. There are already divided opinions in the government.
За весь период УССР не скажу , только за конец 1970 -х и начало 1980 -х. Моя мать в этот период училась в Ворошиловграде ( сейчас это Луганск) и по её словам, даже задолго до начала обучения в УССР телевизионное и радио вещание велось на двух языках в обязательном порядке. Та же система была и в других советских республиках, все важные новости и программы, включая развлекательные обязательно переводились на местный язык или наоборот на русский. Единственной особенностью конкретно Украины было то, что представители других республик более спокойно относились к вещанию на русском, так как перемещаясь по огромной стране это было удобнее для них, ну не удобно грузину или узбеку изучать целых 3 языка ( например родной язык, русский, украинский), тоже касается документооборота. Например когда произошел взрыв на ЧАЭС, то туда пошла помощь со всего СССР и если бы везде документы заполняли на местном языке, то это сильно затянуло бы работы по консервации станции. Русский язык по СССР распространяли по 2 основным причинам, первая вполне логичная, проще управлять народом, который говорит на одном языке, вторая также не лишена логики, людям. которые говорят на одном языке проще общаться между собой, а значит и вероятность конфликта между ними становится ниже. Так что не все видео правда и не имеет основание считаться истиной.
P.S. По работе часто общаюсь с представителя разных народов и какой-то непонятной причине на работе пара рабочих бригад состоящих полностью из украинцев думали, что я тоже украинец, хотя на самом деле я русский с примесью татарской, калмыцкой и казахской крови, (выгляжу как русский, но скулы немного выше, глаза сероватые и кожа почти белая, не совсем типичный русский, а двоюродный брат так вообще почти рыжий), а все так думали из-за того, что я часто говорил используя донской говор, который так или иначе использует схожие слова, звуки и построение речи, что и кубанский говор и запорожский говор. Так что ещё одна палка в колесо незалежной, их язык это по большой части один из диалектов русского языка и старорусского языка ( заимствование никто не отменял).
Is it me or the videos voice is South African? 🇿🇦
Russia is accusing Ukraine of trying to do something they already did to them
... moscovia had been doing for centuries....
mongols invaded them.. should they invade mongolia now?
Russia did that for sure, but why should Ukraine follow Russia's example? Would it not be better to follow more democratic and tolerant countries like Belgium and Swizterland which accept their linguistic minorities?
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Bro, Democratic isn't good.@@Rb39-ej5hh
Hopefully we can follow suit here in Wales and increase the use of Welsh
So, will it be punishable to speak English in Wales?
Celtic languages are dead, they can't supplant english in any way.
None of the Celtic languages died except Manx, and it’s been brought back
😃👍🤗🥳
@@Quareque The issue is cultural heritage, not "replacement".
@@mistyautumnwoods Manx was just a dialect of Irish, and irish language is almost dead.
And once half of Europe spoke celtic languages, how many in Europe speak them now?
the native language is a collective farm dialect, so let's remember it
Ukraine vs Russia is like the typical Rurikid fighting against each other. We should not let it affect rest of the world
This directly affects US policy. And US policy affects all of Europe. Everything is interconnected. After the US defeat in Ukraine, trust in the US as a reliable ally will greatly decline. Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have already broken away from the United States. Previously, these were serious allies of the United States. If this continues, the US influence on world politics will quickly collapse.
@@Maratreason which would be a good thing since they're supporting a terrorist nazi state committing a genocide rn
What accent is the narrator?
Sounds Australian and kind of German at the same time
I am more than sure this is the South African accent
maybe west-hoholian?
@@morbidwoodpeckershaha how funny
@@morbidwoodpeckers east-katsapian
Yes, all of my ukrainian familiy members left russian and started speak ukrainian. And they were speaking russian all of their liver.
Cos they are clowns 😂
because they are reasonable kind and patriotic
Here's an interesting fact: employers publish vacancies in Ukrainian because they are required by law (do they dictate in your country what language to speak?). Look for statistics in what language people make queries on Google in Ukraine - Russian (from 65-75% according to various statistics).
It takes a special kind of restart (😉) to look at your "history" explanation and not turn of immediately after seeing that YOUR history of the region starts in 16th century with some fucking Sloboda.
Yeah, it's not even properly aligned with Ukrainian version of history. He is just so incompetent in sticking to one side that paid him to do this vid
As a Russian-speaking Ukrainian, this is outrageous. Our government spends money on removing historical statues because there's a letter "ы" in it? Or because it's in another language I'm sure most of Ukrainians undertstand. I'm just being forced not to speak the language, not to listen to Russian songs which I absolutely love, and it's just sad to be honest. I understand Ukrainian well but most of Ukrainians probably speak it better than I do. The best way this country could've gone is 2 official languages, Russian and Ukrainian. But hell no, nobody wants a logical decision and peace, right?
