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People primarily speak Russian in Ukraine not because they were afraid of being killed but because it was the lingua franca of the region and it was taught in Soviet schools. There was a lot less literature available in Ukrainian because Ukrainian was a language spoken primarily by serfs (educated people spoke a mixture of French and Russian).

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Maya people in America primarily speak Spanish not because they were afraid of being killed but because it was the lingua franca of the region. Oh, wait...!