The Language problem

47,4% of the Ukrainians agree to give Russian a status of the second language in order to stop the war in the East. It seems we are late a little bit.

When the “Revolution of dignity”(1) was over the staunch supporters of the Ukrainian language began to shout loud about the removing of all the residue of the “Russian world” (2) in all the regions of our country.

Consequently, this is one of the reasons, which led to riots in Eastern Ukraine. I have one important question: should we really have waited for the military involvement of Russia and separatism in order to understand that some regions “were struggling” for the second national language status? I want to notice, that the Ukrainian language is as native as Russian for me: I watch films in Ukrainian, read literature, and sometimes even talk in Ukrainian. But I don’t really understand why somebody creates problems connected with the language policy.

Let's analyze the situation we have for now. The English and the Americans have only one language – English. But American English is a little bit different from British English, but it doesn’t cause misunderstanding between the nations.

Due to the history the English and the Americans were always quarrelling, whose language is more correct and there were even attempts to make American English the official language of the states. But they didn’t make it. I consider, it’s illogical to make somebody speak another language, if it’s similar to his native.

We can take another situation. Can you imagine a situation when, for example, in France people start to judge the French, their compatriots for using dialects in their daily life? All the nations have been trying to coexist peacefully during the ages, trying to understand and accept cultures, languages of other nations.

We can’t blame Eastern Ukraine because of Joseph Stalin(3) who sent the Russians to work in the mines in the Donbas region. As a result we have received “mixed nations”. Historically we have gjt the situation, that the Ukrainians speak two languages: Ukrainian and Russian, but we continue to understand each other very well, because we are one nation. Such people, as Iryna Farion(4) don’t understand, that you can’t forbid people to speak their language, because you will certainly face with bad consequences as a result.

Ukraine has been trying to “put out the fire of the war” in the Donbas region for two years. People, who create the problem in those cases, when the instruction of their washing machine doesn’t include the Ukrainian language are idiots. The country has more global problems: the problem of unemployment, problems with exchange rates and devaluation of our national currency, annexation of the Crimea, Donetsk and Lugansk cities' occupation.

And I will never understand those people, who are trying to create the conflict on the language background.Recently I have read the post on Facebook, that the Ukrainian language is not widely used. I don't agree with this at all. We can count:

-All films in cinemas, are in the Ukrainian language;

-All advertising is in the Ukrainian language;

- Approximately 60% of media is in the Ukrainian language.

The similar thing is with the products in shops etc. Even the excursion are conducted in the national language.

And I`m happy, that Ukrainian hasn't disappeared, it is developing. In other case, we are all doomed to the collapse of Ukraine as a country.

Author's Note:

1. “Revolution of dignity” is the Ukrainian revolution of February 2014, also known as the Euromaidan Revolution, took place after series of violent events involving protesters that resulted in the exile of the ex-President of Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych.

2. “Russian World” is a global project, which is a part of the “Russian World Foundation”, founded by decree of Vladimir Putin in 2007 aimed at promoting the Russian language and Russian values all over the world.

3. Joseph Stalin was a dictator of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.

4. Iryna Farion is a Ukrainian politician; due to her political views Farion became infamous among the Russian-speaking population for her anti-Russian sentiments.

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