Comments by "Mitch Young" (@mitchyoung93) on "USHANKA SHOW"
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Languages, especially written modern languages, aren't just existing in nature, they are created. And as such they are subject to political manipulation. In the mid 19th century south slav linguists consciously created a language based on a dialect that Muslim, Catholic, and Orthodox south slavs shared. And that became standard Servant and Croatian, designed to unify across religion. When Croatian nationalism developed in the mid 20th century their linguists sought to make Croatian more different from Serbian, adopting words other Croatian dialects, coining new 'pure' Croatian words, etc. I suspect that Ukrainian nationalists have tried to make as much difference between standard Ukrainian and Russian as possible and also that most of the so called Surzhik isn't a mix or creole, but just natural gradiation in dialects. It is kinda funny that in the last video there was an image that literally said 'Stop Surzhik' written in Cyrillic. I guess its okay to adopt English words wholesale, but not ones from the closely related Russian. It's also funny that both Ukrainians, Sergei Sputnikov and Serhii Ploxiy, have goatees...
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But Tucker was comparing our biggest city...New York, to Russia's biggest city...Moscow. It's a fair comparison. It is true that our county has done well, I think mostly by luck or natural processes, in having different industries and businesses develop in different areas. Maybe compare Russia, in terms of centralization, with other European countries. London, at 7.5 million, is about 7.6x more populous than the UK's second largest city, Birmingham at .984 million. Paris is 2.69x the size of Marseille (2.14M to .795). Moscow is only 2.15x bigger than St. Petersburg Russia (10.3M, 5.0M). Also, Russia has been cut off from what historically was its third biggest city, a city which industrialized and modernized while under Russian rule or in a political union with Russia from 1793 to 1991. That is of course Kiev. It's no accident that the Kievskaya station was a show piece (notice in Tucker's vid the mosaic with the tractor driver in the trad Ukrainian vyshyvanka). The population figures from the site worldpopulationreview.com -- they seem low; figures on city populations can vary depending on how the city is defined.
Anyways there's tons of vids of Russian cities right here on YT. The Russian Plus guy, no Putin symp, did a video overviewing the 30 largest ones. The stuff about the 'no running water' is pretty manipulative. There's a great video here from Maria from Yakutia showing how they get their water from lake ice in the winter. Their house isn't some abandoned hovel...its just hard to put water pipes in an area that gets to -70 degrees celsius (the city of Yakutsk itself has gas/water etc/ in above ground, heavily insulated pipes). Strangely, in my own California county, the northern half has quite a few properties without city water or sewer lines, they use wells and septic tanks.
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@unbindingfloyd Well, that presumes that modern standard Ukrainian was ever spoken in Krivoy Rog. There was no standard Ukrainian language when the area became part of the Russian Empire -- said Empire assuming control of the area after the Russo-Turkish war in 1774 (before the US became a country btw). There is also no evidence that the people of the area at that time identified themselves as Ukrainian. Ukrainian national identity and Ukrainian nationalism only emerges in the mid 19th century and was concentrated in was its known as Right Bank Ukraine.
Nor is there a lot of evidence that Russia forced people from the Ukraine to speak Russian. In fact this channel's owner family shows what likely happened in the case of the vast majority of people in Ukraine. They came from villages, their village language version of Ukrainian wasn't standard and at any rate they sought to speak the language of upward mobility. So they switched to the closely related, standardized Russian. And they chose to have their child educated in that language. No compulsion involved, other than the compulsion toward get a better life experienced all over the world by people moving to cities. After all, you won't hear much Bavarian on the streets of Munich...even though it very distinct from German and has been developed into a written form. You don't hear much Alsatian German on the streets of Strasbourg, even though just two generations ago all the villages surrounding the city would have many Alsatian speakers. Even in Barcelona, at least the last time I was there about a decade ago, Castillian Spanish is still more spoken on the street than Catalan, despite huge efforts by the 'Generalitat'. It's the language of wider communication.
So no, its not a 'grey area' created by gaslighting. It's an actual grey area. And the only revisionism being done is by the Ukrainian governments' 'Ukrainization'. Of course in that they follow the footsteps of the Soviets.
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