Ben Royce 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 on Nostr: What is it like as a nonrussian country fully within #Russia's dominance, like ...
What is it like as a nonrussian country fully within #Russia's dominance, like #Belarus?
And this story of #colonial or #Imperialist control is familiar to any student of history:
"In Belarus, the native language is vanishing as Russian takes prominence
When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no longer called him by that name. Instead, they referred to him as Nikolai, its Russian equivalent"
https://apnews.com/article/belarus-language-russia-lukashenko-russification-bcc4eb1881ca6c93f98ef9951068dde7
And this story of #colonial or #Imperialist control is familiar to any student of history:
"In Belarus, the native language is vanishing as Russian takes prominence
When school started this year for Mikalay in Belarus, the 15-year-old discovered that his teachers and administrators no longer called him by that name. Instead, they referred to him as Nikolai, its Russian equivalent"
https://apnews.com/article/belarus-language-russia-lukashenko-russification-bcc4eb1881ca6c93f98ef9951068dde7