Honest opinions about Ukrainians who speak Russian 

Russian Empire and the Soviet Union banned the Ukrainian language. Now its time for compensation and a policy of affirmative actions for the benefit of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine. The Russian language is not threatened because it is already one of the most popular languages in the world.

@@xxvxxv5588 they never banned it. They were speaking it normally as all the other nationalities that were in USSR, and also they promoted the culture. I don't know where you found this info.

@@yagosdrakos Ukrainians were a minority in the Soviet Union. It is hard to exist when you are a minority without your own state and you're not a tiny and small tribe. There was strong pressure from Russian culture, mass immigration of Russians into Ukrainian autonomy. All these trends provoked conflicts and enmity. It would be better if Soviet Union would exist within smaller and more natural borders, and Ukraine would be a separate socialist country like East Germany or Socialist Poland. The Russians would also benefit from this because without Ukraine (and without Moldova too) there would be a higher percentage of Russians in the Soviet Union.

@@yagosdrakos no Info. it a simple lie....Hungarian langugae was also banned. Now they are lying about it..

​@@xxvxxv5588 The thing is that the periods of 15th-20th century were not the most stable periods. You had continuous wars. One country took the other countries regions.It was the natural course of action back then. Both Russian Empire who had the eastern part of today's Ukraine and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had the western part of Ukraine. Zaporizhian Cossacks is the minority that you refer to, are the ones who personified the creation of an autonomous region of Ukraine (which in real translation it means on the side). They were somewhat oppressed by the Polish side. But Russia on the other hand used Cossacks to conquer the steppes and diminish the Imamates and Khalifates, which it was a rising problem back then, in exchange they gained semi-autonomous state up until 18th century, but still they weren't oppresed they relocated to Kuban, and the rest were in serfdom. I could speak also for my country, we have a minority who are called Pomaks, they are a minority in Western Thrace. Should we offer them in Greece a piece of our land and create a mini-country ? I think even in this logic it is a bit absurd, if you agree. Imperial Russia also had Finland, Poland, a part of Iran, Uzbekistan, etc. they weren't oppresed they still follow their cultures, they speak their language (if you have seen some videos about the Dagestanis, they speak their language, traditions)

Ukranians speak ukranian only when Russians could hear them

@@whshsjsnsjjs2631 good one

in an emergency situation, Ukrainians immediately forget Ukrainian and speak Russian - this is a fact

@@Chaldon-hl6yk moreover, I speak Russian and I wouldn't find it really hard to switch to Ukrainian, There are some unique words and some polish words, but most of it is Russian.

It's because the refugees come mainly from the East (Donbas region), where almost everyone speaks russian. In russian media and propaganda, they say Ukrainians are not allowed to speak russian, but it couldn't be further from the truth.

I just want to say that Odessa is mostly a Russian city. The farther east you go, the more Russian it gets.

what are you talking about??

yeah, if someones native language is french but their nationality is german that's completely fine... i don't get your Argument.

I mean, someone can always become a citizen of another country, regardless of their native language. My German speaking ancestors became American and still spoke German.

Imagine a guy speaking English as native language and trying to proove you that he is Irish.

in the Soviet Union many people spoke Russian (and still speak it) and it's completely normal. I was born in Kazakhstan, but my native language is Russian! I am not Kazakh. Nationality and citizenship are different things.

They meant in public office not in public on the streets

@@camo6344 you can speak any language in any offices of the other nations as long as you or the officers have translator or the officer understand. In my country, there are officers understand multiple languages and they had no problem to answer their citizens.

Whay

They live in a country that allows them to give their opinion, even if you don't agree with it. That is Democracy, is it not?

