“...Anybody in the Ukraine who isn’t retarded speaks Russian now and even the retards will catch up in another five years...”
Absolutely untrue as is everything else in your post. In that beautiful part of the western Ukraine among those mountains that are home to a large stable population of brown bears it is difficult to find anyone who speaks Russian in the home. They are not “retards” but you are a jerk for calling them that. Plus large cities like Kyiv and Zhytomyr have bureaucratic pressure to maintain the Ukrainian language like Quebec enforces proper official treatment of French.
However, most people - especially younger people - preferred to speak to her in English. Rather than help her with her Hungarian, they wanted to practice their English.
I would suppose the situation would be different in rural areas, but I do see a trend here.