History Current usage These sections need a serious correction since they are inacurate and incomplete Dear Alex through the Wikipedia practice it is required to expess explicitly what do you think to be wrong with the article before labeling it as disputed However I guess that you mean that Ukrainian language was forbidden in the USSR and was not used in the Ukrainian SSR It s definitely wrong I haven t experienced any problems buying a literature starting from magazines for kids in Ukrainian in the eighties There were newspapers and TV programs in Ukrainian language either Therefore Monedula is right and you are not it s that simple I don t see your point here By the way distance between Yaroslavl and Kiev Ukraine is shorter than between Yaroslavl and Tyumen or Yekaterinburg Siberia For others to understand our discussion I would like to cite some of Monedula s talk page below Hey Monedula Would you please stop your post imperial propaganda in the articles related to Ukraine If you can documentally prove that Ukrainian was being used in USSR in the fields you specify so do it on the page cite And even if you do your anyway would be lying or misinformed because Sovdepia was purely Byzantine system of lying hiding and falsing I was born in 1977 and never seen such usage So your parents have never watched the Ukrainian TV the republican program And have never bought any Ukrainian language books I m not Monedula but I don t understand what you are talking about Which fields do you mean To Monedula My parents even had a Czech books and a Latin vocabulary Bui it noway means that these languages were used in Ukraine like you edited consistently deleting previous more neutral points Anyway how dare you living in Yaroslavl to be an undisputable expert regarding Ukraine To delete and write just it is ridiculous Am I disputing the items of local revolutionary events in your city Or Siberian history Again you re a shameless nationalistic vandal To DrBug To find out what I m talking about see this guy s editing manner in Ukrainian language he deletes the same unbiased points by different authors without any explanation just adding something like this is ridiculous Particularly answering your question this Wikipedian doesn t accept consistent remarks on that page stating that Ukrainian was not used in all or in many spheres of social life see the editing history for Ukrainian language And please note we re not talking about deletion of my particular contributions I m just fighting for neutrality He s just a vandal While I will refrain from describing people some facts need to be affirmed here about contributions I take issue with calling the Monedula contributions as nationalistic they are more precisely imperialistic and chauvanistic This is how they vandalize the truth I visited a major bookstore in downtown Kiev in the late 1980s and all titles were in Russian except about 10 and of these ten six or seven were on the theme of the bourguoiuse Nazi colloborating Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church which was portrayed in the press at the time as not existing except in the diseased mind of a Uniate priest The television was overwhelmingly dominated by Russian I saw one Ukrainian program there which was merely two speakers talking in a studio the entire time Either they had no other resources for Ukrainian programming or didn t know how to use them Let s eliminate the foreign chauvinism from the non friendly neighbors and document the repressive and manipulative language situation Still you do not deny that Ukrainian has been used in education print radio and television programs throughout the Ukrainian SSR do you You bet we deny Not throughout just in few oblast s despite the fact that Ukrainians were in majority everywhere except Crimea not in higher education except unpopular linguistic specializations anywhere not in television p