Not true

Если для тебя единственное отличие между французом, итальянцем и американцем - это язык на котором он говорит, то ты пиздец какое ограниченное существо. В Европпе каждый второй говорит на английском, в Америке каждый 10й на испанском. В Канаде - на французском, в Бельгии на голландском, а в Бразилии на португальском. В Америке вообще нет национального или государственного языка. Законодательно. Они говорят на тех языках, откуда приехали иммигранты. Все знаки и таблички в США дублируются на английском и испанском (наиболее популярных). В некоторых городах ВООБЩЕ не говорят на английском. Я свободно говорю по английски без акцента. Я что теперь - американец или англичанин? А еще я говорю по немецки та украиїнською. Но не язык определяет кто я по национальности и где моя родина. Україна - вільна країна, якою хочу - такою й розмовляю. І не тобі вказувати людям, що їм робити. Просто тебе немного мозги промыли, вот ты и придерживаешься этого тупого мнения. В этом видео говорят правильные вещи, послушай внимательнее. Или выйди на улицу, и услышишь, что российською мовой у нас говорит половина населения, и если ты этого не видишь - ты слепо-глухонемой. Это невозможно игнорировать. Можешь, конечно, не общаться с нами, и игнорировать половину страны, но кому от этого станет лучше?

Яка нація живе у Швейцарії, яка говорить італійською, французькою, німецькою? Яка нація живе в Америці, де все повторюється іспанською?

Lol 😃

Nice bot

@@ilyx21 Hi Bot 😃👌🤣

True, but what you must take into account is whether the old language was in decline sort of naturally or whether it was suppressed by force. Ukrainian is the latter case; Soviets (especially Stalin) tried to eliminate Ukrainian language and culture very systematically... Russians often talk of Ukrainian nationalism (or worse) and Russophobia. Well, if your national identity was being systematically destroyed for decades, I deem it perfectly natural that you'll have nationalist attitude. And as to Russophobia---perhaps if they refrained from attacking everybody around, people wouldn't be wary of them... Us, Czechs and Slovaks, have our own experience with that, just like the Poles, Georgians, Ukrainians, the Baltic nations, Fins and so on and so forth... The list is endless. To Russians reading this: I'll give you a simple hint. If you wish to make friends, maybe don't oppress and kill people; it somehow alienates them, see?

@@vaclavkrpec2879 Stalin, I don’t argue, partly began to curtail Ukrainization, starting around 1932. But before this, the Soviets carried out total Ukrainization, including in those lands which never were Ukrainian, for example, in Novorossiya. And we don’t really need hints regarding our history from foreigners. We don’t support Scottish nationalism or some other separatist movements in Western countries. We mind our own business.

@@ivan_egorov_ But you were very quick to support separatism in Donbas, weren't you? Or you don't count that, on the basis that "it's your territory anyway"? Minding your own business, are you? In Africa, eh? How about the 2014 Vrbětice diversion, just a game, perhaps a summer camp for your GRU agents, was it? Skripals' assassinations in the UK was probably food poisoning, wasn't it? You should check your baked beans for plutonium... A bit of consistency please, and less hypocrisy. You clearly do need hints (or indeed lessons) from foreigners regarding your history, mate. What do you know about the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact? Do you even know what it was? Many Russians either don't know at all or don't want to know if they do. Will you educate us?

​@@vaclavkrpec2879🤡, what are you talking about? You need to pick up a history book. Communists promoted Ukranian language from 1917 -early 1930s, they literally made it mandatory to speak Ukrainian at work and demanded that all documentation be translated into ukranian. They even opened Ukrainian schools in Siberia in areas where lot of ethnic ukranians lived. It failed because ukranian language was a language spoken by barely litterate villagers and simply did not have scientific or technical vocabulary. After about 15 years they gave up and let the "market" decide, although it continued to be promoted as the natural language of Ukraine.

@@havanasyndrome3024 Did history end with 1930? Turn another page and read a bit further. What begun in 1932 in Ukraine? Hint: starts with H and ends with olodomor… Keep the fool’s mask for yourself, it’ll suit you much better.

Shows you how absurd the whole idea of Ukraine is.

