Hi.

what font do you use in your videos?

This is the first time I have heard that anyone who doesn't speak Ukrainian have such a good pronunciation!

As a Ukrainian, I am grateful for this video. Also, I would like to suggest looking into the Ukrainian Large coat of arms topic. It is pretty obscure, yet interesting

XX century's story of Ukraine is MUCH MUCH more complex than a couple of seconds (also, quite explains why Russian authorities and supporters think they have a rightful claim to "free Ukraine)". It was a comprex process that Lenin allowed to happen (he was a so-we-call an foreign agent for Russian Empire, heavily budgeted from outside the state) so he could create «natural» proxy states to place Soviet Russia inside of them, so politics with other countries and especially wars could be much much harder to start. In that way, if something like Germany (not the way they did it lol) started a war with Russia, they would need to justify a war against one of proxy states: Ukraine, Belarus, you name it. It would at least buy time for Russia's main forces, as for Lenin's plan, USSR was not planned to be so united and those countries would get decent levels of autonomy which would also make development of states better. As for current state borders, the cituation gets worse for Ukrainian sovereignty. Partly their west terrotiers belong to Poland. You can also literally draw a line between East Ukraine, heavily and mostly identifying themselves as maloros', West Ukraine, acquiring their identity in last days of USSR (and they basically seizured power without asking the Eastern part - and did it twice, in 1990 and in 2013) and a conflicted middle part (like Odessa), where you can find half people heavy pro-Ukrainian and other are (were) pro-russian. Which is ALSO a consequence of Lenin's state creation politics and Stalin's korenizatsiia, which was cancelled due to separatism and bad stability and unity between people when the second war with Germany started to become a question of time. Not to mention White movement which tried to do it's best to at least re-create Siberian Republic if not to whiten all USSR territories. And current government acted a lot like if French in Canada claimed that Canada is for French Canadians and English Canadians are occupants. As for times of Russian Empire, yellow-blue color belonged to cossacs in the first place, and then was part of Galicia, modern partly Poland-Ukraine. As for times of Kievian Rus, it was always just Rus (or Russia, or Ruthenia), but named by modern historians to divide Rus in times before XV century and Russia after unitication of lands. Ukrainian identity was not here at all, not any of modern identities too. In that time modern Ukraine lands were mostly held by nomads polovtsi. And there was a long of unification until Peter I proclaimed Russian Empire. And you could find enough autonomy in Russian Poland and Grand Duchy of Finland only. The others just positioned themselves as Russians, except for new Siberian lands, which were so big and uncontrollable so there was no way to call everyone here russian. Autonomy of those peoples are still here today.

Oh, and Salzburg and Vienna look like Indonesia.

At least Tyrol has a unique flag.

Nah, lower Austrian flag is blue gold

​@@robertjarman3703 dude when i learned the flags of austrian federal states i was so confused

Good video

And a lot In religion which is why it’s in a lot of houses

Ok

@@Uzyvan6 Trident in religion? I am not sure what are you talking about, because here in Ukraine it's not connected to religion in anyway. As I am not a particularly religious person I googled some symbols of PCU(not to be confused with UPC MP, which is a russian propaganda tool) and it does not include a Tryzub.

@@farkon00 I mean most churches at least the ones I went to, had put up their flags with the trident and in some places it’s used as a symbol.

The trident is also an *emblem* for the Khazarian Mafia. You can look it up.

It is exactly that. It was always like that in Ukraine - before the war, too. Coat of arms is just one of widely recognised symboles of Ukraine, it is used everywhere, on administrative buildings, on passports, etc. Would be weird to run around with flag in one hand and coat of arms in the other, so people just combined those.

​@@YaPinGYouTuand since it is a pretty simple and sleek design it fits right in, some coats of arms are way too detailled and don't look great on flags, even some official ones are simplified by the citizens for that reason.

Coat of arms is rarely used in Czechia on the flag but ive seen it. it looks odd but im fine with it.

yeah, i just put the tryzub on the flag because it looks better and stands out more, plus i feel using it is a better way to show that i actually am ukrainian rather than simply supporting it, because it can be hard to tell what with the flag everywhere nowadays

If you go to the Ukrainian Wikipedia and look at the history of the flags of Ukraine, you will be surprised how many are there.

dent does mean "tooth" in latin after all lol

@@draniki1352 danning Kruger is proud of you!

