carefully, don't know how with miss today, go. ah, feel the magic discover the world around you. subscribe to d w documentary on youtube. b . o. lou is huge, her curly, la. oh huh. a ukrainian folk song in 1914 has become the new protest anthem and ukraine. it tells of the ukrainian military unit that fought against czarist russia. and we'll pull one. 0,

i oh my yes, v i . e. in mary. now to be there you like my little with the 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 post soviet 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 boy with her finger in my own language. and it just natural, of course it petri audit to her by it's just natural, it had, it's just like elemental mean ukrainian, if your brain in your, 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 perform and ukraine all have their music played on the radio. a decision that jerry hale and and no, no, no, no support. i have the lease and them and be with them

a news interview that they are gone or why are they not so nice to me? not friendly to me to think i listen to their music is painful. that escalator she rosky hub singer vladimir dante grew up speaking mostly russian and rose to face with russian language songs. now he's trying to write ukrainian direct. oh sure tara know others have continued singing in russian face criticism. oh, people always talking to people like me for example, was to has russia language. busy songs in my in my least, ah, hello, my name is the one good. i'm a musician. great. even

dorn is one of ukraine's most successful pop star. his mix of house disco, jazz and funk has broad appeal and also includes many russian numbers. i ah, even dorn is not affected by the law banning russian music. he's a ukrainian citizen and clearly opposes the war. but he's still not ready to switch languages. performing the rosalyn 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 of the 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, grinding noise, mainly it aimed at russian artists 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 needed law 14 years ago this the musical station grade was very, very sharply 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 a rock 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,

austin recorded a patriotic boy scout song that was more than a 100 years old when the war broke out, it went by my lease . i know some people are. busy russian culture but. 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. i'm now on

medic, if you see me on the streets and the piece time to you never said that i someone who can be identified that resume should the least ah, i train my soldiers, my guys and girls, i just i 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 star sick. his songs blend techno with traditional ukrainian folk music. oh, no, we get our unique national identity, but it, well, it's not new one which huge history and

huge culture we held before and how much it was totally destroyed by now it's only showing at uni, i mean by but by your i share age is by i just, it's not being used, corey. ah, well, tried to get back on. it's not bringing 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, grain, oh, you cranes,

buddhist i internationally recognized. so do ordinary russians supports patients, narrative. hello gus and them fennel. i met with joseph 4th and 20. let me put the sale you a quick introduction will be stopping as russians if they feel that ukraine is sold at 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, ah, the agreement that the board there's are, is it these right? no i do you believe ukraine is a sovereign state? oh yes. they had their own constitution, their own symbols of power, the so it's an independent state. it's not up to one person to decide. yet,

boomers, 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 in former soviet 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 in my name is autumn, how to i focused on for, for, for aka. i am interested in

latvia, latin history, latin a density 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 countries, my myers, 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 very significant element. course always we being seeing ourselves as victims so this is missouri compassion. this is the all part. and then that is a new abroad, which symbolizes that we can get rid of our history. instead of like, you know, let's have another page in our history. let's, let's leave it, let's forget it. you know, move, build the like, why brides? you know, a new likes car. 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 on the monument and i've help okay, let's just do it in our spontaneously. let's go there, demolish it was our hands, you know, like berlin wall it, this is, oh, my be way of like relieving some kind of this,

whatever pain or suffering that we have jowl then neither like i should have said i was going to drop box and thanks, show that i the i think it's a bit different with young people because i think they don't think in these kind of categories and all that fans, russian. so whatever else i can, i don't even look at the stakes me and this is i shall i like about. deuce young people also the ones that time take pictures of the day i would say kind of free might be that neve. maybe they are more like natural is because they are not yet parked over the system. with

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. both of them maybe don't feel very comfortable, i'm not talking about the signal so called 5th colony that they always felt ok. they live in a brown country talk about kind of reasonable like russians that are here. 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 was put in all the way we want this to be the independent state. so our russian latvians feeling the pressure i decide to visit the russian theater enrica, to find out more. mm

hm. maxim brochure i, my name is maxine booster. i come from reger in latvia, and i work as an actor in theda and television for yucca little school. and she has a russian speaking person in latvia. i've always felt that i have to make more of an effort to own people's attention and respect to the money. was it? when the war started, he broke off all his theatre commitments in russia. okay. with toyota of of sunburn, there's a double stand and, and there are 2 sides to everything. certainly not. 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 per song, or could be. i'm talking about people who think that ukraine is bombing itself. so 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 we'd love,