@@antonlopatinsky9154 that literally never happened

@@antonlopatinsky9154 That's a lie. There are over 160 different nationalities in Russia and their languages are taught in the public schools as well as Russian. No one is beaten for speaking Russian with an accent, you don't know what you're talking about, you're spreading lies and propaganda. One more thing, there are over 10 million Ukrainians living in Russia today, and they are not treated any different. Blame NATO for this war, no one else.

​@@antonlopatinsky9154 People from Central Asia and the Caucasus are still coming to Russia more and more, which means that they do not feel threatened. On the other hand, Russians are increasingly dissatisfied with these migrations. Yes, Russians believe that Ukrainians do not exist as a separate nation, because they consider them Russians who fell under the influence of the West, and the very name Ukrainians is considered a geographical and administrative term. And Ukrainians and Russians really are practically identical. And the word "Ukraine" really has a geographical meaning, because the root of the word "kray" means "1. end", "2. border", "3. landscape" in all Slavic languages. And the divisions are really of an ideological and religious nature, because in Ukraine the bearers of the Ukrainian language and hatred towards Russians are the Greek Catholics. On the other hand, Ukrainians claim that Russians in Russia are not Slavs at all, which is nonsense that any person can disprove by taking a genetic test. In addition to being nonsense, it is also ridiculous, because it is absurd that Ukrainians, who are pro-Western, "care" about Slavism, whose greatest enemy is the Roman Church and its daughters - the nations of the West that it created. A prominent example is the Sorbs, a once great Slavic nation that was destroyed or converted into Germans by the Roman Church through culturicide and genocide.

@@antonlopatinsky9154 You in Ukraine, supporters of Bandera, have certainly not learned the lessons from WW2. It's so funny that you in Ukraine, who have the closest ties to the British Royal Family, are talking about clueless imperialist maniacs. Hahaha. How much did you mourn the dead queen? 😂 And the British Empire is the most genocidal empire in the history of the world. Not even a century has passed since they abolished slavery, and reluctantly.

@@surbia maybe People from Central Asia and the Caucasus do not feel threatened but ethnic Ukrainians are feel threatened that`s why so many Ukrainians left the Crimea, Mariupol and other territories occupied by Russia.

It depends where they are from - if they are from an eastern region, then they would speak russian, if they are from a western region - then they would speak Ukrainian

​@@notCAMDit does not matter as they all swear exclusively in Russian. It happens with artificial languages.

@@ivydark9741 swearing is almost the same in all eastern-slavic languages, but it's still slightly different so it might sound like they swear in the same language

@@ivydark9741 also we were talking about generally speaking, not specifically swearing

How do you know Ivan

"de-russification" exactly. History here is being glossed over.

The problem is that decommunization started in 2015, so you need to know something about it before you write. Secondly, why are Ukrainian children studying in Russian in the occupied territories now? Why are they “imposing language/nationalism on people”? Thirdly, even now, during the war, some schools teach Russian, and before the full-scale war, there were many more students who studied Russian. So you need to stop writing nonsense and stop watching TV

@@supermind65536 So who forbids speaking Russian? I have been speaking Russian all my life and no one has ever humiliated me for it. So it's you who should stop writing nonsense

Imagine starting a war over some language issue. In this sense, do you approve US invasion of Iraq?

You don't know the Ukrainian context well. Russia uses the Russian language as a means of propaganda and has for many years promoted hatred and anti-Ukrainian sentiments in the territories that are mostly Russian-speaking, so Ukrainianization is a logical step to reduce the influence of Russian propaganda, at the same time there are no bans on communicating in Russian and Russian-language schools work in Ukraine until now. (for example, there is no Ukrainian school in Russia) But in state institutions, educational institutions, in organizations, the language of communication must be Ukrainian 2 Ukrainian nationalism is a logical response to Russian aggression, which was long before a full-scale war and which instilled Russian narratives and its worldview on us 3 The cause of the war was the weakness of the Ukrainian state and Russian imperialist sentiments. They consider Ukraine to be their territory because at a certain period of history Ukraine was under the control of Russia and part of Ukrainians speak Russian language (which the Russians cultivated for centuries. Hundreds of laws banned the Ukrainian language, books in the Ukrainian language, and Ukrainian theaters. They Russified Ukraine and now they say that Russified Ukraine is Russia) Russian propaganda says that if Ukrainians speak Russian, they are Russians. here is another example of why Ukraine needs to switch to Ukrainian 4 What kind of culture and traditions are you talking about in the territory occupied by Russia, I don't understand and how language affects it?

