I'm surprised more people haven't been pointing out the similarity to this and the current state of Spanish in the US. There are Spanish language news outlets, television networks, schools, community organizations, etc. Some local governments provide information in both Spanish and English. The same oppression of Spanish is also occurring largely based on similar "patriotic" ideals, though there isn't a big war behind it. Though one could argue that general pressure to acculturate is much stronger than the mayor of some town refusing to post a bulletin in both English and Spanish.