Your favorite opera about cossack oppressors being banned? From that list egregious things are A) not teaching in schools/then in 70s making salaries higher for russian language teachers (time doesn’t make sense in that sequence, but whatevs) B)making dissertations in russian/ I assume not all national arts were some glorification of oppressor class

Thus we arrive at meh about language being banned, but solidly yes at it wasn’t encouraged/developed.

My great grandma lived through 30s-60s, spoke ukrainian for whatever it worth her whole life, was a math teacher if I remember correctly (don’t know what she taught it in, can ask relatives sometime)

How come my great grandma didn’t have any problems?

If we are trading anecdotes and so on. They are mutually intelligible languages, suddenly changing to english alphabet doesn’t make them incomprehensible to each other even now

You were threatening long post with modern info from hungarian sources for some time :meow-floppy:

Or maybe just source, so as not to bother you too much

Talk to them about moats and other medieval fortifications against peasant uprisings, become a moat type of guy

I think gentle ribbing is not so gentle as you may perceive it. (baby) mls also react really sharply to critiques of lenin/stalin, honestly don’t know why :shrug-outta-hecks:

Also general propaganda/scare of communism result in easy fall back into old frameworks.