• Red_Scare [he/him]@lemmygrad.ml
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    5 months ago

    As stated in the explanatory note to the bill, currently, English is (...) one of the six languages of the United Nations

    Hmmm I wonder if among the other five there's a language a huge percentage of the population ALREADY FUCKING SPEAKS, a language that quite ironically is ZELENSKY'S FIRST LANGUAGE, a languge they wanted to suppress so badly they first removed it from print and then made it illegal for regular citizens to bring books in that language across the border?

    https://web.archive.org/web/20181215121309/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/14/ukraine-publishers-speak-out-against-ban-on-russian-books

    By the way exact same thing is happening in Georgia, Russian language which is widely spoken is being banned and instead English language is enforced but only a small percentage of the population has the ability to study it.

    It's even worse there because unlike Ukraine (and despite being a much smaller country), Georgia is quite ethnically diverse and many ethnic minorities don't speak Georgian OR English, they speak their own fucking language and Russian...