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The T-shirt I brought back from Kiev has got "Ukraine Free Forever" written on it. I assume I'm best not to wear that in St Petersburg if I ever get there.Last edited by Rogin the Armchair fan; 07-06-2021, 10:03.
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Originally posted by jwdd27 View PostLove it. Glory to Ukraine!
https://twitter.com/27khv/status/1401850384570802186?s=20
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This is Shukeyvich's Wikipedia entry
Seems indisputable that a) he was a Nazi and b) he has a Stadium named after him
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The slogan's wiki
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glory_to_Ukraine
paints It in a slightly less unsavoury light, and I'm happy enough to use it in this context, which is "fuck you Russia".
But it is a minefield getting involved in Eastern European cheerleading slogans, they are pretty much guaranteed to have been used by some bad bastards in their time.
As for Shukeyvich, my wife's family came from an area of Poland that was ideally located to be brutalised by German or Russian forces, enthusiastically aided by Polish and Ukrainian collaborators. It was absolute carnage, and there weren't many good guys. Shukyevich was undoubtedly a murderous fascist, but sadly he wasn't the worst of them knocking about at the time.
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