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San Rus
Always good to hear from you. Good luck on the finals. That moron only mentions my cab driver citation while ignoring the previous others which are numerous.
He also takes seriously my sarcasm that was directed at the simplistic rants of Zbig (St. Petersburg was brutally built) and himself.
I have read Hrushevsky and Subtelny, so he isn't stating anything new to me.
I have a bone to pick with your link about the Ukrainian language. It wasn't banned under the Czars or Soviets. The Soviets in fact propped it up. Solzhenitsyn and The_Last_Word have documented how the Soviets attempted to linguistically Ukrainianize the Russian speaking eastern Ukraine in the late 19 twenties. As for the pre-1917 era, Russian was the state language. This didn't prevent other tongues from being spoken outside schools and government offices.
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