Ye but they have their language right? Ukr language is half polish half Hungarian half russian, it is artificial made language.

Native language is actually what defines your nationality.

​@@StrongRespect So. Loan words and grammar influence is normal. See an Israeli market. English, Hebrew, Russian Arab spoken together without needing a language law. Give enough time and a creole will form ie a new language.

​@@StrongRespect Absolute nonsense

@@petefrys545 as long as it is fact, who cares

Exactly Ukraine did fine for itself before 2014 until CIA orchestrated a coup in the country and put in borderline fascists and ultra nationalists in power to provoke Russia in the pretext of "European values"

They're not.

@@falcon_224 Ukraine isnt as right wing as you think.

Here you only saw the tolerant ones...

@@baptsan The only intolerant ones are the murdering separatists, of course.

Yeah zelensky and the CIA usually

@@muckle8 and the Daliks. Don’t forget them.

People at the top are the reflection and product of the masses.

в Польщі тільки польська, уявіть якщо вони введуть німецьку

@@user-lf6ih6mq3j for Poland that's ok, but in Ukraine they have Ukrainian, Hungarian, Russian, Moldovian and some more. All languages except Ukrainian became prohibited to such an extend, that in the supermarkets the girls at the check-out were not allowed to speak Russian with a Russian customer. If she does, she could get fired. Of course people get upset with such a law.

You make it sound like those cities are targets only because of speaking a language but not separatism😂

@@ilovethisworld3059 Moldovian is not a standalone language. It’s just a Russified Romanian.

I understood your point, but there is an issue: the Ukrainian language does exist, unlike Switzerlandish. And the Ukrainian language is damaged, and we need to restore it. Ukrainians have never spoken Russian historically

It does to Putin

I witnessed the same thing long before the war. Twenty years ago I watched a group of Ukrainians speak Russian between each other, only to switch to Ukrainian when seeing a Russian coworker walk into the room. That's just not right. That's purposefully excluding someone. Everyone should just speak whatever they feel comfortable speaking. Otherwise, it's all performance.

@@elsenior1597 I does to Putin

Still the corrupt goverment made fines of using the russian language in work situations, kicked out songs and speaks in russian on the radio and started burning russian books. Ukraine had only been ukraine for 2 or 3 years before 1991... The closest thing by name after that was "Reichskommissariat Ukraine" under Nazi Germany 1941-1944.

Bullshit, Ukrainian is the only official language, and the state is taking increasingly stringent measures to restrict the Russian language every year.

That's not how it works. The people of Donbass said that they wanted to speak and write and study in Russian, but they were forbidden. They demanded that they negotiate with them and instead brought in an army. After which these people already declared that they then want to be either autonomous or independent

That's what brainwashed people say. Russia has 35 official languages and although 8 million ukranians in Russia mostly speak russian, they might speak mova instead. Nobody ever complained about language restrictions in Russia, cause there are none.

@@mitrogulf4073 Russian invasion of Crimea and amassing forces on the Ukraine border might also have played a role though, don't you think?

Thank you

too late, Ukraine allowed the West to start a war.

Ukraina is a made up country

@@kxkxsjk2 You are welcome, never allow the Western propaganda to divide you, I have much respect for Russia 🇷🇺 and Ukraine 🇺🇦, they are the only countries in Europe that never colonized the world and for that reason, these two countries have earned my respect. And secondly never forget that you are Slavic people, the only civilization that saved the world from Nazis and not the western countries, glory be upon Russia 🇷🇺 and Ukraine 🇺🇦, formerly known as Soviet Union.

"the western governments ambitions are to destroy the Slavic civilization" WTF. Where do you get that idea? I have never once, in all my years working alongside government employees, military and non-profit workers, heard a single person even suggest that they want to destroy "Slavic civilization", whatever that even means.

I have the same impression. I read that that language has one problem. It doesn't help for brain to develop properly as russian language does. I am not shure about that but it sounds terrible

Maybe due to Ukrainian language was developed by the Austrians to counter the popularity of Russian language.

​@@nocturnalowl5867 more like Polish language had influence. Polish occupied western part of Ukraine for 400 years. Russians in Ukraine turned into Roman Catholic and had Unia with papa. And became Ukranians and started to hate Russians. The same story between Serbs and Coats. Religion played important role in this war. Read Taras Bulba from Nikolai Gogol and you will understand what's going on today

@@zaklinakovace6792 You sound racist AF.

So how do Belarus go into this. They like Russia but there language is more Ukraine then Russian.

Закон что 75% передачи на Украйнскии ето не какая дискриминация. В всех странах так. У вас в России большинство передачей тоже на русскому, хот у вас разных народах тоже проживает.

А сколько в вашой России школах где учит на Украинскому? В России живут больше 1М украйнцнев? Ест в России передачи на Украинском?

​@@danbaltic9678Никто не запрещает украинский, а русский в Украине запрещали, большая разница

@@danbaltic9678 так а может миллиону украинцев в России это и не надо. А теперь вопрос , сколько реально в украинском государстве людей для которых русский язык родной?явно не миллион , куда больше.И да, как сказал человек выше, никого не кошмарят за язык в России, а у вас кошмарят, масса видео приставаний из-за языка к продавцам, таксистам и прочим людям.

@@rexpowercolt8216 кто запрещали? Как вы может верит етого враньё? Даже на етом видео на русском говорить. Тысячи ютуберов в Украины на русском, даже украйнскии солдаты часто говорить на русском

если казах или молдаванин имеют за свой первый язык русский, то это не делает их этнически русскими.

If you are born in Dublin, your Father is an Irishman and you speak English: who are you? A Brit? No, you are an Irishman. And if you are born in Qebeck, Canada and your language is French, who are you? Right, you are Canadian. And so on, and so on. Why should it be different in case of Russian language? When you will realize that Ukrainians who speak Russians are Ukrainians who speak Russian but are not Russians. Language and identity are two completely different things.

This is exactly why unfortunately Ukrainians whose first language is russian should stop speaking it, not that anything russian doesn't inspire disgust and many willingly stop speaking it after this invasion anyway. But putin fascism says russian speaking ukrainians belong to russia and they must be invaded to join russia and while the slightest trace of this political thought exists inside russia don't give these fascists any political capital, realise russian language now unfortunately is a tool for fascism and abandon it.

As a russian speaking Ukrainian from Odessa, I have to say that your comment is extremely narrow minded. It seems like you are incapable of understanding that I grew up in Ukraine, I have always considered myself a Ukrainian and I don’t want to be and will never be russian. As time and experience show - we - Ukrainians and Russians - are, indeed, very different, and I am proud to be the former.

@@k.1701 Ok sorry, but I'm repeating the sentiment of what I've read and been told by some other Ukrainians. I'm not Ukrainian myself. So the viewpoint exists out there amongst Ukrainians not to give any points to russian fascism and colonialism by continuing to speak their language. But of course your first language is your first language and it's tough not to embrace. Good luck to you. And I'm not in a country in a war and my native language is english so it's easy for me to be less pragmatic about the situation and simply be angry at the original troll post claiming russian speaking ukrainians are actually russian. I hope you're doing well and I pray your country wins soon.

when putin says "we have to protect russian speaking in ukraine and liberate them .. " is this what he's referring to? its like France taking over Geneva Switzerland cause they speak French ...

