The deliberate and systematic destruction of the culture of an ethnic group is called ethnocide, a term used to describe the deliberate destruction of Ukrainian culture in the USSR and what is happening today to Crimean Tatars in Russia-occupied Crimea.
Belarusian officials have been accused of carrying out policies ethnocide and linguacide for more than 25 years.
As election campaign were announced in Kyiv on April 22, 2019 in Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelensky addressed his adoring fans and delivered a short message to people living in other post-Soviet countries.
“While I’m still not officially the president, let me say the following words as an ordinary citizen of Ukraine to citizens of all former states of the USSR: Look at us, everything is possible,” Zelensky said.
Fast forward 16 months. A revolution has been underway for three weeks in neighboring Belarus. What has Ukraine’s president said about the desire of people there to live in a free, democratic and independent country?
Nothing.