I LOVE ETYMOLOGY :3

@@sillysad3198 I mean ‘dientes’ is teeth in spanish

OH, I never thought that the DENT in tri-dent means a zub! XD

similarly in Poland you can see versions of a flag with coat of arms on it during football games and stuff, the eagle it's just cool

But it's different with the German eagle as it's not a double headed.

the "Roman Eagle" is/was used by so many countries that it literally doesnt matter

I kind of understand it to be a coat of arm. Like lots of other countries do! For us in Bangladesh for example we have water lily and wheat stripes. I have seen them used next to our flag but never embed into our flag like Ukraine. I guess that's kind of the part confuses the whole court of arm part

​@@cyan_oxy6734the bundesadler, or the single headed eagle in general has been the symbol of a unified Germany since it's creation (be it Prussian style or modern). The double headed eagle represents the holy Roman empire, a time of disunity in Germany so I'm fairly certain they wouldn't want to identify with that, rather than the single headed one. Also very important to note is that before the adoption of the double headed eagle, the early Holy Roman Empire had a Single headed eagle too, so it's more historic

I like the current shade 🥰💙💛 it’s just simply cool

Interesting

Yeah and there was a flipped version of the flag

​​@@cjoy1604Actually,no, it is just a myth

@@oleksiivoloshyn4194 it's not a myth, This was a flag sometimes used by some members Ukrainian government from 1917 to 1920

I like the full CoA of Ukraine tho

the fun part of this story is that russian coat of arms colours do not correspond to the flag colours :) :) ridiculous people!

Speaking of the Russian flag with the coat of arms on it. Many people, even most Russians, don't actually know it's signification, and yet it is the most commonly sold version inside of Russia. Well, the reason for it is quite simple, this version of the flag is the Presidential Flag of Russia, the so called "Presidential Standard". So by selling mostly those, they create a visibility of support for the president, rather than the country, which is a distinction Putin has been trying to erase for a long time now

@@macanaeh lol what? Putin? As mentioned above, you can find flags with coat of arms in many countries, it is quite popular concept. A flag with a coat of arms (and often with inscription "Россия") has always been sold in Russia.

@@RaffGoodman You should research it a bit further, a coat of arms on the flag is most usually used by different parts of the government or as a representation of the government itself. The one I was talking about is called the "Presidencial standard" or "Президентский штандарт", it represents the office of the president

@@macanaeh yeah, I know about presidential flag. What's your problem with it? Different countries has such flags.

It's like saying that Italy is the sole inheritor of the Roman Empire. It isn't. France and Spain also have Roman history, as well as Greece (eastern roman empire), Germany (holy roman empire), and probably some more I've missed out on. So, just like the fact that france (well, the land at least) being historically part of the roman empire isn't a good enough for italy to invade them, Ukraine also being descended from Rus isn't a good reason for Russia to invade them either.

​@@Programmdudecool story bro, but that is in no way connected to the comment you're replying to.

Idk why that's even a debate, it's not like there's no country sharing history with another. Like the Franks etc

Full bullshit about Khazarian and Kyiv, we don't have a single proof about it except russian pseudo-historian.

@@D3NDit kinda is though. They were adding an example in agreement with the notion of the original comment.

Thanks to you comment, I just had to look up dekulakization and ended up down a rabbit hole of readong about early Soviet policies and subsequently learning a lot more about their atrocities. Thank you!

As a second comment, I'd like to point out that most Belarusians reject this modern flag and prefer the white-red-white one as it represents a democratic Belarus.

I feel there should somewhere be white-red-white version in the story of Belarusian flag

@@AvrahamYairStern Dekulakization was in simple terms the elimination of the group of big landownes that controlled a sizeable chunk of the Soviet grain economy during the early 1900-houndreds. This was mainly because the kulaks threatened the power structure of the country and manufactured small scale famines as to force the Soviet govourment to sell land and buy the kulak grain on the condition of the kulaks. The kulaks also partook in terrorism and other actions of violence to ensure their power. The Soviet govourment did not like this and therefore used it as an excuse to be extra violent in certain parts of Ukraine, arrestering anyone who could be a possible kulak collaborator which would become something that the Soviets are heavily criticized for today, especially by the far right who have even developed conspiracy theories that link the Soviet govourments conflict with the kulaks to the Soviet famine of the 1930's. The kulaks were in essence a contradiction to what kind of society that the Soviet union wanted to build and were therefore neutralized and turned inte martyrs for nationalistic elements in Ukraine until today. It's quite interesting but hard to understand history as it's ridden with propaganda and lack of primary sources. The moral of the kulak story was that the Soviet govourment tried to extinguish forces that they saw as a national threat but with said action later on backfiring during World War 2 (with the Nazi invasion) and later on in the 1980's and 90's with the growing national groups.

