@joelw_762
@paulimeth
Taking it down to the level of popular culture in Ukraine, what language is spoken in the tv show Servant of the People, which was produced by Zelensky and helped him get elected? It’s on Netflix and YouTube.
What a catastrophically wrong thing to say. Ukraine today is a radically anti-communist state almost totally depopulated of millions of Jews and Poles and is currently fighting a civil war against its Russian ethnic minority due in no small part to the OUN.
@VlStarodubtsev
@wanderer1982
It seems to occur to so few people -- both Ukrainians and their enemies -- that Ukraine today bears almost no resemblance to the Ukraine that OUN-B/UPA/Bandera/his milieu wanted to create. IMHO, it would be a good thing if more of the country realized that.
@paulimeth
Yes, and I know this history far better than you do. I also go to Jewish events in Lviv without trouble or fear of harassment.
Now, what's the answer to my question?
@paulimeth
The fact that you blame the ethnic cleansing of Poles in Galicia on OUN/UPA instead of Stalin makes pretty clear that your understanding of this history comes from reading a few alternative media articles instead of any serious reading.
@paulimeth
The fact that you think this Ukraine is engaged in an internal ethnolinguistic conflict tells me the same thing. This is not something that anyone with any real understanding of Ukraine would say.
@AnginaBC
@joelw_762
@paulimeth
The reason so many Ukrainians speak "russian" is due to literally centuries of suppression of the Ukrainian language by first, the "russian" empire, and then by the soviet union. They don't speak "russian" because they wanted to. They were forced to.