Is there a reason why the areas along the Lithuanian border hold better?
That’s what happening when you try to ally with russia.
Special military operation when?
“People who speak Belarusian cannot do anything, because nothing great can be expressed in Belarusian. The Belarusian language is a poor language. There are only two great languages in the world: Russian and English,” he(Lukashenko) famously said back in 2006.
was that one gray area in 2009 polish?
Yeah that’s what happens with Russian rule.
Russian world.
Any attempt to reverse this cultural destruction by a future Belarusian government will be called Russophobic by Moscow and probably lead to a pretext for invasion. Same story as Ukraine but without the Maidan.
Belarus is gonna be just another oblast soon enough.
It’s called russification, we in the baltics are still struggling with this.
Fortunately the war put things in motion, Latvia already removed russian speaking schools. Now new generations have to learn in Latvian.
I may be mistaken and hope the Belarusians will correct me if I am wrong about this, but wasn’t using their own language associated with the opposition during and after 2020-2021 protests and even partly persecuted?
It’s so insane, they’ve kept their language through centuries of occupations, during ussr and everything, now in 30 years of independence, they’re losing everything.
A good reminder to every leftist who is against Ukraine’s sovereignty because of the Western countries meddling or whatever, this is the alternative. They are being crushed. And the average Belarusian is just as pro EU as Ukrainians
Ready for annexation
I would not be surprised if the Belarusian government voluntarily get annexed into Russia within 10 years
The destruction of a culture in modern times. I’m glad the Russians never reached my peoples border but we can’t let this happen anymore. The Baltics and Ukraine need to be protected, same with Kazakhstan and any other former Soviet Republics with large “Russian” share of population.
Not really, this map just shows a generation change. Belarusian is not a rural language anymore, now it’s mostly spoken by city intelligentsia, so getting back some prestige. The actual number of speakers looks to be pretty stable
this is sad
I hope some they Belarussian get a pro-european government so they can open to the world, cuz they seem neat and cool
Disgusting
That’s very important (and sad). Thanks for sharing.
Have the Belarusians considered eating Lukashenko?
It worked for the Dutch.
Potato king made Belarus nothing more but another Russian region. In Russia they speak Russian.
Soon integrated to Russia. Logic.
Fate of Ukraine in the darkest scenario as well, I hope you all realize this.
Fate of Ukraine in the darkest scenario as well, I hope you all realize this.
It’s a sad future. Russians complains about ‘globalism’ yet they try to annex nearby countries, steal their culture and erase history that doesn’t suit their agenda.
Belarus itself is disappearing… it’s already been technically annexed by Russia, they’re just not saying it out loud. But there are already Russian soldiers stationed in Belarus, Putin is using it as if it was his own land, they’re in a “special relationship” type union that is only getting deeper and of course favors Russia…
Indeed this is what the Russians tried to do everywhere in the soviet union. Replace local culture and language with russian. At first it was more obvious like genocide and deportation and execution . Then slightly more subtle arrests and control. Then importing Russians to “improve infrastructure” etc. Projects and preferential treatment for russian language in government services. This is why many Warsaw pact countries have significant problems with russian speaking minorities who are just mouthpieces for putin propaganda. In Belarusia this never stopped because their dictatorship allowed close Co operation with Russia. Russia is a terrorist Imperialist fascist state.
I was born in Belarus and lived there until 2004 and I honestly don’t remember many people actually talking Belarusian. It was mostly old people living in villages or people using just a few words in Belarusian. Obviously, you had to learn Belarusian in school but I always spoke Russian at home and watched cartoons or tv shows in Russian all my life. The only Belarusian word I remember is бульба (potato).
It’s still obviously sad to lose a part of our culture over time and I kind of see where this is all going with Russia slowly (actually not so slowly) starting to take over Belarus, which really sucks.
My house will get swated but, this might be the next country russia might takeover
Would be interesting to see the same for Welsh and Irish.
Well yeh they are a client state of Russia they have been conquered.
Oh what a suprise, how could that happen. Shocked.
I feel an annex coming on.
