Ukrainian polls are propaganda and I am surprised they do polls in Ukraine at this time. But the above shows that people, who say they exclusively speak Ukrainian at home are a minority in the East and South of the country. People who use both Russian and Ukrainian predominate.
I saw this TikTok…
Unfortunately, the video contains copyrighted music and YouTube is limiting the views on this. But what it shows is what I have covered on this blog, that is that the Ukrainian language is only really used in Western Ukraine, and Google shows as much.
You might hear people say that Ukrainians have switched to Ukrainian because Putin invaded. Some might have gone through this transition but I bet you most did not. Here is Zhirinovski splitting a Ukraine cake for you. Watch it on a wide screen for the best detail.
Excellent video, I hope it stays on the internet forever…
This is fucking based. Finally somebody said it. Even better than Navalny back in the days:
Returning back, I am once again reminded that to change an opinion about a bloody tyrant one needs to just drive through Belarus. They will never unite with us, they don’t fucking need it.
Belarusian language is something magical, as if the writing was invented by “derogatory expletive meaning people from Caucasus” and bastards.
😂
Did you know that the Ukrainians celebrated the Christmas with US Westerners this year? They changed the date of celebration from January 7 to December 25. That is they abandoned the Julian calendar for the Gregorian.
Meanwhile in Odessa:
Ministers in Ukraine are required to pass an exam in the Ukrainian language because the Ukrainian language is really widespread in Ukraine, especially among the elite. The Ukrainian minister of education, Oksen Lisovy failed to submit a language examination as required.
What does this tell you, either the minister does not know Ukrainian well enough to confidently pass the exam, or he is flaunting the law. Likely both, and both is possible in Ukraine. I just wonder whether the Svidomites would stage violent protests against him…
Oh the horror…
From the Grauniad:
But even as most Russian citizens are unwelcome in Poland, the Russian language is heard ever more frequently in the country. By now, Warsaw has become probably the most Russian-speaking city outside the countries formerly part of the Soviet Union.
This is nothing surprising, if you read this blog regularly, you would be aware that Russian is the most dominant language in Ukraine. Ukrainian nationalists would erroneously claim this is because of centuries of brutal Russification but this is not the case. The language of the “constitution” of “Pylyp” Orlyk is Russian, so is the language of the Istoria Rusov, or the works of Bantysh-Kamensky.
There is a high level of artificiality to the Ukrainian language because Ukraine is fake and also gay. There are areas of Ukraine which are erroneously thought of as Ukrainian speaking but these are local creole dialects like Surzhyk and Hvara. Pure Ukrainian is spoken on TV and in presidential speeches, it is a all a façade, a spectacle.
An interesting map I found on the internet, it shows Ukraine is an amalgamation of various, unrelated territories that were mostly gathered together under the USSR. Ukrainians are a completely modern nation with no historical antecedent. This is not to say it has no legitimacy, all nations are a result of political imagining to a degree but their legitimacy is acquired through sound politics, which takes into account the internal makeup and external forces. Ukraine fucked up at both departments…
Russian language was nothing unusual on Ukrainian TV before it began to be legislated against. Reports have it that large TV channels have switched to Russian.
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