No, never. No other languages were banned. Russian was more prominently pushed in the other SSRs as a second language. But it's not really different to how much English is forced on everyone today.
I mean, there is a lot to be said about Soviet linguistics and how language politics both helped and harmed various languages in the Union, but that isn't for me to say and in any case the USSR never banned Ukrainian or any other language.
Not banned, but there's been a long history of suppression, and such.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Ukrainian_language_suppression
Going on even today.
im just going to say all the parts on the soviet section say 'clarification needed' or site source 20 which is Ukrainian religious right blog post that itself cites no sources
You know, I thought for a moment about not removing this comment, because it does seem like it's meant to be in good faith. But you are peddling obvious bullshit. You just went and searched wikipedia for a political issue. And as has been pointed out below, the source on wikipedia is a far right blog.
Pruned.
Do whatever you want. You won't change history that way though.
Thank you NATOpedia, very cool.
How about direct confirmation from people who've lived through it, myself included? Language suppression and antisemitism were things that absolutely happened.
Do you have proof to the contrary?
Maybe go read some George Y Shevelov, or Zhenya Oliinyk, or Tanya Skubiak, or.... There are MANY non western people that have written about this history. Shame on you for trying to hand wave that away.
