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A similar phrase, "Glory to Ukraine",{{#tag:ref|{{lang-uk|Слава України!}}|group=nb}} has been used at least since the time of the prominent patriotic Ukrainian writer [[Taras Shevchenko]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-01 |title=Croatian president likens 'Slava Ukraini' slogan to 'Sieg Heil' salute |url=https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/01/croatian-president-milanovic-compares-slava-ukraini-salute-to-sieg-heil |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=euronews |language=en}}</ref>. |
A similar phrase, "Glory to Ukraine",{{#tag:ref|{{lang-uk|Слава України!}}|group=nb}} has been used at least since the time of the prominent patriotic Ukrainian writer [[Taras Shevchenko]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-06-01 |title=Croatian president likens 'Slava Ukraini' slogan to 'Sieg Heil' salute |url=https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/01/croatian-president-milanovic-compares-slava-ukraini-salute-to-sieg-heil |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=euronews |language=en}}</ref>. |
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Revision as of 12:13, 2 June 2023
"Glory to Ukraine!" (Ukrainian: Слава Україні!, romanized: Slava Ukrayini!, IPA: [ˈsɫaʋɐ ʊkrɐˈjinʲi] ) is a Ukrainian salute, it is often accompanied by the response "Glory to the heroes!" (Ukrainian: Героям слава!, romanized: Heroiam slava!, IPA: [ɦeˈrɔjɐm ˈsɫaʋɐ]).
The phrase has gained worldwide attention during the ongoing 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and has subsequently been used in protests in support of Ukraine around the world.[1] It has been used in speeches by Ukrainian politicians like President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well as numerous foreign leaders.
History
Early origins
A similar phrase, "Glory to Ukraine",[nb 1] has been used at least since the time of the prominent patriotic Ukrainian writer Taras Shevchenko[2].
The phrase, identical to "glory to Ukraine", was indeed used at least since 1840 by the kobzar Taras Shevchenko, who in his poem To Osnov'janenko (До Основ'яненка' '; 1840, in the 1860 version) wrote:[3]
Наша дума, наша пісня
Не вмре, не загине…
От де, люде, наша слава,
Слава України!
The first known mention of the phrase "Glory to Ukraine!" with the answer "Glory to all the world!" (По всій землі слава) is associated with the Ukrainian student community of Kharkiv in the late 19th century and early 20th century.[4]
Ukrainian War of Independence and World War II
The phrase "Slava Ukraini!" (Glory to Ukraine!) had its origins during the Ukrainian War of Independence (from 1917 to 1921).[5][6] It was commonly used by Ukrainian nationalists in the 1920s and 1930s.[nb 2][7][8]
According to historian Yana Prymachenko the response "Heroiam slava!" (Glory to the heroes!) was also first used in the 1917-1921 Ukrainian war of independence.[9][10]: 58 According to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty "Heroiam slava!" appeared in the 1920s among members of the nationalist organization the League of Ukrainian Nationalists (LUN), reporting that according to the memoirs of Petro Dyachenko it was proposed by Yuri Artyushenko.[5] Yuriy Yuzych wrote in Istorychna Pravda however, despite reports of Artyushenko proposing the phrase, that Artyushenko's memoirs or publications about him did not provide support for a connection between the phrase and the LUN.[11] The greeting "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the heroes!" later became the official slogan of Stepan Bandera's wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN-B, in April 1941.[12][5][13][6]
Ukrainian publicists trace the origins of the greeting at the beginning of the 20th century, when some similar greetings became popular among Ukrainians during the Ukrainian War of Independence from 1917 to 1921.[11][5] However, some historians point to nationalist groups such as the League of Ukrainian Nationalists and minor groups, which later formed the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), as the ones who created this greeting.[14][15] In 1930s it became widespread as a slogan of the OUN[6] and of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), as well as Ukrainian diaspora groups and refugee communities in the West during the Cold War. In the Soviet Union the phrase was forbidden and discredited by Soviet and later Russian authorities. The phrase eventually resurfaced in Ukraine during the country's struggle for independence in connection with the fall of the Soviet Union. Its use was revived again during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and the Russo-Ukrainian War, during which it became a widely popular symbol in Ukraine.
