Ban on using Belarusian for schoolchildren

[David Connor]

Sergey Glebov wrote:
> I am not a linguist but an historian interested in Soviet nationalities
> policies and I wonder what the linguists' community thinks about the
Soviet
> language policies. My sense is that the Communist party took language
issues
> very seriously, and by no means always to the nationalities' disadvantage.

A good example of this would seem to be the publishing of Yiddish material
during the Soviet era.
David Connor
Europa Translations
europatrans at optusnet.com.au

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