... I was going to add "was achieved" but then asked myself "was it?"
Anyway, some things are not quite as they should in post-Communist states.
"Education is the fundament to social cohesion, which is also the fundament of security in the country," said Anna Novosad, a senior official at Ukraine's Ministry of Education and Science. She attributed Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula in 2014 partly to the disintegration and linguistic isolation of the local, mainly Russian-speaking population from the rest of Ukraine.
From mail dot com : Ukraine's Hungarian minority threatened by new education law
https://www.mail.com/int/news/europe/8850588-ukraines-hungarian-minority-threatened-education-l.html
I am sorry, there are two problems here.
- 1) Hungarian minority and Russian minority are not the same thing. Ukraine has a border with Hungary, but it's the second smallest. Hungary is also much smaller than Russia.
While Crimea is not on the land frontier between Russia and Ukraine, there is a very small strait between Cape Fonar and Kerch on Crimea and Krasnodar and Sennoy in undisputed Russia. In practise, all of the Azov sea can be viewed as a frontier between Russia and Crimea.
Also, Hungary was not as well militarised in the East Block as Russia and is not as militarised now. "23 October until 10 November 1956" are dates that should tell you something of Russian weakness and Hungarian strength? No, the opposite. And Ukraine and Russia these days share the heritage of the military of Soviet Russia back then.
So, drawing conclusions from Russians on Crimea and applying them to Hungarians near Hungarian frontier would seem somewhat ... distrustful (I hate it when the pseudo-diagnosis "paranoid" gets into my head whenever I look for these words).
- 2) But even supposing there were a real long term I will not say threat but risk, the method is wrong.
"Education is the fundament to social cohesion, which is also the fundament of security in the country,"
19th C Prussia rehashing pre-Roman Athenian and Spartan educational totalitarianism. Also even amplified in France by Ferry-Combes (if some Bretons sided with German invaders, bad memories of Breton forbidding schools under Third Republic contributed), and by Hitler's Reichschulgesetz of 1938, which recently made the Wunderlich family refugees from a Germany reputedly heir to the free West Germany.
Rome as well as the Latin Middle Ages did not require certain educations for all citizens, nor even (until near the end one country, Scotland) of all nobles. Parents were free to educate as they wanted. In positions were the taking over was not hereditary a specified education could be required - but it was a specialist one, not one which was imposed by administrational decree on all citizens (though the clergy were in a position to impose its contents by influence - as nowadays often the teachers are).
This means, apart from heresy (Albigensians were not allowed to send Albigensian* children to Albigensian schools, they were not allowed to be Albigensians in the first place and fairly rightly so - but Jews were only allowed to send their children to Jewish schools), parents were basically free to chose their children's education, including the choice of language. And obviously, the children were raised in their religion as well.
There was no official telling any parent "no, use your language at home if you like, but your children are getting taught in my language, not yours". There was also no official telling any parent "you send your children to school, or we will take them away from you" (apart perhaps from Catholic catechism to children whose parents were officially penitents after having been Albigensians and having abjured that). I cannot guarantee that the Jews in those days had similar freedoms individually in relation** to their Jewish community, but Christian citizens in Christian countries did.
So, the problem is that Anna Novosad's solution to a probably imagined raher than also real problem is so much of a Communist solution. And, yes, the upholding of such a solution is part of why Gaudium et Spes does not strike me as a real document of the Church or the man principally signing it as either a real Pope or a real canonised Saint.
This is one reason why I try to take on Medieval details*** in my dress, by resewing. I don't have gender dysphoria, it's not cross dressing, but I definitely have chronological dysphoria. Perhaps many had in September 1968 when I was born, after Soviets marched into Prague ....
Hans Georg Lundahl
Nanterre UL
St Josaphat Kunczewic
14.XI.2018
* Since some fairly ill versed in history people are saying things like Albigensians and Waldensians are the bridge between Primitive Church and Protestant Churches, no, they only existed some centuries after year 1000, and Waldensian remnants later officially became Calvinist, for support against Catholicism. ** I rather suspect they hadn't, as a post-Christ but pre-Destruction of Temple High Priest made education compulsory. Too bad for them. Sure, they have had great teachers like Korczak, but the system is unfree, like Pagan Athens. *** I used to have a homesewn version of what below image wears on head and shoulders:
Credits to Nik Gaukroger, and if he dislikes my use of it, I guess I'll have to replace the image ...
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