Ep 5: Why so many Ukrainians used to speak r*ssian

18/09/2022 20 min Temporada 1 Episodio 5

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It is known that most Ukrainians can speak r*ssian, while few r*ssians can speak Ukrainian. You'll find out how it happened and why we call our bilingualism unfortunate in this episode!
Learn more about the forbidden 1928 orthography here (a video in Ukrainian with English subtitles) and here
Wikipedia pages on linguicide of Ukrainian and the Executed/Shot Renaissance (google translate the Ukrainian articles because they provide more information than the English versions) 
Also, this is how r*ssians tried to ban the Lithuanian alphabet (and failed)
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