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Starting during the third republic, France severely discouraged the use of the Occitan language and as a result the native speakers of Occitan dropped from 39% of the French population in 1860 to 7% in 1993. At around the same time period, Tsarist Russia was cracking down on the use of the "Little Russian Dialect", or Ukrainian. This policy was outlined in the Ems Ukaz. However as we all know, Ukrainian is very much healthy in its homeland, not at all like Occitan. What would Alexander 2 and his successors have had to do to suppress Ukrainian successfully?
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