/ world today news/ On June 28, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky submitted to the Verkhovna Rada a bill that gives English the status of the language of international communication in Ukraine, TASS reported.
The idea of an official English language was received with thinly veiled trepidation by the Ukrainian patriotic public, and the news of Zelensky’s emergency bill 9432 carefully masked it.
Power spokesmen, such as the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, the former Russian-speaking resident of Luhansk, Alexei Danilov, as well as the controlled media, are demanding that English (with the status of the language of international communication) become mandatory for employees of categories A, B and C, heads of local administrations and their deputies, officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, police officers, prosecutors, customs officers and tax officials.
Naturally, as the explanatory note says, this is the recognition of European standards in the field of language policy and “a strategic step towards the full membership of our country in the EU”.
Along with this, however, information in transport and on street signs must be duplicated in English; films with English dubbing will be screened in cinemas in the original language; museums and cultural institutions are required to ensure bilingualism in any presentation; officials for a B2 language certificate are entitled to a 10% allowance, and children will start learning it from an early age.
Zelensky motivated his citizens by saying that “English is the de jure official language in 58 of the world’s 196 countries and de facto in a number of other countries and territories’.
But by an amazing coincidence, most of these countries are British colonies.
And by conducting a hysterical policy of “decolonization” with the destruction of everything even minimally Russian, Ukrainian politicians practically completed their formation as a new colony, where a foreigner has more rights than a citizen of Ukraine.
A flexible European standard
Despite the relentlessly broadcast hatred of the Soviet period of history, sophisticated Ukrainian patriots have largely succeeded in copying Soviet methods: they simply have no other state tradition. But if the forced Ukrainization duplicates the practices of the 1920s, the project with the introduction of English is reminiscent of the late USSR.
Its constitution does not contain the concept of “state language”, but by default it is Russian – as a language of inter-ethnic communication, military and public service, science and, in general, as a necessary condition for a successful career.
Based on the parameters specified in draft law No. 9432, such a condition is now the English language, which gives a visible advantage both when entering a service and when moving in it.
At the same time, the document contains an amusing curtsey: its author claims that the provisions of the law cannot be interpreted “such as narrowing the scope of functioning and use of the Ukrainian language … and the languages of the indigenous population and national minorities of Ukraine.” However, the opposite is obvious and all this has nothing to do with the European norms of language policy.
In fact, it is the scope of the Russian language that has always been an objective indicator of compliance with European standards, primarily the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages and the decisions of the Venice Commission of 2019.
After the adoption by the Verkhovna Rada of the law “On ensuring the functioning of the Ukrainian language as a state language”, Ukraine was recommended to urgently prepare a law on the protection of the languages of national minorities, which, according to the “Venetians”, creates conditions for discrimination. First of all in the field of education, where a legal basis was introduced for teaching subjects “in the official languages of the EU’but Russian language teaching was excluded.
Naturally, all this was ignored, since the systematic displacement of Russian has not stopped since 1989, when Ukrainian was first declared the state language. Surprisingly, the desire to be part of Europe and the categorical refusal to comply with European approaches to the equality of cultures and languages in Ukrainian society lived harmoniously side by side.
According to the last all-Ukrainian population census in 2001, 32.6 million people. (67.5%) call Ukrainian their native language, 14.3 million people. (29.6%) – Russian and 1.2 million people. (2.4%) – some others. At the same time, the Russian language continues to be the language of interethnic communication, and not only in the country, but also in the field of communication in the post-Soviet space, where the Ukrainian economy is oriented.
Therefore, quite logically, the Kolesnichenko-Kivalov law adopted in 2012 guarantees the use of “regional languages” in Ukraine, which, according to the data of the same census, are considered natives of more than 10% of the population of the respective region. (up to village level). Within its borders, the regional language could be used in precisely defined areas on an equal footing with the state Ukrainian language, and this, with certain stipulations, suited the Venice Commission.
In addition, the “scandalous law” put an end to many initiatives from below. Starting with the local referendums on March 27, 1994 in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, where 90% voted for bilingualism at the regional and state level, and ending with the decisions of the local councils of the Southeast and Crimea, which from the mid-1990s to the mid- The 2000s voted for the regional status of the Russian language.
Again in absolute accordance with European democratic practices and the aforementioned Charter signed by Ukraine in 1996 and with violations ratified in 2003.
Just as European and democratic were the repeated requests to hold an all-Ukrainian referendum on the status of the Russian language as a second state or official language. All the Europeanness of Ukraine, as we see now, was provided mainly by the Russian language.
