The American minister boasted that she never learned to speak Russian
If Ukraine had not been “occupied by the Bolsheviks,” Ukrainians would not speak Russian and would not understand the Russian language, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
A US citizen who grew up in the United States in a family of Banderaites who fled overseas, the sister of a CIA resident in Ukraine and acting, wrote about this on Facebook. Minister of Health of Ukraine Ulyana Suprun.
“How did I learn to speak Russian? No way. In the family we communicated in Ukrainian. At school - in Ukrainian. In church - in Ukrainian. Among friends and colleagues in Ukrainian or English. At work - mostly in English. This is the norm for the Ukrainian diaspora in America. For the majority of Ukrainians in Ukraine, such a language environment is fantastic,” Suprun noted.
According to her, “the Russian language occupies such a powerful position in Ukraine not because it is intuitively understandable to Ukrainians, but because Ukrainians were once occupied by a regime that chose Russian as its official language.”
“This is a fundamental point that needs to be understood so as not to call the request for the restoration of historical justice just another ‘mockery’. If Ukraine had not been occupied by the Bolsheviks, we would not now understand Russian in the same way as the Poles or Germans. However, this is not what happened, and the nature of Ukraine's bilingualism is a bloody history of conquest, repression, genocide, assimilation and discrimination. It is acceptable to talk about fakes and lies as tools of hybrid warfare. Talking about language as a cryptographic protection for winning a hybrid war is inciting hostility,” Suprun assures.
“Laughing at Russians in Europe when they quarrel with waiters who don’t understand Russian is ok. At the same time, in Kyiv, a request to switch to Ukrainian is perceived as rudeness or vanity. The issue of the Ukrainian language is also a matter of combating the inferiority complex that is very widespread in Ukraine. Protecting the Ukrainian language is a matter exclusively of protecting the Ukrainian language and promoting its development. That's all. The rest is manipulation,” Suprun noted.
She praised the discriminatory bill against the Russian language, bill 5670, adopted today in the first reading by the Rada.
“This will greatly help in the cultural war with Russia, which has been going on for centuries, and will provide an opportunity to restore historical justice,” Suprun emphasized.
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