Their problem, languages die everyday. I understand that there is no incentive from the state to safeguard the language, spread its active use and create (the favorable condition for) quality entertaiment media produced in Belarusian but, ultimately, it looks like BY people couldnt care less about it so why should we care? ‘language of the country folks, of the uneducated, it serves no purpose’ that’s what most of them think, so why should I be invested in its disappearce?
Edit. And btw, it seems like despite belarusian dying, the self identification of the belarusians doesnt swing. BY is maybe more ethnically homogeneous than its neighbouring countries, so probably even the role of the belarusian language in building a national identity (of whatever nature it may be) isnt that important.
I’m renting flat to Belarusian student, he said only his grandfather speaks belarusian. They live near Minsk.
Shame because it’s a beautiful language and similar to mine (Serbian). They have many common words.
Russification in action.
Fuck Russia
And this is exactly why as Ukrainians we are fighting so hard to not be part of Russia
Strange since they replaced everything Russian with Belarusian many years ago. Around 15 years ago I remember being at train station not able to understand what “half day” and “half night” sides are, turned out southers and northern. Radio and TV too.
They were occupied by ruzzia and their culture is dissolved. Nothing new, since ruzzia is doing it for centuries
This tactic from ussr called rusification
They did it in all ussr
They not allowed local population to talk on their native language, and you can go to jail if you talk on your native language like ukrain Georgian or Kazakh
Lucky for us, this doesn’t worked and the languages are still alive.
Hope for belarus to get this dictator to jail and get their language and history back
It’s okay, in a few decades Russia will say that nobody spoke Belarusian anyway and Belarusians are just Russians.
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Cultural ethnic cleasening
Fuckashenko enabled this.
Is there a reason why the areas along the Lithuanian border hold better?
That’s what happening when you try to ally with russia.
Special military operation when?
“People who speak Belarusian cannot do anything, because nothing great can be expressed in Belarusian. The Belarusian language is a poor language. There are only two great languages in the world: Russian and English,” he(Lukashenko) famously said back in 2006.
was that one gray area in 2009 polish?
Yeah that’s what happens with Russian rule.
Russian world.
Any attempt to reverse this cultural destruction by a future Belarusian government will be called Russophobic by Moscow and probably lead to a pretext for invasion. Same story as Ukraine but without the Maidan.
Belarus is gonna be just another oblast soon enough.
It’s called russification, we in the baltics are still struggling with this.
Fortunately the war put things in motion, Latvia already removed russian speaking schools. Now new generations have to learn in Latvian.
I may be mistaken and hope the Belarusians will correct me if I am wrong about this, but wasn’t using their own language associated with the opposition during and after 2020-2021 protests and even partly persecuted?
It’s so insane, they’ve kept their language through centuries of occupations, during ussr and everything, now in 30 years of independence, they’re losing everything.
A good reminder to every leftist who is against Ukraine’s sovereignty because of the Western countries meddling or whatever, this is the alternative. They are being crushed. And the average Belarusian is just as pro EU as Ukrainians
Ready for annexation
I would not be surprised if the Belarusian government voluntarily get annexed into Russia within 10 years
The destruction of a culture in modern times. I’m glad the Russians never reached my peoples border but we can’t let this happen anymore. The Baltics and Ukraine need to be protected, same with Kazakhstan and any other former Soviet Republics with large “Russian” share of population.
Not really, this map just shows a generation change. Belarusian is not a rural language anymore, now it’s mostly spoken by city intelligentsia, so getting back some prestige. The actual number of speakers looks to be pretty stable
this is sad
I hope some they Belarussian get a pro-european government so they can open to the world, cuz they seem neat and cool
Disgusting
That’s very important (and sad). Thanks for sharing.
