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Russian, Ukrainian and Polish are the same language.

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[-] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 37 points 7 months ago

Russian, Ukrainian and Polish are the same language.

The idea that Slavic languages are just different dialects of each other was actually one pushed by some Ukrainians chauvinists in the early 1900’s trying to get Rusyns to speak and write in Ukrainian.

Mutual intelligibility with Russian of around ~75% isn’t bad, and the difference between a sister language and a dialect of the same language is admittedly blurry, but this just strikes me as a weird place to make such a strong claim.

[-] worldonaturtle@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago

It doesnt matter if these languages are mutually intelligible or not, it helps Russia to say they are. If it helped Russia to say the languages were different then the languages are different. The truth does not matter, Russia steamrolling through Europe destroying NATO and US hegemony is all that matters. As long as Russia doesnt become more right wing as the United States it’s the lesser of evils.

[-] Raebxeh@hexbear.net 4 points 7 months ago

it helps Russia to say they are

doubt

The truth does not matter

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