@@joshpillos what happened to Gonzalo Lira?

When I was at Azov sea as a child in late 90s some older kids asked me from which city I am (I was just watching video and not even speaking). I told I am from Moscow since I think never even heard about Bandera before, maybe only a lil bit that western ukrainians don't like russians that much, and those boys started to troll me calling 'Moscal' (muscowite) 🤣. I wonder if some of them are in Azov or killed/neutralized already. Also, each time I noticed guys from Zaporozhie region and other East were friendly as it possible while a guy from Lviv speaking russian and being "quite" friendly still were speaking with some degree of superiority. Like it was brainwashed german in late 30s speaking with pole or something.

@@SntGod He got killed in a Ukrainian jail for criticizing the Ukrainian government.

@@joshpillos Except Switzerland lets it's French and Italian speakers speak whatever language then want to unlike Ukraine which heavily restricted use of Russian.

The question is why a minority language is the official language? 70% of Ukraine is Russian speaking.

​@@havanasyndrome3024 українська це конституційна мова, тому і офіційна. Російською люди говорять лише тому, що нам її віками силою насаджували. А ще офіційна мова українська, бо ми живемо в Україні.

@@purplwcloud English/French/Spanish/Portuguese/German languages had been imposed on people for centuries - time to ban them? By Ukrainian logic the US needs to ban English and make Cherokee as the official language forcing everyone to learn it.

@havanasyndrome3024 you're purposefully twisting my words. I stated what I wanted to tell you before. I'm not gonna start a conflict with you.

Even if the Russian language were forced, there is no justification for Russian aggression.

Well Finland was also Russia. Russian is not a Finnish language.

@@user-yo8ru4dj2e What Russian aggression? Russian is defending itself from the Ukraine's plans to join a hostile military alliance and introduce US nukes into the Ukraine. Just as the US opposed the siting of Soviet nukes in Cuba. The Ukraine is the villain of the piece here.

@@disappointedenglishman98 imagine believing that Ukraine was going to be part of NATO anytime soon and was capably of posing real threat against Russians

I live in southern region and I have no idea what're you talking about.

Because Russian is their mother-tongue. )

Do you think it's impossible to speak English while hating the US? Ukraine is almost entirely a bilingual country, virtually everybody there speaks Russian and Ukrainian fluently. The urban population considers both languages their mother tongues.

Nobody is stopping the Swiss from speaking French...

The real issue is a US puppet trying to bring them into nato.

Oh we, Russian, we love Swiss scenario, in which 3 languages are official and peace maintained between ethnics. However, in Eastern Europe this solution is always forbidden somehow.

Yeah, they had to protect the Russian speaking population from the radicals/nationalists/neo-Nazis who eliminated the Russian language from schools, government, medical facilities, church, etc., from the east of the country where most of the ethnic Russian population lives turning them into second class citizens overnight. The MINSK accords were supposed to fix that but the nationalist at the Ukrainian RADA refused to implement it, and we know the rest.

If you want people to be with you don't discriminate. East Ukraine was forced to abandon their Russian language.

It’s Kiev theres barely any forced mobilisations over there. Funnily enough most forced mobilisations happen in Kharkiv Odesa Zaporizhzhia Dnipro etc. Where Russian is the majority spoken language.

We're so lucky we can still understand each other. US Is a pretty big place im sure one day the accents wont be as forgiving.

Obviously, you know nothing about this topic. The difference between Ukrainian and Russian can be comparable to that between Italian and Spanish.

@@JackConners123 I know only Russian language and can completely understand ukranian one

​@@EUGEN093 You're either lying or you have never heard proper Ukrainian - russified Ukrainian is called Surzhyk, but it's not a proper language. If you heard someone from the West of Ukraine speaking pure Ukrainian at a natural pace, without prior exposure you'll generally understand about 35-40% of what's being said or even less depending on context and topic. Russian and Ukrainian are actually more divergent than Spanish and Portuguese. Sure it's easy to learn Ukrainian if you know Russian, but saying that these are just dialects of one language is totally preposterous.

