Ukraine President forces assimilation upon ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking Jews

Russian/Jewish ethnic cities like Odessa are pressed hard to assimilate and forget Russian language and culture. Education institutions, churches, and state are under pressure.

I do not like the red stars and marxist logos in the video but despite that the fact of oppression based on language is a problem even for these rich self-sufficient ex-authorities and therefore much more a problem for common people.

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News & Politics

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• Ukraine
• Deliev
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Odessa
• president

[adelwogboy]

What crap

The Russians killed Ukrainians for speaking Ukrainian, and in Ukraine everyone should speak the official language like it is in every country - do you see members of parliament in Germany speaking Turkish for example???

Russians get stuffed

[majorgeeek]

there is no discrimination or oppression at work in Ukraine especially when compared to Russification and social engineering programs inflicted by past colonial Soviet Russia - official language is not restricted to only Ukraine in the world - most countries expect foreigners and immigrant to conform to their sovereign norms and rule of Law

[Rickyrab]

Why don't Ukrainians just learn English? At least then your scribbling won't be confusing to me.....

oh wait a minute... that's linguistic imperialism, isn't it.

[Clamms]

So sad Western Ukrainian Fascism is infiltrating areas in the former republic that were not even Ukrainian to begin with. That bastard Khrushchev expanded the Ukrainian SSR to include the black sea coast. Thank G-d that Yanukovich is now President.

[mishmash0silvercat]

Это ж стебалово...

[voskresene]

@adelwogboy Ukraine should have two offical languges. Countries like Switzerland do just fine with multiple official languages. Get over the Soviet/ Russian Empire's language policy. Russian speakers in Southern and Eastern Ukraine have nothing to do with what those governments did in the past. Ukrainian nationalism is ridiculous. Even Gogol, a Ukrainian born author, is only read in foreign literature courses at universities in Ukraine now. That is absurd.

[voskresene]

@adelwogboy Your anology is totally off. Was Turkish ever an official language in Germany? Are there any areas of Germany that historically belonged to Turkey? Both of these questions apply to the situation in Ukraine as you well know. Your demanding that everyone in Ukraine speak only Ukrainian is comparable to if the Canadian government overnight abolished the official status of French in Quebec and made everyone there do eveything in English.

[Dudtz]

This is stupid,most Ukrainians are Rus!

[Nadav34]

Ок ОК!! я сделал ошибку, Братик. Кроме того, что ненавижу с гневом всех имеющий делать с жидовским.

А знаешь ли ты что белорусский язык же ничего, но диалект Польского?

[Mitkovich]

Я не Еврей! Я Белорус!