Comments by "Olga P." (@olgap.) on "After Kherson: What's next in the war?" video.
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@thomasschwarz1973 Unfortunately your reply did not answer my question. Perhaps I did not express myself clear enough. It triggers me each time I hear claims like "there is no/was no Ukrainian culture" on its own, or in your words "in the last 100 years, the cultures that we now call "Russian" and "Ukrainian" were almost unrecognizable". I am sincerely curious why you say so. There always was recognizable Ukrainian culture, for much longer than just the last 100 years. Partly suppressed and neglected in times of foreign rule. How could Olena Pchilka, mother of Lesya Ukrainka, record Ukrainian folk songs, customs, embroidery and publish them in 1870th? How could she homeschool her children in Ukrainian, translate works of Gogol, Pushkin and others into Ukrainian if, according to you, there was no recognizable Ukrainian culture? At which point of time do you think Ukrainian culture became recognizable?
Your examples did not help me understand your definition recognizable culture.
"If a modern Russian went to Omsk 100 years, you might not even be able to read the language". I am not entirely sure what is your point here. Russian language did not change more than other European languages. Texts older than 1710 might be not convenient to read due to several "not necessary" letters, but the language itself is not hard to understand. Pushkin, father of modern Russian language, did not invent something new, he united official book Russian and talked folk Russian, died in 1837. While book Russian was more "heavy", it is pretty well understandable.
Or is it about Omsk dialect? Was it so strong 100 years ago? Never heard of dialects of Russian being so different 2 Russian speaking people from different areas would not understand each other. Russian citizens of different ethnic backgrounds may speak each their language and not understand each other. Does it make each of their cultures "unrecognizable"? I am currently living in Northern Germany, so, let's take Germany as an example to try to find out what recognizable culture is. Is German culture "recognizable" to you? How many modern Germans understand Platt, Danish, Sorbian ? Would modern Germans speaking Hessian and Bavarian dialects understand each other? According to you there is no recognizable German culture. Or did I get your argument wrong?
"Take a look at the Russian language on the walls of a provoslavni tzerkov mosckvi..... Can you read it?" If it is Russian and was written within last 100 years - definitely. Old Russian - yes. Old East Slavic (used 7th or 8th century to the 13th or 14th century)- rather not. I would say Russian from Domostroy age (16th century) is understandable. Language on the walls of Russian Orthodox Churches is Russian Church Slavonic or Old Church Slavonic- liturgical language since the 9th century, based on Old Bulgarian. No, I could not read it. Like I would not be able to read/understand anything modern doctor would wright in Latin. How does dead language used for specific purposes by specific group of people only define if a culture, with all its components you mentioned above, is recognizable or not and if recognizable, since when? If a Spanish, French or Italian can not read Ecclesiastical Latin, would it mean there is no recognizable Spanish, French or Italian culture?
P.S. Sorry for the wall of text and late reply. It does anger me to the core to hear people say Ukrainian culture does not exist on its own or is very young. I had to sit on my fingers for a while and forgot to reply.
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