@@JackConners123 do anchors of the channels 1+1, 2+2 speak proper ukranian language or surjik?

Some Ukrainian speakers also refuse to speak Russian and there are Russian speaking diaspora too

Because Russia is coming to them.

simply because their native language is Russian and they want to speak their native language. Is this difficult to understand?

You are free to speak whatever language you wish in Russia, Russia has 35 recognized minority languages meanwhile Ukrainian government has passed laws like language policy which restrict use of Russian heavily.

Maybe you could google the number of languages spoken in Russia, before you make your ignorance public here🤣

Russian imperialist detected. You can think what you want, leave other nations alone

"Русский язык - испорченный северный диалект украинского языка" Ну и как докажешь, что я не прав?

@@FrolkaG я не доказываю, я просто привёл слова Ломоносова.

@@SuperbizonR но ведь процитировали именно его и именно это, а не, скажем, Грушевского

Грушевщина это диагноз@@FrolkaG

The thing is Ukrainian wasn't widely spoken until recent years especially in Kiev. You would only hear Ukrainian in the western part of the country.

and what is that?

перечислите разницу..

🤡, are you going to tell us what those clear and district differences are? 😂😂😂

как федеральный округ собрались

наоборот

Это был сарказм.

When a language is spoken by 50% of the population, they have the right to use it as an official language. Canada is fine with 2 official languages, so is Belgium. The Swiss are fine with 4 official laguages. Politicizing languages is absurd and it is a cover story for ethnic cleansing policies. Last time I checked, during the war for independence the United States did not switch to French or German because English was the language of their enemy. Ukrainian language was never forbidden in education. The Soviets pushed Ukrainization, not Russification. The problem with the Ukrainian language is that it never had its own words for scientific or tecnical notions, being a language of country folks. Ukrainian cities have spoken Russian since their first days, except for Westerm Ukraine.

​@@user-oe2cc3tc5tпродолжу, языком городов на западе был польский. Языком преподавания киевского университета были польский и русский.

I think "Russianness" of Kiev is the same as of cities you listed except Lvov of course.

Yeah, would be cool

They can't learn it in public schools like they used to, it has been taken out of government and medical facilities, it has been banned in church by the government as well, it's a forced Ukrainization. People still speak it because a lot of the older generations can't speak Ukrainian, and most of the east and south of the country only speaks Russian.

@@loumcast First of all: if it's easier for you to use Russian instead of English you are most wellcome to do it. This being said there is need for some corrections. Russian never, not even after Russian invasion 2022 was banned from public schools, you can still learn it as a second language. Considering Russian speaking Ukrainians are a minority and Russian speaking Ukrainians are mostly bilingual it seems to be a fair solution. people still speak Russian and they should speak the language of their choice. But Ukrainian in Ukraine is first, official language as French in France, Spanish in Spain and German in Germany although in every of these countries there are minorities using their language to communicate. Perhaps a solution similar to Swiss or Canadian one would be better on the long run but it should be something Ukrainians have to deal as it is an internal issue of the state Ukraine and not something Russia can enforce. BTW: almost all my friends from Odessa stopped to use Russian after Invasion and switched to Ukrainian. Some started even to learn. No one did more for consolidation of Ukrainian National Identity than Putin.

@@renemagritte8237 I'm NOT Russian or Slavik, I'm a proud American. So, you are going to tell me too that the Russian language wasn't taken out of government (everyday government paperwork), medical institutions and wasn't banned in the liturgy in the Russian Orthodox Church by government either?

They have statues of na zis, and streets named after them. Maybe thats why people call them that, even a nazi national hero.

@@attilamarics3374 You gonna have to be a bit more specific as to which objects/people you refer to.