@@happyelephant5384 it was originally used in the short lived 1918 Belarusian People's Republic (BNR/BPR) and later by the Belarusian Rada in exile (Rada is basically the government). In 1991 the flag was again changed to white red white after gaining independence from the soviet union and lasted a few years before Lukashenko's regime started, ever since then it has been the symbol of the resistance movement. I'm not really sure where its inspiration comes from but one of the ideas I've heard was, war banners used by the military force in present day Belarusian parts of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

How about the one with cossacks on the side?

@@risannd It's a winner of national contest, but hasn't been approved officially

There are two most common ways to incorporate the coat of arms into the flag (as shown in the video), the question now is: which one to use?

@@shwabb1 The corner one looks cheezy. Keep it in the middle

They do, its found mostly with the naval forces. Check out the naval flags of Ukraine and good chuck have the Ukrainian flag with coat of arms plastered on the centre

@@CreamTheEverythingFixer I did not mean naval flag, just a variant of national flag, not army, presidental, or any other.

@@shwabb1 as far as I(a Ukrainian) know, the version in the middle is much more popular and widespread, so i guess it would be that one, if we get around to doing it

@@saraj2995 Yes, I know. That's why I think it would be a worthy topic for an interesting video.

@@saraj2995I mean it really is coppied, Lithuanians used Vytis for a long time, and belarussians appeared quite recently

@@saraj2995 BTW I've also seen this cool modified design of the Belarusian white-red-white flag, with added Tryzub combined with the Columns of Gediminas.

@@kefyrass They obviously didn't suddenly appear out of thin air. The term Belarusians in the modern sense might be relatively recent, but the people that we call that existed much longer. They were the East Slavic/Ruthenian population of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which was a multiethnic and multilingual polity for basically all of its existence. There is a good chance that at the very least the double cross on the shield held by the knight depicted on Vytis/Pahonia/Pogoń is actually of Ruthenian origin, possibly coming from the earlier tradition of the Principality of Polotsk (Cross of Saint Euphrosyne).

​​​@@kefyrasscopied from whom? Independent Lithuania has used Vytis since 1918. Belarusian People's Republic used Pahonia since 1918. Or you are talking about the Grand Duchy of Lithuania? (common ancestor of both) upd. Rechecked the dates

Out of curiosity, does the fact it's prominent on the AFU flag and shoulder patches influence its use? Like do you see it more often in a military or combative context than in a purely civilian role?

@@the_mad_fool it's used everywhere as a country symbol first. And military trident looks different.

@@ayararesara6253 Holy crap I never noticed they were different! My brain went full Mandela effect on me with that.

I like my trident, i got a silver chain and all. its great. people think its a cross. (its better....... so much better)

I don't think the Russian are claiming that they are the "true descendants of the Rus" rather that it lay claim as the continuation of the old kingdoms of Rus since Russia itself means "land of Rus" and the fact that all tribes of Rus were once united under 1 empire (Tsardom of Russia). It's like how Germany and France claimed descent from the empire that Charlemagne built (which is the original root cause they have been at war with each other since the Middle Age after the division of the empire up to WW1 and WW2).

what do you mean? tell me in short-term@@13gan

@@justind4615 Sorry, I don't understand what you meant by "what do you mean". Do you mean like the history of Charlemagne and it's connection with Germany and France or Ukraine and Russia claiming descent from the Rurikid (the origin of the symbol)?

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The only true Rus descendant? Who the fuck ever said that?

Ukrainian and Sanskrit are quite different, but not as far apart as most people would assume. They are both "Satem" languages. They diverged from "Centum" languages (Celtic, Germanic, and Italic) before they diverged from each other, so they share a lot of similarities which they don't share with Western European languages, despite having developed separately for thousands of years.

