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https://www.reuters.com/article/world/ukraine-passes-language-law-irritating-president-elect-and-russia-idUSKCN1S110Y/

Literally the whole media switched spelling around this time.

iRaq and iRan are silly but the "Kyiv" stuff is different.

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you suspect someone of being ukronazi, spell it in Polish "Kijów" (pronounced something like Keyoov), that would really piss them.

[–] anarcho_blinkenist@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

or look at their tattoos and emblems


I just cycled through the Reuters article linked in the OP body and picture 2/6 is of an azovite National Corps and picture 3/6 are UNA-UNSO nazis, whose members fought in every post-collapse struggle where they could shoot Russians and even fought alongside Salafi-jihadist and Al-Qaeda groups in Chechnya, and whose founding and most prominent members were real pieces of work

none of this is of course mentioned in the captions.

[–] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hey Wikipedia, how's it going?

Occupation: political activist

Chechen War veteran on the side of the Mujahideen

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[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I always spell it as Kijów XD

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For some reason I thought of Kraków, and foreigners pronouncing it as Crack Cow.

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's correct pronounciation though, or at least should be considering what's happening there.

[–] polskilumalo@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah it makes sense