National Revival

National Revival

The Ukrainian Language Is Not a 'Dialect of Russian'

Kremlin Lies: The Ukrainian language is merely a peasant dialect of Russian, artificially created by Austrians and Poles to split the 'single people'

Debunking the myth of the Ukrainian language as a 'dialect.' Linguistic research confirms the independent development of Ukrainian from the Proto-Slavic period.

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Taras Shevchenko: How Russia Tried to Destroy Ukraine's Greatest Poet

Kremlin Lies: Shevchenko is an 'all-Russian poet'; his work is part of the Russian literary tradition, and the Russian Empire merely 'cultivated' a talented serf

The story of Taras Shevchenko: from serfdom to exile. How the Russian Empire persecuted Ukraine's greatest poet for his language, poems and national identity.

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Lesya Ukrainka: A Genius Who Created Despite Empire and Illness

Kremlin Lies: Ukrainian culture is provincial and secondary to Russian culture. Ukraine never had writers of world stature

Lesya Ukrainka: how a brilliant poet and playwright created world-class Ukrainian literature under bans, illness, and imperial oppression.

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Bans on the Ukrainian Language: 400 Years of Destroying the Word

Kremlin Lies: The Ukrainian language is a dialect of Russian that arose naturally and was never banned. Ukrainians chose Russian themselves because it was 'more developed'

A complete chronology of bans on the Ukrainian language: from 1627 to the Soviet era. The Valuev Circular, Ems Decree, Executed Renaissance, and other stages of its destruction.

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