Comments by "Emir" (@irongron) on "Inna Sopronchuk - Ukrainian language is a Crucial Aspect of Ukraine's Struggle to Remain Independent" video.

  1. This conversation with Inna is really important. On Russian state TV they call Ukrainian a "southern Russian dialect", that's complete and utter BS. My Ukrainian wife is an asscoaite professor of langauges. But let me give my own insight as a South slav (i.e. Jugoslav). Archeological digs have confirned, even back in Soviet times that the langauge of Kyivan Rus was closest to what is now called modern day Ukrainian, NOT Russian. This is via garffitti on the archelogical finds, but it's not spray paint that coms to mind, it's like scraped into the wood, if you have ever visited Saint Sofia church in Kyiv you can see this graffitti on the walls there if you look carefully. Secondly and very impoertant for me as a Jugoslav, there is actual eveidence in the south slavic langauges that Urkainain is the older langague because we have close similarities with both Russian and Ukrainain words, but if you go back far enough the Ukrainian words came into our laguages in the balkans first. This lends eveidence to the fact Ukrainian is the older tongue. NOT Russian, it came later, - like a cousin lamguage, but defenitely not the ancinet langauge Russians make it to be.
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  2.  @corinnem.239  yea it's all backwards, I jokingly say, this is why Russia was always so backwards - it's full of backwards thinkers. For example, they say Ukraine belongs to them, but it's actually the other way around, Muscovy was essentially like a "suburb" or the outskirts of Kyivan Rus that came way later than Kyiv, so really Russia belongs to Ukraine, not vice versa!
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  3.  @SyKnife  It's worth it,, once the war's over do come and see it for yourself.... I can't paste the link as the comment might get zapped but search for this you'll find the exact web page "The Walls Speak: Ancient Graffiti Deciphered In Kyiv Cathedral"
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  4.  @corinnem.239  LoL amen
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