Historian Every Saturday: Andriy Grechylo. Ukrainophobia and Its Symbols (22.02.2025)

Date
22 February 2025
Duration
1:24:47
Platform
YouTube
Participants
Andriy Grechylo

A lecture by historian and heraldist Andriy Grechylo (head of the Ukrainian Heraldry Society; the “Historian Every Saturday” series). Key points: Ukrainophobia as both a phenomenon and a political technology, enshrined in a 2023 law; Ukrainian symbols (the flag, the trident, the coat of arms) as targets of Russian information-psychological operations; debunking the myths of the “inverted flag” and the “wrong” symbols; and artificial “political Rusynism” as a separatist technique. A source for the article on Ukrainophobia and the struggle over symbols.

Key moments

  1. 4:34 Ukrainophobia as an unacknowledged phenomenon; directed against the political nation
  2. 8:48 Laws on symbols: decommunization 2015, symbols of the invasion 2022, decolonization 2023
  3. 1:03:21 The "inverted flag" myth: the blue-and-yellow is the symbolism of the UNR, 1917–21
  4. 1:08:33 Information-psychological operations against the symbols: "the wrong coat of arms/anthem," "the flag was a gift from Mazepa"

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