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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by vbezhenar on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @06:27PM (#16926889)
I don't think that anyone was prosecuted strictly because of speaking/teaching language. But there were Kazakh intelligence (who probably promoted language among other national agendas) prosecuted for opposing soviet regime. Again, I don't think that language itself has anything with it. That said, yes, USSR forced other nations to adapt Russian language and it's understandable that those nations didn't like it. But it was almost a century ago, we are living in current conditions, so it's wiser to remember the past, but plan the future according to current realities, not some 100-year old dreams.
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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by luckydata on Thursday April 26, 2018 @12:22AM (#16928781)
Ask the Ukrainians about "current realities".
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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by ahakki on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @08:23PM (#16927737)
> But it was almost a century ago

The USSR colapsed less than 30 years ago.

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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by coddingtonbear on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @08:51PM (#16927905)
I think their point is that the repression that you're discussing is largely pre-Krushchev; that's not quite a century ago, but it's a world away from what life in the USSR was like by the 1980s.
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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by rasz on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @09:26PM (#16928069)
Krushchev successor, Brezhnev send tanks to Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by coddingtonbear on Wednesday April 25, 2018 @10:26PM (#16928310)
And the US successfully overthrew inconvenient governments in Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, Congo in 1960, the Dominican Republic in 1961, Chile and South Vietnam in 1963, and Brazil in 1964, but you wouldn't call that evidence for the US being a repressive government, would you?
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Re:Kazakhstan is changing its alphabet from Cyrillic to Lati... by michaelmrose on Thursday April 26, 2018 @04:39AM (#16930096)
The US is a powerful nation that imposes its will by force on other nations and is indifferent to the interests of those it subjects to its will.

This has been true for a long time and remains true now much like Russias nature.

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