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Our Father Is Bandera, Ukraine Is Our Mother!
Our father is Bandera, Ukraine is our mother! ( Ukrainian: «Батько наш — Бандера, Україна — мати!») is a Ukrainian patriotic song about a mortally wounded Ukrainian insurgent and his mourning mother, written sometime before 2019 to a pre-existing folk melody found in the collection "For the freedom of Ukraine" for the song "Sorrowful Lads". It was first recorded in 2019, sung by a choir of students of the theology department of the Chernivtsi University, and subsequently achieved notoriety after being extensively discussed by the Russian propaganda media due to the title referencing Stepan Bandera. Background Insurgent songs similar in content but with other melodies are also recorded, such as "Oh there near Lviv (green sycamore)", "Oh there near Kyiv (green sycamore)", "Oh, in the forest under the green oak", "Oh, there under Khust, under the green oak", and others. Popularity The song started to spread in the media in March 2019, after it w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Language
Ukrainian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first language, first (native) language of a large majority of Ukrainians. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script. The standard language is studied by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics. Comparisons are often made between Ukrainian and Russian language, Russian, another East Slavic language, yet there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian language, Belarusian,Alexander M. Schenker. 1993. "Proto-Slavonic", ''The Slavonic Languages''. (Routledge). pp. 60–121. p. 60: "[The] distinction between dialect and language being blurred, there can be no unanimity on this issue in all instances..."C.F. Voegelin and F.M. Voegelin. 1977. ''Classification and Index of the World's Languages'' (Elsevier). p. 311, "In terms of immediate mutual intelligibility, the East Slavic zone is a sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
