How Stalin saved our languages from romanization

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Stalin's role in preserving our language, as it turned out, was decisive. He did not allow the Trotskyists to disfigure the living Russian language with dead Latin letters. His volitional decision in the 20s of the last century has preserved our language …

Each of us may relate to Stalin in different ways, but it is still worthwhile to draw objective conclusions about his role as the head of the Soviet Union. A lot of literature has been written, slandering him for many generations, but when the archives with documents were declassified, and historians and publicists studied them, then much of what was said about him after his dastardly murder vanished like fog at dawn!

One of the explanations for why the once Great Russia, which occupied the entire Eurasian continent, suddenly lost its outskirts (including Ukraine - from the word U-KRAYA, since a country in the center of Europe cannot be called extreme, there is no logic, but it is when you understand that Ukraine was for some time the land of Great Russia, and this is a fact!) is also the fact that piece by piece all the countries conquered by the Latins (by the Roman Catholic Church under the banner of the religion of Christianity) were romanized. So in many places the native speech, native language and writing were forgotten!

But the "strange" features of the Russian language are suddenly discovered by the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Admiral Nicholas I, A. S. Shishkov (1754-1841) in his book "Slavic Russian Corners". In particular, he proved that most European languages originate from Russian, and not vice versa. Details are in the book, but this article focuses on something else.

As almost 200 years ago, so now in the vastness of our Great Motherland - Russia (we will not divide it into independent states for political reasons) - the same process was taking place. And it consisted in the following. Shishkov drew attention to the fact that all the nobility and "entrepreneurs" without exception learn French, moreover, from the cradle, at the same time completely forgetting about their native Russian. Foreign teachers were invited, who often, as now, were not even specialists in philology, but rather simple adventurers and native speakers who wanted to see the world and show themselves. And since life in tsarist Russia was wonderful, they went to us with great joy. And besides everything else, they paid decent money for this tutoring.

What is happening now, wherever you look - English courses! All parents strive to teach their children English. The situation, like two drops of water, repeated itself 200 years later, only now the fashion is for English, instead of French.

With the coming to power after the coup d'etat of 1917, the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, proclaim the struggle against "Great-Power Great Russian chauvinism."

The history of Russia was divided into BEFORE and AFTER. Trampled on the traditions and history of the Russian people, there was a monstrous demonization of the entire Russian past. The Russian people were presented as wild, illiterate and enslaved.

In 1919, the stage of the eradication of the Russian language begins

In 1919, the Scientific Department of the People's Commissariat for Education, with the participation of the People's Commissar A. V. Lunacharsky, expressed:

"… about the desirability of introducing the Latin script for all peoples inhabiting the territory of the Republic … which is a logical step along the path that Russia has already entered, adopting a new calendar style and metric system of measures and weights", which would be the completion of the alphabet reform, in its time carried out by Peter I, and would stand in connection with the latest spelling reform.

A. V. Lunacharsky and V. I. Lenin were supporters and initiators of romanization.

As Lunacharsky wrote in one of his circulars to the People's Commissariat of Public Education:

It is necessary to fight this habit of preferring the Russian word, the Russian face, the Russian thought …

The subcommittee on the Latinization of Russian writing, created under the Glavnauka of the People's Commissariat for Education, declared the Russian alphabet "an ideologically alien form of graphics for socialist construction," "a relic of the class graphics of the 18th-19th centuries of Russian feudal landlords and the bourgeoisie", i.e. "schedules of autocratic oppression, missionary propaganda, Great Russian national chauvinism and violent Russification."

After the 1917 revolution in Russia, the foundations of the previous life were rapidly breaking down - the Gregorian calendar, maternity time, a new system of measures and weights, and spelling reform were introduced. There was only one step before the romanization of the Russian language …

In 1936, by decree of Stalin, a new campaign began - to translate all the languages of the peoples of the USSR into Cyrillic, which was basically completed by 1940 (German, Georgian, Armenian and Yiddish remained non-cyrillized from the languages spoken in the USSR, the last three were also not Latinized) … Later, Polish, Latvian, Estonian and Lithuanian languages also remained unkirillized. It should be especially noted that the fact of the widespread use of the Latin alphabet and attempts to translate the Russian language into it in the 20-30s of the XX century was not included in the course of school history and was not told about it at the philological faculties. The book "Culture and Writing of the East", which published articles devoted to the romanization of A. V. Lunacharsky, N. F. Yakovleva, M. I. Idrisov, A. Kamchin-Bek's report on the "Victory of the new alphabet in the Soviet Union", was banned and kept in libraries under the stamp "Not issued".

This is how new languages are created and old ones killed! It is enough to translate the language into another alphabet, and as we can see, this alphabet always turns out to be LATIN. Let me remind you once again that in the early 90s after the collapse of the USSR, the issue of switching to the Latin alphabet was discussed in Ukraine !!! As they say, the system! Less than 60 years later, the enemies took up their old business again - step by step change the consciousness of the people, replace their language, culture, worldview …

We have something to THANK Stalin for, including for defending the Russian language, the Russian alphabet!