Blue and yellow flag has always been a flag of Ukraine. Black and red is a battle flag. Because when blood covers blue and yellow flag it turns into black and red.
That's true, when warriors are getting seriously harmed by the enemy, they hug the flag as the symbol of not giving up even if there is nothing left and it's covering with their blood. The red and black flag are belongs to Ukrainian Nationalists organization, the main protectors of Ukraine as country and idea of "Freedom or death" thing, so technicaly it's Ukrainian flag but in the other side, not different "old" or "new" version, it's just got different meaning, it's more about fight.
Minor correction: Parts of western Ukraine (Lviv/Lemberg) were never part of Russia, but belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, then the Austro-Hungarian Empire and later the Soviet Union.
@@РоманХутко-я1ц According to the census from 1931 63,5% of the population of Lviv (Lwów) was Polish, 24,1% Jewish and only 7,8% Ukrainian. Stop lying.
Regarding the red/black flag: 1. The azure/gold (=blue/yellow) flag has always had greater usage and wider recognition and its origin is far older, so it would be inappropriate to call it “new” and the red/black one “old”. 2. The red/black was used as a military/battlefield flag, in times of fierce fights for Independence and later mostly only by the Ukrainian ultra-patriotic and nationalistic organisations. I can’t recall it being used during peaceful times or outside of military domain and political far-right. 3. The meaning of colours of the red/black flag indeed comes from Ukrainian cultural tradition where red is a symbol of love and black of sorrow. These colours are primary colours of Ukrainian embroidery and traditional clothing (vyšyvanka). Only later they obtained an additional interpretation of heroes’ red blood soaking the black soil, mostly due to having been used during armed conflicts and revolutions. 4. There is a popular Ukrainian meme/legend saying the blue/yellow and the red/black flags are one and the same view of the wheat fields under the sky which just looks differently during the daytime and at night, which I find quite symbolic too.
To add to that: Guess which colours you'll get if you spill blood on our "regular", blue and gold, flag, and you'll probably understand why it's been used during times of unrest.
Its quite weird that a similar flag is used by anarchist or communists in other countries. When I saw that flag I always associated with those movements but I guess in Ukraine is the opposite of that.
Honestly same, I always wondered why many far-right Ukrainian groups use a red and black colour scheme, and the right sector flag looked like something out of the Sandinistas or Cuban revolutionaries, not a far right movement, but now I have more context so it makes sense
I remember how during one of the protests in Moscow, Putin's propaganda news showed a group of people with diagonal red-and-black anarchist flags and said, "Look, Banderovans even here!" Sad to know how ignorance makes people so controllable.
Poland and Lithuania were not yet united as one country at the time of the battle of Grunwald so it would be more accurate to just say Poland and Lithuania. Really interesting video! I definitely learned something new about Ukrainian history.
That's not an old Ukrainian flag. Its an UPA/Right Sector flag. Those are fascists. If you see someone wielding that flag - you punch him, you denounce him same as you see someone wearing a swastika and yelling "Sieg Heil". Those are not much better.
@@TheManinBlack9054 It's quite confusing, because the colors are similar to the anarchocommunist flag and the M-26-7 flag in Cuba.. Before I saw this video I would have definitely thought that if someone is waving that flag they are part of one of those two movements.
We in Ukraine also say: "Red - is love and black - is sorrow". This phrase is not connected with UIA flag, but still shows symbolic meaning of this colours Upd: c'mon guys stop spamming about UPA in the replies. I have clearly stated that the phrase i've wrote is not connected to this flag and is just about symbolic meaning of this colours in Ukrainian culture in general, but seems that you all read carelessly
@@Michael-hj7vj hmm I’ve seen where the Ukrainian government as removed many names from the war memorials yet they continue to keep the Bandera statues and pictures? So the people who died for the land of Ukraine not as important? Or is it just an admiration of an ideology?
In short, if you submerge Ukrainian flag into the blood, its become black/red (literally). Every time someone is spilling Ukrainian blood, those flags start flying replacing original one’s meaning country is defending itself or there is a danger to its state. Content in this video is very accurate, thanks to the author.
@@ИльяБулатецкий-ш8д Your concept is derived from old Soviet books and was part of their propaganda to make sure nations would never knew their heroes. You are right that Stepan Bandera fought against both Germans and Soviets because they were both Nazi’s who tried to destroy Ukrainians and their state. And yes, Ukrainian national movement made short lived deals with both regimes in order to survive and to progress.There are lots of information that has been recovered after Kgb archives has been declassified in Kiev, so all the trues will come out no matter what.
@@alexma6956 Man, tell me what truth are you talking about? What materials were uncovered by the KGB? All the information I have written can be found in Wikipedia. And about books, almost no one in the West has raised the topic of this person and his movement. By the way, one fact why this movement was such was also contained in its leaders. As an example of such, Roman Shukhevych. He was sent by the German side during WW2 to their ranks and sees his activity in it. You can read about this interesting man, if you want.
@@ИльяБулатецкий-ш8д things that you are asking here on youtube are so complicated as history of federal reserve. If you want a real truth, fly to kiev’s national archive and do your own research. This is the only way you will accept the truth. No matter how many links i will provide right now, probably wont change your mind, and i have to admit figure of the Bandera i so complicated that you cant just read wikipedia. The main idea of the comment stays that Red/Black Ukrainian flag is the symbol of freedom during tough times in Ukrainian history.
The old flag directly reminds me of the flag of Angola, an African country. However, the old flag stands out a lot from other European flags because it is so dark compared to most other European countries that use brighter colors.
Hello Hilbert. I kept thinking about as a kid in UK being shown the yellow under blue flag as grain fields under blue sky by my Ukrainian neighbour. This was back in the days when his homeland was within the Soviet Union. I like the videos you do. I also enjoy a different style adopted by Bruce from Scotland History Tours. He often replies in comments. I mentioned you and your channel and also your Scotland language lecture, saying he should look to collaborate with you after he did a video on Viking settlement in Scotland.
That's not an old Ukrainian flag. Its an UPA/Right Sector flag. Those are fascists. If you see someone wielding that flag - you punch him, you denounce him same as you see someone wearing a swastika and yelling "Sieg Heil". Those are not much better.
By the way, at the expense of the Vikings, there are strong discussions about whether the Danish king was not sent to Kyiv and then became the prince of Kiev, given that in Kiev found weapons that the Vikings had, but it could be trade, but an interesting theory is that some Vikings on the territory of modern Ukraine
I'm from Ukraine. The whole video could be described with one sentence: if you will take a flag of Ukraine and wet it with blood, then blue will transform into black and yellow into red. And then you will have that red & black flag. You can try at home.
@@bra3879 You are spreading the lies, because they are cooperated because of some points, but don't because of some kind of ideological friendship. The fact which has usually been lost in Russian propaganda is that Shuhevicz and Bandera(kids as well) spend a lot of time in concentration camps. The cult you are talking about is very small and growing sometimes only because of Russian aggression. Bandera always tried to fight against communism and an invasion of their forces. So the only thing you are trying to show us, is that Kremlin bots farm are all over the media. But no worries, all data already has been learned by your own management, which means each person who worked for them - will be judged by the law and imprisoned.
@@aliasnon796 Thank you for your THREATS, I am a Polish woman of 60 and I am not afraid. These are communist pracitices, to threat someone from saying the truth. Which lie do you mean? Is this a thank for the POLISH HELP NOW? I WILL SHOW MY FRIENDS WHAT YOU WRITE. Poland is not a rich country and accepted already 3,5 million Ukrainians. Bandera killed a Polish politician and was sentenced to prison, then he was freed and cooperated with Hitler. See in English or German Wikipedia (you may use Google Translator), what they write about the Volhynia slaughter, and what lies about it is in Ukrainian Wikipedia. - In the year of 1981 I took part (like my parents and 10 millions of Solidarnośc-members in strikes). And we were afraid of Soviet troops - at that time at the top of Soviet Union was the Ukrinaina Breshnev... Previous to that the Ukrainian Chrushczov joined Crimea 1954 to the Soviet Union. What is a lie form what I has written? - When did the Ukrainians protest during the Soviet times - Polish and Hungary People many times, also in Chechoslovakia. But Ukrainians were communist at that time. In my youth I heard western music, we saw in Poland western films, Ukrainians herad Russian music and watched Russian Tv untill 2014. Also many Ukrainians are of Russian heritage. Since 2019 they are discriminated, because the only official language is Ukrainian. And 2014 most Ukrainians spoke Russian. Even pres. Selenski started to learn intensely Ukrainian 2018, just before the election. - I wish Ukraine peace and freedom as soon as possible, but please do not lie.
I will give you the full response in a few days. If you are really not a Kremlin bot, I apologize. It threaten only for that people who work for a Kremlin.
@@aliasnon796 no, he is not a bot, we have a lot of photos on the Internet where half of the blue-yellow flag is covered in blood and it becomes red-black
1:34 What isn't mentioned is that in this painting, the most based letter in history was written and sent to the Ottoman Sultan. Flying a blue and yellow banner while trolling the Ottomans...that definitely adds up with the fighting spirit of the Ukrainians today during the Russian invasion
The Ukrainian tradition of roasting the hell out of foreign powers trying to imperialize them continues even to this day. Like how they told a Russian warship to "go fuck itself"
Very thoughtful and good of you to donate some of the revenue during these times, Hilbert! I pray this’ll end soon but it’s very uncertain indeed sadly. Thoughts of peace to everyone on the continent of Europe!
Fun fact: "USSR" on the early Soviet Ukrainian flag doesn't refer to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which in Russian is actually the SSSR, and which would not be formed until 1922. "USSR" on this flag actually refers to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which has the same initials in Russian, Ukrainian, and English.
Not quite true. Ukrainian abbreviation was УРСР, because instead of the Russian word "совет" they use the Ukrainian word "рада" meaning the same thing - "council". Same with the USSR being abbreviated to "СРСР"
@@DawidKov the one in the video says YCCP, and I have never seen a YPCP flag, but I'm far from an expert, and with all the chaos at that time I don't doubt that such a flag was likely used at some point
@@wyntrheart The one in the video is from very early on, when the Bolsheviks used Russian even when in Ukraine. It wasn't until 1927 that the government apparatus had officially started to implement a full introduction of Ukrainian into everyday life, including state symbols. The variations included УСРР, and УРСР under a hammer and sickle. These existed from 1929 to 1937, and from 1937 to 1950 respectively. When Ukraine became a member of UN (Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus all had separate representation in the UN, essentially giving USSR three votes. Yup. They wanted all 15 at first), its flag was changed to the red with a thin blue stripe, and the Soviet hammer&sickle under a five-pointed star. So this video actually missed a couple flags.
@@louisecorchevolle9241 No the standardisation started in 1927 similarly other countries such Spain Italy and even Russia have also done this to avoid dialects in official discourse
I'm Ukrainian and admire red/black flag alot, associating it with desperate fight for freedom in 20th century, no one here thinks of it as anti-polish violence. Although, we should remember and take responsibility for all sides of our history.
@Valar Melkor ukrainians under black/red flag in 1940s were both fighting Nazis and collaborating with them in a pursuit of independence, they were not supporting nazi regime. Many of them died in Nazi's camps as well as in Soviet camps. Not sure why would you bring up "concentration camps".