Well they both are members of the Indo-European language tree for a reason.

I thin it's the same with the Austrian and Polish flags, as well as the flags of certain German states: the use of an official emblem superimposed onto the flag sim ply indicates that the flag is flown by governing institutions. It's also somewhat similar to how Scandinavian flags are sometimes swallow-tailed when flown by the military or the royals.

Yes

@@Abulb99 ahh the "Hero's" Genocidal Barbarians is a better Title I think

@@Abulb99 (are Also Neo-Nazis but ignore that part and have killed dozens of Ethnic Russians but ignore that part)

@@Abulb99 how do we know they are Neo-Nazis? maybe the Swastika in their flag helps you are Supporting an Evil force for if Azov didn't start killing Ethnic Russians Russia wouldn't of involved itself

​@@Hung-LyAzov is a volunteer formation, after 2014, when Russia had already attacked))). I advise you to compare their symbol, this is I + N, this is not a wolf hook, about "ethnic Russians" I can say with 100% certainty that you have never read about specific cases of this, because during the conflict everyone suffers, especially near the front, they give out fighting for genocide, especially unilateral genocide - manipulation..

@@machinegewehrUIA 2014 the Ukraine started Ethnic cleansing of Russians. Resistance groups popped up and fought back Russia gave aid but didn't get directly involved until Crimea and once again more recently both sides are wrong but the Ukrainians are more wrong for not owning up to their horrible acts

"воля" mean more than freedom

In russian воля means "will" as in god's will or "freedom"

Oh you can pull whole Ukrainian alphabet out of it and it's goddamn glorius

@@vitaliitomas8121Cyrillic alphabet* There’s no such thing as ukrainian or russian alphabets at all.

@@albaraqahtani there is. The difference is just few letters, but a difference nonetheless

Ukrafascist

@@GeneralWinter9ruzzian

Have your cookie and get out

@@vitaliitomas8121 why such cruel PUNishment ?

That's why I say that our historians should come together and settle it once and for all. And from there you and us can build relationship on the new basis.

But even in “Supernatural” there is a country called Belarus

the trident has never been a state symbol of Rus'. I hope you know the history of Rus'.

@@orientalischerwarjager You meant Ukraine, I know very well the history of Ukraine from A to Z, and I know very well that the trident was on the flag of Rus', I hope you know the history of Rus' .

@@KYR_MAN >I know very well the history of Ukraine >the trident was on the flag of Rus' yeah the fact is that you probably know the history of ukraine, but not the history of Rus cuz Rus didn't have its own flag at all. please learn the history of Rus in more detail and not from the TV

Study the history of Ukraine, because I find it funny to talk to you@@orientalischerwarjager

​​@@KYR_MANкиевская Русь часть истории всей Руси и в том числе и России С Белорусью

This was bothering me for the longest time. Thank you for pointing out where it was from XD

A bit more complicated than that. If we talk about the territory - then it was quite a small part of what is now called Russia, almost all of Belarus and significant part of Ukraine. If we talk about the state then it's even more complicated because there were many states instead of three and none of the three mentioned existed back then. However, it would make more sense to not perceive Kyivan Rus as one state but rather federation of republics/principalities and trace origins of Ukraine, Belarus and Russia to those combinations of different states. Like Ryzan, Smolensk, Kyiv, Chernihiv principalities, Novgorod republic, etc. However, it's even more complicated for modern Russia since it itself is divided to various administrative parts, sometimes republics, sometimes it called differently, but overall hardly resembles a unified country which could be traced back to one singular origin.

@@eduardog3000 it is complicated though, for example Chełm was a part of the Kyivan Rus', and yet Poland isn't considered one of the ancestors of the state. I'm not even mentioning most of what is now Russia. As time passed, a lot of mixing, assimilation, migration, conqering happened, so you can't say that 100% of all Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Russians are equivalent to Kyivan Rus', it's only that the three can claim most of its heritage.

​@@shwabb1chelm's near territories were considered by ukrainians as part of Ukraine, just like poles considered Lviv part of Poland up to end of ww2, as majority of people living there were ukrainians or poles respectively

​@@kostyasorokin9266that part was Ukraine even under Polish occupation. Polish or Russians occupying land does not make it theirs.

