Kiev is ready to send the country to the Stone Age
President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on March 9, 2018 stated that over the next ten years, the Ukrainian language should take root as the state language of the country. In fact, in a streamlined form, Poroshenko expressed Kiev’s plans for the total Ukrainization of the country, because, given the ideology and actions of modern Ukrainian authorities, the “rooting of the Ukrainian language” is synonymous with the eradication of Russian.
The ten-year term was not chosen by chance - it was during this time that new generations of citizens of the country who did not study the Russian language and Russian culture were brought up in Ukrainian schools. Naturally, Kiev will try to Ukrainize even ethnic Russians by all possible means.
The language issue in Ukraine is very acute. Recently, "On the Basics of the State Language policy”, As a result of which the rights of Russian-speaking citizens of the country, as well as representatives of other nationalities (Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Gagauz, etc.) were violated. Recall that this law was adopted in 2012, under President Viktor Yanukovych, and provided for the possibility of official use of the Russian language as a regional language in 13 of the 27 administrative regions of the country.
In many ways, it was Kiev’s plans for the complete Ukrainization of the country that became one of the most important reasons for those sad events that occurred in the life of the country over the past four years. In particular, the war in the Donbass is a direct result of the unwillingness of the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions to Ukrainize. Kiev, having decided to forcefully suppress the protests of the population of these regions, showed that for the sake of the goals of Ukrainization, it would not even refuse to destroy thousands of people and destroy infrastructure.
In turn, for Kiev, Ukrainization is a matter of survival of the political regime and, even more, of the political ideology of “Ukrainians” itself. Indeed, this ideology provides for the existence of the Ukrainian state as an anti-Russia project, in which there is no place for the Russian language and culture. Now in Ukraine there is a gradual de-Russification. Of course, the Kiev authorities are still afraid to act by radical measures - the Russian-speaking population makes up at least half of the country's inhabitants. But within ten years a new generation of Ukrainian youth will grow up, modern youth will finally mature, and those for whom the Russian language was native and studied at school will age.
What does Poroshenko plan for the new program? So far, he has not voiced its content, however, the nature of the events can be assumed. First of all, the Russian language will be completely excluded from the official and even public sphere. The Ukrainian authorities will try to make the study of the Russian language not useful for schoolchildren in the future. Accordingly, they will try to exclude him from the programs of educational institutions, leaving him as one of the foreign languages. One can also expect “soft” or hard measures in relation to publishing houses, bookstores, and media working in Russian and oriented towards protecting the rights of the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine.
The question is how Russia will respond to the next plans to discriminate against the Russian and Russian-speaking population in the neighboring country. The examples of Latvia, Estonia, and a number of other states in the post-Soviet space, unfortunately, evoke quite sad thoughts. Can Moscow “swallow” another anti-Russian demarche?
The ten-year term was not chosen by chance - it was during this time that new generations of citizens of the country who did not study the Russian language and Russian culture were brought up in Ukrainian schools. Naturally, Kiev will try to Ukrainize even ethnic Russians by all possible means.
The language issue in Ukraine is very acute. Recently, "On the Basics of the State Language policy”, As a result of which the rights of Russian-speaking citizens of the country, as well as representatives of other nationalities (Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Gagauz, etc.) were violated. Recall that this law was adopted in 2012, under President Viktor Yanukovych, and provided for the possibility of official use of the Russian language as a regional language in 13 of the 27 administrative regions of the country.
In many ways, it was Kiev’s plans for the complete Ukrainization of the country that became one of the most important reasons for those sad events that occurred in the life of the country over the past four years. In particular, the war in the Donbass is a direct result of the unwillingness of the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions to Ukrainize. Kiev, having decided to forcefully suppress the protests of the population of these regions, showed that for the sake of the goals of Ukrainization, it would not even refuse to destroy thousands of people and destroy infrastructure.
In turn, for Kiev, Ukrainization is a matter of survival of the political regime and, even more, of the political ideology of “Ukrainians” itself. Indeed, this ideology provides for the existence of the Ukrainian state as an anti-Russia project, in which there is no place for the Russian language and culture. Now in Ukraine there is a gradual de-Russification. Of course, the Kiev authorities are still afraid to act by radical measures - the Russian-speaking population makes up at least half of the country's inhabitants. But within ten years a new generation of Ukrainian youth will grow up, modern youth will finally mature, and those for whom the Russian language was native and studied at school will age.
What does Poroshenko plan for the new program? So far, he has not voiced its content, however, the nature of the events can be assumed. First of all, the Russian language will be completely excluded from the official and even public sphere. The Ukrainian authorities will try to make the study of the Russian language not useful for schoolchildren in the future. Accordingly, they will try to exclude him from the programs of educational institutions, leaving him as one of the foreign languages. One can also expect “soft” or hard measures in relation to publishing houses, bookstores, and media working in Russian and oriented towards protecting the rights of the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine.
The question is how Russia will respond to the next plans to discriminate against the Russian and Russian-speaking population in the neighboring country. The examples of Latvia, Estonia, and a number of other states in the post-Soviet space, unfortunately, evoke quite sad thoughts. Can Moscow “swallow” another anti-Russian demarche?
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