@@Andriy_Moskalenko they weren't supporting the nazi regime, they were supporting Stepan Bandera, whom was supporting the nazi regime. Nice smoothbrain moment. Or did you not have the history lesson of Stepan going too far for even the Nazi's. Him murdering 30K people in south eastern ukraine got him arrested and thrown into a working camp. After the war the CIA started to work with him they knew of him being a nazi, but they prefered nazi's over communists.
@@3217491 It wasn’t the murder that got him thrown into a camp, It was nationalism and the Nazi’s dislike of slavs. The Nazi’s did note that Bandera’s followers killed Poles, Russians, Jews with great gusto. However, once the Nazi’s turned on him he was more than willing to work with those groups. So yes, I would agree that he supported the Nazis till it was inconvenient for him, and fought them only once they betrayed him. Still I understand why many Ukrainians like him, he was was a driving force in making Ukraine a nation in a time of great upheaval. I’m just left wondering if he killed any of my relatives.
Canadians and Americans are taking note that Ukraine, Hungary, Poland and Germany are turning Nazi again. Don't make us come over there again to put you down. You see how easily we just destroyed the Russians (Ukrainians are destroying them for us even)?.. When all the people of North America demand an end to Nazis in Europe, don't be in the way is my suggestion. We are still WAY richer than Europe, with way more gun nuts, hunters, rock climbers, skiiers, weight lifters, pilots, etc., etc., and when we want to get something done, we will get it done.
I have heard stories from the older generation that the "blue top" flag is a peacetime flag and the "yellow top" flag is a wartime flag. And when blood gets on the yellow-blue flag, it turns red-black. You can google it and see that it really is.
This video is such a bait, what do you mean by "What Happened to the Old Ukrainian Flag?" and "Why did it change?" when it was never official Ukrainian flag?
Lol that's such a small detail to get mad about, the thumbnail showed you two flags and the video told you their history along with the country that made them. What else do you want?
@@Thomas-fk3xl you wouldn't say it's a small detail, if people wielding this flag would butcher fetuses out of your neighbours' wifes. Becuase that's what happened to Polish families in Wolhynia. It's not a small detail. It's like calling Nazi swastika an irrelevant detail as well, and it is banned even today.
Another interesting meaning of red and black flag was giving by Taras Shevchenko, ukrainian poet. In his verse he wrote "Червоне то любов, а чорне то журба", witch means "red it is love, black it is sorrow". Actually, there was not a flag, but shirt (вишиванка), but i think here is same meaning for him. (If my English was bad, take my apologies) Well, i made a mistake. That wasnt Shevchenko. Real origin of that meaning you can find in comments under that. Oups.
Well, I found an interview that Dmytro Pavlychko had given in February 2013 to a publication called "2000 Еженедельник". It can be found now only through the Way Back Machine. Quite a revealing interview. Tells me everything that I should know about him and it's his own words.
The red-black flag comes from Ukrainian nationalist of Stepan Bandera and the boss od terrible UPA-bands of Roman Shuhevicz. (Now it is used by Ukrainin nationalists). They both cooperated with Hitler, murdered 100 000-200 000 od Polish civilians (mostly neighbours, women and children (in English it is called "Volyn slaughter"). But these nationalsts also killed Jews and Soviets - at the time of the terrible Hitler-nazi-occupation, between 1942-45 and even later. Until today Ukrainians deny what they did to Polish people - we wanted only to exhume the bodies of the victims and bury them in a Christian way. The Ukrainian government didn't allow it. - Now Poland helps millions of Ukrainianrefugees (although they took much of Polish territories - Poland did not try to regain them in 1990, we wanted peace). Ukraine became sovereignty not through fights or war, but as a gift from the Russians, from Gorbatchev, who became Nobel Peace Prize. We Poles have 5 Noble Prizes in literature, spoke always Polish at home, Ukrainians did not care for their own language. - Now in the commentaries, Ukrainians write about the blood - which blood - of Polish people, Jews and Russians, who fought against Hitler? - There are nations, like Kurds, Jews or Ukrainians, that for a long period of time did not have their own country. Ukrainians always lived in Russia or Poland-Lithuania. They have full independent country 31 years now. - But there is still a cult of Bandera, he is their national hero, a mass murder!!! On the 1st of January this year in Kiev was Bandera-March....
@@bra3879 you clearly don't know what you're talking about because you're wrong about many things. Ukraine tried to be a sovereign, independent country for all of it's history, but it was constantly fought over by stronger countries, all of which tried to erase Ukraine. The soviets banned the ukrainian language. We had a whole literature movement called "The Executed Reincarnation" because poets who wrote in ukrainian were hunted and slaughtered. What you are doing right now is trying to steal attention away from thousands of people being murdered, raped, taken hostage or moved to the aggressors country. Hundreds of thousands of people had their homes destroyed by bombs. Does it matter which nation does that to who? It's bad no matter what. Stop trying to justify agression.
3:22 Btw, in this photo, the top color is blue, and the bottom is yellow, and not vice versa, as it might seem. This is due to the photography technology of the time. For example, you can find photos of Swedish athletes in various sport competitions from 1912 to 1939 with Swedish flags on their clothes, where the yellow cross has become dark, and the blue background, on the contrary, is light.
Yellow and blue are also the colours of the flag of Upper Silesia (in Poland). Some historians think that these colurs might had been transfered to the Ukraine by Władysław Opolczyk, a Silesian duke who was the viceroy of Hungarian king in the Western Ukraine (Wallachian-Halych principality) in XIV century. For more info visit Wikipedia.
@@Chinunit22 only women and chikdren are allowed to cross polish-ukrainian border so fortunately there is no situation like in 2014 when the most "patriotic" black-red Ukrainians were escaping to Poland to look for better life and that was really ironic. As for polish voluenteers there are only people who gives Ukrainians medicaments etc. because in polish constitusion being a mercenary and fighting under other country flag when you are a Pole is a very serious crime
I am Ukrainian from Lviv and I was born in independent Ukraine (1994), I have known blue/yellow flag and it's blood covered version for whole my life. It hurts to see what Russia does with my country. Thank you for the video, it is really inspiring!
Great video! One remark though: in Ukraine, we are saying that Lithuanians did not conquer Ukrainian land but inherited after Rurikids. And, indeed, the Lithuanian duchy was officially named as "Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rus, etc." They adopted the old Rus language (which we call "old Ukrainian") as a state language, and before the Union of Lublin this country was regarded by local Rus princes as "their." This historical connection is explicit for us. Even the Colar of President of Ukraine has a Lithuanian coat of arms on it, and more recently Gitanas Nauseda (Lithuanian President) began his speech to Ukrainian Parliament emphasizing that both our states sprung from one historical root.
Old Ukrainian is a language that never existed bud. Funny how you are trying so hard to eradicate anything with the root Rus while claiming the ancient Rus state to yourselves.
Lithuanians are not Slavs, how come it’s the same roots with Ukrainians…I would say Lithuanians conquer these lands but we’re tolerant with natives and accepted they language together with their own. Very peaceful and respectful conquering of the lands that belonged to ancient Rus.
You have the same two colour combinations as my city uses. Official flag of Trnava is yellow-blue, but it is more known for red-black colours because of our club. Greetings to Ukraine from Slovakia!
Ukrainian insight with corrections and additions: 1. The order of colors on the national flag is still an object to dispute, but the yellow-blue one has a lot less recognition, basis and it's support comes from some metaphysical and feng shui nonsense (no joke!). 2. The red-black has official name: Red-Black Revolutionary Banner. It was used not by whole OUN, but only by it's younger and more popular wing -- OUN(b). While the blue field with a Tryzub with sword was used by pro-German OUN(m). 3. Basicaly, red and black are the folk colors -- most used in traditional national art. You can even find a lot of folk songs singing about the two colors or something related to them. Also, if you look at anything related with traditional Ukrainian culture it will have those two colors. 4. The meaning of colors on the flag are usually described as blood and death of Ukrainian heros. As in the cry: "Glory to heroes! (who laid their lives for Ukraine)".
As a Slav from the Balkans, I can tell you that this was also the flag of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO, or VMRO), a secret revolutionary society in the Ottoman territories on the Balkans, that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
There is another meaning to trident, which is probably not true but teachers love to tell it to kids anyway. If we look at trident we can see written in cyrilic word "Wolya" (ВолЯ) - which means "will" or most likely "freedom" in ukrainian. It is popular interpretation of trident but probably just accident.
I am not a Ukrainian, but I have heard this several times! В is the left tooth, о the base, л the middle tooth, and Я the right! Thanks for mentioning it! For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Ukraine#Other_uses
Are foreigners studying our history? I'm impressed! Thank you so much for such videos like this ♥️♥️♥️ and of course to the people who watch them! Low bow to you guys!
Interesting fact, but we, Ukrainians, have actually re-thought the meaning of our Black&Red flag with A SONG "The two colours" ("Два кольори") written by a ukrainian dissident during the Soviet times. As a verse goes: "The black one stands for sorrow, the red one stands for love" You can check it out, the song is beautiful! (And used to be very popular here)
@@TheManinBlack9054 Well, you can rethink swastika considering the fact that this symbol was used all over the planet before hitler blackened it meaning with his "invention" of hakenkreuz. By the way Buddhists and Hindu still use Swastika
This is not the full information. The red-black flag comes from Ukrainian nationalist of Stepan Bandera and the boss od terrible UPA-bands of Roman Shuhevicz. Now it is used by Ukrainin nationalists. They both cooperated with Hitler, murdered 100 000-200 000 od Polish civilians (mostly neighbours, women and children (in English it is called "Volyn slaughter"). But these nationalsts also killed Jews and Soviets - at the time of the terrible Hitler-nazi-occupation, between 1942-45 and even later. Until today Ukrainians deny what they did to Polish people - we wanted only to exhume the bodies of the victims and bury them in a Christian way. The Ukrainian government didn't allow it. - Now Poland helps millions of Ukrainianrefugees (although they took much of Polish territories - Poland did not try to regain them in 1990, we wanted peace). Ukraine became sovereignty not through fights or war, but as a gift from the Russians, from Gorbatchev, who became Nobel Peace Prize. We Poles have 5 Noble Prizes in literature, spoke always Polish at home, Ukrainians did not care for their own language. - Now in the commentaries, Ukrainians write about the blood - which blood - of Polish people, Jews and Russians, who fought against Hitler? - There are nations, like Kurds, Jews or Ukrainians, that for a long period of time did not have their own country. Ukrainians always lived in Russia or Poland-Lithuania. They have full independent country 31 years now. - But there is still a cult of Bandera, he is their national hero, a mass murder!!! On the 1st of January this year in Kiev was Bandera-March....
My country Romania also has blue first, then gold and then red, and I was told by my mom that the blue meant our skies above the golden fields of wheat and the read was our blood and heritage which we never forget (except for me lol)
by the way, one of the meanings of the Ukrainian coat of arms is the word - ВОЛЯ (English "will / freedom") The letters of his word can be seen on the coat of arms. On the left side "B", in the middle from below "O", in the middle from above "Л", and on the right side "Я"
Also Tryzub of Volodymyr has hereditary connections to Rurik's family's insignia of falling eagle, which is still on a logo of Old Ladoga, which was initial settlement of rurikinds.
