@KopDe6aLeT@polish_sneed@Szyszla2137 Uk and bel where a part of GDL and the PLC and were heavily influenced by Polish, Latin, and Czech, Russia developed independently and was deeply influenced by Church Slavonic. in RE these three spoken languages had different grammars, vocabularies, and pronunciation rules.
@archohon@DuckGod13@Szyszla2137 but the majority language is town wasn't russian, it was Yiddish lol. but overall in whole Vitsyebsk voblast 73% knew Belarusian, but not the generalized literature Belarusian that was proposed in 1920
@archohon@DuckGod13@Szyszla2137 they required all factory managers, clerks, and civil servants to pass exams in Belarusian within strict deadlines. If they failed, they were fired. they feared losing their jobs overnight due to a language they had never been formally taught.
in Vitsyebsk 11% knew belarusian
@archohon@DuckGod13@Szyszla2137 In the 1920s, cities like Minsk, Vitsyebsk, and Homel were heavily populated by Russian, Jewish, and Polish communities. The Belarusian language had been confined to rural villages for centuries due to Tsarist bans.When the Bolsheviks suddenly launched Belarusianization,
@archohon@DuckGod13@Szyszla2137 they did not do so because they hated their own culture or felt a deep spiritual "unity with Russia." Their resistance was entirely driven by pragmatism, economic anxiety, and the messy reality of Soviet bureaucracy. By 1927, over 80% of civil servants spoke Belarusian
@archohon@DuckGod13@Szyszla2137 well we can argue about this the whole week, personally I think this sentiment was created by the fact, surviving from ww2 Belarusians moving to the cities were droped their language and adopt Russian to live, but maybe you're also right
@archohon@DuckGod13@Szyszla2137 well yes, the local tutejšyja in 1917 cared about getting land, ending the war, and surviving. The Bolsheviks were the only group that unconditionally offered them exactly that, but highly dedicated minority of nationalists achieved vastly more than the passive majority
@archohon@DuckGod13@Szyszla2137 The OGPU Report on "Food Difficulties" explicitly names Zhytkavichy and Petrikav (key districts in Polesia). It documents that families were dropping out of collective farms because they had no bread
@archohon@DuckGod13@Szyszla2137 Soviet Belarus experienced starvation during the 1932–1934, declassified Soviet documents show that thousands of people died of hunger in Polesie
@archohon@DuckGod13@Szyszla2137 the did,Hramada was an active, organized political force. Hramada formed a powerful coalition called the Belarusian Socialist Bloc.They campaigned heavily across the region. However, their ability to gather votes was systematically crippled by external forces
@archohon@DuckGod13@Szyszla2137 Belarus was a geopolitically volatile borderland.Cossacks did not just have a theoretical choice of alliances, if the bolsheviks simply repressed the population, the millions of Belarusians would ally with Poland or the anti-Bolshevik White movement.
@archohon@DuckGod13@Szyszla2137 be ignored or easily absorbed into Russia or Poland. Also because of Belarusian Communists, Inside the Bolshevik party itself, and too keep Poland federation plan uninteresting to belarusians
@archohon@DuckGod13@Szyszla2137 because Cossacks beign a nation or a military class is debatable, The BSSR was the result of a geopolitical compromise, The Bolsheviks grant Belarus institutional statehood because it was the only way to pacify and control a region whose massive population could no longer simply-