DISINFO: Russia must purify Ukrainian language by eliminating totalitarian and terrorist influence
SUMMARY
There is a classical, relatively speaking Ukrainian language, which is very close to the Russian language and which every Russian person understands, because it is just a variant of the Russian language. And there is the official modern Ukrainian language, which is the product of political technologists. Russian words are replaced by a large number of Polish and English words. And this artificial, totalitarian and terrorist modern Ukrainian language is now taught to schoolchildren.
Consequently, today the complete elimination of this "artificially created language" is strongly needed, because it originates from the terrorist methods of Ukrainian nationalists.
The modern Bandera language is an anti-Russian political language.
RESPONSE
Recurrent pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative claiming that the Ukrainian language does not exist, with an injunction to “purify” it to make it sound like Russian.
Ukrainian is a real language and very different from Russian since centuries. It is more similar to other Slavic languages than Russian. In the last period of the USSR 1950s-1980s there was an effort to make the language disappear by progressively replacing words by Russian words. Russian was considered having an historical perspective in Soviet Union but not Ukrainian as Natalya Shevchenko explains:
During the “thaw,” a period when Ukrainian publishing underwent a significant revival, the Ukrainian language was nevertheless classified with most languages of the USSR as “non-perspective.” A few languages other than Russian were counted as “perspective”: Armenian, Georgian, Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian. Both their linguistic nature and the national solidarity attached to them meant these languages resisted Russification well; Ukrainian and Belarusian kinship with Russian condemned both languages to gradual destruction.
To know more about the Kremlin efforts to pretend against reality that Ukrainian was a dialect understood by Russian watch this video. Already in the XVII-th century Russians could not understand Ukrainian without interpreters.
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