Yeah, as a Pole I wholeheartedly wish Ukrainians victory in the current struggle for survival and freedom (their own and others) but my skin does crawl a bit each time I see them waving the red-black flag. I wish they would let go of it and what it represents, stop glorifying OUN/UPA. From what I've read/heard this process kinda was already happening before the war (the Right Sector lost nearly all of its seats in the parliament, for example). Part of the reasons why Putin decided to attack was probably that it was becoming increasingly hard to paint Ukrainians as "Nazis", even to complete fools. I believe we will be able to have a calm discussion about it later once free Ukraine will prevail, will be safe again and rebuilding. I also believe that by then Putin and Lukashenko will be in the garbage bin of History and Hilbert will have a good occasion to make a video about why Belarus is changing its flag (assuming he won't make a video explaining the white-red-white flag earlier anyway). BTW 1410 was technically long before the formation of the Commonwealth in 1569. The union between the Kingdom of Poland (with its Ruthenian provinces) and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (which could be described in many ways as a Rus'/Ruthenian state) went through a bit of evolution.
I dont think number of fascists was going down. In fact they played a big part in Maidan revolution. With even fascist party getting into a government of Ukraine. But yes war made it much worse and the number of fascist increased significantly since then.
@@DelijeSerbia Let me be more precise: by war, I meant the all-out conflict started with Russian invasion the week ago, not the "smal" war going one since 2014. And I was actually wrong, in the 2019 elections the Right Sector did not lose "almost all of their seats", they lost the *only single one* they had! President Zelenskyy is a centrist from the east of the country, a speaker of Russian as his first language and freaking JEWISH. Are we reay supposed to believe he's even remotely "nazi" or even "Banderist"? Until a week ago he was being accused of being a joke politician, too weak, not having a real ideology at all and so one, now he's a war hero. And It seems that Putin just dug a methaphorical giant trench between the Ukrainians (including many of the Russian-speakers) and the Russian people. Way to go!
@@DelijeSerbia The far right elements gained one seat in the entirety of the parliament. so any Russian propaganda that Ukraine is some inherent far right state is a joke at best.
@@Artur_M. Of course he is not a fascist. I never said entire Ukraine is fascist, but they do have an alarming size of fascists and it will go bigger now. And while we speak about Zelensky it is funny how the propaganda is presenting him as some kind of hero while he is nothing more then a corrupt politician like those olygarchs he pretended he was going to arrest during elections. Panama papers really showed who he is, but now that will be forgotten.
@@tisFrancesfault yeah not every Ukrainian is nazi obviously. but when they vote againts combating glorification of nazism in UN assembly years ago actually worries me, and probably convinct quiet decent amount of Russian that Ukraine is under control of nazi well US too
I learned a lot from this. My school failed to teach us the history, only the language so I find it really interesting when someone talks about our history.
just today I was looking at videos and saw the other flag -- and wondered what that was about! thank you. I appreciate this content that helps us fill in the gaps of our understanding so that we can better reflect on the current situation. Peace and Freedom for our Ukrainian brothers.
@@InsTance888 yes organized in Ukraine,Vlga, Kouba,n Kazakhstan by Georgian Staline and Beria helped by Ukrainians Kaganovith and Krutchev A génocide horrible
Yes very interesting. As a 3rd generation Ukrainian Canadian I didn't know any of that. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and helping the people in Ukraine. My family left Ukraine and immigrated to Canada early 1900's and settled on the prairies of Western Canada. So I don't know a lot about the history and interested in learning more about it now. Much thanks again.
@@guyfauks2576 nope! Just an AMERICAN! That felt like saying something nice!? AMEN FOR THE DEAD AND WOUNDED ON BOTH SIDE'S! MAY MORE SOULS FIND CHRIST! BE SAVED! BEFORE IT'S TO LATE! IF RUSSIA OR UKRAINE win? Doesn't really effect me! We have our own COUNTRY to worry about!
Dude, it's just an amazing and deep video with very clear and perfect pronunciation for Ukrainian and Russian words. I was pleasantly surprised. Thank you for your work!
@@ecurewitz they openly glorify Nazis and live on stolen lands. They have no history and yet they are the biggest country in Europe besides Russia. ukraine deserves hell for the hell they had caused.
Very good video, lots of good information. Although the flag that you used for the Ukrainian Navy is no longer used, it was used in the early 90's until they switched to a flag based on the Ukrainian Hetmanate navy.
As a Ukrainian, I want to say that our Tryzub has deeper meaning. I mean that it consists of four Ukrainian letters - В О Л Я, which form the word "воля". "Воля" is the liberty in English.
@@iMost067 check it, the first version of the cyrillic alphabet had the same letters. if you want the one resembling the diving falcon, I'd advise you to check out the older (far far older) version of the tryzub.
Black and red are primary colors in art from some of Ukrainian regions. Specifically traditional Ukrainian embroidery. Red - is love and black - is sorrow. Life and death more or less. As for blue and yellow it represents blue sky above and wheat fields below.
@@TheManinBlack9054 Stop spreading misinformation! How about Vlasov flag (current RF flag)? In Ukraine red and black flag is a flag of fight and sorrow.
@@sergeykish A flag which has been used by fascist war criminals is a fascist flag. "How about Vlasov flag (current RF flag)?" The RLA did not use the Russian tricolour, but the white blue naval ensign, stop spreding misinformation and propaganda!
@@obrnenydrevokocur9344 Google images search "Русское Освободительное Движение": both tricolor and naval. Also First Russian National Army, Russian Protective Corps - and that's just a quick search. You know well that collaborators used national symbols. So stop spreading propaganda!
Remove the arrow from the thumbnail. Its presence implies that the red and black flag was the old one, and it changed to the one currently used, which is not true. The title is also misleading in a way that could lend some unnecessary legitimacy to right-wing nationalists in Ukraine, and to their views. Only the blue and gold flag has been used in any legal capacity.
@@tropixMw2 Don’t say that, starting last week Neo Nazis are heroes apparently 😂 Even saying you hope they’re crushed by Russia is seen as controversial because apparently Russia is worse than literal Neo Nazis now.
@@waynejohnson1786 Its mindblowing how the western idiots think and compare Putin to Hitler and Russia to Germany when they are polar opposites,Putin is a kgb officer and Russia has banned all far right parties while the communist party is still legal.
I’d love to see something similar from you covering Belarus and the Belarusian flag controversy! This is a subject that was rather important a year ago and if Putin gets his way, it will come up soon. Thanks! ⬜️🟥⬜️
I am from Ukraine, from Odessa (this is in the south of the country). And it is a great honor for me to see how foreigners talk about my country. Thank you. but I would like to make a couple of corrections: the color was always blue on top and yellow on the bottom, the myth appeared because in old photographs it seems that the color on top is yellow and blue on the bottom. but blue appears lighter on a black and white background, so that's a myth. The poster shown in the video appeared a little later and it is not entirely clear where it came from. By the way, the black and red flag is the flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1942-1955). and the colors, judging by the old songs, mean: red - love, and black - hell and darkness. but there are many interpretations and they are different. Sorry for my bad English 😅
Hey, so I'm not sure if anyone said this already but my family has a story about the red&black flag. It was chosen by the UPA because when soldiers faught and got blood on their uniform, blue&yellow flag on the uniform would turn black&red. And the ideology behind this flag was "we will cover our land with blood but we will not give it up". Don't know if it's a little myth or not, but i think its very interesting since Ukrainian flag do turn black and red when stained with blood
UPA were just fascist collaborators who did nothing good, they just killed children and ran away into the woods. Fought nothing against any soldiers and only thing they did during ww2 was work for the germans to help in the holocaust. In reality they just took the polish flag and switched white with black to symbolise being anti-polish.
@@Sayyadina-s9d my family used to live in Eastern Galicia.. Outside of Ukraine everyone knows this but in Ukraine you are taught a fake version of history. Do you ever wonder why not one of your neighboours likes you? look things up on independent sources and not Nazi propaganda books in Ukraine.
@@Sayyadina-s9d I am from your neighbour, and exactly, I am not Ukranian and have not been brainwashed by the Ukranian "department of history". Google things before post nazi propaganda. You have nazi mentality "you are not from my country so you are wrong." XD
3:03 just dig a little deeper. There were three Ukrainas with population that identefy themselves as Ukranians. That one, the one around Krasnodar and one on the Pacific Coast aka the green triangle Ukraine. That green triangle is still on the flag of nowadays Khabarovsk-krai in Russia.
6:30 moment requires a whole episode on this issue, so many Polish people were slaughtered it's disgusting. OUN has brought more damage than prosperity, but it's cute to watch this representation here. Thanks anyways for the history of the flag.
You can't look at the situation so one-sidedly! You read about the events that took place before Volyn! And then you will understand why the Volyn tragedy happened. Read about how Polish landowners oppressed Ukrainians. It was also a dark time. Poles were not saints, but cruel to Ukrainians. Ukrainians fought for independence, from Moscow, from Poland, from Austria. That is why we respect our heroes, because they fought for Ukraine. Poland also loves its heroes, despite the fact that they did harm to Ukrainians. And yet - Ukraine now needs your support, not provocations. Study the history of Poland and Ukraine well to understand why some events took place.
Even if Polish landlords oppressed Ukrainians, in Volyn they killed indecent people women and children. Also killed not only poles but Jews too, this can’t be justified
good stuff. imagine it like this: Blue and yellow stands for freedom and hope, that manifest into happiness. While red and black stands for despair, that manifests into vengeful anger, that tries to return it's hope and freedom that was taken away.
Good that people think about us, I am a Kozak Russian! I speak the language of ukrainian kozaks called Balachka. Love your videos and thanks for all support.
@@DraslyThe1 чи багато людей зараз говорять балачкою на Кубані? Мій дід і його односельці старшого покоління дуже добре розмовляли балачкою. А вже мої двоюрідні брати і сестри не розуміють її. Чи є ще місця на Кубані де люди користуються балачкою в побуті?
Some years ago i was in Rome and, not far from the parliament, I noticed a demonstration of Ukrainians (no idea why they were protesting about they were not more then 50 people ). They had Ukrainian flags, both gold and blue and red and black.
Oh. really, I do not think so. The red-black flag comes from Ukrainian nationalist of Stepan Bandera and the boss od terrible UPA-bands of Roman Shuhevicz. (Now it is used by Ukrainin nationalists, the Asov-Division). They both cooperated with Hitler, murdered 100 000-200 000 od Polish civilians (mostly neighbours, women and children (in English it is called "Volyn slaughter"). But these nationalsts also killed Jews and Soviets - at the time of the terrible Hitler-nazi-occupation, between 1942-45 and even later. Until today Ukrainians deny what they did to Polish people - we wanted only to exhume the bodies of the victims and bury them in a Christian way. The Ukrainian government didn't allow it. - Now Poland helps 3,5 millions of Ukrainian refugees (although they took much of Polish territories - Poland did not try to regain them in 1990, we wanted peace). Ukraine became sovereignty not through fights or war, but as a gift from the Russians, from Gorbatchev, who became Nobel Peace Prize. We Poles have 5 Noble Prizes in literature, spoke always Polish at home, Ukrainians did not care for their own language. - Now in the commentaries, Ukrainians write about the blood - which blood - of Polish people, Jews and Russians, who fought against Hitler? - There are nations, like Kurds, Jews or Ukrainians, that for a long period of time did not have their own country. Ukrainians always lived in Russia or Poland-Lithuania. They have full independent country 31 years now. - But there is still a cult of Bandera, he is their national hero, a mass murder!!! On the 1st of January this year in Kiev was Bandera-March....
@@bra3879 Throughout its history, Ukraine has suffered no less than any other nation, Jews have also died here, and we have fought against the Nazis in World War II. The Russian government has always committed genocide against the Ukrainian people. Today we are grateful to all those who support us and want to stop the genocide that is happening now and not in the past! Hundreds of innocent people are dying as Jews once did and this must stop!
