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tells of the ukrainian military unit that fought against czarist russia in world war one. 0, i oh my yes. v. oh i with now with a new wave of patriotism has brought ukrainians together footing a powerful sense of determination in the face of russia's invasion. national sentiments are also growing in other posts of it. states, culture and language play key role here. singer songwriter, jerry hale and wrapper,

a loaner, a loaner travel to berlin at the end of june to give a concert for their homeland even before the war. the pair sang exclusively in ukrainian with a thing in my own language. just natural, of course it battery artic. bye. it's just natural. it is just like elemental mean ukrainian if your brain in, if you are in your brain, you speak ukrainian, you st. ukrainian with russian president vladimir putin denying ukraine statehood. the issue of language has become hugely political. it's considered a key component to national identity. so ukraine is fighting back on this front to banning some russian music. russian musicians who don't explicitly condemn the war, can no longer performance ukraine or have the music played on the radio. a decision

that jerry hale and no, no, no, no support. i have to listen them and be with them and music in of you that they are volunteer. why are they not so nice to me? not friendly to me to listen to their music. no, it's painful. that escalator she was kick up sooner. vladimir dontez grew up speaking mostly russian and rose to face with russian language songs. now he's trying to write ukrainian there. oh sure tara know others have continued singing in russian face criticism. oh, people always pointing people like me, for example, was to, has russia language. busy songs in my in my least, ah, hello, my name is one good. i'm a progressive musician. you great. even

dorn is one of ukraine's most successful pop stars. his mix of house disco, jazz and funk, has broad appeal and also includes many russian numbers. ah, even dawn is not affected by the law banning russian music. he's a ukrainian citizen and clearly opposes the war. but he is still not ready to switch languages. performing. ready the. ready russian songs i don't want to get rid of them doesn't matter which language is it because i'm full of ukrainian mentality and dna, russian culture, the story, the new city, the music could a lot of us. ready i heard in the, in the child who the anguish i'm hearing every, every day it. busy all printing the dna in my, in my music, a noise mainly it aimed at russian artist who take post

inclusions, public. and i, even with my t and a pop singer, paulina gardena had older events and ukraine cancelled immediately. we need it law 14 years ago musical station ukraine was very, very shocked by russia with the grand a lead wish. ready it was really a really problem to get to. ready right, and our next trip, or to know he's considered iraq legend and a pioneer of ukraine in music. a . even back in the soviet era, he wrote his songs in ukrainian. and in 1986, he formed the country's 1st rock band. in 2021. he and his son

in recorded a patriotic boy scouts on that was more than a 100 years old when the war broke out, it went by my lease . i know some people are russian culture but under. ready russia, they changed their mind. mm . mm hm. hello, my name is ashley young. i'm before the 24th of february, february i was a singer or crated director of a political party. democratic and now i'm home. but

medic, if you see me on the streets and the piece time to you never said that i is someone who can be identified that resume should always ah, i train my soldiers, my guys and girls on well just huh. and pray that they will be enough goods not to be wanted. oh anastasia, a woo veteran in the don bus region performs under the name statistic. has songs blend techno with traditional ukrainian folk music. oh, no, we get our unique national identity, but it,

well, it's not new. you won, which huge history and huge culture we held before and how much it was totally destroyed by now. it's only by showing the union back, but by raw share age is by edge is it's not being used, corey. ah, well, tried to get back home nobody my good bush, little guy in the bus with you guys, then you would you, would you this way? wouldn't in the missile distance? fortune is ridiculous because like, you know, ukraine and russia are the countries been created in the same year in 1991.

so like if russia exist, it means that you, grandma ukraine's buddhist internationally recognized for do ordinary russian supports putin's narrative. hello, gus, i'm and then fennel i met with joseph horse in 2011. if you could sell you a quick introduction on this topic, as russians, if they think that ukraine is so that a state, right. and i person to fee that of course it's sort of in state, you know, in the ninety's ration as well. soviet concerts, i believe they signed on the agreement that the board there's are, is it these right? no, i do you believe ukraine is a sovereign state? yes. to have their own constitution, their own symbols of power the so it's an independent state. it's not up to one

person to decide to do more. i don't think expanding our board as will serve our country well known was not so good news. especially not when it comes to regions that many would like to see as part of the russian federation. which so many people have family ties and friends there for the past 70 years. we've been so closely tied and now we're just cutting everything off and, and saying we no longer know each other with over 3 decades ago some $2000000.00 people took to the streets and fullness other countries to demand independence. in august 1989 protestors in estonia, lithuania and latvia formed a human chain stretching over 600 kilometers. it was dubbed the baltic way. since then, questions of national identity have been central in the baltic states to russia's

war and ukraine has reopened old wounds. in latvia, an age old conflict has resurfaced between the countries ethnic russian minority and the lat. be a majority. i'm david romanovs ski. i have polish roots and i'm on my way to the latvian capital rica. i want to find out what defines latvian identity today after more than 30 years of independence. and what impact the ukraine war has had a a with ah, my name is autumn, all through. hawker, are active. i am interested in