@@shwabb1even though Kievan Rus contains very little of current Russia, it contained pretty much everything that is considered the Russian heartland, including Moscow, Vladimir, Yaroslavl, Ryazan and Novgorod. So Russian claim to kievan rus is as valid as ukrainian.

ITS WAY MORE IMPORTANT THAN YOU THINK

It's because South Dakota is based. Best state in the United States

russia tried to steal history of Rus' (but got fucked up) that all you need to know

It was from the period when Kievan Rus was doing really well, so it's one of the most well known.

No it wasn't originally used by Vladimir the great but his predecessor Sviatoslav. He used a "Bident" i.e like a trident but with only two prongs instead of three. According to the version that says that it was a falcon, the middle one would represent a tail and the two on the sides would represent its wings. But when you consider that its first iteration actually only has two prongs it doesn't make sense because then it would represent a bird without a tail which doesn't make sense. Its more likely to be a trident, a weapon used in those ages by pagans

well you were wrong

@@PetrovichErochin What gave it away? The deliberate use of a spelling which stopped being in official use thirty years ago? The reference to a series of adverts? The nonsensical nature of this proposed etymology? Tell me, oh wise one.

@@klobiforpresident2254 All together, I guess

​@@PetrovichErochinit's a pun on the german word Ruß, or soot in english.

@@Username-mb4bi Indeed. That pun might possibly be why Rußland, Friedeburg, East Frisia has this name. Supposedly a collier (charcoal maker) lived there and it's not the cleanest of occupations.

yes, this is indeed what the flag is supposed to represent 👍

yes, it is in fact what it represents

Don't listen to other commentators, it's a popular myth. Colors are based on kingdom of Galicia-Volhynia's coat of arms (golden lion).

@@ayararesara6253 there anywhere i can learn more about the history/creation of the flag? wikipedia is a bit sparse on the subject

@@anonarchist1936 In English? I don't know… I mean, there's not a whole lot to say, modern bicolor originates from "springtime of nations" in Austria and was first used for a few days during 1848's revolutions on top of Lviv Town Hall. National colors were chosen by members of Supreme Ruthenian council one month before that - there's slightly more info on their wiki page, please look. It was not used in Russian empire until revolution of 1905. Also later public discussion on pages of Lviv and Kyiv magazines(?) in 1911-1912 proved historical tradition of these two colors not only in Galicia, but in Dnieper Ukraine too. However, the order of colors was not established and both variations were used (which creates controversy to this day).

This is false equivalence. Kyiv rus was a very small part of the formation of the russian federation's identity, from symbolism to political structures. English also doesn't translate all the details, since the rus in Kyivan rus is different to the "rus" in russia when you read it in cyrillic - Київська Русь, Россія - note the "Русь" vs the "Рос". Belarus on the other hand, does use the rus from Kyiv rus. You talk about "westerners", but if you had knowledge of cyrillic you wouldn't make this even worse mistake.

@@kyleid3446 Russian is my native language, and I know the difference between «Русь/русский» and «Россия». The «ros» part originated from Ancient Greek as the name of «Rus» and then spread over Russia. I don't see why it is a false equivalence: Kyivan Rus existed in the times long predating both modern Russia and Ukraine. Its political structures were akin to its time and actually differed over periods, so it's only natural that they have changed by the contemporary age. Symbolism isn't the hardest proof of continuity, especially that symbols can be revived and claimed, which happened with tryzub.

yeah it looks good. however the design of the flag is a part of the Constitution, and it can’t be changed during war. so it will stay “consists of two stripes: blue and yellow” for now

Really doesn’t need to be changed. Nothing wrong with defacing flags; doesn’t have to be on-paper official.

And why would they be annoyed?

ukranian themed danish flag

​@@ependerdanish flag with Ukraine's colours=swedish flag

Oops

Not so weird. The fact that Ukraine preserved the use of the tryzub differentiates it from Russia and Belarus, who did not.

​@@shwabb1but those two kept the rus in their name

@@Samuel-p17 so? It's just the name

@@mofik26 and nothing else was implied

oh sorry you alredy say that

Actually, it's officially called "SMO"🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

What is a woman?

@@volo870 Ukro try not to be a fascist challenge * impossible *. How progressives tolerate you is beyond me.