@@tetiana.ns13 There was an Ukrainian genocide against at least 100 000 Polish people, Ukraine never even said even sorry for that. As far as I know Chruszczowv and Breshnev were Ukrainians and governed for 29 years the Soviet Union. In the 80ties I and my family fought against communism in Poland, we were afraid of Breshnev!!! Ukrainans were happy and did not protest. I do not know about any genocide, Ukrainians were respected in the Soviet Union. They spoke Russian, not Ukrainian, chose after 1991 pro-russian presidents.. Poland for 123 was not on the maps of Europe, but in these times the best Polsish literature, musica and paintings evolved. We have 8 Nobel prizes, 5 in Literature. And we are rather small or middle country. - I heard yesterday a story of a Ukrainian woman, that couldn't fly from Kharkiv to Poland thorugh Ukraine (surely because of the nationalist Asov-Division), so she flew to Moscow, then to Minsk, then went by the bus to Poland (Cracow). How come, that Russians or Belarussians did not kill her, and why could she not escape through her own country Ukraine? I know some languagen, understand Russian and Ukrainian. - Media are telling about many shootings of schools or kindergardens in Uraine and then some days ago president Selenski said, there are 120 victims among children!!! So where is the genocide! Only in one school should be hundred of dead children. I am of course happy that Ukrainian children and people are alive. So maybe it is the truth when Putin says, he wants to destroy military objects. Why did Putin not bomb the governmental part of Kiew? When Asov people go to empty schools, Russians shoot at them, but not at the children. I wish all the nations and coutries PEACE. - There is a list of big Ukrainians, and the mass murder Bandera is at the place 3, Szuchewych from the UPA-bands on the place 12. - We in Poland do not have mass murders as heroes.
We have very big problem with Polish- Ukrainian history. I am astonished and proud that after what they did to us we still want to help them. But they have to apologize sooner or later.
I am not so proud. what poland is doing is a sign of naivety, like often with our politicians. Look at the comments here. How many of them defend the genocide.
@@kokojambo4944 I'm not even Polish and I'm disgusted by it. Very few people outside of Poland know about Wolyn, keep these banderites out of your country.
@@kokojambo4944 We, russians, will defeat nazi in this not unified country and after it will invade in Poland) and russian language'll be official in your region. We will defeat western values in your country, cause poles is not nationality. There is only russians. It is revenge to you. Glory to Putin🇷🇺
we don’t care about apologies, we live in the present, despite the fact that in history you were no different from Russians in your attitude towards us. but we will never give up on those who fought for our independence, yes, Volyn is a genocide, but a genocide to which you yourself brought the exhausted Ukrainian people.
A correction at 4:10 the letters written on the Flag УССР «Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика» means Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and not USSR which is СССР «Союз Советских Социалистических Республик»
'Tryzub' originally - 'Rarog' the myth falcon who attack by dropping-down very fast just on their target. (The way how falcons rly attacks). Similare falcons we can see on some Danish old emblems. Edit; Btw. Volodymyr the Great inherited that emblem because of "Rørik family emblem" and make different variation...
The video is not quite right. black and red flag is the fighting flag of Stepan Bandera(or УПА which translates as Ukraine’s Rebel Army) . Yellow and blue was always the flag of Ukraine. Слава Україні!
Meaning of the yellow and blue flag 🇺🇦 - yellow wheat field and a blue sky Meaning of red and black flag - setting sun, creating a red sunset and black soil, or red is Ukrainian blood and black is the land this blood was spilled for.
Black and red are pretty iconic colors in Ukrainian folklore. For example, they are the most popular colors in traditional embroidery - for example, you can try to google and see traditional vyshyvankas (embroidered shirts), most of the patterns used are black and red.
I saw the black and red flag on the news… I wondered what it was for because it’s also the flag of Nijmegen in The Netherlands (the oldest city of The Netherlands)
3:20 - the reason for wide use of gold-blue flag was wide spread of Ukrainians in Russian empire. There were a few places of compact ukrainian population in modern-day Kazakhstan and far east, that moved there at the beginning of 20th century in search of free land. Those places (known as Yellow Klin and Green Klin) almost became 'New Ukraine' during Russian Civil war
As a swede I think the Ukrainian colors are absolutely beautiful
😆💙💛❤🇷🇴
Blue and gold go well together. Swedes would know too
representing IKEA
Of course you do. You have the same
I’m Canadian and I think the colours of the Turkish flag are absolutely beautiful
Blue and yellow flag has always been a flag of Ukraine. Black and red is a battle flag. Because when blood covers blue and yellow flag it turns into black and red.
Real explanation
That's true, when warriors are getting seriously harmed by the enemy, they hug the flag as the symbol of not giving up even if there is nothing left and it's covering with their blood. The red and black flag are belongs to Ukrainian Nationalists organization, the main protectors of Ukraine as country and idea of "Freedom or death" thing, so technicaly it's Ukrainian flag but in the other side, not different "old" or "new" version, it's just got different meaning, it's more about fight.
@@Witchking27 write in google:
Якщо на прапор України потрапляє кров, то він стає червоно-чорним
red and black is nazis flag, bandera flag
@@Deathstroke-r7h Are you talking about the flags of Albania, Angola, Papua New Guinea, Trinidad and Tobago?
Minor correction: Parts of western Ukraine (Lviv/Lemberg) were never part of Russia, but belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, then the Austro-Hungarian Empire and later the Soviet Union.
Lviv was occupied by polish. Lviv always was Ukrainian ciity
@@РоманХутко-я1ц Lviv(Lwów) was more jewish than ukrainian
@@РоманХутко-я1ц According to the census from 1931 63,5% of the population of Lviv (Lwów) was Polish, 24,1% Jewish and only 7,8% Ukrainian. Stop lying.
Named in honour of Leo, the eldest son of Daniel, King of Ruthenia = Ukraine :)
@@billyherrington5112 це місто буквально заснував українець
Regarding the red/black flag:
1. The azure/gold (=blue/yellow) flag has always had greater usage and wider recognition and its origin is far older, so it would be inappropriate to call it “new” and the red/black one “old”.
2. The red/black was used as a military/battlefield flag, in times of fierce fights for Independence and later mostly only by the Ukrainian ultra-patriotic and nationalistic organisations. I can’t recall it being used during peaceful times or outside of military domain and political far-right.
3. The meaning of colours of the red/black flag indeed comes from Ukrainian cultural tradition where red is a symbol of love and black of sorrow. These colours are primary colours of Ukrainian embroidery and traditional clothing (vyšyvanka). Only later they obtained an additional interpretation of heroes’ red blood soaking the black soil, mostly due to having been used during armed conflicts and revolutions.
4. There is a popular Ukrainian meme/legend saying the blue/yellow and the red/black flags are one and the same view of the wheat fields under the sky which just looks differently during the daytime and at night, which I find quite symbolic too.
To add to that:
Guess which colours you'll get if you spill blood on our "regular", blue and gold, flag, and you'll probably understand why it's been used during times of unrest.
this comment should be at the top
Its quite weird that a similar flag is used by anarchist or communists in other countries. When I saw that flag I always associated with those movements but I guess in Ukraine is the opposite of that.
@@21preend42 the nazi Germany ‘s symbol in Japan is a symbol of life.
@@21preend42 I am not sure but I feel like I've never seen communists using black in their symbolism
I've always associated the red and black bicolor with anarchism, Its interesting to see that it has a very different meaning in Ukraine.
Honestly same, I always wondered why many far-right Ukrainian groups use a red and black colour scheme, and the right sector flag looked like something out of the Sandinistas or Cuban revolutionaries, not a far right movement, but now I have more context so it makes sense
@@audiolatroushearetic1822 I don't know if free "state" is a good description...
I remember how during one of the protests in Moscow, Putin's propaganda news showed a group of people with diagonal red-and-black anarchist flags and said, "Look, Banderovans even here!" Sad to know how ignorance makes people so controllable.
@@audiolatroushearetic1822 I've seen that flag, looks badass.
@@audiolatroushearetic1822 this is one of my favorite history things ever, and this territory was fascinating
Your "tryzub" sound exactly how it sounds in ukrainian! Bravo!
True 🔱
Yet the symbol has nothing to do with tridents, lol. Nice history channel.
@@CRUASSANFAN he wasn't talking about the history of the symbol, he just said that "tryzub" translates as "trident" and it in fact does
@@CRUASSANFAN you spoke too soon thinking you did something 😂 you got put back in your place
In polish it's called "widelec".
Poland and Lithuania were not yet united as one country at the time of the battle of Grunwald so it would be more accurate to just say Poland and Lithuania. Really interesting video! I definitely learned something new about Ukrainian history.
That's not an old Ukrainian flag. Its an UPA/Right Sector flag. Those are fascists. If you see someone wielding that flag - you punch him, you denounce him same as you see someone wearing a swastika and yelling "Sieg Heil". Those are not much better.
@@TheManinBlack9054 They are not "fashists", but they are Rigths. For understanding this flag - you must know our History.
@@TheManinBlack9054 It's quite confusing, because the colors are similar to the anarchocommunist flag and the M-26-7 flag in Cuba.. Before I saw this video I would have definitely thought that if someone is waving that flag they are part of one of those two movements.
They were already united with a personal union from 1385. (They had the same king)
@@adelaide7822 Red and Black - its International Revolution Colours. Because Red means Blood, Black means Death.
We in Ukraine also say: "Red - is love and black - is sorrow". This phrase is not connected with UIA flag, but still shows symbolic meaning of this colours
Upd: c'mon guys stop spamming about UPA in the replies. I have clearly stated that the phrase i've wrote is not connected to this flag and is just about symbolic meaning of this colours in Ukrainian culture in general, but seems that you all read carelessly
Its the flag of the U.N.F {Ukrainian nationalists federation}
Red is for right and black is for sector! Who is stepan Bandera and why is he a national hero in Ukraine?
@@rickrinke1443 This flag existed way before Right Sector. And Stepan Bandera was an ukrainian nationalist if you don't know
@@rickrinke1443 I wouldn't really call him a hero. More like an important historical figure on the road to independence.
@@Michael-hj7vj hmm I’ve seen where the Ukrainian government as removed many names from the war memorials yet they continue to keep the Bandera statues and pictures? So the people who died for the land of Ukraine not as important? Or is it just an admiration of an ideology?
In short, if you submerge Ukrainian flag into the blood, its become black/red (literally). Every time someone is spilling Ukrainian blood, those flags start flying replacing original one’s meaning country is defending itself or there is a danger to its state. Content in this video is very accurate, thanks to the author.
@@ИльяБулатецкий-ш8д Your concept is derived from old Soviet books and was part of their propaganda to make sure nations would never knew their heroes. You are right that Stepan Bandera fought against both Germans and Soviets because they were both Nazi’s who tried to destroy Ukrainians and their state. And yes, Ukrainian national movement made short lived deals with both regimes in order to survive and to progress.There are lots of information that has been recovered after Kgb archives has been declassified in Kiev, so all the trues will come out no matter what.
@@alexma6956 Man, tell me what truth are you talking about? What materials were uncovered by the KGB? All the information I have written can be found in Wikipedia. And about books, almost no one in the West has raised the topic of this person and his movement. By the way, one fact why this movement was such was also contained in its leaders. As an example of such, Roman Shukhevych. He was sent by the German side during WW2 to their ranks and sees his activity in it. You can read about this interesting man, if you want.
