Comments by "1midnightfish" (@1midnightfish) on "Ukrainians: about Eastern and Western Ukraine | Street Interview" video.

@Papagulag KharKIV. I know and know of lots of Ukrainians who've been switching to Ukrainian - since 2014 and even more so since last year. russian was violently imposed on many Ukrainians over centuries, and Stalin picked up where the muscovite empire left off, by rounding up and slaughtering hundreds of Ukrainian writers, artists and intellectuals in the 1930s. Kharkiv was once the heart of Ukrainian language and culture. These are facts. Another fact is that putin used the existence of russian-speaking Ukrainians as an excuse to being his full-scale genocide - and many of those he's had killed so far were in fact russian-speaking Ukrainians. So it's understandable that many Ukrainians would be disgusted with the language and want to switch, but from the people I've spoken to or heard speak, switching languages - which is absolutely possible btw - is not just about disgust, but also an understanding of the history of aggressive russification of some areas of Ukraine.
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@john_in_phoenix As we might guess by the name - as well as a number of other comments and replies under this video - Papagulag is a troll. A troll who can't spell Kharkiv (here he actually spelt it as "Khrakov" which is hysterical... it sounds kind of Polish now 🤣)
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Clearly not.
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@ВосточныйСлавянин I've never once seen that quoted in context, so I always take it with a pinch of salt whenever it comes up. I also wouldn't refer to Poroshekno as the "Maidan-president" of Ukraine, since he was elected after putin-puppet Yanukovych fled the country as a result of the Revolution of Dignity. Poroshenko didn't orchestrate the protests - no one person or entity did.
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They are temporarily occupied areas, like Crimea and parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzha
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@buddyrojek9417 Good for her. And for your grandson! ☺💙💛
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@Hasan-jf7by Actually the Ukrainian government had spent a lot of money on cities like Mariupol and Bakhmut in recent years - that may be one of the reasons putin decided to flatten those cities.
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@Acts1043 Anyone remotely tempted to give this troll the benefit of the doubt, please watch the video that Operator Starsky made about the "bombing of the Donbas" (from last year, but you'll find it easily on his channel), because he quotes figures from independent sources. Also do an internet search for Odessa Trade Union Building and you'll realise that the situation wasn't as simple as "people being burned". The mayor of Odessa is a russian gangster (literally - he even has connections to the Italian mafia) and if Odessans has not resisted, the city would have been taken over just like Crimea and the Donbas. The plan was obviously to keep taking bites out of Ukraine until russia managed to join up with Transistria, and from there just gobble up the whole country.
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@Hasan-jf7by I don't think you're a russian bot. I think you've been listening mostly to russian bots and you're convinced you're "telling the truth" when you're really mostly paraphrasing russian propaganda.
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Many of the millions of Ukrainians deliberately starved to death by stalin 90 years ago were in that area, and were then replaced by russian speakers. Having said that, we really should move away from equating russian-speaking Ukrainians with people who buy into kremlin propaganda, because many Ukrainians who grew up speaking mostly russian very firmly identify as Ukrainian (including many of the people who've been killed since 24th February 2022).
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@viktorgr1222 KharkIV. SBU have been arresting collaborators all over the country, not only in the East. And yes, openly expressing support for the country currently committing genocide in Ukraine has unsurprisingly become a criminal offence in Ukraine.
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While when people put the word "russian" and the word "culture" one after the other in a sentence, nobody laughs because we all think of genocide.
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People don't "belong to" anyone... the muscovite empire ended over a century ago.
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the russian federation is an artificial agglomerated country, that keeps forgetting its own borders and is run by the biggest mafia cartel on the planet
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How was it a fatal mistake to ensure the national language was taught in all schools? Especially considering that those areas were aggressively russified under the soviet union, and the muscovite empire before it.
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@gregtriplex5878 Solid attempt at derailing a discussion with irrelevant analogies. The aggressive russification of Ukraine stretches further than the American revolution, and continued until quite recently. And unlike the US, it's had its own language and culture for a very, very long time, which the muscovite empire followed by the soviet union made repeated and very violent attempts to suppress. Just one example of this is stalin having hundreds of Ukrainian writers, artists and intellectuals rounded up and murdered in the 1930s: if you type "executed renaissance" into a search engine, Ukraine comes up. Inform yourself before writing drivel online. And not only about Ukraine: your China-Taiwan example is laughable.
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@gregtriplex5878 The mental gymnastics involved in writing this convoluted, ridiculous comment is the only impressive thing about it. Other than that, it's absolute drivel from start to finish. Ukraine was colonised by the soviet union, just as it (and many other territories) had been colonised by the muscovite empire before it. Ukraine has always had its own distinct culture, history and LANGUAGE, that the muscovites in their various incarnations have tried again and again to suppress. These are basic historical facts. "Divide and rule" is indeed a powerful weapon that's been employed by empires throughout history, all over the world, and it's exactly what putin has been trying to do to Ukraine since 2014. And considering how good he and his gang are at psyops, it is testament to the underlying strength of Ukrainian identity that they have not yet succeeded. Finally, if the russian federation is, as you say, not "sovyet", why did it automatically inherit the soviet union's seat in the UN Security Council? putin himself has said repeatedly that he sees the end of the soviet union as the greatest tragedy of the 20th century, and is undeniably trying to bring back some sort of monstrous hybrid of the soviet union and muscovite empire. One of the ways he has got to this point has been to reinvent history to suit his rhetoric, and in that, he's been getting help from people like yourself.
