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koakuma-chanyesterday at 6:13 AM4 repliesview on HN

> Exactly that gives ruskies propaganda talking points to invade Ukraine by saying they don’t like how Ukrainians treated russian speakers.

The Russians have a point there. I wish the Russian language was an official language in Ukraine, and I wish I could speak Russian in Ukraine without restrictions, but unfortunately the Ukranian government chose to instead try and force people to speak Ukranian at school, etc. But that obviously doesn't justify starting a war.

> British King isn’t delusional enough to start war with neighboring English speaking country.

Do they even have a neighbouring country that speaks English? They are dumb enough to quit EU though.


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gkozyesterday at 9:29 AM

Wishing a national identity and sovereignty did not exist just for your convenience is what this thread is about.

> I wish I could speak Russian in Ukraine without restrictions

There weren't meaningful restrictions. A large number of Ukrainians still speak Russian a lot. Instead this sounds like "forcing" a number of people to speak to you in a particular language in order for you to not feel "restricted".

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Antibabelicyesterday at 6:28 AM

> Do they even have a neighbouring country that speaks English?

Ireland.

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mlrtimeyesterday at 11:37 AM

Kazakhstan is in the same situation. The people would be better off speaking Russian, although it should not be forced through violence.

See Hong Kong + Mandarain, etc...

koiueoyesterday at 9:04 AM

You're free to go to russia, where russian is the official language.

But I think you're already there, just trying to spread russian propaganda posing as Ukrainian

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