@@ИльяБулатецкий-ш8д things that you are asking here on youtube are so complicated as history of federal reserve. If you want a real truth, fly to kiev’s national archive and do your own research. This is the only way you will accept the truth. No matter how many links i will provide right now, probably wont change your mind, and i have to admit figure of the Bandera i so complicated that you cant just read wikipedia. The main idea of the comment stays that Red/Black Ukrainian flag is the symbol of freedom during tough times in Ukrainian history.
yea no. the red and black are clear reference to germanys red white and black flag used in 1944. Azov uses this flag.
@@chibiromano5631 Azov has jewish and muslims fighters. so nazi-like
The old flag directly reminds me of the flag of Angola, an African country.
However, the old flag stands out a lot from other European flags because it is so dark compared to most other European countries that use brighter colors.
@@jtofgc The UPA also fought against German and the collaborators,meanwhile,fending off Soviet and committing genocide against Polish population.
@@jtofgc Russian flag is a flag of Vlasov! Stop spreading Russian propaganda.
Ukraine red and black flag means blood and sorrow.
@@TheManinBlack9054 How about punching those caring Vlasov flag (current RF flag)?
In Ukraine red and black flag is a flag of fight and sorrow.
@@TheManinBlack9054 This account from Russia spreads Kremlin propaganda.
@@jtofgc Flag was too based for the current ""Ukrainian"" government
Hello Hilbert. I kept thinking about as a kid in UK being shown the yellow under blue flag as grain fields under blue sky by my Ukrainian neighbour. This was back in the days when his homeland was within the Soviet Union.
I like the videos you do. I also enjoy a different style adopted by Bruce from Scotland History Tours. He often replies in comments. I mentioned you and your channel and also your Scotland language lecture, saying he should look to collaborate with you after he did a video on Viking settlement in Scotland.
Thats a colab I would love to see
That's not an old Ukrainian flag. Its an UPA/Right Sector flag. Those are fascists. If you see someone wielding that flag - you punch him, you denounce him same as you see someone wearing a swastika and yelling "Sieg Heil". Those are not much better.
@@TheManinBlack9054 How about punching those caring Vlasov flag (current RF flag)?
In Ukraine red and black flag is a flag of fight and sorrow.
@@TheManinBlack9054 This account from Russia spreads Kremlin propaganda.
By the way, at the expense of the Vikings, there are strong discussions about whether the Danish king was not sent to Kyiv and then became the prince of Kiev, given that in Kiev found weapons that the Vikings had, but it could be trade, but an interesting theory is that some Vikings on the territory of modern Ukraine
I'm from Ukraine. The whole video could be described with one sentence: if you will take a flag of Ukraine and wet it with blood, then blue will transform into black and yellow into red. And then you will have that red & black flag. You can try at home.
@@bra3879 You are spreading the lies, because they are cooperated because of some points, but don't because of some kind of ideological friendship.
The fact which has usually been lost in Russian propaganda is that Shuhevicz and Bandera(kids as well) spend a lot of time in concentration camps.
The cult you are talking about is very small and growing sometimes only because of Russian aggression. Bandera always tried to fight against communism and an invasion of their forces.
So the only thing you are trying to show us, is that Kremlin bots farm are all over the media. But no worries, all data already has been learned by your own management, which means each person who worked for them - will be judged by the law and imprisoned.
@@aliasnon796 Thank you for your THREATS, I am a Polish woman of 60 and I am not afraid. These are communist pracitices, to threat someone from saying the truth. Which lie do you mean? Is this a thank for the POLISH HELP NOW? I WILL SHOW MY FRIENDS WHAT YOU WRITE. Poland is not a rich country and accepted already 3,5 million Ukrainians. Bandera killed a Polish politician and was sentenced to prison, then he was freed and cooperated with Hitler. See in English or German Wikipedia (you may use Google Translator), what they write about the Volhynia slaughter, and what lies about it is in Ukrainian Wikipedia. - In the year of 1981 I took part (like my parents and 10 millions of Solidarnośc-members in strikes). And we were afraid of Soviet troops - at that time at the top of Soviet Union was the Ukrinaina Breshnev... Previous to that the Ukrainian Chrushczov joined Crimea 1954 to the Soviet Union. What is a lie form what I has written? - When did the Ukrainians protest during the Soviet times - Polish and Hungary People many times, also in Chechoslovakia. But Ukrainians were communist at that time. In my youth I heard western music, we saw in Poland western films, Ukrainians herad Russian music and watched Russian Tv untill 2014. Also many Ukrainians are of Russian heritage. Since 2019 they are discriminated, because the only official language is Ukrainian. And 2014 most Ukrainians spoke Russian. Even pres. Selenski started to learn intensely Ukrainian 2018, just before the election. - I wish Ukraine peace and freedom as soon as possible, but please do not lie.
I will give you the full response in a few days.
If you are really not a Kremlin bot, I apologize.
It threaten only for that people who work for a Kremlin.
@@aliasnon796 no, he is not a bot, we have a lot of photos on the Internet where half of the blue-yellow flag is covered in blood and it becomes red-black
but in 1943 in volhynia that was blood of polish chidren and women , who upa ( who was created by your national hero stepan bandera) killed
As Ukrainian student, i could tell you that blue means sky,and yellow means fields with wheat.
accurate
Beautiful country people and flag. I love you my friend. Stay well.
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Volhyn genocide
@@KukurydzaPL400 the westoids don't know what Ukraine actually is
@@paprikaman1124 The "westoids" understand exactly what Ukraine is. Just like we know exactly what Russia is.
1:34 What isn't mentioned is that in this painting, the most based letter in history was written and sent to the Ottoman Sultan.
Flying a blue and yellow banner while trolling the Ottomans...that definitely adds up with the fighting spirit of the Ukrainians today during the Russian invasion
thats the letter where he threatened to have sexual intercourse with the sultans mother?
And kind of ironic. Considering they use Turkish drones.
@Lyubomyr Matviyev No its not
The legend clearly has them writing to the Sultan stop trying to redifine
The Ukrainian tradition of roasting the hell out of foreign powers trying to imperialize them continues even to this day. Like how they told a Russian warship to "go fuck itself"
@Lyubomyr Matviyev Bought not made for
The Ukrainian flag with the Trident is my favorite. It is unique and pleasing for the eye
It is the most beautiful flag I have seen so far
Flag of the airforce is the best
Russian is better :)
@@GreoGreo The Zar flag was decent the modern one is shite, just like it's people =)
@@kaspernielsen9149 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
Very thoughtful and good of you to donate some of the revenue during these times, Hilbert! I pray this’ll end soon but it’s very uncertain indeed sadly. Thoughts of peace to everyone on the continent of Europe!
Blood and dirt, skies and field’s. Tells a story of who Ukrainians are. It’s common understanding between Ukrainians.
Yes. Thx to enemies. But that doesnot mean that Ukrainians want blood. If you kremlin bot than congrats.
@@astro6397 I don’t mean it in a negative way, I’m Ukrainian myself.
Зібрались тут одні українці, а говорим англійською)
@@Treetop01 Тоді вибач. Я теж Українець. Тримаймось разом браття!
@@user-ky2kt9vm2x Я не знав що він Українець
Fun fact: "USSR" on the early Soviet Ukrainian flag doesn't refer to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which in Russian is actually the SSSR, and which would not be formed until 1922. "USSR" on this flag actually refers to the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, which has the same initials in Russian, Ukrainian, and English.
Not quite true. Ukrainian abbreviation was УРСР, because instead of the Russian word "совет" they use the Ukrainian word "рада" meaning the same thing - "council".
Same with the USSR being abbreviated to "СРСР"
@@DawidKov the one in the video says YCCP, and I have never seen a YPCP flag, but I'm far from an expert, and with all the chaos at that time I don't doubt that such a flag was likely used at some point
@@wyntrheart The one in the video is from very early on, when the Bolsheviks used Russian even when in Ukraine. It wasn't until 1927 that the government apparatus had officially started to implement a full introduction of Ukrainian into everyday life, including state symbols.
The variations included УСРР, and УРСР under a hammer and sickle. These existed from 1929 to 1937, and from 1937 to 1950 respectively. When Ukraine became a member of UN (Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus all had separate representation in the UN, essentially giving USSR three votes. Yup. They wanted all 15 at first), its flag was changed to the red with a thin blue stripe, and the Soviet hammer&sickle under a five-pointed star.
So this video actually missed a couple flags.
Soviet Union ukranized the ukrainian language under the control of Stalin Commissar of nationalities
@@louisecorchevolle9241 No the standardisation started in 1927 similarly other countries such Spain Italy and even Russia have also done this to avoid dialects in official discourse
Me: *Being Polish and immediately recognizing both of flags*
Also me: *checking timing*
Oh, boy, that is a subject
I'm Ukrainian and admire red/black flag alot, associating it with desperate fight for freedom in 20th century, no one here thinks of it as anti-polish violence. Although, we should remember and take responsibility for all sides of our history.
@Valar Melkor ukrainians under black/red flag in 1940s were both fighting Nazis and collaborating with them in a pursuit of independence, they were not supporting nazi regime. Many of them died in Nazi's camps as well as in Soviet camps. Not sure why would you bring up "concentration camps".
@@Andriy_Moskalenko they weren't supporting the nazi regime, they were supporting Stepan Bandera, whom was supporting the nazi regime.
Nice smoothbrain moment.
Or did you not have the history lesson of Stepan going too far for even the Nazi's. Him murdering 30K people in south eastern ukraine got him arrested and thrown into a working camp.
After the war the CIA started to work with him they knew of him being a nazi, but they prefered nazi's over communists.
@@3217491 🤣🤣
@@3217491 It wasn’t the murder that got him thrown into a camp, It was nationalism and the Nazi’s dislike of slavs. The Nazi’s did note that Bandera’s followers killed Poles, Russians, Jews with great gusto. However, once the Nazi’s turned on him he was more than willing to work with those groups. So yes, I would agree that he supported the Nazis till it was inconvenient for him, and fought them only once they betrayed him. Still I understand why many Ukrainians like him, he was was a driving force in making Ukraine a nation in a time of great upheaval. I’m just left wondering if he killed any of my relatives.
A flag: Has red
Geography Now: *BLOOD OF THOSE WHO FIGHT FOR THEIR FREEDOM!*
Their flag is a bit too simple compared to our design
I was thinking the same thing, ha.
Canadians and Americans are taking note that Ukraine, Hungary, Poland and Germany are turning Nazi again. Don't make us come over there again to put you down. You see how easily we just destroyed the Russians (Ukrainians are destroying them for us even)?.. When all the people of North America demand an end to Nazis in Europe, don't be in the way is my suggestion. We are still WAY richer than Europe, with way more gun nuts, hunters, rock climbers, skiiers, weight lifters, pilots, etc., etc., and when we want to get something done, we will get it done.
@@gregoryvangaya8971 is this comment for real???!
@@MissAdorahLove it's really simple, stop the Nazis. Dont be Nazi
@@gregoryvangaya8971 ppl should stop seeing things in black and white.thats what nazis do. Nothing is simple.
I have heard stories from the older generation that the "blue top" flag is a peacetime flag and the "yellow top" flag is a wartime flag. And when blood gets on the yellow-blue flag, it turns red-black. You can google it and see that it really is.