Малорос. Якщо ти настільки хочеш розмовляти і використовувати мову окупанта, які вбивали наш народ століттями - твоє місце на расеі.
Strange. I visited Ukraine a decade ago and everyone spoke Russian. Yeah, I know the situation has changed, but this still seems fairly odd to me. Russian used to be the lingua franca of Ukraine. Many Ukrainians, especially those living in the southeastern parts of the country, do not even speak Ukrainian. Dunno how they're gonna do this
We probably don’t speak Ukrainian, but it doesn’t cancel the fact that we know Ukrainian and can speak in it fluently
That's because they went crazy and wanna erase everything Russian
They may not have spoken it, but they have known it since birth, studied it, etc.
It largely depends on what area you visited. The western part speaks Ukrainian (big cities and rural areas), but big cities of East and Kyiv were almost 100% russian speaking before the war. Same happened in old empires with a dominant culture/language and their "small" nations.
Nothing can change in a decade, kids, Ukrainians don't speak Ukrainian, and ackchually I as a foreigner know better. Keep believing daddy putin
In Kazakhstan the same situation concerning language
согласен, меняем 500к табличек на казахском на северный казахстан, хоть на известное место их себе клейте, по рукам?
Русский язык не зря великий и могучий, на нем огромное множество выражений, научных трудов, поэзии и другого литературного искусства, современный язык европейского человека, но если люди хотят вернуться в село, балакать и квакать, нет проблем, это их дело. Думаю многие слыша Украинский говор воля не волей улыбаются, звучит довольно весело, но как серьёзный язык, я лично не могу его воспринимать, это что-то из древней руси чудом дожившее до наших времен.
¿is that the freedom they are fighting for? 🤔
There is a Significant Russian Minority in Ukraine Mostly in Eastern Ukraine so no Ukraine can't completely get rid of Russian but Ukrainians would not pass it on to Newer Generations Russians still would though
You'll see the Russian speakers in the Donbas region stop speaking Russian and not teach their children it after this war ends. I have two friends from Eastern Ukraine who refuse to speak the Russian they grew up speaking and only speak English or Ukrainian now.
40% of the population is no longer a minority.
@@richlopez5896 Donbas will be Russian. Those that want to speak Ukraine will move west.
Donbas is a part of Ukraine. Those who want to speak Russian are free to move to Russia.@@mitchyoung93
@@richlopez5896 Те территории, что приобрела Россия, останутся с ней навсегда, чтобы вернуть эти территории, Украине прийдëтся поставить свой народ на грань вымирания, после чего скорее всего про Украину более не вспомнят
Sounds very authoritarian to me, not the great “democracy” Ukraine is made out to be 😂
You don't know even half of it.
bruh its so funny seeing ukrainian masterchef's hosts and the players speak ukrainian all of a sudden, its like theyre being held at gunpoint wtf
Бред полнейший. Наоборот, в СССР происходила украинизация населения Украины, в школах преподавался родной (украинский) и русский язык, плюс немецкий, английский или (местами) французский, на выбор. То есть гражданин украины по выпуску знал три языка - украинский, русский и любой из трёх прикладных. В Киеве и восточных регионах преимущественно говорили на русском, в портовых городах юга Украины и Крыма - равно на русском и украинском, на остальной части Украины - преимущественно на украинском. У нас дома до сих пор хранятся учебники и книги, напечатанные типографиями СССР на украинском языке.
As a former Ukrainian citizen, I was born in Ukraine with Russian as my first language. Unfortunately, I didn't have the opportunity to learn proper Ukrainian when we moved to Europe, so I mainly communicate in Russian with my friends and family. There is a growing sentiment of anger towards Russians, leading to a boycott of the Russian language, which in turn results in discrimination against those who still speak Russian. For instance, my uncle, who voluntarily joined the army to protect his country, is facing discrimination solely because of his Russian language proficiency.
On the flip side, my grandparents and some family friends, who struggle with Ukrainian, feel threatened by other people. Despite living in the country they wer born in, they no longer feel at home. In post-Soviet countries, Russian serves as a practical means of communication, much like English in Western Europe, facilitating interaction among diverse groups of people.
the same thing happened to me once, i moved from Ukraine before the Crimean war, so Russian was still in schools.
I have notice issues between the use of Ukrainian vs. Russian language use while was visiting in Ukraine years ago. Was is new is Russophobia.
To be honest I don't ever see discrimination of russian language at any rate in Kyiv and nearby region. The same can be said about all cities of central and eastern Ukraine.
I know plenty of people there, they speak russian and feel ok.
