It is known that most Ukrainians can speak rssian, while few rssians can speak Ukrainian. You'll find out how it happened and why we call our bilingualism unfortunate in this episode!

Learn more about the forbidden 1928 orthography here (a video in Ukrainian with English subtitles) and here

Wikipedia pages on linguicide of Ukrainian and the Executed/Shot Renaissance (google translate the Ukrainian articles because they provide more information than the English versions) 

Also, this is how r*ssians tried to ban the Lithuanian alphabet (and failed)

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