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@SergeiDobrovol1
Mar 18, 2022 • 2 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
When I was growing up in Soviet Ukraine, I spent 7 years in a Ukrainian school (all subjects in Ukrainian, except Russian & English) & 3 years in Russian. Never experienced any hostility towards either language. Russian was the 1st native language of ~80% people of Ukraine,
our Dnepropetrovsk was ~100% Russian-speaking, but when I spoke Ukrainian, I got only positive reactions. That was our “Soviet tyranny”. After 2014, Ukraine has got "freedom": setting up language usage requirements and demonizing the native language of most of its population...

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Jun 25, 2024
Our #Ukrainian Maidanites are often compared to the Nazis, but I can't imagine Hitler refusing to speak his native German, because he was from Austria, or because German was also spoken in Namibia. He was a nationalist & a racist, not an idiot. Zelensky's wife was his writer when Image
his show was practically 100% in Russian, her & his native language. Then came Maidan & the desire to be with the West, and - oops, their new masters didn't like Russian, so, OK, let's take classes in Ukrainian & get ourselves a new "native language". How is this "nationalism" or
"pride" - such readiness to throw away your own culture, destroy & rename everything simply to suck up to your foreign masters? Russian & Ukrainian were native languages of >80% vs <20% of people of our Soviet Ukraine. Russian was my 1st native language, Ukrainian was similar
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Jan 15, 2023
Listening to a woman from Dnepropetrovsk yelling curses at us, saying that we once were greeted as guests in her city... Yes, I liked her city so much, that I decided to be born there in 1974 and stayed for 17 years, even graduated in 1991, with a gold medal, from school #111,
600 meters from that building hit by a rocket. Then I went to Moscow, then came independence, then the anti-Russian coup, and, finally, in 2014, the laws that made it a crime to publicly question Ukraine's independence & territorial integrity, e.g. to support anti-Maidan or a
referendum in Donbas. Which meant that we, anti-Maidan Ukrainians with Russian passports, are all criminals, effectively banished from visiting Ukraine, from 2014 until forever. There was a photo on Twitter of a Palestinian woman standing next to the wall of her former house, &
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Sep 21, 2022
Seriously, imagine if the West said: "OK, Russia, we believe in the will of Ukrainian people. Let's stop the fighting & have a referendum in every contested oblast' of Ukraine. Anonymous, with international observers, every resident voting, no matter where they live today."
And that's it, that's the end of the war that the hypocritical "friends of Ukraine" have been demanding! The war wouldn't even start in 2014, when DPR guys asked for a referendum in Donbas, if Maidanites agreed to respect the will of the people, instead of sending the army.
And, again, if any Western officials believed that the people in the contested regions are really on their side, then THEY would be demanding referendums, not the pro-Russian people. If you demand a vote, and I refuse it, then we both agree that the people support you, not me.
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Sep 16, 2022
On traitors & loyalists: I was born & raised in Ukraine, I never emigrated or applied for a foreign passport, and yet I've always been the citizen of the same country as Putin & other Russian citizens - first the USSR, then Russia (I got a stamp in my Soviet passport in 1992).
Even stranger, although I have nothing to do with the state of Ukraine (no passport, never even applied for a visa), I've never left Ukraine to emigrate or even live abroad. In 1991, I went to Moscow, the capital of my country the USSR, as a student - then Ukraine left me...
And, just in case I could feel split loyalty, Ukraine adopted the blue-yellow flag, the colors of our OUN/Banderite enemies, who, as we were correctly taught in our Soviet Ukrainian schools, murdered Soviet Ukrainians like ourselves.
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