[Russification of Belarus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russification_of_Belarus):
* [List of architectural monuments, destroyed by the authorities of Russian Empire](https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8C%D0%BF%D1%96%D1%81_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%9E_%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8B_%D0%92%D1%8F%D0%BB%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0_%D0%9A%D0%BD%D1%8F%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B2%D0%B0_%D0%9B%D1%96%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%9E%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B0,_%D0%B7%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D0%BC%D1%96_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B9_%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%BF%D1%8D%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%96)
* [List of historical and architectural monuments, destroyed by the Moscow Patriarchate](https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D1%8C%D0%BF%D1%96%D1%81_%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BD%D1%96%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%9E_%D0%B3%D1%96%D1%81%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%96_%D1%96_%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85%D1%96%D1%82%D1%8D%D0%BA%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D1%8B_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%96,_%D0%B7%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B9%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%9E%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BC_%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%80%D1%8B%D1%8F%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BC)
Have the Belarusians considered eating Lukashenko?
It worked for the Dutch.
Potato king made Belarus nothing more but another Russian region. In Russia they speak Russian.
Soon integrated to Russia. Logic.
Fate of Ukraine in the darkest scenario as well, I hope you all realize this.
Fate of Ukraine in the darkest scenario as well, I hope you all realize this.
It’s a sad future. Russians complains about ‘globalism’ yet they try to annex nearby countries, steal their culture and erase history that doesn’t suit their agenda.
Belarus itself is disappearing… it’s already been technically annexed by Russia, they’re just not saying it out loud. But there are already Russian soldiers stationed in Belarus, Putin is using it as if it was his own land, they’re in a “special relationship” type union that is only getting deeper and of course favors Russia…
Indeed this is what the Russians tried to do everywhere in the soviet union. Replace local culture and language with russian. At first it was more obvious like genocide and deportation and execution . Then slightly more subtle arrests and control. Then importing Russians to “improve infrastructure” etc. Projects and preferential treatment for russian language in government services. This is why many Warsaw pact countries have significant problems with russian speaking minorities who are just mouthpieces for putin propaganda. In Belarusia this never stopped because their dictatorship allowed close Co operation with Russia. Russia is a terrorist Imperialist fascist state.
I was born in Belarus and lived there until 2004 and I honestly don’t remember many people actually talking Belarusian. It was mostly old people living in villages or people using just a few words in Belarusian. Obviously, you had to learn Belarusian in school but I always spoke Russian at home and watched cartoons or tv shows in Russian all my life. The only Belarusian word I remember is бульба (potato).
It’s still obviously sad to lose a part of our culture over time and I kind of see where this is all going with Russia slowly (actually not so slowly) starting to take over Belarus, which really sucks.
My house will get swated but, this might be the next country russia might takeover
Would be interesting to see the same for Welsh and Irish.
Well yeh they are a client state of Russia they have been conquered.
Oh what a suprise, how could that happen. Shocked.
I feel an annex coming on.
Their problem, languages die everyday. I understand that there is no incentive from the state to safeguard the language, spread its active use and create (the favorable condition for) quality entertaiment media produced in Belarusian but, ultimately, it looks like BY people couldnt care less about it so why should we care? ‘language of the country folks, of the uneducated, it serves no purpose’ that’s what most of them think, so why should I be invested in its disappearce?
Edit. And btw, it seems like despite belarusian dying, the self identification of the belarusians doesnt swing. BY is maybe more ethnically homogeneous than its neighbouring countries, so probably even the role of the belarusian language in building a national identity (of whatever nature it may be) isnt that important.
I’m renting flat to Belarusian student, he said only his grandfather speaks belarusian. They live near Minsk.
Shame because it’s a beautiful language and similar to mine (Serbian). They have many common words.
Russification in action.
Fuck Russia
And this is exactly why as Ukrainians we are fighting so hard to not be part of Russia
Strange since they replaced everything Russian with Belarusian many years ago. Around 15 years ago I remember being at train station not able to understand what “half day” and “half night” sides are, turned out southers and northern. Radio and TV too.
They were occupied by ruzzia and their culture is dissolved. Nothing new, since ruzzia is doing it for centuries
This tactic from ussr called rusification
They did it in all ussr
They not allowed local population to talk on their native language, and you can go to jail if you talk on your native language like ukrain Georgian or Kazakh
Lucky for us, this doesn’t worked and the languages are still alive.
Hope for belarus to get this dictator to jail and get their language and history back
It’s okay, in a few decades Russia will say that nobody spoke Belarusian anyway and Belarusians are just Russians.