Russia has not only killed tens of thousands of Ukrainians and ruined much of the country's infrastructure since the start of the full-scale invasion.
It aimed at destroying the core of Ukrainian identity — language, and culture — in the territories it occupied.
But Russia's attempts to destroy the Ukrainian language and culture did not start in 2022. They trace back to the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union when Moscow consistently banned the Ukrainian language, restricting, persecuting, sentencing, and even executing Ukrainian artists, writers, and poets.
This material is funded by the Institute for War and Peace Reporting within the program “Ukraine Forward: Amplifying Analysis.”
The program is financed by the MATRA Programme of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ukraine.
In this video you will find the answers to popular questions: Is Russia committing cultural genocide in Ukraine? Why is Russia's war in Ukraine cultural genocide? Why do so many Ukrainians speak Russian? How did Russia suppress Ukrainian language? When did Russia ban Ukrainian language?
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00:00 - Intro. How does Russia commit cultural genocide in Ukraine?
01:17 - The times of Russian Empire. How Ukrainian culture was labeled "peasant"
01:46 - Peter the Great (Peter I)
01:59 - Peter II
2:09 - Empress Catherine II
02:50 - Nicolas I
03:29 - Valuev Decree. How Russia forbade Ukrainian language
03:25 - Ems Decree
04:10 - Collapse of the Empire
04:32 - Soviet Union. What is korenizatsiia?
05:18 - Joseph Stalin. What was the Executed Renaissance?
06:34 - The period of Independent Ukraine
06:52 - After Euromaidan Revolution
Producer and scriptwriter: Olena Makarenko
Illustration: Alina Radomska
Animation: Maksym Velychko
Narrator: Anthony Bartaway
Story editors: Oleksiy Sorokin, Toma Istomina, Anna Yakutenko, Olga Rudenko
Opener: illustration by Alina Radomska, motion design by Anastasia Nevmerzhytska Project coordinator: Anna Yakutenko
The video also contains illustrations from Episode 1,
a photo from the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy
