It is very easy to learn Russian if you know Ukrainian. On the contrary, Polish is very different from Ukrainian. Most Ukrainians speak Russian because Russia has the most border with Ukraine and millions of Ukrainians illegally work in Russia because Russia is rich and Ukraine is poor, although that ends on January 1.
The 2001 census was not accurate because until Yanukovych came into power and allowed Russian to be official language regionally in the east and the south, Russian speakers were persecuted and therefore did not designate their native language as Russian. In 2012, 40% of Ukrainians designated their native language as Russian.
Russian language in Ukraine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
French is overwhelmingly the native language in Quebec, despite hundreds of years of English rule after England annexed Quebec from France in the 1700s. Eastern and southern Ukraine were part of Russia until Communists assigned them to Ukraine SSR in the 1920s. So you can imagine native speakers of Russian in Ukraine are in fact Russians rather than Ukrainians.
First of all, what you said originally is "All Ukrainian can speak Russian Fluently" Now i would have accept this " All Ukrainian speaks some degree of Russian" even tho that too is far from truth but to say all Ukrainian speak fluent Russian is simply, false
Most Ukrainian have or had learn Russian one way or another, that does not mean they are fluent in Russian. I can tell you this, English is an official language of Hong Kong and each student must learn English from Primary School to Secondary school, does that mean all of Hong Konger "Fluent" in English?
Learning a language is one thing, getting them fluent is another. If you say its fluent then you are either native with that language or you are studying in an advance level. Being official language or studied them somehow does not mean you are fluent with that language
Secondly, i would not say Russian is rich and Ukraine is poor, let alone if that is areason that you claim all, not most, Ukrainian spoke Russian. That have no corelation. A lot of Mexican illegally enter the US for work, because Mexico is poor and US is rich, then can I go ahead and say because of that, ALL MEXICAN ARE FLUENT IN ENGLISH? lol
Thirdly, if it is what you said that Russian speaker is oppressed, then we would see a general % of misrepresentation across all the Russian Speaker Group. If I were to oppress, do you know which single group i would have gone for first? I would have oppress the ethnic russian. However you can see Ethnic Russia have not been oppressed as 96% claim their mother tounge is Russian. Then something I do not understand, why would you go oppress the russian speaker but decided to let go the biggest Russian Speaking group? lol what you are saying does not make sense.
By the way, you do not have any point that can be verified by hard facts, the only point you quote by wikipedia is that 40% of Ukrainian having Russian as mother tounge, which was actually what i said in the begining, about 50 precents of Ukrainian are fluent with Russian and would be a lot less now.