Today we never use yellow-top flag. Maybe it was used some time ago... before Soviet Union.
black red is an Ukrainian fascist flag
modern wartime flag, alas unofficial, is the red-black one)
Those who don't know : 😊
Those who know : 😰
volyn massacre? maybe volyn liberation?
@@ВолодяДідух-г7ч Russian invasion ?
Maybe Russian Liberation ?
This video is such a bait, what do you mean by "What Happened to the Old Ukrainian Flag?" and "Why did it change?" when it was never official Ukrainian flag?
Cope.
@@Byronic19134 There is nothing to cope. I think you should cope, based on your tendency to be toxic youtube commenter.
Lol that's such a small detail to get mad about, the thumbnail showed you two flags and the video told you their history along with the country that made them. What else do you want?
@@Thomas-fk3xl you wouldn't say it's a small detail, if people wielding this flag would butcher fetuses out of your neighbours' wifes.
Becuase that's what happened to Polish families in Wolhynia.
It's not a small detail. It's like calling Nazi swastika an irrelevant detail as well, and it is banned even today.
bruh what
Interesting fact: Newer version of the trident contains word "volya", that means "will" or "freedom"
but red black flag is fascist flag of Bandera
in ukrainian dialect ?
not fascist, but nationalist, there is a difference between the two @@louisecorchevolle9241
rather language, you would understand a dialect, but no russian will really understand ukrainian. I have experience about it@@louisecorchevolle9241
@@louisecorchevolle9241 why
Another interesting meaning of red and black flag was giving by Taras Shevchenko, ukrainian poet. In his verse he wrote "Червоне то любов, а чорне то журба", witch means "red it is love, black it is sorrow". Actually, there was not a flag, but shirt (вишиванка), but i think here is same meaning for him. (If my English was bad, take my apologies)
Well, i made a mistake. That wasnt Shevchenko. Real origin of that meaning you can find in comments under that. Oups.
Well, that wasn’t written by Shevchenko. That is the song written in 1964 “два кольори/two colours”
@@moj_voh_smuratniej_tvoego my bad
@@moj_voh_smuratniej_tvoego yes, it's Dmytro Pavlychko's words
Well, I found an interview that Dmytro Pavlychko had given in February 2013 to a publication called "2000 Еженедельник". It can be found now only through the Way Back Machine. Quite a revealing interview. Tells me everything that I should know about him and it's his own words.
of course Shevchenko honorable writerhide the fascist use of this flag
As a Ukrainian I appreciate you pronouncing the names of cities and etc in a Ukrainian way. The video was great!
The red-black flag comes from Ukrainian nationalist of Stepan Bandera and the boss od terrible UPA-bands of Roman Shuhevicz. (Now it is used by Ukrainin nationalists). They both cooperated with Hitler, murdered 100 000-200 000 od Polish civilians (mostly neighbours, women and children (in English it is called "Volyn slaughter"). But these nationalsts also killed Jews and Soviets - at the time of the terrible Hitler-nazi-occupation, between 1942-45 and even later. Until today Ukrainians deny what they did to Polish people - we wanted only to exhume the bodies of the victims and bury them in a Christian way. The Ukrainian government didn't allow it. - Now Poland helps millions of Ukrainianrefugees (although they took much of Polish territories - Poland did not try to regain them in 1990, we wanted peace). Ukraine became sovereignty not through fights or war, but as a gift from the Russians, from Gorbatchev, who became Nobel Peace Prize. We Poles have 5 Noble Prizes in literature, spoke always Polish at home, Ukrainians did not care for their own language. - Now in the commentaries, Ukrainians write about the blood - which blood - of Polish people, Jews and Russians, who fought against Hitler? - There are nations, like Kurds, Jews or Ukrainians, that for a long period of time did not have their own country. Ukrainians always lived in Russia or Poland-Lithuania. They have full independent country 31 years now. - But there is still a cult of Bandera, he is their national hero, a mass murder!!! On the 1st of January this year in Kiev was Bandera-March....
@@bra3879 you clearly don't know what you're talking about because you're wrong about many things. Ukraine tried to be a sovereign, independent country for all of it's history, but it was constantly fought over by stronger countries, all of which tried to erase Ukraine. The soviets banned the ukrainian language. We had a whole literature movement called "The Executed Reincarnation" because poets who wrote in ukrainian were hunted and slaughtered. What you are doing right now is trying to steal attention away from thousands of people being murdered, raped, taken hostage or moved to the aggressors country. Hundreds of thousands of people had their homes destroyed by bombs. Does it matter which nation does that to who? It's bad no matter what. Stop trying to justify agression.
xD
3:22 Btw, in this photo, the top color is blue, and the bottom is yellow, and not vice versa, as it might seem. This is due to the photography technology of the time.
For example, you can find photos of Swedish athletes in various sport competitions from 1912 to 1939 with Swedish flags on their clothes, where the yellow cross has become dark, and the blue background, on the contrary, is light.
As a person from Upper Silesia I think the Ukrainian colors are absolutely beautiful
because they were given by Vladislaus of Opole, the colours of Ukraine are silesian.
the red black flag a farcit one served for the genocide in Volonia of 100.000Bby the ukrainian nationalists
Very relevant content you present here Hilbert. Good to hear you donate. Best of luck.
Yellow and blue are also the colours of the flag of Upper Silesia (in Poland). Some historians think that these colurs might had been transfered to the Ukraine by Władysław Opolczyk, a Silesian duke who was the viceroy of Hungarian king in the Western Ukraine (Wallachian-Halych principality) in XIV century. For more info visit Wikipedia.
The red and black flag is also used by Macedonia ( IMRO ) in 1903 when they fought for independence against the Ottoman Empire
but in Ukraine it is a fascié flag
Blue and yellow flag actually changes to black and red when soaked in enemy’s blood
Black stand for the Ukrainian soul and the red for the eternal flames of hell.
@@rebuzz6866 Hell in which our enemies will burn
@@yaroslavstetsko7036 You may think that, if it gives you comfort.
@@rebuzz6866 your comment symbolizes the lack of brains.
@@rebuzz6866 you just made up whole lotta bs
As for a Polish guy, black-red flag only reminds me about painful death of mine ancestors in galicia during ww2
And now Poland is backing them, and lot of Polish volunteers are fighting amongst these Bandera Animals
Don't forget of how many Polish people killed Ukrainians
@@Chinunit22 only women and chikdren are allowed to cross polish-ukrainian border so fortunately there is no situation like in 2014 when the most "patriotic" black-red Ukrainians were escaping to Poland to look for better life and that was really ironic. As for polish voluenteers there are only people who gives Ukrainians medicaments etc. because in polish constitusion being a mercenary and fighting under other country flag when you are a Pole is a very serious crime
@@PM-ub3qg can you give me one example when polish masses were killing Ukrainians for no reason like Ukrainians during ww2 did?
@@kanabeznazwy6497 większość okresu istnienia ronu i 20 lecie międzywojenne z wyłączeniem rządów piłsudskiego od zamachu majowego do jego śmierci w 35
I am Ukrainian from Lviv and I was born in independent Ukraine (1994), I have known blue/yellow flag and it's blood covered version for whole my life. It hurts to see what Russia does with my country. Thank you for the video, it is really inspiring!
Also wanted to notice that in some cases when blood touches blue and yellow flag colours are changes to red and black
Great video! One remark though: in Ukraine, we are saying that Lithuanians did not conquer Ukrainian land but inherited after Rurikids. And, indeed, the Lithuanian duchy was officially named as "Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Rus, etc." They adopted the old Rus language (which we call "old Ukrainian") as a state language, and before the Union of Lublin this country was regarded by local Rus princes as "their." This historical connection is explicit for us. Even the Colar of President of Ukraine has a Lithuanian coat of arms on it, and more recently Gitanas Nauseda (Lithuanian President) began his speech to Ukrainian Parliament emphasizing that both our states sprung from one historical root.
Sveikas broli.
Old Ukrainian is a language that never existed bud. Funny how you are trying so hard to eradicate anything with the root Rus while claiming the ancient Rus state to yourselves.
Lithuanians are not Slavs, how come it’s the same roots with Ukrainians…I would say Lithuanians conquer these lands but we’re tolerant with natives and accepted they language together with their own. Very peaceful and respectful conquering of the lands that belonged to ancient Rus.
@@Sherbakova2009 I didn't say they are. Read again.
@@dmitryshevchenko349 funny how you say "yourselves" when you are clearly Ukrainian too.. with that surname
It`s a great timing to be educated about Ukraine. Thank you, Hilbert❤
yes an not forget dark sides A country who hase fake history has no future
You have the same two colour combinations as my city uses. Official flag of Trnava is yellow-blue, but it is more known for red-black colours because of our club. Greetings to Ukraine from Slovakia!
Ukrainian insight with corrections and additions:
1. The order of colors on the national flag is still an object to dispute, but the yellow-blue one has a lot less recognition, basis and it's support comes from some metaphysical and feng shui nonsense (no joke!).
2. The red-black has official name: Red-Black Revolutionary Banner. It was used not by whole OUN, but only by it's younger and more popular wing -- OUN(b). While the blue field with a Tryzub with sword was used by pro-German OUN(m).
3. Basicaly, red and black are the folk colors -- most used in traditional national art. You can even find a lot of folk songs singing about the two colors or something related to them. Also, if you look at anything related with traditional Ukrainian culture it will have those two colors.
4. The meaning of colors on the flag are usually described as blood and death of Ukrainian heros. As in the cry: "Glory to heroes! (who laid their lives for Ukraine)".
As a Slav from the Balkans, I can tell you that this was also the flag of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization (IMRO, or VMRO), a secret revolutionary society in the Ottoman territories on the Balkans, that operated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Yes
Magnificent ! Thanks for teaching and helping !!!
There is another meaning to trident, which is probably not true but teachers love to tell it to kids anyway. If we look at trident we can see written in cyrilic word "Wolya" (ВолЯ) - which means "will" or most likely "freedom" in ukrainian. It is popular interpretation of trident but probably just accident.
While growing up Lviv that was explanation that I was given reading Truzyb
Блин, а я и забыл об этом. На самом деле это офигенно.
I am not a Ukrainian, but I have heard this several times! В is the left tooth, о the base, л the middle tooth, and Я the right! Thanks for mentioning it!
For more information: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Ukraine#Other_uses
Oh my god, I’ve never heard such good and clear “tryzub” pronunciation from foreigners)
Are foreigners studying our history? I'm impressed! Thank you so much for such videos like this ♥️♥️♥️ and of course to the people who watch them! Low bow to you guys!
yes I reprove russian agression an aswell the heroisation of the criminal Stepan Bandera and his red black flag a shame
Why are you impressed ?
@@rykson161 Read again first sentence
Interesting fact, but we, Ukrainians, have actually re-thought the meaning of our Black&Red flag with A SONG "The two colours" ("Два кольори") written by a ukrainian dissident during the Soviet times. As a verse goes:
"The black one stands for sorrow, the red one stands for love"
You can check it out, the song is beautiful! (And used to be very popular here)
Hope ur safe where ever u are
You can't rethink this. It's like rethinking swastika or nazi eagle.
