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Losing track of the number of times a Russian speaker has overheard me speaking Ukrainian in recent months and exclaimed, "Oh, it really IS a different language!" 🤦 Russocentrism: the smug legacy of imperialism and Soviet rule. Russian is not a neutral lingua franca. A rant:
Educate yourself. Start with Ivan Dziuba's 1965 "Internationalism or Russification?" (difficult to find in English) and then go on to Yuri Shevchuk's 2015 "Linguistic Schizophrenia" where he discussed the political techniques of Russification. Some links below 👇
Background on Dziuba's work, protest, and subsequent imprisonment: khpg.org/en/1154035525
Excerpts of his work have been published in English (but I only have hard copies and no PDFs to share today...)
Excerpts of his work have been published in English (but I only have hard copies and no PDFs to share today...)