i love flu, 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 service, but 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, as of just said, it will, can browse all walks of this with some karate, whether russian or latvian speaking. the vast majority of the population is strongly opposed to the war in ukraine. could this create a new collective sense of national identity among latvia as young people? patriotism also has a dog side. in the serbian city of novels that residence of woke one morning to find a number of health 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 a manly middle class and upper class neighbourhood analysis at leim and as close to the city center through the university is here it is. and the river danube yard, some lane. ugh, i'm nina, acrobat. i'm 21 years old and studying journalism i've spent my entire life in layman valley madison, rosella taps where she who's we met him and has always been known friends, open culture punk and rock'n'roll, or he can get a 3rd graffiti cut. the widget there,

when you look at the names in the mail, but this is in the apartment lot. if you'll soon notice that it's a multi national neighborhood, are quite multi, not good . they bought it when you get 5 years slapped. so it politics became central in our lives. now that the new authorities brought nationalism into this multi ethnic setting them law. due to the daphne you, hearty controls, all aspects of life, pressuring every one in one way or another. you talk, we'd been that way through 30 years, ah,

on the sebastian them. and then the unthinkable happened right here in my neighborhood to mass things in 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 apple. 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 la, due to a part for 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 get audi newton elisa dot com overnight. lehman 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 it was not they'd have done better to set up a few trash cans instead than we have none here any more, said the bottom, the summer that i will change the order of the colors and add a symbol. it may be a heart that it so that would remind me of the past of the days of yugoslavia. none more, but a man or you were sly viewing the surrender. owings austin when the worst thing about these flags is that they're trying to enforce patriotism. it's desecrating the city. what can you thank other which won the issue? honestly i think president booted did this because we didn't vote for him. me. they juno, new glosser. and that must mean we're not serbians if we don't vote for him hall diminished national vehicle. glasses isn't you haven't noticed the flag regular. there's one right behind you. oh, what does the staff it was pretty scary on because it gives you

a feeling of helplessness tie off it. you know, it's a demonstration of the howard that says, or we can do whatever we want to. you probably can paint a flag over your face whether we can spit in your face off to minute. this is the problem and this is the general mode in our society to again arm of pharaoh national school. the feedback on the pseudo valley on after that teenagers were brought from other parts of the city to protest on the main street down to intimidate us. we mantis from the people of layman responded by adding red stars to the flags. if that turn of the serbian flies into yugoslavian one deal with swab esc, may adam 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 some be saw not be severely. i wrote the names of the scandals in broad daylight. so because i didn't want to be like them who broke hiding in the night, cha, mobil, 4 bill on. and i think truth is the greatest form of patriotism up and burn my rich . but there is a misty, was that a seam employment plan, 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. well nor game garage anyone all saw the many people see it as the grain long of novi. sad was of course of as, as all i grabbed the platform where camping he had to protest look sob because they wanted chopped down this forest. alizay more he spoke jagger. com, where more do they want to cover this entire area? seen concrete, shlomo e double, tony, right?

fuji model flock. chinney. gus, ronald blace. i've been called the surveyed armika, a croatian mercenary mac, and attracted to the country of gloom. it was 3rd she, they claimed that i have millions in my bank accounts, which isn't true problem, bro. yeah, the nationalists, i've become public enemy number one are not soon alone, but i did any. i think the russian influence in serbia is pretty strong. recovery of russia supports the nationalist policy here. any one 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 darkest through the red stars were painted. i fancy our bits, but once again, the police didn't intervene to go over 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 bellas chicago. 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 ratcliffe, melodic boulevard lambert. he is a convicted war, criminal, general grap locked in on that. and then someone to paint it hard on the flags. it's not clear who or which side painted the hearts. the size of a national symbols in navisites 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. i'm oh, no for an artist too based in give you credit. so i started from graffiti a very important part of my development. nearly 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 of us, you know, it worked for $1000.00 club to see took with me one month with

the western new queen was under the australian by before i was under the books and then if you are slowly walked to the area we, she was part of the empire. you immediately noticed some cultural tradition that oh, i basically at the same time you know, to, to snow changes. ah, so get her that she's 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?

those of us me off noted that although the architecture changed, the people's mindset remained the same across the country. or look simply, i felt like i went to if i went back home, i'd been bust is 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. no. the entire embassies are 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. busy european i, we like deeply believed that we are part of europe. it's our like a heritage. so he was with

quite often a 77 percent is bringing you in that the so full of female power. i do music that people love because people love me and i love people. oh, fun both as a longing to be more connected to the cultural heats africa, which ultimately inspires me. 3 women, 3 powerful messages. the 77 percent. in 30 minutes spawn d. w, who alexandria is up to with water. historic monuments are endangered and residential neighborhoods are being flooded with people are afraid. the city council is trying to contain the impact of the waves.

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