@@TheManinBlack9054 well. the Germans did keep their anthem though
@@TheManinBlack9054 Well, you can rethink swastika considering the fact that this symbol was used all over the planet before hitler blackened it meaning with his "invention" of hakenkreuz. By the way Buddhists and Hindu still use Swastika
@@TheManinBlack9054 Ignorance strikes again
This channel doesn't chase popularity, and doesn't hype on war. Thank you for truthful and interesting information :)
This is not the full information. The red-black flag comes from Ukrainian nationalist of Stepan Bandera and the boss od terrible UPA-bands of Roman Shuhevicz. Now it is used by Ukrainin nationalists. They both cooperated with Hitler, murdered 100 000-200 000 od Polish civilians (mostly neighbours, women and children (in English it is called "Volyn slaughter"). But these nationalsts also killed Jews and Soviets - at the time of the terrible Hitler-nazi-occupation, between 1942-45 and even later. Until today Ukrainians deny what they did to Polish people - we wanted only to exhume the bodies of the victims and bury them in a Christian way. The Ukrainian government didn't allow it. - Now Poland helps millions of Ukrainianrefugees (although they took much of Polish territories - Poland did not try to regain them in 1990, we wanted peace). Ukraine became sovereignty not through fights or war, but as a gift from the Russians, from Gorbatchev, who became Nobel Peace Prize. We Poles have 5 Noble Prizes in literature, spoke always Polish at home, Ukrainians did not care for their own language. - Now in the commentaries, Ukrainians write about the blood - which blood - of Polish people, Jews and Russians, who fought against Hitler? - There are nations, like Kurds, Jews or Ukrainians, that for a long period of time did not have their own country. Ukrainians always lived in Russia or Poland-Lithuania. They have full independent country 31 years now. - But there is still a cult of Bandera, he is their national hero, a mass murder!!! On the 1st of January this year in Kiev was Bandera-March....
My country Romania also has blue first, then gold and then red, and I was told by my mom that the blue meant our skies above the golden fields of wheat and the read was our blood and heritage which we never forget (except for me lol)
I'm watching this video so early, it is only available in 2 colours.
Let's hope the flag doesn't become three colours.
As simple flags go the gold & blue of the Ukraine is beautiful.
Thanks.
I like it too!
by the way, one of the meanings of the Ukrainian coat of arms is the word - ВОЛЯ (English "will / freedom") The letters of his word can be seen on the coat of arms. On the left side "B", in the middle from below "O", in the middle from above "Л", and on the right side "Я"
Also Tryzub of Volodymyr has hereditary connections to Rurik's family's insignia of falling eagle, which is still on a logo of Old Ladoga, which was initial settlement of rurikinds.
5:18 Im glad you remembered to zoom right to left Hilbert
Yeah, as a Pole I wholeheartedly wish Ukrainians victory in the current struggle for survival and freedom (their own and others) but my skin does crawl a bit each time I see them waving the red-black flag. I wish they would let go of it and what it represents, stop glorifying OUN/UPA. From what I've read/heard this process kinda was already happening before the war (the Right Sector lost nearly all of its seats in the parliament, for example). Part of the reasons why Putin decided to attack was probably that it was becoming increasingly hard to paint Ukrainians as "Nazis", even to complete fools. I believe we will be able to have a calm discussion about it later once free Ukraine will prevail, will be safe again and rebuilding.
I also believe that by then Putin and Lukashenko will be in the garbage bin of History and Hilbert will have a good occasion to make a video about why Belarus is changing its flag (assuming he won't make a video explaining the white-red-white flag earlier anyway).
BTW 1410 was technically long before the formation of the Commonwealth in 1569. The union between the Kingdom of Poland (with its Ruthenian provinces) and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (which could be described in many ways as a Rus'/Ruthenian state) went through a bit of evolution.
I dont think number of fascists was going down. In fact they played a big part in Maidan revolution. With even fascist party getting into a government of Ukraine. But yes war made it much worse and the number of fascist increased significantly since then.
@@DelijeSerbia Let me be more precise: by war, I meant the all-out conflict started with Russian invasion the week ago, not the "smal" war going one since 2014. And I was actually wrong, in the 2019 elections the Right Sector did not lose "almost all of their seats", they lost the *only single one* they had!
President Zelenskyy is a centrist from the east of the country, a speaker of Russian as his first language and freaking JEWISH. Are we reay supposed to believe he's even remotely "nazi" or even "Banderist"? Until a week ago he was being accused of being a joke politician, too weak, not having a real ideology at all and so one, now he's a war hero. And It seems that Putin just dug a methaphorical giant trench between the Ukrainians (including many of the Russian-speakers) and the Russian people. Way to go!
@@DelijeSerbia The far right elements gained one seat in the entirety of the parliament. so any Russian propaganda that Ukraine is some inherent far right state is a joke at best.
@@Artur_M. Of course he is not a fascist. I never said entire Ukraine is fascist, but they do have an alarming size of fascists and it will go bigger now.
And while we speak about Zelensky it is funny how the propaganda is presenting him as some kind of hero while he is nothing more then a corrupt politician like those olygarchs he pretended he was going to arrest during elections.
Panama papers really showed who he is, but now that will be forgotten.
@@tisFrancesfault yeah not every Ukrainian is nazi obviously. but when they vote againts combating glorification of nazism in UN assembly years ago actually worries me, and probably convinct quiet decent amount of Russian that Ukraine is under control of nazi
well US too
I learned a lot from this. My school failed to teach us the history, only the language so I find it really interesting when someone talks about our history.
Do not trust everything you read on the internet.
just today I was looking at videos and saw the other flag -- and wondered what that was about! thank you. I appreciate this content that helps us fill in the gaps of our understanding so that we can better reflect on the current situation. Peace and Freedom for our Ukrainian brothers.
Hi Hilbert, great video. Have you considered making a video about the Ukranian anarchists & Nestor Makhno?
Nahh holodomor first. That would be more interesting.
@@InsTance888 yes organized in Ukraine,Vlga, Kouba,n Kazakhstan by Georgian Staline and Beria helped by Ukrainians Kaganovith and Krutchev A génocide horrible
Yes very interesting. As a 3rd generation Ukrainian Canadian I didn't know any of that. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and helping the people in Ukraine. My family left Ukraine and immigrated to Canada early 1900's and settled on the prairies of Western Canada. So I don't know a lot about the history and interested in learning more about it now. Much thanks again.
red black flag is a fascist flag
Do candian-ukranians know ukranian language ?
AMEN!
MAY GOD BLESS THE FREEDOM LOVING UKRAINE PEOPLE!
I agree
kaniecchna
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@@guyfauks2576 nope!
Just an AMERICAN! That felt like saying something nice!?
AMEN FOR THE DEAD AND WOUNDED ON BOTH SIDE'S!
MAY MORE SOULS FIND CHRIST!
BE SAVED! BEFORE IT'S TO LATE!
IF RUSSIA OR UKRAINE win?
Doesn't really effect me!
We have our own COUNTRY to worry about!
Dude, it's just an amazing and deep video with very clear and perfect pronunciation for Ukrainian and Russian words. I was pleasantly surprised. Thank you for your work!
It's a lie
The blue-yellow version is used during peace, the red-black version is used when committing genocide.
Disappointed that the black army flag from the free territory between 1918-1922 from Nestor Makhno's days was not mentioned 🏴☠️.
Yes that was a bit disappointing indeed.
Wishing the best for the Ukrainian people 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
Ty
no
@@miloszjstm7981 what do you mean “no”? Why the hell don’t you want the best for the people of Ukraine?
@@ecurewitz they openly glorify Nazis and live on stolen lands. They have no history and yet they are the biggest country in Europe besides Russia. ukraine deserves hell for the hell they had caused.
Thanks, you too❤️
Just disactivated my ad blocker so those proceeds from, my side, can go through (you are doing a great job). Thanks, I love your channel.
Very good video, lots of good information. Although the flag that you used for the Ukrainian Navy is no longer used, it was used in the early 90's until they switched to a flag based on the Ukrainian Hetmanate navy.
As a Ukrainian, I want to say that our Tryzub has deeper meaning. I mean that it consists of four Ukrainian letters - В О Л Я, which form the word "воля". "Воля" is the liberty in English.
Are you sure its not diving falcon? This image is so old i doubt it related to modern alphabet
@@iMost067 check it, the first version of the cyrillic alphabet had the same letters. if you want the one resembling the diving falcon, I'd advise you to check out the older (far far older) version of the tryzub.
Black and red are primary colors in art from some of Ukrainian regions.
Specifically traditional Ukrainian embroidery.
Red - is love and black - is sorrow.
Life and death more or less.
As for blue and yellow it represents blue sky above and wheat fields below.
fascist flag
Good video. I had seen the red and black flag a couple times and wondered what was its history and origin you answered that question enjoy your work.
Those are fascist flags
@@TheManinBlack9054 Stop spreading misinformation! How about Vlasov flag (current RF flag)?
In Ukraine red and black flag is a flag of fight and sorrow.
@@TheManinBlack9054 This account from Russia spreads Kremlin propaganda.
@@sergeykish
A flag which has been used by fascist war criminals is a fascist flag.
"How about Vlasov flag (current RF flag)?"
The RLA did not use the Russian tricolour, but the white blue naval ensign, stop spreding misinformation and propaganda!
@@obrnenydrevokocur9344 Google images search "Русское Освободительное Движение": both tricolor and naval. Also First Russian National Army, Russian Protective Corps - and that's just a quick search.
You know well that collaborators used national symbols. So stop spreading propaganda!
Remove the arrow from the thumbnail. Its presence implies that the red and black flag was the old one, and it changed to the one currently used, which is not true. The title is also misleading in a way that could lend some unnecessary legitimacy to right-wing nationalists in Ukraine, and to their views.
Only the blue and gold flag has been used in any legal capacity.
They will probably not be a problem soon
@@tropixMw2 Don’t say that, starting last week Neo Nazis are heroes apparently 😂 Even saying you hope they’re crushed by Russia is seen as controversial because apparently Russia is worse than literal Neo Nazis now.
@@waynejohnson1786 Its mindblowing how the western idiots think and compare Putin to Hitler and Russia to Germany when they are polar opposites,Putin is a kgb officer and Russia has banned all far right parties while the communist party is still legal.
@@patryks8468 cope
@@sergeykish Ok ukraine bot, go spew your lies and russophobia elsewhere.
Thank you for showing true history. For me and for all Ukrainians it's very important right now.
Украинский бот обнаружился😂
the is no very true his tory about the Banderas history
@@louisecorchevolle9241 СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ!🇺🇦
poland and lithuania weren't united at the time of the batlte of grunwald but were in a personal union
I’d love to see something similar from you covering Belarus and the Belarusian flag controversy! This is a subject that was rather important a year ago and if Putin gets his way, it will come up soon.
Thanks! ⬜️🟥⬜️
Interesting, I can't wait to hear this story
For those who know and care
Белый
Чарвоный
Белый
Belarus Lukashenko 🇧🇾🇧🇾🇧🇾
🇧🇾 is the only way!
@@FlarGarg only БЧБ. Only Пагоня
The red and black flag is Bandera's. Flying it is essentially equivalent to flying a swastika.