Idk though, what's the case for rural areas and more Western Ukraine, but I believe that people who do violence because of language are extremely rare in Ukraine.
Throughout last 5 years before and after invasion, I would say ukrainian language was more harassed than russian.
Як українець підтверджую, що ніфіга не бачу насилля на вулицях і ніхто нікого не притісняє)))
"threatened by fanatics engaging in violence on the streets" +15 rubbles will be added to your pay check, Ivan. Keep a good work spreading BS!
@@rosty8344 you could not leave Ukraine before the Crimean War for two reasons: firstly, the Crimean War took place in the mid-19th century, and secondly, Ukraine was not on the map at that time.
Please provides sources and proofs for everything you say in the video
In USA , only 10% are speaking normal English ...
4:11 brandweer zaventem?
Always knew zaventem was the true world power 💪.
Zaventem supremacy.
One thing I found from pro-Russian hypocrites are why these people love Russia, but never dare to settle in Russia but frequently arrive in the decadent West and settle. I have seen that with numerous Russian émigré groups in France, Canada, Uruguay, the US, Mexico, Argentina and the UK. One side they praise Russia but at the same time they want to keep the current style of living and do not want to return to Russia at all.
This is even more hilarious than just the language debate. Pro-Russian fans think Russia is the best country in the world yet Russians don't even want them to live in their country. Notable impact is the story of Indians in my ancestral India, many praise Russia but when asked to migrate, Russia is never on top of their agenda, but rather Germany, France, Italy or the US. Much for decadent West. The same is on with even the people elsewhere in the world, they want to raise the Russian flag and cheer Russia but as always, their destinations are either countries in Europe, North America or Latin America. Ha!
Put some more research in. We love our own countries and speak our own languages and not Russian. Russia has much better values than what our current leaders have in place.
Just because we like a country doesn't mean that we have to move there. It is such a bad talking point to make and has makes no sense at all. How about you move to Ukraine then if you love them so much 🤣
@@AmericansElite Russia has better values. So why do you ask for scholarship in Germany, Japan and China? Even China has done better than Russia.
Deutschland geht grad den Bach runter. Wir müssen frieren während unsere Regenbogen Regierung Waffen liefern
@@AmericansElite the country has the leader which it deserves
Ничего страшного в этом не вижу, научим заново. Никто не отменял южные Русские регионы где люди тоже двуязычны.
It will be very easy. After Russia wins, only Ukrainian speaking territories will remain with Ukraine. It will be hardest for Volodya, his native language is Russian and he still doesn´t speak Ukrainian as good.
weird you never mention Ukraine bombing Russian speakers in Ukraine and then trying to join NATO which is why this happened 🌚
Как тут кремлебот оказался? Вы потерялись? Помочь вам найти дорогу домой?
Because it never happened?
@@diogorodrigues747 lol go do some research buddy. You can also go research the expansion of nato..
@@daguy9305 Yes, I already did some research, including from official reports from the OCSE team that stayed on the Donbass from 2014 to 2021 (which are freely available online), and that thing about the genocide of the Donbass is simply not real. I mean, even Wagner personnel and Igor Girkin debunked that, saying it was all fake and 100% propaganda.
About NATO expansion, it's even more nonsensical. First of all, no real agreement was signed between NATO and Russia about NATO expansion - there was informal talking about that and we know that due to several interviews with Gorbachev, but no legitimate and legal agreement was actually signed on paper. Also NATO didn't invade anything, the countries themselves joined NATO. If the goal of Russia in Ukraine was to stop any more countries to join NATO, they clearly failed then since Finland and Sweden already applied for NATO membership and Finland has already joined the alliance this year.
@@daguy9305 Are you imbecile? Ukraine bomb its capital?
Remember - No Russian
Average Nazi be like:
@@ghgggxyou’re right. Russians are the most average Nazis and should be dealt with
@@ghgggx Вы, русские, - нацисты земли. Вы стали потомками Адольфа Гитлера. Не забывайте об этом.
Sounds pretty discriminatory to me 😐
@@ghgggxeveyone who doesn’t support you is a nazi, we get it.
There are a lot of videos on the Internet where language patrols from local lunatics demand to speak Ukrainian, although there is no such law. You can't force a person to speak a certain language. Especially if this person was born in this city and speaks Russian since childhood. And when these crazy people are rudely sent, they complain to the SBU, which then forces them to apologize on camera and confess their love for the Ukrainian language.
I don’t think you’re quite right on the subject of people not getting jobs because of not speaking Russian in USSR. Ukrainian is very similar to Russian and that’s why we never had a problem with anyone speaking on it. Yes if you want to work in Russia’s part of USSR, than you need it to write documentation, but not to speak on it.
