Ukrainization of Little Russia

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

Divide and rule (lat. Divide et impera) is the principle of state power, which is often resorted to by the governments of states consisting of heterogeneous parts, and, according to which, the best method of managing such a state is to incite and use enmity between its parts.

In a broader sense, a tactic (often hidden) of creating, strengthening and using contradictions, differences or disagreements between two or more parties to control them. Often used by a weaker minority to rule over the majority.

On the territory where the "power of Ukraine" is located today, the main and ancient language is Russian. It was this language that was the state language in Kievan Rus. At the beginning of the 12th century, in The Tale of Bygone Years, the monk Nestor wrote: "The Slovenian language and the Russian are one." "Russian Truth", "The Lay of Igor's Regiment" and other monuments of the Kiev period are written in Russian. It was only in 1818 that the first "Grammar of the Little Russian dialect" appeared. It was published in St. Petersburg by the Russian scientist A. Pavlovsky. In the old days, no one even talked about the "Ukrainian" language. Because there were no "Ukrainians". There was Little Russia. "Small" - this means primordial Russia, from where, according to the chronicler, "is the Russian land." Bogdan Khmelnitsky called the Cossacks "the Russian people", and N. V. Gogol wrote: "Thank God that we are Russians." However, politics intervened in the fate of Little Russia.

In 1922, by a decree of the Bolsheviks Skrypnik and Gunko, the word Little Russia was replaced by the word Ukraine, and the Russian language became Ukrainian. As the modern writer Sidorenko writes: "The word" Ukrainian "was unknown in Russia. When the Bolsheviks began to impose it on the population, the Little Russians asked each other where and what had we stolen?" It was the Bolsheviks who created the mass "Ukrainian" as an element socially close to the party, as an alternative destroying the unity of the Russian world. It was not without reason that many figures of "Ukrainians" recognized that the Soviet "Ukrainian" project was related to what they were doing. "Ukrainian" nationalism and Soviet "Ukrainization" did one thing - de-Russification.

Little Russia, 1918. Soldiers of the German occupation army hanged a local resident for refusing to convert to Ukraine.

Appeal of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR dated December 4, 1917 "On the recognition by the Council of People's Commissars of the People's Ukrainian Republic and on the ultimatum presented to the Central Rada in view of its counter-revolutionary activities"

Proceeding from the interests of the unity and fraternal alliance of the workers and working people of the exploited masses in the struggle for socialism, proceeding from the recognition of these principles by numerous decisions of the organs of revolutionary democracy - the Soviets, and especially the 2nd All-Russian Congress of Soviets, the socialist Government of Russia, the Soviet of People's Commissars, still confirms the right to self-determination for all nations, which were oppressed by tsarism and the Great Russian bourgeoisie, up to the right of these nations to secede from Russia. Therefore, we, the Council of People's Commissars, recognize the Ukrainian People's Republic, its right to completely secede from Russia or enter into negotiations with the Russian Republic on federal and similar relationships between them.

Everything that concerns the national rights and national independence of the Ukrainian people is recognized by us, the Council of People's Commissars, immediately, without restrictions and unconditionally."

The Bolshevik Party from the very beginning considered the so-called "great-power Russian chauvinism" as the main danger in the national question and tried to win over national minorities to its side. For this, a policy of "indigenousization" was developed.

Great Russia and Little Russia - 1334

From a letter from the geographer Marino Sanudo the Elder to King Philip VI de Valois, October 13, 1334:

“In addition, there are two principalities in Russia, subordinate to the Tatars, including vast lands with numerous people who follow the Greek faith … This is Russia the Great and the Small.

The new language was introduced into the work of official institutions, and most schools were translated into it. In October 1921, in a country that had not yet recovered from the civil war, in conditions of famine and devastation, the Soviet government allocated 500 thousand rubles in gold to print Ukrainian-language textbooks abroad. Later, on the initiative of V. I. Lenin, another 250 thousand rubles were allocated for these purposes.

Ukrainian language courses, which the peasants do not understand - 1917

With active pressure from the CP (b) U, in the 1920s - early 1930s, the Ukrainization of the Kuban, Stavropol Territory, parts of the North Caucasus, Kursk and Voronezh regions of the RSFSR, historically settled by immigrants from Ukraine, was carried out. By order, schools, organizations, enterprises, newspapers were translated into the Ukrainian language of instruction and communication. Ukrainization also affected a number of regions of Northern Kazakhstan, which at that time was an autonomy within the RSFSR. So, almost all schools of the Fedorovsky district of the Kustanai district in 1930-1932. were translated into Ukrainian, and the Ukrainization itself in the region was assigned to the Kharkiv Regional Party Committee.

Ukrainization in the Kuban, Don and Voronezh province - 1926

Literary Ukrainian language - 1927

The Ukrainization of Donbass - 1925

Ukrainization of signage and cinema - 1925

Ukrainization of the press and schools - 1924

Ukrainization of Chernihiv region

Ukrainization of Galicia

Ukrainization of Carpathian Rus

According to a similar scheme, during the 1926 population census, Russian Malorussians, Rusyns, Ugrorussians and Galicians were recorded as "Ukrainians".

You can read about the problems of Ukrainizers with the distribution of ukrogazeta here.

Population of Carpathian Rus according to the 1921 census

The Soviet Ukrainizers, within the framework of Ukrainization, replace the Russian people of Carpathian Rus with "Ukrainians" - as in the population census in the Ukrainian SSR.

Ukrainization in Poltava

This is in addition to the story of a million rubles in gold for ukrouchebniki.

Ukrainization in Kiev - 1925

How Ukrainians were multiplied in 1926

In July 1930, the Presidium of the Okrug Executive Committee of Stalino (Donetsk) made a decision “to prosecute the leaders of organizations formally related to Ukrainization, who did not find ways to Ukrainize their subordinates, violating the current legislation in the case of Ukrainization”. Newspapers, schools, universities, theaters, institutions, inscriptions, signs, etc. were Ukrainianized. In Odessa, where Ukrainian students accounted for less than a third, all schools were Ukrainianized. In 1930, only 3 large Russian-language newspapers remained in Ukraine.

Kaganovich L. M. became the general secretary of the Central Committee of the CP / b / U in April 1925, when Ukrainization had already been proclaimed and was carried out with all his might.

Under the predecessor of Lazar Moiseevich, as head of the KP / b / U E. I. Quiringe, the number of schools teaching in the Ukrainian language grew rapidly and steadily. The number of Russian-language schools was also rapidly and steadily declining.

The policy of "ukrainization" was finally curtailed in 1938, when a decree of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR was issued on the compulsory teaching of the Russian language in all non-Russian schools, which contributed to the process of Russification, and the decree of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (b) U on the elimination of national administrative-territorial entities, i.e. etc.

The project of "Ukrainization" was continued after the collapse of the USSR, we are observing all these processes even now, and the use of the Russian language in 1938 was passed off as the forcible Russification of "Ukraine". Russification of Ukraine is a falsification and a LIE. Speech can and should not be about Russification, but about the violent "Ukrainization" of Little Russia. Because it's true.

What do we have now:

- Once a single nation was divided;

- The state debt of Ukraine has turned it into a state of robes and an executor of the will of foreign countries.