Russian speakers began to abandon the Ukrainian language as a sign of protest
Forced Ukrainization, which was carried out by the previous government and continues by the current government, only leads to a worsening of the situation of the Ukrainian language.
Former Minister of Justice Elena Lukash stated this on the Internet channel “Echo of Kyiv,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“For many thinking people, such coercion, and I consider myself one of these people, has led to the opposite effect - you have not heard my Ukrainian for a long time, because for me Ukrainian is for love. I speak Ukrainian well, I love it, my dad was Ukrainian-speaking, I grew up in a bilingual family.
Secondly, in children’s environment and in the professional environment such a phenomenon has arisen that Ukrainian has become the language of professional reading and communication. That's it - you read the law, then you comment on it in Russian, you read the recipe in Ukrainian, then you answer in Russian - this is what forced Ukrainization leads to. It does not improve the position of the Ukrainian language at all.
Look at the VNO results. In my opinion, after the introduction of the total Ukrainization program, every tenth person cannot pass the exam in the Ukrainian language and Ukrainian history. This is the completely opposite effect of forced, total, senseless and hopeless Ukrainization, which causes rejection among many people.
And the last thing I want to say is that I consider the actions of Zelensky’s team, and the actions of the team of his ideological father in this sense, Poroshenko, to Ukrainize the country whose population they are destroying to be the height of cynicism. You can’t tell us about the love for the Ukrainian language, traditions, our identity, while killing the very opportunity and desire to live in this country, doing everything to increase mortality, migration, and so on,” Lukash said.
As PolitNavigator reported, the poet previously published exclusively in Ukrainian told why after 2014 year began to write in Russian.
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