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The more things change.... (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
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[–] 15 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Similar for The Ukraine which means “the frontier” in Russian and evokes the history of Muscovite imperialism over their frontier states

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago*

    For those wondering, Xinjiang, the province controlled by China where the Uyghurs are is named similarly. It literally means “new frontier” in Mandarin.

    Many Uyghurs prefer the name East Turkestan. (But ofc thats heavily repressed by the CCP).

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    The word "Ukraine" itself doesn't mean anything in russian nor ukrainian, it's just a name for a state

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    There's no such thing as "The" in both Russian and Ukrainian, but what I've seen happen is pro-russian people intentionally saying "on (the) Ukraine" (as if "on the edge") instead of "in Ukraine" to piss people off.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Huh. TIL Slavic languages don’t have a definite article.

    So it’s this grammatical mess of Germanic definite articles attached to a Slavic word and the outcome is politically fraught

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