Ukraine/The Ukraine

[Stanislav Chernyshov]

You are right about the difference, Alina, that was exactly why I 
referred to "oppression" and not "discrimination".

"Or do you think Russians suffered as much as Crimean Tartars in the 
Soviet Union?" - I think that many Russians did, including my family. 
Not because of their ethnicity, like Crimean Tartars, just because they 
were wealthy peasants.

Didn't think talking about Russians being oppressed by the Soviet 
regime would be any news in an American Slavists' discussion.

Stanislav

Alina Israeli писал 2014-06-22 22:15:
> One has to differentiate between oppression from a totalitarian
> government and the one from being a minority group which includes
> social day-to-day discrimination and state discrimination. Or do you
> think Russians suffered as much as Crimean Tartars in the Soviet
> Union?
>
> Alina
>
> On Jun 22, 2014, at 1:46 PM, Stanislav Chernyshov
> <extraclass at LEARNRUSSIAN.RU> wrote:
>
>> Dear Robert,
>>
>> Being Russian I was slightly surprised Russians haven't suffered 
>> oppression. Reading some Solzhenitsyn (available in English) could 
>> really change your view.
>> And precisely because we've suffered oppression, including 
>> censorship and persecution for "thought crimes", I think many Russians 
>> can understand Jules's just defending free speech and privacy ("home") 
>> against political control of language usage.
>>
>> Jennifer, please, for sure nobody on this list supports slavery or 
>> any sort of discrimination.
>>
>> And, "miru mir!"
>>
>> Stanislav
>>
>
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