[gkoz]

Wishing a national identity and sovereignty did not exist just for your convenience is what this thread is about.

> I wish I could speak Russian in Ukraine without restrictions

There weren't meaningful restrictions. A large number of Ukrainians still speak Russian a lot. Instead this sounds like "forcing" a number of people to speak to you in a particular language in order for you to not feel "restricted".

[koakuma-chan]

> There weren't meaningful restrictions.

I was forced to speak Ukranian at school. Is this not a meaningful restriction to you?

> Instead this sounds like "forcing" a number of people to speak to you in a particular language in order for you to not feel "restricted".

Unlike Ukranian government, I never forced anyone to speak any particular language. In fact, what happens when one person prefers to speak Ukrainian, and the other person prefers to speak Russian, is they just do, and they both understand each other just fine.

[throwaway290]

100%. I saw some vids from Ukrainian frontlines where people say speaking Russian is a problem because in fast situations it's more difficult to identify if you're enemy. This means even there some people speak Russian

It's just about education in schools and official use. And it's crazy to blame a country for requiring using its home language at schools

[koakuma-chan]

Ukranian was not my home language. Russian was.