latvia, latin history, latin identity, in kind of things that you know, i feel related to the things i love and hate on the same time. so i missed from my country's, my, my and so as for my artistic artistic breakfast, i think the latin mission entities pretty much based on the suffering for you that recent past and soviet path is kind of funny, significant element course always we being seeing ourselves as victims so this is missouri compassion, this is the old block. and then that is a new abroad, which symbolizes that. we can get rid of all history. instead of like, you know, let's have another page now history let's, let's leave it, let's forget it. you know, move, build the like, why brides, you know, a new like scott, you know, hey, we want to keep suffering. we want to keep talking about our pain. you know,

i'm familiar with this kind of past from poland, this collective trauma. in latvia, it still shapes relations with russia and with latvia, russian speaking minority which make up a quarter of the population. ready the soviet era victory monument was one focal point for tensions ethnic russians used to gather here to commemorate soldiers who fought against nazi germany in the 2nd world war. in august 2022, the latvian government had demolished and protest over the ukraine war for years are nice about shoes, documented the russian commemorations that took place here. ah, that was not for demolishing because i don't think that change is anything but linda, what is the ukraine start? if we tell that this is our enemy and the monuments fun of help. ok, let's just do it in our spontaneously. let's go there demolish. it was our hands, you know, like berlin wall. this is all my be way off like relieving some kind of this,

whatever pain or suffering that we have. charl then neither like i should have said i was going to drop box and thanks show that i the i think i think a bit different with young people because i think that i don't think in these kind of categories, not fans, russians or whatever else. i was like, oh, can i not, i mean look on these tags and this is i shall i like i'm on. deuce young people also the ones that i take pictures of the day. i kind of free. that would be that naive. maybe they are more of like natural is because they are not yet part of the system with

in both young and old are now taking to the streets to protest rushes war in ukraine. i'm wondering what this all means for the russian speaking minority in latvia. a lot of them maybe don't feel very comfortable. i'm not talking about the signal. so cult 5th colony that they always felt ok. they live in a brown country talk about kind of reasonable like russians. natasha. they've been seen as a kind of local enemy in a way, and they have to pool once again themselves. okay. you know, we are, we're not, we don't agree with fulton all we, we want this to be the independent states. so our russian latvians feeling the pressure i decided to visit the russian theater enrica, to find out more. mm

hm. martian brochure. yes, my name is maxine booster. i come from reger in latvia, and i work as an actor in theater and televisions, 3 hacker crews commission, which as a russian speaking person in latvia, i've always felt that i have to make more of an effort to end people's attention and respect to exhibit my new order. when the war started, he broke off all his theater commitments in russia. hooker with toyota of, of sunburn, there's a double stand and, and there are 2 sides to everything that on the left, on the one hand, our country has not sought to integrate russian speakers into latvian culture. but on the other, many russian speak is in our country, have themselves failed to integrate for many years or so. or could i'm talking about people who think that ukraine is bombing itself. people who think that russia is a great power and does everything right. our so that's really what these people think . i mean, because she thought, well,

now flor difficult globally because our society is divided in nealus. that's why we're seeing these radical measures to cut off everything associated with russian politics as much as possible. so we can finally move forward to sadness. it's most complicated for people who are in the public eye because some way constantly being asked to express an opinion. and thankfully, or my opinion is, is i've just said it woke abrazzo books like this, this of picardo she, whether russian or latvian speaking, the vast majority of the population is strongly opposed to the war and ukraine. could this create a new collective sense of national identity among lack v as young people? patriotism also has a dog side. in the serbian city of navisites residence awoke one morning to find a number of house facades painted in the colors of the national flag. who was

behind it, and what did it mean? lou village, i grew up in the leman neighbourhood of novi, sad through the 2nd largest city in serbia. it's mainly middle class and upper class neighbourhood at leim and as close to the city center to the university is here easily and the river danube yard, some lane lug. well, i'm lena acrobat. i'm 21 years old and studying journalism. i've spent my entire life in layman 90 minus some prov. ella taps for geo who's lee money man has always been known for its open culture punk and rock'n'roll. he can get a fruits, graffiti cut the widget there. when you look at the names in the mail

boxes, in the apartment long i, you'll soon notice that it's a multi national neighborhood or a quite multi, not good . they bought it when you get 5 years slapped, so at politics became central in our lives. now that the new authorities brought nationalism into this multi ethnic setting them law due to the, daphne u ha, she controls all aspects of live off pressuring every one in one way or another. exactly, to being that way through 30 years with