@@squeakycleannnn Bandera, Shuklhevich, Коновалець

​@@ryangosling239 Did a small research on these names, rather quickly I found that these are "heroes" only to a tiny minority of ultra nationalists, in other words it seems they are taken out of context as the majority of population either don't care about these guys or they condemn their actions. That's why perhaps there are less and less people who care for russian opinion. Because it's riddled with lies and misinformation. Do your own research folks and don't fall for BS.

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The History of Eastern Europe : Every Year ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FFIWhcA9oNc.html&t= And study the borders and size of that place we call Ukraine today.

At the imperial times there was no Ukrainians but Russians, Rusins, Little Russians. Plan of Russia was to unite them in one language. Just like Italians, Germans and French did with their dialects who are distant from each other like modern Ukrainian is to Russian.

my understanding is that "ukrainian" comes from the western part of ukraine. It was more or less created by the poles. Also the poles wanted the wester ukrainian to switch from their orthodox believe to catholic... This is why there is an ukrainian catholic church there..

@@leonardoorellano6652No, Ukrainian certainly was influenced by polish language, their is a high level of lexical similarity. but the same ammount of similarity exists between ukrainian and belarussian. Languages can't be just "created". They are a result of centuries of society simply functioning. Of note, the Ukranian Catholic Church is almost the exact same on most principles as orthodoxy, the major and important distinction is that they follow the Pope. Otherwise, they still have a divine liturgy that is not too dissimilar to othodox ones, their churches all have similar setups and designs as orthodoxy ones, and the ukrainian catholics venerate the saints, angels, Jesus, and Mary through Icons, just as the orthodox do.

@@RogueSecret Neither history, nor Eastern Europe nor every year. This kind of cartography is toxic when provided without explanation that borders now and borders then were not the same thing. And borders between dynasties are not borders between countries (considered to be legal, autonomous and sovereign subjects. This map compares uncomparable leading to absolutely wrong conclusions. And above all to conflicts - clear visible in the comment section.

@athrunzala5337 Russia will be defeated.

​@@crose7412in your dreams 😂

@@izzyreeze3538 In your reality. They're not getting very far, are they?

@@crose7412 HOW?

@@athrunzala5337 The way every victor has won a war.

Your missing another group of languages near Austria :p

Да али украјински је ипак другачији од руског ,није исти језик и тешко га је учити на силу ако си цео живот говорио руски

tell that to the Swiss))))

I hope you know that the Ukrianian language has its origins in the Russian language.

Ukrainian is NOT part of their identity since the western part of Ukraine is the only one that speaks Ukrainian, the east and the south speak Russian, You need to open a history book before posting some nonsense and showing your biases. the east and south of the country are historical Russian territories with ethnic Russian populations given to Ukraine to administer by the communists during the years of the Soviet Union. Inform yourself better, that your ignorance about this subject and Russian history is showing.

Several Ukrainians gathered. One of them asks: “Are there no Muscovites here?” “No, no,” they answer him. - Are you really mute? - Exactly. - Well then, let's talk in Russian...

@@loumcast Ukraine is a relatively ethnically homogeneous country, the percentage of ethnic Ukrainians in Ukraine is higher than the percentage of ethnic Russians in Russia.

Not really, they were all a part of Russia during times of empire and kieven Rus. They technically only became independent in 1991.

Because of the mongol Ivasion Siberian Russians look Asian

I have freinds from Ukraine, Belarus and originally Russia. They all can speak or at least understand Polish which is what I speak. The reality is that the Belarusians and russians are scared to speak polish on the phone, they say that the phones are tapped. I only spoke with Ukrainians here in Scotland where I live. They were so grateful that I could speak some russian with them. Putin is simply lying about oppression of russian speaking Ukrainians. Ukrainians are wonderful people. Sława Ukrainę, Saor Alba.

Зачем?

Зібралися щирые українці. Один із них питає: - Москалів тут нема? - Ні, ні, - відповідають йому. - Точно нема? - Точно. - Hу тогда давайте по-русски поговорим…