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me🇺🇦irl (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 14 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Before the full scale invasion, more than half of Kyiv residents preferred speaking russian over Ukrainian in day to day communication, myself included. If the invasion never happened, I'd still be speaking russian. They literally did it to themselves.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting. I have a genuine question I hope you don't mind me asking. How come you prefer Russian over Ukrainian?

[–] rockerface@lemm.ee 8 points 18 hours ago

Right now I've switched to Ukrainian in almost all cases, so, right now, I don't. But, to answer your question about my past preference, it was mostly peer pressure. Most of my friends and large part of my relatives were speaking either russian or surzhyk (a sort of Ukrainian-russian creole, that varies depending on the region).