On Ukrainian symbols: a street dialogue (17.06.2022)

A Russian-language street dialogue between Vitalii Dribnytsia and an interlocutor from Bila Tserkva about the origins of Ukrainian symbols. A coherent historical overview with verifiable points: the blue-and-yellow banner with the warriors of the Ruthenian Voivodeship at Grunwald (1410) and in Repin’s painting “The Zaporozhian Cossacks”; the flag’s official emergence — Lviv 1848 (the Spring of Nations); the state flag of the UNR and the Hetmanate 1917–1921; the ban on the symbols by the Bolsheviks from the 1920s and arrests for flags in the 1960s–70s; the tryzub as the emblem of Volodymyr the Great (the 1992 law); and the debunking of the myth that the double-headed eagle came “from Sophia Palaiologina” — in reality a symbol of the Principality of Tver. A source for the article on Ukrainophobia and symbols.