This page from one textbook on the history of Ukraine features a caricature mocking the 2012 Ukrainian ‘Law on the Fundamentals of State Language Policy’. An obese and unpleasant ‘Russian’ man sits next to and literally squeezes the ‘Ukrainian’ girl off the seat of a subway car.
In reality, the 2012 law guaranteed the use of regional languages not in place of, but on a par with Ukrainian – the state language, and only in those regions where more than 10 percent of the population spoke a minority language, for example, Russian or Hungarian. The caricature is offered to foster discussion by schoolchildren, giving the teacher a chance to consolidate certain thoughts through dialogue. The repeal of the language law was one of the first acts of the authorities which came to power in 2014.
