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this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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The Russian speaking minority population in the east of Ukraine, particularly in the breakaway republics that formed after 2014, who are subject to policies to suppress the Russian language as well as the republics being subjected to prolonged bombing campaigns and attacks by far right militias.
@Sitcom@monyet.cc in addition, it's important to note that the coup in 2014 was planned and funded by the US government, and that both the integration of Crimea into the Russian Federation (by overwhelming popular vote) and the creation of the DPR and LPR was a reaction to this
To be even more precise, the coup regime repealed the Kolesnychenko-Kivalov language law, a law that granted the status of regional languages for Russian and other minority languages in Ukraine, literally on the first day they took power (23 February 2014).
Everyone knows this means ethnic cleansing when a new government repealed laws that protect minority rights. Donbass separatists rose up as a response to this.