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Reference please from a reputable source....or kindly retract.
Ukraine is where Russia began...so I doubt vey much they would be trying to erase their language and culture
Okay - as you requested:
- "Dr Olesya Khromeychuk is a historian and writer. She received her PhD in History from University College London. She has taught the history of East-Central Europe at the University of Cambridge, University College London, the University of East Anglia, and King's College London", "A Loss, The Story of a Dead Soldier Told by His Sister".
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Links to Putin's own pseudohistorical essays and speeches are included in the links below:
"According to Vladimir Putin, Ukraine doesn’t exist. Before he started his murderous full-scale invasion, he repeatedly denied the country’s existence in pseudohistorical essays and speeches. He is just the latest in a long line of Kremlin rulers who have tried to deprive Ukrainians of their subjectivity. For a man so obsessed with history, he should have worked out that centuries of unsuccessful attempts to destroy the Ukrainian nation show that Ukraine very much exists."
... "In the 1930s, Ukrainians were subjected to a deliberate attempt to destroy them as a nation. While the elites were exiled or executed, millions of peasants were killed through the Holodomor, Stalin’s man-made famine. Like other non-Russian peoples who dared to demand autonomy, Ukrainians were systematically repressed, Russified and denied subjectivity. All the same, the urge for independence remained. During the decades of Soviet rule, sometimes this urge manifested simply in keeping the Ukrainian language and traditions in private use and at other times in an open and organized struggle against the Soviet regime.
Just as the previous empires collapsed, so did the Soviet variant. In 1991, a week before the Soviet Union ceased to exist, 92 percent of Ukrainian voters — just under 30 million people — supported the declaration of independence in a national referendum. Statehood, at long last, was restored."
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Quote from Dr Olesya Khromeychuk - NYT (11/1/2022)
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