Russia is responsible for the Ukrainization carried out in the historically Russian regions that were part of the Ukrainian SSR, and then in “independence” Ukraine. Russian historian Armen Gasparyan stated this on radio Vesti.
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According to him, at that time Soviet Russia pursued a policy of forcibly imposing national languages and cultures in the republics of the USSR.
“This is our huge fault and problem. Ours, starting from the 20s of the last century. Because we began to create these national regions. Almost all of them were given some lands that originally belonged to Russia. And then – forced Ukrainization, Georgianization, and so on,” Gasparyan said.