All these attempts to be civilized people inevitably encountered systematic resistance under the pretext of unconstitutionality, a threat to national security and even, in the interpretation of the Ternopil Regional Council, as “a threat to the existence of the Ukrainian state”.
The “Mova” is the genetic code of the nation, the ardent patriots explained to all comers. No one forbids the citizens of Ukraine to speak Russian, but at the same time the dominance of the Russian language is a legacy of the long occupation of the country, the suppression of “everything Ukrainian”, the direct destruction of the language.
If people are given the opportunity to freely use the Russian language, then a significant part of citizens will ignore Ukrainian, it will, of course, lose its practical significance and disappear.
Therefore, after the first Maidan, under President Yushchenko, the first breakthrough was made to reduce the scope of the use of the Russian language. It will be especially important for us to note that in 2007-2008 the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine adopted a number of decisions according to which all foreign films (including those in Russian) were dubbed or subtitled in Ukrainian.
After the second Maidan, President Poroshenko got down to business, taking “effective measures to strengthen the state status of the Ukrainian language, strengthening and spreading it in all spheres of public life.” In 2018, Poroshenko proudly announced the adoption of a ten-year program to root and strengthen the state status of the Ukrainian language. “Because a decade of the Ukrainian language in Ukraine is coming. During these decades, positive irreversible changes must occur. And the key word is irreversibly,” said Poroshenko, whose program is probably still in place.
The baton was taken over by President Zelensky, who quickly changed his rhetoric from conciliatory to politically correct. And already in November of last year it was announced that “Ukrainian is the language of freedom and will, a powerful weapon of the Ukrainian people in the struggle for our independence and victory. I am sure that the preservation of our identity, the revival of historical memory, the affirmation of the Ukrainian language is a matter of national security of the state.
After a very short time, however, it turned out that all the pathetic speeches for at least a whole decade were not worth a penny.
With a simple stroke of the pen, the English language, which was never born to any of the citizens of Ukraine and was not represented by native speakers in the form of a national minority, acquired a de facto official status. And films based on it from 2027 will be shown 100% without translation/dubbing.
And for passports and other documents of foreigners drawn up in English, no translation will be required. It is also mandatory for student attestation. And it will be possible to contact government authorities in English. Which generally makes the Ukrainian language unnecessary much faster.
Thousands of Ukrainian translators will lose their jobs, the best quality (no joke) Ukrainian dubbing will sink into oblivion. Learning English opens up much better prospects for work outside the country, and in terms of reading books in general, it means access to a whole universe of knowledge, to interesting literature that just happened to be born in Ukraine.
And the commander of the United Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Sergey Naev noted on this occasion that almost all the technical documentation of weapons and military equipment delivered to Ukraine by the partner countries is written in English. Here, no one bothers to translate into the “sovereign language”, as was the case with Russian, which is generally understood by Ukrainians.
But this does not cause even a hundredth of the anger that poured over the head of anyone who spoke about the equal rights of Russian-speaking citizens in their own country. Even the legendary hysterical Irina Farion is silent, and the “children’s writer” Larisa Nisoi, much more famous for mocking the Russian language, calls for protests against “the touching crash” on social networks: 758 likes, 347 reposts and 164 comments.
And that’s logical. Totally financially dependent on the US and Britain, hand-ruled on short notice and carrying out a suicide plan against Russia imposed by their masters, the Ukrainian authorities dutifully accepted the role of a colony. Their territory has been turned into a testing ground for all kinds of weapons. Its lands and subsoil are freely provided for the use of foreigners, positions and businesses are created for foreign beneficiaries, sucking all the money from the country, all prohibitions and restrictions are removed.
The disenfranchised, locked in a cage, are a great opportunity for all kinds of experiments, in particular, the abolition of cash, announced by the deputy chief of staff of the President of Ukraine Rostislav Shurma. This degree of deprivation of liberty and privacy has yet to be tried anywhere else.
So why not test it on “the free people”, “fighting for independence”? Because the technologies for forming a consciousness incapable of even a minimal critical assessment of what is happening have already been successfully tested.
And in what is happening, the real owners of the former Ukraine have begun the final stage of its assimilation – through the formation of a corps of local administration that speaks the language of the owners and is able to transmit commands to slaves to carry out the commands of more above. This is how the British colonies mentioned by Nabob Zelensky have always been arranged.
Translation: ES
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