Re: PIDHA MOBA

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Posted by Ihor Solovey on March 26, 2000 at 02:09:07:

In Reply to: Re: PIDHA MOBA posted by lesia on March 25, 2000 at 08:12:23:

: : : Generally speaking, you are right, but keep in mind that a person may speak Russian, because he wasn't taught anything else and still be a Ukrainian patriot.

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: : : What about cheap courses of Ukrainian to these persons who want to study Ukrainian, and have, eg. 40 years (and couldnt study it in school).

: : Yes, but you can't change the person's mother tongue.

: Yes, but there can be the same thing which passed in the former USSR - mothers speaking with their children in Ukrainian, and children speaking in Russian. And the next generation will be completely Ukrainian.

I don't think Soviet methods are acceptable for democratic society though.

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