was a war, and there was a diplomatic, well, struggle for recognition of independence, i repeat, stetsenkoha, these are government officials, they are aware of the political situation both in ukraine and in the international arena, that is why they understood that they were going to paris, where the prime ministers, us president woodrow wilson, the prime minister is there. of great britain, the prime minister of france, everyone knew these names, even among singers, they understood that they were singers, going to convince western politicians that ukraine exists, that we are a separate nation, that we have our own culture, as well as our events today, we experienced, we know these first days, weeks. er, yes, when we were in kyiv and there was all this threat, and here they were also gathering literally at that time, although despite the fact that there was little time, they made announcements all over ukraine, and in local newspapers, there were published announcements for singers from different regions to go to kyiv for auditions and gather, there was no formed choir, they started gatheri