Dinarid
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No, it's quite obvious that Ukrainian was a language before communism. If Ukrainian is "hardly usable", then why are more young people speaking in it nowadays? I remember hearing that no one in Kiev speaks Ukrainian, but when I went there just last summer, I heard more conversations in Ukrainian than Russian. I believe the situation is changing quite rapidly. The first map you posted is easily debunked as propaganda. In 1654 we can see that this is a lie. Also, these territories did not reflect the actual ethnic composition of the land. The southeastern area was settled by Ukrainian colonists. The lands "annexed by Stalin" from Poland already had large Ukrainian populations except in some of the cities. And then there's this from Wikipedia:
"According to the Russian Imperial Census of 1897, ethnic Ukrainians comprised 52.4% of the population of region, whilst ethnic Russians comprised 28.7%." with the source cited being "Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s–1990s." You should just show a map of Kievan Rus and its history, to be honest about the development of the Ukrainian people.
"According to the Russian Imperial Census of 1897, ethnic Ukrainians comprised 52.4% of the population of region, whilst ethnic Russians comprised 28.7%." with the source cited being "Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian Borderland, 1870s–1990s." You should just show a map of Kievan Rus and its history, to be honest about the development of the Ukrainian people.