Posted on 01/29/2023 8:52:16 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
At a recycling plant on the outskirts of Kyiv, a short drive from the site of a helicopter crash that killed 14 people (including Ukraine’s interior minister) a week earlier, a group of sorters, most of them middle-aged women, are ripping apart hundreds of Russian books. The cover of Tolstoy’s “Childhood, Boyhood and Youth”, days away from being reborn as a coffee-cup sleeve or an egg carton, goes into one garbage bag. The novel’s pages, destined to end up as paper for other books, in Ukrainian, or as cheap toilet-paper, go into another. Next comes a selection of poems by Mayakovsky. Then a Soviet physics textbook. Then biographies of Pushkin and Dostoevsky. And so on.
The backlash against Russian culture in Ukraine had been picking up steam since 2014, when Russia occupied the Donbas and Crimea. But Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, together with the horrors committed by its troops, has sent it into overdrive. De-Russification has mostly been a bottom-up process or a matter of individual preference, as opposed to government policy. Millions of Ukrainians continue to speak Russian without suffering discrimination. But local authorities in many parts of the country are changing street names and pulling down Russian and Soviet statues.
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Nazis gonna Nazi.
Inevitable result of Russians invading Ukraine, people reject Russian culture, language. etc.
We’re living in a man’s world. If they’re dumb enough to kill each other over there we can and should take in the widows with 3+ children. Those with 2 can adopt a niece or nephew. It’s demographics. It would be better than what’s coming in from our southern border. Drop in the bucket? Sure, but what are we doing right?
The Baltic countries have also been aggressively derussifying. Russian language is banned in schools and Soviet-era monuments are being toppled and destroyed.
As they should be.
LOL, your posting the article without reading. It references a "backlash against Russian culture", not "ethnic cleansing", Karen
This has been coup on since the coup and Poroshenko came to power...thanks to the USA.
“A campaign to “de-Russify” Ukraine is under way”
What I cannot deal with is why the NEOCON Supporters are so cool with this Ethnic Cleansing - I guess it just ‘turns them on’, as it did in Bosnia and then Kosovo.
it’s ethnic cleansing....no doubt.
Well, it is payback for the russification that happened under the USSR. And the war between these two people continues as it has for over 1,000+ year all the way back to Kievan Rus.
Calling anti-white racism Critical Race Theory doesn’t change the fact that it’s anti-white racism.
Calling “ethnic cleansing” a “backlash against Russian culture” does not change the fact that it’s ethnic cleansing.
Be careful, your gonna offend the Biden/Neocon supporters here who are salivating over another liberal utopia in Eastern Europe
How totalitarian of you. Scratch a Zeeper and find a bloody leftist.
Another FReeper commenting, without reading an article. Residents of Ukraine, reject Russian language and culture. Not sure how that becomes "nazi"
The backlash against Russian culture in Ukraine had been picking up steam since 2014, when Russia occupied the Donbas and Crimea. But Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, together with the horrors committed by its troops, has sent it into overdrive. De-Russification has mostly been a bottom-up process or a matter of individual preference, as opposed to government policy. Millions of Ukrainians continue to speak Russian without suffering discrimination.
So what business do we have getting involved in it?
And you just admitted Russia began in Kyiv.
LOL, its ethnic cleansing for people to try to learn/speak Ukrainian and refuse to listen or watch Russian tv?
Now replace Russian with any other group and see how it reads.
The Nazis only rejected Jews at the time:)
LOL, and your the first FReeper who posted an article, commented on it but obviously didn't read it. Congrats
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