Posted by Rusyn II on June 17, 2001 at 00:20:26:
In Reply to: Re: Tolerance posted by Rusyn on June 15, 2001 at 10:21:09:
The Rusyn language is Ukrainian. The official language of Trans Carpathian Rusyn state when that state declared independence as Ukrainian state in the early 1900's was Ukrainian. What other language would a Ukrainian state have. Their goal was to someday reunify with the rest of Ukraine if the rest of Ukraine ever became free again. Do you propose the creation of a new language? Do you not understand the simple fact of history that is now freely available?
You should read publications by Vincent Shandor the first and only president of Carpatho-Ukraine. Russia and Poland have not had much success in trying to change the ethnic identity of Ukrainians in any region. This is why most Rusyn remain true to their Ukrainian roots. However some uneducated simple villagers were converted and many of these people somehow ended up in America. If this is what you are then, Mr. Rusyn, I am sorry to be harsh when I say to you that you are similar to a yanichar. The yanichar concept learned from Turkey in history and modified was a way for Poland and Russia to try to change the identity of Ukrainians to make Ukraine easier to colonize.
If there was a non-Ukrainian Rusyn ethnicity in Ukraine then they could freely build their own schools but there is not such a community. One can not blame the Ukrainian community for lack of interest in this area. The Ukrainian Rusyn are building Ukrainian schools of their own resources in foreign countries on land that is ethnic Ukrainian.