According to the 1926 all-Soviet census 55%-67,5% (depending on definition) of the Kuban Region's (today part of russia) population identified as Ukrainians. In 2021 only 0,5% identified as such.
So what happened?
In short: What happened is that Moscow conducted another one of its ethnic cleansing and russification operations. One of its most severe.
Before 1932, the Soviets gave the people of the Kuban the right to speak in their own language and identify as Ukrainians, as long as they didn't oppose the Soviet Regime and didn't discuss the possibility of Ukraine-Kuban unification.
But in 1932 things chanced. Moscow suddenly included it into the North Caucasus Krai and started an immediate campaign of russification. Ukrainian immediately lost its status.
The State immediately demanded all Ukrainian documents to be translated to russian.
All administrations were forced to operate in russian from now on. Any form of Ukrainian Media was banned and so were all Ukrainian schools. Anyone who resisted russification was either jailed, exiled or murdered.
The 1930-33 famine in the Soviet Union affected the Kuban more than any other region in the RSFSR. That's why the Kuban famine is considered part of the Holodomor. Ukrainian villages had a higher chance of being blacklisted, meaning the death rate among Ukrainians was higher.
In the meantime russians were encouraged to settle in the emptied villages where most of its former inhabitants have perished, were deported or fled.
The Ukrainian language was from now on discouraged and stigmatized as a "peasant dialect" similarly, but more effectively than in Ukraine. The people who kept speaking Ukrainian developed a separate dialect, which resulted from poor education in their native Ukrainian language.
Ukrainians didn't disappear immediately, but as time moved on and the people were repeatedly told they're russian - not Ukrainian and the same was written in their passports (if they had any), the russification started to succeed.
Today many of the descendants of those Ukrainians are fully enveloped in the russian mindset and propaganda. They lost their connection to their ancestors. In fact many of them are currently even in Ukraine fighting the people of the nation their ancestors wanted to be part of.
Here's an interview with some of the few remaining Ukrainians in the Kuban, who remember their history (from the 1990's).
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Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny must be one of the most underated military leaders in history
You will definitely be suprised at the things he managed accomplished only in the short time period between 1615 and 1621:
- Conducted several major raids on major Ottoman cities and in 1615 and 1616, he even raided ISTANBUL the largest city in Europe at the time, only using small boats called "Chaikas", against the Ottoman Navy which was one of the strongest. His men even entered the Sultan's palace
- In 1616 the newly elected Hetman CAPTURED Kaffa, which was one of the biggest cities at the time, housed one of the best fortified Ottoman fortresses and one of the largest Slave markets in the World. Again only using "Chaikas"
As another Holodomor Rememberence Day approaches, I want to spread awareness to the fact that @nytimes journalist Walter Duranty still hasn't been stripped of his 1932 Pulitzer prize, he got for spreading Soviet propaganda to the West and covering-up the death of millions.
Joseph Stalin himself praised Duranty on Christmas Day of 1933: "You have done a good job in your reporting of the USSR (...) you try to tell the truth about our country (...) I might say you bet on our horse to win when others said it had no chance"
His career only started seeing big success when he got insights into the USSR, that other journalists couldn't attain. He was even allowed to interview Stalin. And while he lived a luxurious life in Moscow, millions were starving to death.
As Holodomor Rememberence Day is coming up soon, I want to share some of the posts I made on the topic, In hopes it may give you some insight into the deep Trauma Moscow has inflicted onto the Ukrainian nation.
1. Recognition of the Holodomor as a genocide against the Ukrainian Nation
2. The Holodomor in the Kuban Region. A russian territory with a Ukrainian majority. It was specifically targeted for its strong Ukrainian identity and reluctance to russify.
Ukrainian cuisine. Let's talk about it and why and how it's still in a colonized state, why it's far from reaching it's full potential and why many Ukrainians settle for mediocre asian food and below average Kebap, instead of exploring/enjoying the depths of their own cuisine.
How is it in a "colonized" state you ask?
Well, I think it's pretty obvious. Many russified names, recepies and culinary history is still being upheld by modern day Ukraine.
Why? Primarily due to the Soviet Union and its devastating effects on Ukrainian culture.
Prime example: Pelmeni
The "New Soviet cuisine" dictated that meat dumplings be called "Pelmeni" (Udmurt/Komi) and vegetable/fruit dumplings be called "Vareniki" (Ukrainian), thereby mixing different cuisines and separating them from their roots.
Thread on the Ryazan incident (russia) in 1999, where FSB agents planted a bomb in an apartment building, just to claim that it was all just a "training exercise" two days later, after agents got arrested by the police🧵 1/9
This incident occurred a few days after the latest apartment bombing in Volgodonsk (17 deaths), that was directly attributed to Chechens and resulted in air bombings of Grozny and later the Second Chechen War.
Chechen authorities always denied those claims. 2/9
On September 22nd 1999 two suspicious men were noticed carrying bags into an apartment building in Ryazan. When the police arrived to check the suspicious activity, the men were already gone and 2 sacks of powder with a detonator and timing device were found in the basement.
Yeah, so there's probably going to be a lot of Anti-Ukraine propaganda posts about the May 2nd 2014 Odesa Clashes today, so let me freshen up your memory on what happened real quick:
> russia had similar plans for Odesa as they had for Donetsk
> They call for a "Odesa People's Republic"
> They plan on capturing government buildings and on March 3rd they already tried seizing the Odesa Council Building and replaced the Ukrainian flag with a russian flag there
> This never worked though as they could only gather a couple hundred people at most every time they tried
> On May 2nd they try starting shit once again
> All of them are geared up and some even armed with real guns
> There are around 300 of them