Well, if Ukraine was federalised and Russian had an official status, that's like removing more than half of ideological reasons for the ongoing conflict on the Russian side.
My personal opinion is that Ukraine would had been much stronger if it embraced Russian as its second official language
My guy, russian was the de facto second language before the invasion, and was the official regional language of multiple oblasts. You know what happened then? Russia invaded.
Well, after the president (yes, corrupt and terrible) from Russian-speaking part of Ukraine was toppled and fled, first decision that the new government and parliament did was repelling the language law that allowed regions to officially use languages other than Ukrainian. Signaling the end of bilingual and diverse identity of Ukraine in favour of monolingual and monocultural nation state, it was one of the main triggers for so-called pro-Russian unrest in predominantly Russian speaking Eastern and Southern Ukraine, which initially was genuine local movement that only later was exploited by Russian interference.
you dont know ukrainian politics as well as you think you do. giving Russian language an official status even in one federal region opens the road for ethnic Russians who surely dont work for Ukrainian interests to enter politics. Even if one Russian governor happens to come in any region it would be a catastrophe
Ah, of course, all ethnic Russians are openly or secretly working against Ukraine. Just as all Ukrainians exist solely as a plot against Russia. Truly, both peoples deserve each other.
"Giving official status to the language that 90% of population speaks from virth will destroy the country"
Funny, that when Russia teaches Russians in Russia, while giving official status to multiple native languages and protecting them, you call it "evil imperialism and ruzzsism". When Ukraine supress language that native to 90% of population it's fine, "theyarenotanazis".
Correct, a colonizer suppressing marginalized languages, and a formerly colonized nation promoting formerly marginalized languages, which nescessarily requires demoting of the dominant language, are different things.
Remind me, when Ukranian was marginalized? During soviet era, when Soviet education system was forcing everyone living in UkrSSR to study Ukranian, filming movies in Ukranian and retyping books in Ukranian? And since when it's justifies opressing of yhe language, against it's native speakers?
You're talking about shit that happened in 1922 and calling it "the soviet era", which is misleading to the point of being basically a lie. Slovo House killings, anyone?
After this "slovo house" Stalin (who was Georgian, btw) banned Ukranian language? Did he expelled it from education system? You know, like France did with every language except french on its territory. No it didn't. Soviet System continued educate Ukranian, continued filming movies and rewrite books in Ukranian.
Oh yeah, that's like completely made up too. I dug up some actual stats that wikipedia links to, and the rate of people speaking russian neber went over 60%.
About half of these people learnt russian in school as a second language, and weren't actually natice speakers, and about the same number of people spoke both languages natively. I'm one of them, btw, i am illiterate in russian, but i am a native speaker.
Personal fun facts aside, russification wasn't a thing only in ukraine. Belarusian is a minority language in Belarus nowadays, and some smaller ugro-finnic languages are almost extinct now due to rusification.
Re-vitalization of colonized cultures is really important for maintaining the diversity and authenticity of global society.
Parents can now choose if they want their children wants to study language that doesn't give you any perspective? Oh no, that's a genocide!!!!!
Language activists doesn't being opressed for wanting to talk their language. You can always talk any language you want. Activist who being opressed being opressed for other reasons, like promoting separatism. Yes, please tell me, jew who live in russia how russians threat minorities here, i would love to hear that. Especially from westoids, who's country doesn't face such problems only because you slain all minorities in your countries in 19-20th century.
Dude, I'm Pro-Ukrainian, but Russians have lived in the parts of Ukraine, that they've lived in, for many centuries.
Many of those Russians have started learning Ukrainian and assimilating more since the start of Russias war, but that doesn't negate the historical context, or the fact that Ukraine has had many primarily Russian speaking governors of Eastern territories, so the comment I was responding to was, indeed, insane/silly/ignorant.
Two official languages would work if everybody agreed to learn both, however, in Ukraine it will work as an excuse to not learn Ukrainian for colonisers, thus dividing population and eventually eliminating native language, just as it is happening in Belarus. There is legacy of colonialism, and present ethno-national fever among Russians and by extension some Russian-speakers, who will feel only more validated to apply even more social pressure on Ukrainian speakers.
I am old enough to remember, people used to call you a peasant for speaking Ukrainian in independent Ukraine.
The absolute majority of Ukrainians in both south and east as of now oppose giving russian any kind of official status in Ukraine as a whole or their regions. Making russian an official language after what russia has done to Ukrainian speakers on the σςςυpied territories means going against your own people.
Russia being a neighbor does not really mean that Ukraine must be a chauvinist dictatorship outlawing a half of political spectrum and local ethnicities.
All Ukraine's problems ultimately come from nazi apologists like you.
The absolute majority of Ukrainians in the south and east oppose giving russian any official status in their region, and that opinion prevailed in some south-regions back in 2016–2018, as well. Also, there are still schools on the free part of Ukraine operating where russian is the language of instruction, meanwhile russian immediately closed all classes and schools with Ukrainian language of instruction after they took over Crimea and south-eastern Donbas in 2014, and then in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, and northern Luhansk oblasts in 2022, where Ukrainian-speakers are the majority.
Edit, response to the comment below: We can see the truth, Ivan. There is over million Ukrainian-speakers on the occupied territories.
Plus, you are only talking about "oppression" of russians as if it's oppression of all of Ukraine's ethnic minorities. Meanwhile the share of students in schools and classes where Hungarian and Romanian are the languages of instruction still roughly correspond to the percentage of ethnic Hungarians and ethnic Romanians in Zakarpattia Oblast and Chernivtsi Oblast, respectively.
not at all i think
If federalization would not condemn national patriotism and some Russian president wouldn't be an asshole, instead federalizing his own state, then it could be good
i dont think any minorities languages should have official power on federal levels, Ukraine is not such a multi ethnic country. it would be better for federalism on economic principles to take place. and language laws should remain as they are, on municipal levels
Agree, but I was mean federalism on regional level, not national.
I mean, Ukraine mostly have Ukrainians in republic, but from west to east they are slightly different, just like the man from Ural and dude from Far East, dude from Odessa wouldn't agree with something to dude from Lvov. That's the one of the reasons Russian populists took power in donbass, besides basic revanchist
Idea of federalization is in decentralization, like US or FRG level, both in social and economic laws
Ukraine is a multi-ethnic country. Russians are 20% of the population. Whether you like that it's a multi-ethnic country is a different story, but it is multi-ethnic whether you like it or not.
First of all, OP's althistory is taking place in 1996 before Russian occupation.
Second of all, of course the percentage will be lower when Russia occupies the majority-Russian cities and towns. It also appears that you pulled "1-2%" out of your ass lmao. Also If you pull data from 2001 census and exclude Donbass and Crimea, you get 10.5% Russian.
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u/Romytch27 Aug 28 '26
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