Ban on using Belarusian for schoolchildren

[Andriy Danylenko]

I think we all know very well the "euphemistic nature" of the Soviet State and the Communist Party, and especially its language policy...This is why I learnt Ukrainian, while doing my gradstudies at the Moscow U, and only thanks to Gorbachev's period.

But if the student wrote smth like the "official ban", i.e., officially proclaimed, she was definitely wrong. I am just wondering where she could have found such a thesis.

best,
AD


-- Elena Gapova <e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET> wrote:
Ousting of the language is one thing (and a very big and complex one); "ban"
is a legal act; the student mentioned wrote "The Ukrainian language was
banned during the Soviet period".
I am sorry if this is not worth everyone's time.
e.g.

----- Original Message -----
From: Andriy Danylenko <danylenko at JUNO.COM>
To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
Sent: 5 March 2004 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Ban on using Belarusian for schoolchildren


> Well, as for the student mentioned in this letter, perhaps she was
exaggerating, or what is more plausible, she was simply misunderstood.
>
> Yet for those who might be interested in the consistent ousting of the
Ukrainian language from the public use, approximately since 1720, and a
drastic shrinking of its communicative potential in the 20th c., please
refer to George Y. Shevelov's book, "The Ukrainian Language in the First
Half of the Twentieth Century. 1900-1941", Harvard Ukrainian Research
Institute, 1989.
>
> Getting back to the Belarusian info, and myself as a typical product of
the dredominant Russian culture in the left-bank Ukraine, I am inclined to
beleive this communicado. Suffice it to mention several publivations by
Mechkovskaja on the socio-linguistical situation in this country, published
in particular in the Russian Linguistics.
>
> Cheers,
> Andriy danylenko
> danylenko at juno.com
> adanylenko at pace.edu
>
> -- Elena Gapova <e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET> wrote:
> Well, not exactly. The translation goes
>
> Schoolchildren at schools with Russian as the main language of instruction
> were forbidden to fill in their "journals" (where they enter their
> assinnments etc) in Belarusian (though I doubt this is what actually
> happened).
>
> Last year an American master's student sent me her paper on Ukrainian
> culture working from the assertion that in the USSR the Ukrainian language
> was banned. She must have relied on similar evidence for her research and
> was very uncomfortable when I told her that this is not true.
>
> Elena Gapova
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Uladzimir Katkouski <uladzik at MAILBOX.HU>
> To: <SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU>
> Sent: 5 March 2004 4:08 PM
> Subject: [SEELANGS] Ban on using Belarusian for schoolchildren
>
>
> Hi!
>
> From today's news:
>
> http://www.svaboda.org/news/articles/2004/03/20040305142729.asp
>
> * U skolnych dzionnikach zabaranili bielaruskuju movu. Pavodle zahadu
> ministerstva adukacyji vucniam rasiejskamounych skolau zabaranili
> zapauniac dzionniki pa-bielarusku.
>
> * Ministry of Education of Belarus banned schoolchildren from filling
> out their "journal" (dzionnik) in Belarusian language.
>
>
> Regards,
> U.K. aka Rydel
> http://blog.rydel.net/
>
>
>
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