Comments by "foil hat" (@foilhat1138) on "ATACMS Missiles For Ukraine | Russia Holds Voting In Annexed Regions | Kyiv To Field Women In War?" video.
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@tasospanagiotou7823 Where do you guys get this nonsense? Zelensky's first language is Russian, he still gets criticized for not speaking perfect Ukrainain. 2014 was when Russia began its invasion. Gee I wonder why Ukraine would want to ban pro Russian parties. Nobody gave af about Russian's until they invaded.
Yanukovich was voted out by 100% of parliament, including his own party, he fled because of the uprising that occured due to his attempt to hold onto power.
How do you feel about Russia suppressing the Ukrainian language in Ukraine?
The Russian Empire promoted the spread of the Russian language among the native Ukrainian population, actively refusing to acknowledge the existence of a Ukrainian language.
Alarmed by the threat of Ukrainian separatism (in its turn influenced by the 1863 demands of Polish nationalists), the Russian Minister of Internal Affairs Pyotr Valuev in 1863 issued a secret decree that banned the publication of religious texts and educational texts written in the Ukrainian language as non-grammatical, but allowed all other texts, including fiction. The Emperor Alexander II in 1876 expanded this ban by issuing the Ems Ukaz (which lapsed in 1905). The Ukaz banned all Ukrainian-language books and song-lyrics, as well as the importation of such works. Furthermore, Ukrainian-language public performances, plays, and lectures were forbidden. In 1881 the decree was amended to allow the publishing of lyrics and dictionaries, and the performances of some plays in the Ukrainian language with local officials' approval. Ukrainian-only troupes were, however, forbidden.
During the Soviet times, the attitude to Ukrainian language and culture went through periods of promotion (policy of "korenization", c. 1923 to c. 1933), suppression (during the subsequent period of Stalinism)
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@theo3030 Everything after 2009 was done in response to Russia's invasion of Georgia. And Kosovo is nowhere near Russia. Camp Bondsteel is home to a super threatening 7k soldiers. The base also has a hospital, two gyms, and two recreation buildings with phones, computers, pool tables, and video games. a chapel, a large dining facility, a fire station, a military police station, two cappuccino bars, a Burger King, Taco Bell, and an Anthony's Pizza. There is also a barber shop, a laundry facility employing local nationals, a dry cleaner, a tailor, various local vendors who sell Kosovo souvenirs and products, and sports fields.
What exactly is Russia so afraid of? Maybe Pakistan doesn't like CSTO expansion, that means they can invade central Asia right?
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@tasospanagiotou7823 Russia is doing a pretty good job proving NATO right. Once more because I guess reading comprehension isn't your strong suit. Russia gets no say in what other sovereign states do, not Bulgaria, not Finland, not Ukraine. There was never any deal regarding NATO expansion (please provide the treaty for that) This is just another Putin fantasy. Gee I wonder why the ex com bloc countries, who had to put up with decades or centuries of Russian occupation would want to prevent that from happening again.
If the Baltics weren't in NATO then all the garbage Russia is doing in Ukraine would have already been done there, oh no Russian nationals are in some form of imaginary danger better annex the Baltics to save them. Same thing in Georgia, same BS over and over.
Poland is concerned about Russian expansion by your logic they can invade Belarus right? It's such a brainless way of thinking it makes me wonder how you are able to use the internet, do you have a helper?
And pesky NATO wont even let the Serbs do any ethnic cleansing. NATO bombing killed about 1,000 members of the Yugoslav security forces in addition to between 489 and 528 civilians. Yugoslavs had killed 1,500 to 2,131 combatants.10,317 civilians were killed or missing, with 85% of those being Kosovar Albanian and some 848,000 were expelled from Kosovo. Of course these numbers pale in comparison to the civilian casualties caused by Russia in Ukraine in its delusional pursuit of empire.
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