Yeah, the whole history of the language is really complicated and weird. It wasn't spoken, it was spoken, there was a literary renaissance, the Tzar crushed it, the Soviets endorsed it, the Soviets banned it, the Soviets re-worked the language to standardize spelling and verbiage, then Ukraine bans Russian, but 50% of Ukrainians still speak Russian, and lots of Ukrainians didn't speak Ukrainian until it became politically hazardous to speak Russian. It's all a crock of ethnonationalist bullshit now.
Yeah, and it's not like those people were concentrated in the south and east of Ukraine for decades and voted for the president we overthrew with naz... err... Pro-europe lobbying groups. Nope, everyone in Ukraine always wanted to join the EU and NATO, and yanukovich was a puppet. Just like everyone who voted for annexation, they're all just Putin bots
It's not like 50% of Ukrainians speak fluent Russian, with 30% considering to be their first/primary language. That would go against the Narrative
Ukrainian itself was typically classified as a dialect of Russian until last year
Yeah, the whole history of the language is really complicated and weird. It wasn't spoken, it was spoken, there was a literary renaissance, the Tzar crushed it, the Soviets endorsed it, the Soviets banned it, the Soviets re-worked the language to standardize spelling and verbiage, then Ukraine bans Russian, but 50% of Ukrainians still speak Russian, and lots of Ukrainians didn't speak Ukrainian until it became politically hazardous to speak Russian. It's all a crock of ethnonationalist bullshit now.
that sounds like the history of a lot of languages.
ethnic and class adjacent issues can get some spicy politics going on
Yeah, and it's not like those people were concentrated in the south and east of Ukraine for decades and voted for the president we overthrew with naz... err... Pro-europe lobbying groups. Nope, everyone in Ukraine always wanted to join the EU and NATO, and yanukovich was a puppet. Just like everyone who voted for annexation, they're all just Putin bots