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<\/figure><\/li><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>It\u2019s a touristic brand of Russia created in 2018. According to Russians it\u2019s made in \u201cSupremacist\u201d style. Russia managed to appropriate both Malevich and borsch in one brand<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n A month of this terrible war, russia\u2019s statements about \u201cde-Ukrainisation\u201d, genocide of the temporarily occupied territories, kidnappings of our children, which are being taken to russia, attempts to start educating the kids of Kherson oblast in russian language and with russian text books signify that this war is not about the territory of resources. This war is about destroying Ukrainian identity! The war to destroy our ethnics and culture which form this identity. It\u2019s precisely this we were told by russia through the lips of Ms. Zakharova. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Why does Ukrainian ethnics and culture bother russians so much that they send thousands of their kids to die? Because they cannot come to terms with our differences. That we are not a \u201cbrotherly people\u201d, not the same people, not a \u201ccommon cradle\u201d. Ukraine is a separate, independent country which has its national culture, its own baroque, its own modernism, its own avant-garde (which russia keeps attempting to call \u201crussian\u201d). We have our own classical music and architecture, our own contemporary art and music, our own myths, fairy tales. Even our religious icons are very different from the russian ones. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Moreover we have our own language and history. Russia was planning to assimilate all of the above in soviet union by rewriting history, art books, imprisoning and murdering our artists, writers, art historians, replacing our deans of of art academies and museum directors by their own KGB-ists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poster by Mykola Kovalenko<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n By the way, I will hardly surprise you if I tell you that russia\u2019s plan was to \u201ctake care\u201d of our identity and move on to other identities of the peoples and countries in their reach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For these reasons russia is a country of a well-formulated chauvinistic mindset where everyone around them are \u201ckhohly\u201d (slang for Ukrainians), \u201cnarrow-eyed\u201d, \u201cpizzaiolos\u201d and \u201cjaps\u201d. Their russian people\u2019s hands and Iscander weapons are itching to bring everyone to their \u201cworld\u201d. This world is always one of barbarianism, terror and absence of the sewage system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the soviet times we remember the notion of a \u201ccommon borsch\u201d. It means Executed Renaissance, annexation of our culture, appropriation of our cultural values, Holodomor (genocide by famine), numerous bans of Ukrainian language, assimilation, destruction of the national memory, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After the soviet times the \u201ccommon borsch\u201d manifested itself in talks about \u201cbrotherly nations\u201d and \u201ccommon culture\u201d which were just another way to illustrate the imperial mindset of russians, who force feed their singers, youth projects, its literature under the umbrella of \u201cinternational\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Russians aggressively push for their art curators, business coaches, educators, bloggers, publishers, monuments of Pushkin and the arches of Friendship of Nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They were deliberately creating a model where each and every one of our cultural figures were tied to Russia as a cultural metropolis and could only get their fame and riches on Russian territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Poster by Maksim Palenko<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n Today we have a chance of completely changing this situation. Cultural isolation, which is waiting for Russia, can really lead to destruction of the matreshka country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just please, don\u2019t save its culture! It\u2019s a dangerous illusion. Just as the Russians had left piles of mines and traps in Bucha, they are setting mines up using th3eir imperial culture while repeating that \u201cculture is outside of politics\u201d and \u201cwhat do we have to do with this?\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Ukrainians have no illusions to restore or normalize the life in Bucha without detonating all the mines the Russian soldiers left there. Equally the world should not have any illusions about building the new world order together with Russian cultural diplomacy as it had long become a cultural propaganda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Boris Johnson was given a famous \u201cRooster from Borodyanka\u201d \u2013 ceramic figurine made of famous Vasylkiv ceramics, which survived on a shelf of a house destroyed in Borodyanka village near Kyiv. For all of us this little shelf became a symbol of strength and perseverance regardless of the situation one is in.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n Phrase on poster: \u201cHow are you, shelfie?\u201d \u2013 \u201cHanging in there!\u201d.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nOlesya Drashkaba<\/a><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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