Teachers, de-Ukrainianization and agitprop in Ukraine’s occupied territory
Presuming a Ukrainian victory, when the Russian war against Ukraine comes to an end, Ukraine will face the daunting task of reintegrating the territories currently occupied by Russia. For Crimea and parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts, this means undoing a decade’s damage on these regions’ economies, but especially on their social fabrics. Elsewhere, Moscow’s strategy has been to fast-forward the de-Ukrainianization of the occupied territories, epitomized by the vulgar slogan that “Kherson will be Russian forever.”
September 17, 2024 -
Eugenia Kuznetsova
Michael Gentile
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AnalysisIssue 5 2024Magazine

Residents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic at the celebration of the Day of Russia in 2019. Photo: DmyTo/Shutterstock