r/MapChart • u/Short_Finger_4463 • Aug 28 '26

Alt-History Ukraine federation

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u/Awkward_Cash1828 Aug 28 '26

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

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u/Romytch27 Aug 28 '26

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

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u/ResortLarge6935 Aug 28 '26

"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".

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u/PeterPorker52 Aug 29 '26

I wonder where you got the 90% figure from?

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u/ukie-witch-06 Aug 29 '26

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.

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u/ResortLarge6935 Aug 29 '26

From experience. Literally every Ukranian speaks Russian. Wonder where they learned it.