on the sebastian them. and then the unthinkable happened right here in my neighborhood to mass moves and local elections. the residence of layman didn't vote for the governing party. they voted for independent candidates from the neighbourhood, dark launched, yet most of them women, which in them janet vulgar april. it is because our society is so politicized. we are aware that party members don't act in the interests of the people. or it's certainly not guaranteed that instead they serve the agenda of their political party. but that's why we have so many problems and corruption. it could, i would, i rather to part of the governing heart, he couldn't let that stand and decided to punish us using the tools i know best thought nationalism mccoy. so all the key could only latina lisa dot com overnight. lima was painted in the color of the serbian flag

or this, this is really, it was done by the people who lost the election to show us whose boss around here. when did this or not, that have done better to set up a few trash cans instead, he did. we have none here any more said the bottom. the summers the guy will change the order of the colors and add a symbol. it may be a heart that it, that would remind me of the past of the days of yugoslavia. none more every day. menaja was la viewing the soda, owings, austin, when the worst thing about these flags is that they are trying to enforce patriotism. it's desecrating the city. what can you say other which? wall nation. honestly i think president booted did this because we didn't vote for him. me. very jena knew, glossy and that must mean we're not serbians. if we don't vote for him called the municipal should have the our core glasses isn't here, i haven't noticed the flag regular. there's one right behind you. oh,

well justice dash, it was pretty scary because it gives you a feeling of helplessness. ty, oxygen gets a demonstration of the howard that says ok, we can do whatever we want to. you probably can paint a flag over your face whether we can spit in your face or to me. and this is the problem with and this is the general mode in our society to again, art, my federal, national, sylvester on the st. overly on after that, teenagers were brought from other parts of the city to protest on the main street down to intimidate us. the mantis from the people of lemon responded by adding red stars to the flags that turned the serbian flies into yugoslavian. one deal with love esc nguyen with some one graffiti word to crying and nationalism. yet the next one. activists went further,

right in the names of unresolved state scandals on the flags iroquois that double blast for the so be so not be severely i wrote the names of the scandals in broad daylight. so because i didn't want to be like them though, hiding in the night jermel before bill on and i think truth is the greatest form of patriotism up and burn. i rich, but there is a misty was that a seem a moment but i am but hello everyone. yas, i'm brian brockovich is good. i'm a civil rights activist fighting for the common good. what is those anake your steam? that is bog ordering this analogy. well, we're sure there was this place here is called shaudra us, one more game, garage, anyone, all saw the many people see it as the grain long of novi. sad was of course of as, as all a garage, the platform. we're camping here to protest, look sob because they want to shut down this forest. ology more he spoke jagger. com. where more do they want to cover this entire area in concrete, shlomo

e double donita, fuji model flock, chinney, gus, ronald blace. i've been called the surveyed armika, a croatian mercenary mac, and a traitor to the country. another tune was 3rd. she they claimed that i have millions in my bank accounts, which isn't true problem, bro. yeah. for the nationalists, i've become public enemy number one or not. so low, but i did any, i think the russian influence in serbia is pretty strong because russia supports the nationalist policy here. anyone who tries to address a real problem get stigmatized, dynamic would be, we'd pick up, i've encountered real difficulties below below problem or has been for them. it's our crack is through the red stars were painted, i fancy our bits. but once again, the police didn't intervene. it's good, although the whole thing was captured on surveillance cameras. after that, they put stickers with opposition, party slogans at the entrances to our buildings, to denounce at sac or ballard. because sympathy is there any who if bleached kick

brought in is i think that they also changed the name of the main street in li, manually billy to rent her melodic boulevard library. he's a convicted war. criminal general grab was locked in on that and then some one to painted hard on the flags. it's not clear who or which site painted the hearts the size of a national symbols in no visa continues. sh oh oh, we return now to ukraine. several years ago, an artist embarked on a journey across the country to see if you could spot any changes as he headed east

. he wanted to find out what unites you, crane, and its people. will work for an artist 2 based in give you credit. so i started look from graffiti a very important part of my development in yearly. in late nineties, i was born in the west in western ukraine in their mining town on the rocks on the pollution. so the border in 1009. ah, i brought a piece of gold from my area and i brought it like by you walk by feet or 2 numbers, you know, it worked for $1000.00 plus to see took with me one month with

the, with the new queen was under the australian buyer before i was under the books and then if you are slowly walked to the area, we was part of the empire. you immediately noticed some cultural changes that oh i basically at the same time you not to snow changes. ah, so good. heritage is in way more powerful away more powerful it any narratives on ukrainian territory before. so like in the west wing, the east you just realized that you're in the pacific countries. so is ukrainian

identity still shaped by the days of a soviet union? though the vote me off noted that although the architecture changed, the people's mindset remain the same across the country. or look simply, i felt like i went to if i went back home again must because nobody knows that the people thing like old don't boss is broke or russian whatever. and where caesar mo, like west, more similar to europe. now that being tied on bosses or european project, this industry was in the 1st place created by the western business, like by the belgium, by french, by english capital. mm . ukraine. yes. are different to russians because they are european i, we like deeply believed that we are part of europe. it's our like a heritage. so he was with

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