I am from Ukraine, from Odessa (this is in the south of the country). And it is a great honor for me to see how foreigners talk about my country. Thank you. but I would like to make a couple of corrections: the color was always blue on top and yellow on the bottom, the myth appeared because in old photographs it seems that the color on top is yellow and blue on the bottom. but blue appears lighter on a black and white background, so that's a myth. The poster shown in the video appeared a little later and it is not entirely clear where it came from. By the way, the black and red flag is the flag of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1942-1955). and the colors, judging by the old songs, mean: red - love, and black - hell and darkness. but there are many interpretations and they are different. Sorry for my bad English 😅
I whole heartedly respect you from the usa and i wish you the best in whatever you are going to do!! Slava ukraini!! 🇺🇦 ❤
Hey, so I'm not sure if anyone said this already but my family has a story about the red&black flag. It was chosen by the UPA because when soldiers faught and got blood on their uniform, blue&yellow flag on the uniform would turn black&red. And the ideology behind this flag was "we will cover our land with blood but we will not give it up". Don't know if it's a little myth or not, but i think its very interesting since Ukrainian flag do turn black and red when stained with blood
UPA were just fascist collaborators who did nothing good, they just killed children and ran away into the woods. Fought nothing against any soldiers and only thing they did during ww2 was work for the germans to help in the holocaust. In reality they just took the polish flag and switched white with black to symbolise being anti-polish.
@@kokojambo4944 where are you from?
@@Sayyadina-s9d my family used to live in Eastern Galicia.. Outside of Ukraine everyone knows this but in Ukraine you are taught a fake version of history. Do you ever wonder why not one of your neighboours likes you? look things up on independent sources and not Nazi propaganda books in Ukraine.
@@kokojambo4944 so you are not Ukrainian, I see
@@Sayyadina-s9d I am from your neighbour, and exactly, I am not Ukranian and have not been brainwashed by the Ukranian "department of history". Google things before post nazi propaganda. You have nazi mentality "you are not from my country so you are wrong." XD
Good on ya for the support to those in greater need
Thank you for the interesting story and true story. I am from Ukraine and I very appreciate that you telling about our culture.
our culture? nice upa aka nazis is your culture
3:03 just dig a little deeper. There were three Ukrainas with population that identefy themselves as Ukranians. That one, the one around Krasnodar and one on the Pacific Coast aka the green triangle Ukraine. That green triangle is still on the flag of nowadays Khabarovsk-krai in Russia.
6:30 moment requires a whole episode on this issue, so many Polish people were slaughtered it's disgusting. OUN has brought more damage than prosperity, but it's cute to watch this representation here. Thanks anyways for the history of the flag.
You can't look at the situation so one-sidedly! You read about the events that took place before Volyn! And then you will understand why the Volyn tragedy happened. Read about how Polish landowners oppressed Ukrainians. It was also a dark time. Poles were not saints, but cruel to Ukrainians. Ukrainians fought for independence, from Moscow, from Poland, from Austria. That is why we respect our heroes, because they fought for Ukraine. Poland also loves its heroes, despite the fact that they did harm to Ukrainians. And yet - Ukraine now needs your support, not provocations. Study the history of Poland and Ukraine well to understand why some events took place.
@@yasiayasia3386 Ukrainian Nazis killed thousands of innocent Poles. This is a fact.
Even if Polish landlords oppressed Ukrainians, in Volyn they killed indecent people women and children. Also killed not only poles but Jews too, this can’t be justified
* innocent
@@Sherbakova2009 Ukrainians are trying to re-write history, it's sad.
good stuff.
imagine it like this:
Blue and yellow stands for freedom and hope, that manifest into happiness.
While red and black stands for despair, that manifests into vengeful anger, that tries to return it's hope and freedom that was taken away.
thanks for promoting our history ♡
Good that people think about us, I am a Kozak Russian! I speak the language of ukrainian kozaks called Balachka. Love your videos and thanks for all support.
Як я розумію ви з Кубані
@@arsla5308 Так :)
@@DraslyThe1 чи багато людей зараз говорять балачкою на Кубані? Мій дід і його односельці старшого покоління дуже добре розмовляли балачкою. А вже мої двоюрідні брати і сестри не розуміють її. Чи є ще місця на Кубані де люди користуються балачкою в побуті?
@@sarasholom5008 це все ще широко розповсюджується так, я живу на Кужорській і там ним користуються щодня
Omg bro you know so much about my country, thank you for your video.
Hello from Lviv
The red and black flag does look really good. Definitely fits as a sort of war flag or atleast a version of it
it is a fascist flag of Stepan Bandera
@@louisecorchevolle9241 unfortunately
@@AbyssWatcher745 obviously
@@louisecorchevolle9241 sure thing buddy lmao
Some years ago i was in Rome and, not far from the parliament, I noticed a demonstration of Ukrainians (no idea why they were protesting about they were not more then 50 people ). They had Ukrainian flags, both gold and blue and red and black.
i mean, since 2014 a lot of stuff happened to bring people to protests, if you mean not that many years ago.
red an black fascist flag of Bandera a collaborator wit nazis
Дякую що освітлюєте правдиву історію !
Thank you for the correct interpretation of our flags❤️🇺🇦
Oh. really, I do not think so. The red-black flag comes from Ukrainian nationalist of Stepan Bandera and the boss od terrible UPA-bands of Roman Shuhevicz. (Now it is used by Ukrainin nationalists, the Asov-Division). They both cooperated with Hitler, murdered 100 000-200 000 od Polish civilians (mostly neighbours, women and children (in English it is called "Volyn slaughter"). But these nationalsts also killed Jews and Soviets - at the time of the terrible Hitler-nazi-occupation, between 1942-45 and even later. Until today Ukrainians deny what they did to Polish people - we wanted only to exhume the bodies of the victims and bury them in a Christian way. The Ukrainian government didn't allow it. - Now Poland helps 3,5 millions of Ukrainian refugees (although they took much of Polish territories - Poland did not try to regain them in 1990, we wanted peace). Ukraine became sovereignty not through fights or war, but as a gift from the Russians, from Gorbatchev, who became Nobel Peace Prize. We Poles have 5 Noble Prizes in literature, spoke always Polish at home, Ukrainians did not care for their own language. - Now in the commentaries, Ukrainians write about the blood - which blood - of Polish people, Jews and Russians, who fought against Hitler? - There are nations, like Kurds, Jews or Ukrainians, that for a long period of time did not have their own country. Ukrainians always lived in Russia or Poland-Lithuania. They have full independent country 31 years now. - But there is still a cult of Bandera, he is their national hero, a mass murder!!! On the 1st of January this year in Kiev was Bandera-March....
@@bra3879 Throughout its history, Ukraine has suffered no less than any other nation, Jews have also died here, and we have fought against the Nazis in World War II. The Russian government has always committed genocide against the Ukrainian people. Today we are grateful to all those who support us and want to stop the genocide that is happening now and not in the past! Hundreds of innocent people are dying as Jews once did and this must stop!
@@tetiana.ns13 There was an Ukrainian genocide against at least 100 000 Polish people, Ukraine never even said even sorry for that. As far as I know Chruszczowv and Breshnev were Ukrainians and governed for 29 years the Soviet Union. In the 80ties I and my family fought against communism in Poland, we were afraid of Breshnev!!! Ukrainans were happy and did not protest. I do not know about any genocide, Ukrainians were respected in the Soviet Union. They spoke Russian, not Ukrainian, chose after 1991 pro-russian presidents.. Poland for 123 was not on the maps of Europe, but in these times the best Polsish literature, musica and paintings evolved. We have 8 Nobel prizes, 5 in Literature. And we are rather small or middle country. - I heard yesterday a story of a Ukrainian woman, that couldn't fly from Kharkiv to Poland thorugh Ukraine (surely because of the nationalist Asov-Division), so she flew to Moscow, then to Minsk, then went by the bus to Poland (Cracow). How come, that Russians or Belarussians did not kill her, and why could she not escape through her own country Ukraine? I know some languagen, understand Russian and Ukrainian. - Media are telling about many shootings of schools or kindergardens in Uraine and then some days ago president Selenski said, there are 120 victims among children!!! So where is the genocide! Only in one school should be hundred of dead children. I am of course happy that Ukrainian children and people are alive. So maybe it is the truth when Putin says, he wants to destroy military objects. Why did Putin not bomb the governmental part of Kiew? When Asov people go to empty schools, Russians shoot at them, but not at the children. I wish all the nations and coutries PEACE. - There is a list of big Ukrainians, and the mass murder Bandera is at the place 3, Szuchewych from the UPA-bands on the place 12. - We in Poland do not have mass murders as heroes.
@@bra3879 absolutly accurate thank you
@@bra3879 TROTSKY was also ukrainian
We have very big problem with Polish- Ukrainian history. I am astonished and proud that after what they did to us we still want to help them. But they have to apologize sooner or later.
I am not so proud. what poland is doing is a sign of naivety, like often with our politicians. Look at the comments here. How many of them defend the genocide.
I am for friendship between Poland and Ukraine
I am for mutual apologies for the past
@@kokojambo4944 I'm not even Polish and I'm disgusted by it. Very few people outside of Poland know about Wolyn, keep these banderites out of your country.
@@kokojambo4944 We, russians, will defeat nazi in this not unified country and after it will invade in Poland) and russian language'll be official in your region. We will defeat western values in your country, cause poles is not nationality. There is only russians. It is revenge to you. Glory to Putin🇷🇺
we don’t care about apologies, we live in the present, despite the fact that in history you were no different from Russians in your attitude towards us. but we will never give up on those who fought for our independence, yes, Volyn is a genocide, but a genocide to which you yourself brought the exhausted Ukrainian people.
This is war, not conflict
My English is very bad but I want to say I’m from Ukraine I’m in Ukraine right now and it is so scary because of the war
I also want to say thank you to all the people that support Ukraine
Very interesting video and absolutely well explained!
A correction at 4:10 the letters written on the Flag УССР «Украи́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́блика» means Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and not USSR which is СССР «Союз Советских Социалистических Республик»
'Tryzub' originally - 'Rarog' the myth falcon who attack by dropping-down very fast just on their target. (The way how falcons rly attacks). Similare falcons we can see on some Danish old emblems.
Edit;
Btw. Volodymyr the Great inherited that emblem because of "Rørik family emblem" and make different variation...
The video is not quite right. black and red flag is the fighting flag of Stepan Bandera(or УПА which translates as Ukraine’s Rebel Army) . Yellow and blue was always the flag of Ukraine.
Слава Україні!
Meaning of the yellow and blue flag 🇺🇦 - yellow wheat field and a blue sky
Meaning of red and black flag - setting sun, creating a red sunset and black soil, or red is Ukrainian blood and black is the land this blood was spilled for.
Black and red are pretty iconic colors in Ukrainian folklore. For example, they are the most popular colors in traditional embroidery - for example, you can try to google and see traditional vyshyvankas (embroidered shirts), most of the patterns used are black and red.
I saw the black and red flag on the news… I wondered what it was for because it’s also the flag of Nijmegen in The Netherlands (the oldest city of The Netherlands)
Currently mostly Far-right Ukrainian Banner
3:20 - the reason for wide use of gold-blue flag was wide spread of Ukrainians in Russian empire. There were a few places of compact ukrainian population in modern-day Kazakhstan and far east, that moved there at the beginning of 20th century in search of free land. Those places (known as Yellow Klin and Green Klin) almost became 'New Ukraine' during Russian Civil war
Thank you for your support!
Interesting fact, our trident have a hidden word "Воля" wich mean freedom
They need it more now
Воля = will, Свобода = freedom.
@@rebuzz6866 Воля також означає свободу
@@Darkscider It is a big surprise for me, you are correct.
@@rebuzz6866 Well, of course i'm correct, i'm from Ukraine 😁
The number for Right sector members for 10000 is from 2014 not up to date
The red and black flag is berserk mode.
As an Albanian 🇦🇱 I love the red and black version of the Ukrainian flag but 🇺🇦 that’s cool too
I love Albania from Ukraine ❤️ it’s a very cool nation with brave people in it