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Aug 18 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Exactly. Unfortunately, we have to say that it partly worked. Russia has assimilated millions of people. /1
For example, let's talk about the Kuban region in south Russia. It used to be populated by the Ukrainian population. In this video from 1992 (NOT 1956), people call themselves Ukrainians and talk in beautiful Ukrainian. /2
Ukrainians also populated the far east due to immigration. They even proclaimed the republic Green Ukraine in 1918. I recommend reading the Ukrainian novel "Tiger Trappers" about the life of Ukrainians there. It is one of the best books I've read.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Ukr… /3
Unfortunately, almost nothing is left of the Ukrainian language and traditions inside Russia. And I don't need to go to History to tell you why. Do you know how many Ukrainian schools there are in Russia?
ZERO. /4
Zero, although there are 1.9 million Ukrainians according to data from 2010. Russia has no moral right to say anything about the suppression of the Russian language in Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, and wherever.

#ukraine #ukrainian #Ukrainians #Russian #UkraineRussia /5

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I found a fascinating video from Ukrainian journalist Serhii Peichev about how Russia used sport to achieve its bloody and imperial goals. The video is 20 minutes long, so I will summarize critical things here.
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First, we need to go back to 1936. Nazi Germany organized the summer Olympics.
While Germany was becoming antisemitic, many participants of Jewish descent refused to go to Berlin. /1 Image
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We had a fascinating discussion in the comments, and it turned out that the two languages conversation is common in other countries too.
/1 In Finnland:
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Russian and Ukrainian languages. Thread
As a Ukrainian, one of the most often questions people asked me before the war was about the language. Is Russian and Ukrainian the same? How do you know Russian? Are they similar? Image
Before answering these questions, first, let's look at the historical background.
The Russian language arrived in Ukraine only in the middle of the 17th century (Pereiaslav Agreement). Before that, no one spoke Russian there. /1
At that time, Russian-speaking soldiers and merchants from the Moscow tsarist empire were settled in Ukraine for the first time. /2
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Aug 15
Taras Chmut is the head of the @BackAndAlive foundation and a former Marine who participated in the war in Donbas. He gave a very honest interview to @pravda_eng

Source: pravda.com.ua/articles/2022/…

Translation is also available here: wartranslated.com/2908-2/
My translation:
(I): Let's start with the war. In recent weeks we have been anticipating a counteroffensive in the south. What do we need for this counteroffensive?
(C): Probably brains. /1
Because it is impossible to conduct a counteroffensive and publicly warn the enemy about a month before. As for the practical component, nothing has changed in recent months. /2
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Aug 14
How Russia has become the world's largest sponsor of terrorism and what legal recognition of this will bring - in a column by Foreign Minister @DmytroKuleba for RBC-Ukraine.

Full text is available also at @wartranslated: wartranslated.com/why-the-recogn…
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"It is time to recognize Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism and to do so as quickly as possible. /1
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, his office head Andriy Yermak, and I, as a foreign minister, have been persistent in stressing this on all international platforms. /2
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I will try to understand what people in Russia think about Putin. My thoughts are based on my experience reading/watching the Russian internet and real-life conversations with Russians.
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I would say that Putin in Russia has made himself something like God, a holy person.
First, he publicly denied any personal relations with people. He doesn't have a wife (officially since 2013), and his children have different surnames. He always avoids questions about them. /2
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