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Posted by vovik on January 10, 2002 at 08:43:55:
In Reply to: No Misunderstanding posted by Nik on January 10, 2002 at 00:49:26:
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: For centuries the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union maintained a single language policy which limited the development of Ukrainian. Those who are nostalgic for the Soviet era and its unfettered efforts to annihilate Ukrainian may want to see the debate over language continue.
+exactly right :"for centuries..". So lets go through it together:
do we have considerable russian speaking populn?--Yes
dowe want them on our side?__yes
Do we want to have them "pissed off" with our language policy, so with us?__No
do we have some loyal to our langge & culture russian speaking ukrainians?__Yes
Could we get more sympathizers from that "block" with ukrainian lang.?___We must find the way through "vibrant" language policy, "vibrant" language policy.
Has always "enforcing" & "eroding" worked with anything.?__Not always.
Could we get in troubles with wrong langge policy or way of its application and have more hostility?___We could.
"Why do we have to make trillions if we could make billions?".
Source: Dr. Evil, "Austin Powers", part 1,...umm may be 2, Hollywood. (avail. at Blockbusters).
Regarding nostalgia.
Schooling, free university eductn in ukrainian, medical and transport services are greatly missed.
Travel and political freedom, entrepreneurial prospects, human rights, supplies etc
are definitely not.