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@gregtriplex5878 Do you ever run out of total rubbish to post on YouTube...? No intel op has ever been carried out to "divide" Ukraine from russia... there was no need! Ukraine never wanted to be part of russia. They would have been neighbours, but russia doesn't know how to be a neighbour, and now the country, its language and its culture are hated and reviled not only in Ukraine but in many other parts of the world.
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@devansa125 The funny thing is that nobody needs you to tell them that some Ukrainian soldiers often communicate in russian - we know . I've seen some battlefields videos, and also follow a number a number of military bloggers who do sometimes talk about language - some have Ukrainian as a first language, some russian, some habitually speak surzhyk, and switch from one to the other as the situation requires. In a crisis it makes sense to use one's easiest language, and which language that is depends on the person at that particular moment (for me, for example, my easiest language is my second, not my first). You don't actually deserve this much typing - I'm writing this for anyone else who may come across this thread at some point. And in that spirit, I'll mention a language-related fact that happened in Ukraine a month or so ago: a well-know university lecturer, blogger and TV personality (Iryna Farion) lost her job after stating in an interview that any Ukrainian who still speaks russian, she does not consider to be Ukrainian; she singled out russian speakers in the armed forces. And while she did get some public support, overall Ukrainians didn't like that at all, and nor did the authorities and her employer. So much for the persecution of russian speakers in Ukraine.
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@devansa125 What rubbish. It is obvious to anyone paying even passing attention that there is no civil war in Ukraine, not even the one that putin & co have been trying to fuel for years. And no russian-speaking person is or ever will be a second class citizen of Ukraine, as long as they follow the law and use Ukrainian when required, i.e. when providing a service to others. Which they will be able to do, because most Ukrainians are bilingual. I myself have a russophone Ukrainian relative, who is really happy to see Ukrainian gaining more and more traction in the country. The current aversion to the russian language in the wider population is completely understandable, considering it's the language of the attempted genocide. Reintegration of the occupied territories will be a challenge, but there are already people working on how to do this in whatever way is best for the country and the population. No one - NO ONE - will miss the occupiers once they're gone. The collaborators will just follow them when they go, unless SBU gets to them first. It will take a while, but Ukraine will emerge from this latest attempt to destroy it, and transition into the bright future it is now fighting so hard for.
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Героям слава! Смерть путінським тролям! ❤🖤
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No religion has been banned in Ukraine: Ukrainians are trying to shake off the muscovite church - which is basically a branch of the FSB - and that's a very different thing. And no one is prevented from speaking russian in the day-to-day lives, but Ukrainian is the state language and must be used by anyone providing service. The russian language has been heavily weaponised by putin's regime and used to justify a genocide, so no wonder people have lost their patience with it. Besides, many Ukrainians have been directly traumatised by people speaking russian, and it's understandable that they don't want to hear it. There are Ukranians who've escaped the temporarily occupied areas who now refuse to speak russian, even though it's their native language and they're not yet as fluent in Ukrainian. I know this for a fact, I have met them.
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@EvgeniyYakushev-m2u It's not at all difficult to say how much money Ukraine had spent on Bakhmut or any other town and city prior to the full-scale invasion - these things are on record and also mentioned by various news outlets, as well as actual Ukranians who have had to leave those places because of the russian invasion, and are quite capable of telling the rest of us about their hometowns. What you say about Mariupol is disgusting, considering that we all know the city was wilfully distroyed last year by the genocidal invaders who continue to occupy it to this day. It is also known that all putin plans to build on the occupied territories are gulags and military bases.
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@Percival5 they didn't
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@vasiliev62 Well, apart from the Holodomor 90 years ago, there's the genocide that putin's russia has been perpetrating in Ukraine since 24th February 2022
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@Percival5 They didn't want to join russia. Those regions were deliberately destabilised and then occupied, and sham referenda were held at gunpoint.
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?? They very fluently speak their native language.
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@VitaliiThe I grew up in Italy and have lived in the UK most of my life. Neither of these countries is homogenous by any stretch of the imagination. And thank goodness for that
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@BibEvgen Anyone remotely tempted to give this troll the benefit of the doubt, look up Timothy Snyder's lecture series The Making Of Modern Ukraine, find the relevant lectures in the series, and listen to those instead.
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@ataipacquiao5713 Ukraine is not russia. Ukrainian cities do not have russian names. Львів - це Україна Харків - це Україна Донецьк - це Україна Луганськ - це Україна Одеса - це Україна Енергодар - це Україна Бахмут - це Україна Бердянськ - це Україна Мелітополь - це Україна Севастополь - це Україна Євпаторія - це Україна
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russia is not Ukraine's "brother" and what most Ukrainians actually want is for russian occupiers to go back home and leave them the hell alone. If you want the war to stop go tell putin
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