I remember how shocked the world was when Kyiv did not fall three days after Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. This showed how unexplored Ukraine is in the West, while myths about Russia are being maintained. As long as everything 🇷🇺 is the center and main topic of Slavic or…
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reveals a disturbing trend at leading US universities. 🇷🇺 dominance in Eastern European and Eurasian studies is evident. More than 82% of "Slavic" literature courses focus exclusively on 🇷🇺 literature. In history courses, one-third of the courses focus on…
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Without a doubt, Russia is a huge productive country, but it was also an empire & a union that appropriated the achievements of conquered nations. Therefore, when something Eastern European is taught in foreign universities as 🇷🇺 by default (for example, the writer Mykola Gogol…
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When 🇷🇺 language or culture is taught as the major, it becomes easier for Russian propaganda to impose its narratives. Russia is actively working to maintain this disproportionate attention by opening numerous 🇷🇺 cultural centers and organizing events to honor its "great"…
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I believe Ukraine could the rebirth of a renaissance all the world around; and in so many miraculous ways! Love and identities, self agency, helping each other along the way; the world getting to know each other as we are now; we all evolve exponentially for future this way! 🕊️
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Do you know who's even more surprised?
The Russians who thought they could capture Kyiv in 3 days.
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If anyone bothers to look the Ukraine was the industrial and technological heart of the USSR as well as a major agricultural power, it also has coal gypsum oil and natural gas, wonder why the Russians wanted to control it ?
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It was Stalin's russification policy-erasing national culture and replacing it with "national in form, socialistic in nature" one. Rich Tatar literature written in Arabic, as in Middle Asia countries, was suppressed and replaced by Cyrilic alphabet. Cosmopolitism was outlawed.
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The world has been on a steep learning curve about Ukraine and her people 💛💙
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Having studied and visited Russia in the past, I knew they were full of shit. Then it quickly became clear Ukraine was going to hand them their asses. I just wish the West/NATO would have been moving hell a faster.
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