• Blursty@lemmy.ml
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    Nobody said there was a genocide as far as I know, but there were many ethnic cleansing attempts.

    On the contrary calling Russia activities “genocide” was very common. Programmed morons.

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      Ethnic cleansing of Russian speakers by what, a Russian-speaking army?

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          No such law was ever passed. You might be missing some details such as the Ukrainian army largely operating in Russian.

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              And that law forbids people from speaking Russian… how?

              Ukraine is in full compliance with the ECRML. Russia isn’t even a signatory.

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                And that law forbids people from speaking Russian… how?

                Love how liberals act really fucking smart 99% of the time and suddenly get really fucking stupid as soon as their shit is called on.

                How about a friendly game of whataboutism? What about if the US right wing succeeded in making English the official language of the United States? What would happen to all the people who speak Spanish primarily?

                (Psst… are we not talking about the killings then? All the pogroms and murders sure seem to have gotten left on the wayside of this conversation.)

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                  If the US introduced that law then anyone who were to print a Spanish publication would also have to print it in English.

                  Which sounds strange but then you have to consider that Russia has been trying to eradicate the Ukrainian language since Catherine the Great. Ukrainian was actually outlawed. Present-day Ukrainian is simply making sure that Ukraine is the lingua franca of Ukraine and is, as said, in full compliance with the ECRML. Which the US doesn’t ratify either btw and it won’t because then suddenly they’d have to stop eradicating native languages.

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                    Russia has been trying to eradicate the Ukrainian language since Catherine the Great

                    Even if that was true and not some harebrained ahistorical overgeneralisation what does that have to do with how the Ukrainian state treats it’s Russian-speaking population? We are talking about an Ukrainian law, imposed by the Ukrainian state on Ukrainian citizens living on Ukrainian-controlled territory. How is trying to eradicate the Russian language in Ukraine preventing the alleged Russian policy of eradicating the Ukrainian language in Russia? How does one wrong justify another?

                    Ukrainian has been an official minority language of the Russian Federation since the breakup of the USSR and schools in Russia’s new territories are teaching an Ukrainian-language curriculum to students whose families so desires. There’s probably plenty of bad things to say about the Russian education system but giving a language you are hellbent on eradicating official status and teaching it at schools seems like an odd thing to do.

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                This ECRML?

                The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML) is a European treaty (CETS 148) adopted in 1992 under the auspices of the Council of Europe

                Huh, wonder what the Council of Europe thinks of Ukraine’s language law:

                The Venice Commission, the Council of Europe’s top advisory body on constitutional matters, said that several of the law’s articles, including article 25, “failed to strike a fair balance” between promoting the Ukrainian language and safeguarding minorities’ linguistic rights.

                You have no clue what you’re talking about. Maybe sit down and listen a little?

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                  You hexbears were the ones starting this whole thing with “They outlawed speaking Russian”, not knowing WTF you were talking about, easily disproved by looking anywhere but at Russian propaganda. It’s not my responsibility to educate you in more than quips.

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        By a Ukrainian Nazi army. Are you not aware of this? This is basic stuff you need to know before commenting.

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      “You and I know what is happening in Donbass,” referring to the conflict zone in the east of the country, adding that: “It certainly looks like genocide.”

      Putin has previously made similar comparisons about the war in eastern Ukraine including in 2015 and 2019.