A campaign to “de-Russify” Ukraine is under way

The Economist ^ | Jan 29th 2023 | | KYIV AND UZHHOROD

[E. Pluribus Unum]

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.

So ethnic cleansing is good when you do it.

Check.

[jdege]

Anyone remember why and when the British royal family became the House of Windsor?

[escapefromboston]

It started in 2014 when Victoria Nuland spent 6 billion dollars to over throw the Ukrainian government

[dsrtsage]

Sounds like a job for moose and squirrel

[E. Pluribus Unum]

LOL, and your the first FReeper who posted an article, commented on it but obviously didn't read it. Congrats

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.

But fascists lie. It's all you know.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Because they are really from the House of Dracula.

[tlozo]

It started in 2014 when Victoria Nuland spent 6 billion dollars to over throw the Ukrainian government

Not in 2004 when Putin tried to kill Ukraine's president with poison?

Viktor Yushchenko: Ukraine's president before and after being poisoned

[MarMema]

The Ukrainian army is now ethnically cleansing Hungarians in Transcarpathia.

Orban keeps calling for it to end.

Here is hate for you..incredible stuff!

https://thesaker.is/they-tell-you-that-we-are-nazis/

[MarMema]

Except it was well in place before 2014. Videos prove this.

Nice try. But no.

[Jan_Sobieski]

But Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine

Whenever the word’s “unprovoked invasion” are employed, you know it’s propaganda ignoring the last 9 years of hostilities

[Destroyer Sailor]

Russian Autocrat going to be a Russian Autocrat. Works both ways. Russia has been doing this since the 16th century.

[tlozo]

Nice try. But no.

Right, show me ANY poll that showed Ukrainians EVER wanted to be part of some Russian/Banana-Stan Economic Bloc instead of joining the EU? Ukrainians travel to Europe and Russia and are well aware that Europeans have a much better standard of living.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

It is not “ethnic cleansing” which implies removing people. It is revulsion at the country and culture which has inflicted needless death and destruction. More like de-Nazification. (I know Tolstoy was not a Soviet militarist.)

Ukraine and Russia would be like the U.S. and Canada without Stalin and Putin. Or like Austria and Switzerland.

In the Baltics, after World War II, local teachers, newspaper editors, and managers were replaced by Russians. You recall the Katyn Forrest massacre? The killing of 22,000 Polish military officers and intellectuals? This is the face of Russia in Eastern Europe. They earned it.

[tlozo]

the saker

The Saker is a pro-Putin blog. The biography of the blogger notes:

"Personally, I reject the Left-Right reference system and consider myself an Orthodox “People’s Monarchist” (народный монархист) in the tradition of Lev Tikhomirov, Feodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Solonevich and Ivan Ilyin. Just like the Russian philosopher Berdaev, rather than looking left or right, I rather look *up*!

[PGR88]

Standard operating procedure - seen in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Latin America

Who in the 3rd world wants to fight for the USA and its interests? very few people

But people will fight, and die, for their own local power, religion, nationalism, and especially for a radical/nationalist/utopian ideology. You need “true believers.” So you raise them up. Promote them as national and international figures, help them build their political base and spread their message, and you arm them.

And then you send them to war against your opponent.

[Salohcin]

Oh stop, rejecting Russian culture is NOT ethnic cleansing.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Inevitable result of Russians invading Ukraine, people reject Russian culture, language. etc.

Half of Ukraine prior to 2014 had Russian Culture and Language. The 2014 Revolution disenfranchised that half, including my Grandmother’s family in the Dneiperpetrovsk area. Those against the Revolution and anti-Russian sentiment have been ruthlessly and violently censored (or worse) since then. If you love ALL Ukrainians, why not let the Breakaway Republics secede? You are naive to the “on the ground” situation in Ukraine and simply parroting deep state sentiments

[MarMema]

Nope. About 2010.

Here is the video from 2013..

“put muscovites on knives”

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses/19489

[BusterDog]

Uke regime is literal Nazis. Plenty of censored proof online if you look.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Ignorant people burning Tolstoy—that'll teach 'em!   /sarc

Like a previous poster said, Nazis gonna Nazi.