Posted by Valentyn Stetsyuk on March 21, 2000 at 05:38:54:
In Reply to: Ukrainian Language posted by Bohdan Oryshkevich on March 20, 2000 at 14:23:33:
: On the other hand how does Ukraine force indigenous people in places like Odesa, Luhansk, and Crimea to speak Ukrainian when they have not done so for generations if ever. Despite the rhetoric of many in the Diaspora, many regions of Ukraine have never had Ukrainian as a language.
You are wrong. I was born in East Ukraine and know well that the whole villagian Ukraine was Ukrainian in my childhood. Now never speak Ukrainian in villages besides old men.
: I think that patience, time, ingenuity, and tolerance will solve this problem. Respect is key.
That is OK principle. But the whole Ukraine including Lviv will speak Russian in few years if we will be too tolerant and not active. More high culture overcomes always the lowe one. We must by hard.