Aggressors may deliberately displace and marginalize the native language of the Indigenous people, replacing it with the language of the metropole. The systematic narrowing of the local language's sphere of use in public, cultural, and everyday life allows the colonizer to sever the bond between generations, deprive the colonized society of the most important marker of national identity, and accelerate the process of its cultural absorption.
The forced orthography reform of 1933, aimed at artificially bringing Ukrainian grammar and terminology closer to the Russian language[1].