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One of the strangest corners of Europe is now its most normal Daniel Hardaker © Getty The Taras Shevchenko monument in Kharkiv - Getty
One of the strangest corners of Europe is now its most normal. The Ukraine-Russia borderlands, with their alternating declining and resurgent nationalisms, saw, as posited by Richard Sakwa in Frontline Ukraine, the most successful attempt at creating Soviet-Man.
Several leading figures of the USSR were either born or had family connections here, Khrushchev and Brezhnev among them. Today in Kharkiv, the first capital of Soviet Ukraine, the Ukrainian language is the one of signage, restaurant menus and advertising, but Russian is spoken almost exclusively. I’m not sure of anywhere else in the world with such an arrangement – it’s more than a little frustrating with a basic grasp of Russian, but no Ukrainian other than the cognate words.
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