He compared the difference in language at least into a deeply awkward situation right after he related the difference between the authentic Ukrainian language vs. Russian (that weren’t as free-willing and honest for anyone who’d to encounter that…. People were forced into Russian speaking and reading.)
And the example he’d given was to compare it with English speaking and reading vs. the rest of the world…. He could’ve just said that English instead of Scottish, Welsh and Irish was sort of gestured towards the citizens of those countries to be the native language.
Strictly speaking, Mandarin is native to the part of China where Beijing is, so Chinese from other parts of the country or Chinese in other countries whose ancestors were not from Beijing might argue that while they can speak Mandarin, they might consider their mother tongue to be other Chinese dialects/languages instead e.g. Foochow/Hockchew, Teochew, Shanghaiese
@@lzh4950Mandarin is not native only to Beijing area, it is native in huge part of china, it cover the entire country except for tibet, inner mongolia, southeastern coast, and xinjiang. So Qinghai, Sichuan and many other province natively speak a different dialect of mandarin, but they still speak mandarin. And both the province I mentioned is located far away from Beijing
Why do you keep showing Crimea as not a part of Ukraine? That's ridiculous.
It's occupied just like other eastern territories, which you correctly show as Ukrainian.
There is absolutely no difference in status of these territories.
Crimea is not a part of Ukraine also in real life. For over a decade. Are you living in a cave? Yes, he should have updated the map and he should have shown much less territory belonging to Ukraine than he did in the video.
@@kacperzimowski4626 You don't understand the concept of illegal occupation, don't you?
That's your education/IQ problem, not mine.
You can at least draw Moscow as part of Ukraine. You can draw any maps, but it won't change the fact. Crimea is an annexed territory with almost only a Russian population.
Crimea is Russian territory, it's one of the territories, including Donbass, that resisted forced Ukrainianization in the 1920s.
Crimea is Russian that's why.
I feel like it’s repeat of 1900 Germany burning books and stuff
What’s problem with the Russian language in Ukraine? Crimea is Ukraine, but with Russian language as an official. And Donbas too.
To be fair, you will see any other nation doing that if it feels threatened by another power.
Like in west african countries there is also complete removal of french from schools, everyday life and government institutions because of colonial history of those nations.
But I think that in the long run that is a really bad idea to completely drop language and cultural as it goes agaisnt the rights of the minority which is one of the pillars of modern democratic societies.
Nazi Ukraine doesn't care about rights or democracy
How about Russia? It is a multiethnic country yet it has violently persecuted non-Russian people.
The Muscovite "minority" are colonizers, they can go back to where they came from.
we don't delete russian culture. every ukrainian who stopped speaking russian and started speaking ukrainian, did it of his own free will. Nobody here forces people speak ukrainian. Even our president before going in politics, spoke only in russian. So, the russian culture will always continue to exist, it's just we make the percentage of our culture bigger and bigger because it will make the influence of Russia on us less powerful in the future.
They probably plan to replace it with russian. "Great" and "smart" choice
by giving the russian speaking territories to the motherland 😂😂😂😂😂
just because someone speaks a language it doen´t mean they belong to the country of origin of that language, why don´t we give latin america to spain then?
@@markoofski because spain is now more like morroco 😝😝😝😝
@@markoofski unless people who speak the language say they want to be with the country of origin. You can't respect self-determination and territorial integrity at the same time or do it only if it suits your agenda. Those are exclusive. If you think Putin would invade territories, where people hate Russians, you would be mistaken. It's almost impossible to assimilate such populations and usually lead to more problems. Ukraine was a deeply divided country. There is a bunch of people who will flip-flop the minute Russian military establishes firm control. Melitopol, Berdyansk. Most people there were glad they skipped the "war" part.
Those territories are already part of the Ukrainian motherland
@@markoofski This one is different though, loads of east Ukrainians wanted and still want to be Russian for some reason 🤷🏻
At the rate things are going Ukrainians better brush up on their Russian 😂😂🤣🤣
True 😂😂😂
Hopefully they will also focus on teaching and learning English. It will benefit them immensely as they wish to be integrated more with the west.
That should come in handy for Ukrainian women seeking employment on online dating apps as well.
There are a lot of policies being tried to be implemented to make Ukraine literally a bilingual in Ukrainian and English, making all cinemas in English, doubling everything with both languages, making less screen time in Ukrainian (from 90% to 50% or lower), so more can be in English and other languages (because government wants to open borders for migrants from all over the world) etc., we will see if all those project will come to life, politicians and ministers are in support of most of this.
@@joemama-fl4ekah yes, fight for "strong Ukrainian culture" and immediately do a 1-80 turn 😂
English is teached for decades already