Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Lesa Melnyczuk - Ukraine Commemorates the 90th Anniversary of the Holodomor Genocide in 2022–23" video.

  1. I used to live in Australia before moving to Ukraine a decade ago and to put it in the vernacular that only Lesa will understand "she's a fair dinkum good lady!". For sure Ukrainian is more softer and melodic than Russian which is harsher. Compare the harsh Russian greeting "Zdrastvuitye" (pronounced "ZDARST-VOOOT-YEAH") to the way softer Ukrainian "Vitayu" (pron. VEE-TAH-YOU). When I first moved to Ukraine from Aus, I settled in Donbas and everyone spoke russian there, so that's what I had to learn over my preference to speak Ukrainian. Anyway I agree with Lesa, Russian harsh (like German), Ukrainian softer. One thing with "Da" (yes), I am IDP in West Ukraine and everyone here speaks Ukrainian only, never hear russian, but the one russian word I do hear everyone use here sometimes is "Da" (mixed in with Tak), it's just so ingrained every now then everyone says "Da", kinda sub-consciously I suppose. I exclusively use "Tak"! Currently as I am crossing over, I speak a language called "Surzhyk", which is russian and Ukrainian mixed up. My first language was what used to be called Serbo-Croatian i.e. "Jugoslavian" (Father Bosnian, Mother Serbian) before English, so when I am lost for a russian or Ukrainian word I unconsciously use a Jugoslav word and kinda speak a weird "Jugo-Surzhyk"!
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  2.  @lornes3464  👍💛💙
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  3. Never forget Katyn, and never forget Holodomor! I miss Michal Rachon, will he be back ?
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  4. On the anniversary of this famine, guess what the Muscovite cowards who ran way to Tashkent were doing, stuffing their faces with restaurant food at "the Breakfast Club" and to top it all off there's Ukrainians on front line towns without power, water and gas, and hardly any food. The thoughtlessness of these crass degenerates affording to pig out on expensive restaurant food says it all. 83 year old Babushka Vera Ivanova wasn't wrong when she said all her countrymen were "Svoloch" in that street interview that went viral recently. btw, @laconically, you are the best Silicon Curtain commenter by far! 🙃
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