A Fight in the Ukrainian Parliament

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Clarissa

May 26, 2012

In case anybody is wondering, the Ukrainian senators are beating each other into a bloody pulp over whether the Ukrainian language will remain the country’s only official language or whether Russian should be adopted as the second official language in the Eastern and Southern parts of the country.

The adoption of Russian as the second official language would represent a huge step towards bringing Ukraine back to Russia as its colony. After 300+ years of a bloody colonial rule of Russians over the Ukrainians, we can understand why some people are reacting strongly to the current President’s suggestion that Russian be adopted as the second official language. The current President of Ukraine is a pro-Russian puppet.

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5 responses to “A Fight in the Ukrainian Parliament”

musteryou

May 26, 2012

Maybe they should adopt an Asian language? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g10PAsvZFoQ

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el

May 27, 2012

In Israel Arabic is an official language too, together with Hebrew. Arabs are a fifth of the population, which is close to % of Russians in Ukraine. Wiki says the latter is 17.3%, but it’s higher in the talked about regions. I don’t follow Ukrainian politics, though, and may be the situation is as you say, but internationally having a language of a large minority be official too is usual.

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  May 27, 2012
  
  Arabs did not enslave the Jews and keep them under colonial domination, robbing, killing, pillaging, and raping them for 300+ years. Nor did the Arabs exterminate 10 million of Jews in an act of genocide in 1931-2. Had they done that, I’m sure the resistance to accepting the Arabic as an official language just 20 years after achieving independence from a colonial rule would also be quite passionate.
  
  If the Russians had at least asked for forgiveness like the Germans and the Spaniards did with the Jews, but they aren’t even remotely likely to do that.
  
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Z

May 27, 2012

Very interesting, apparently this parliament fights fairly often. It gets more extreme as the video goes on — I thought the moment when that one gray haired guy hurriedly takes off his jacket and tie was going to be the high point but that is actually just when it kicks into gear.

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1. bloggerclarissa
  
  May 27, 2012
  
  Oh yes, the Ukrainians are a very passionate bunch. When I go to a restaurant with my family, waiters approach us to ask if we are OK because it looks like we are fighting. We simply talk about the weather but we do it with a lot of passion, so it looks like a fight. 🙂
  
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