Soviet era and late 20th century
In the Soviet Union, the slogan "Slava Ukraini!" was forbidden and discredited via a decades-long propaganda campaign alongside the diaspora Ukrainian nationalists who used it.[16][5] They were dubbed "Ukrainian bourgeois nationalists", "Banderites", and "Nazi henchmen" by Soviet authorities.[16]
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the slogan began to be heard at rallies and demonstrations.[5] After Ukraine declared independence in 1991, the phrase "Glory to Ukraine" became a common patriotic slogan.[citation needed] In 1995, President of the United States Bill Clinton used the phrase in a speech in Kyiv[17] (together with "God bless America").[18]
Russo-Ukrainian War
The phrase has undergone a resurgence in recent times, becoming a popular and prominent refrain during the 2014 Ukrainian revolution, and a symbol of democracy and of resistance against Putin's Russia following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[16] Canadian historian Serhy Yekelchyk writes that "the nationalist greeting from the 1940s [...] acquired new meaning on the Maidan", and that "when used by protestors, [the slogan] referred to a hoped-for democratic and pro-Western Ukraine and regarded as heroes those who had fallen in service to their cause."[19] According to political scientist Vyacheslav Likhachev, even variations that had far-right connotations lost that meaning during Euromaidan, for example, nearly every public speech, as well as public greetings began/ended with "Glory to Ukraine – glory to the heroes!" He noted that by the Equality March in 2021, the annual LGBTQ+ event in Kyiv, other variations like "Glory to the nation – death to the enemies!" were chanted by participants spontaneously. They had long become ubiquitous enough to lose any aggressive meaning.[20]
On 9 August 2018, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced that "Glory to Ukraine" would be the official greeting of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, replacing "Hello comrades" (Ukrainian: Вітаю товариші, romanized: Vitayu tovaryshi).[21] The greeting was used during the Kyiv Independence Day Parade on 24 August 2018.[22] The Ukrainian parliament approved the President's bill on this (in its first reading) on 6 September and on 4 October 2018.[23] Parliament also made Glory to Ukraine the official greeting of the National Police of Ukraine.[24]
The popularization of the phrase was sometimes controversial abroad. After Croatia's 2018 FIFA World Cup victory, Croatia's assistant coach was fined by the football governing body FIFA after posting a video in which he used the slogan. In response, on 10 July 2018, Ukrainian supporters flooded FIFA's Facebook page with over 158,000 comments, most saying "Glory to Ukraine". Russia alleged that the chant has ultra-nationalist connotations.[25] The Football Federation of Ukraine said in a statement that "'Glory to Ukraine' is a commonly used greeting in Ukraine," and that it "should not be interpreted as an act of aggression or provocation".[26]
2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
This phrase became very popular among Ukrainian soldiers and their supporters to boost morale following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[27][28] The slogan has seen worldwide use by protesters in solidarity with Ukraine all over the world, accompanying various demands towards the Russian embassies and the relevant national governments such as excluding Russia from SWIFT and closing airspace over Ukraine.[29]
It has been used in speeches by numerous Ukrainian politicians including President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.[30] It has also been used by foreign leaders including European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen,[31] former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson,[32] New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern,[33] Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte,[34] Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković,[35] U.S. Speaker Nancy Pelosi[36] and the UK's Permanent Representative Barbara Woodward in a speech to the UN.[37] It has been used by commentators and media such as The Times.[38]
On the other hand, the President of Croatia, Zoran Milanović, has criticized the use of the slogan, stating that: "This is the chant of the most radical chauvinists from Western Ukraine who collaborated with Nazis, who killed hundreds of thousands of Poles, Jews, and anyone else they got their hands on".[39][40][41]
Impact
Music
The Norwegian Armed Forces' official composer Marcus Paus composed the song "Slava Ukraini!," loosely inspired by Ukraine's national anthem. Paus released the work on Facebook[42] on 27 February 2022 and described it as a song of resistance; it was recorded two days later by Lithuanian-Norwegian viola player Povilas Syrrist-Gelgota of the Oslo Philharmonic, and was broadcast shortly afterwards by the Norwegian government broadcaster, NRK.[43][44][45][46][47] Paus said that "the work seems to strike a chord with many people, including those who are in the middle of the battle zone. There is no nobler task for music than to unite and comfort people."[43]
Beyond Europe, the song "Glory to Hong Kong" drew inspiration from the slogan for use in the 2019–20 Hong Kong protests.[48] The Chinese edition of Deutsche Welle named "Glory to Hong Kong" the "anthem" of the Hong Kong protests.[49] Describing the song, Chinese Television System News in Taiwan noted that the song had "peaceful vocals coupled with scenes of bloody conflicts between Hong Kong Police and the people" and that by creating "Glory to Hong Kong", Hongkongers recorded their "history of struggling for democracy and freedom".[50] The connection between Ukraine and Hong Kong was received extremely negatively in mainland China, with Chinese commentators alleging American instigation of the Revolution of Dignity and Ukrainian Neo-Nazis meddling in Hong Kong affairs, going uncensored by the Great Firewall.[51][52]
Commemorative currency
The 2 euro commemorative coin issued by the Bank of Estonia in 2022 features the words "Slava Ukraini" (Glory to Ukraine), which was designed by Daria Titova, a Ukrainian refugee studying at the Estonian Academy of Arts.[53][54]
Notes
- ^ Ukrainian: Слава України!
- ^ In his monumental book Kholodny Yar, Yuriy Horlis-Horskyi writes that he heard this phrase from several insurgents who fought in the Kholodny Yar Ukrainian partisan movement (1918–1923). They routinely greeted each other with the phrase "Slava Ukraini!", and the response had to be "Ukraini slava!" (which also means "Glory to Ukraine" but with the words swapped around as is possible and idiomatic in Ukrainian).[5]
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For instance, the chant, "Glory to Ukraine!" (Slava Ukraini!), followed by "Glory to the Heroes!" (Heroiam slava!), had its origins in Ukraine's national revolution of 1917-1920, but it became widespread as a slogan under the wing of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) under the leadership of Stepan Bandera.
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The greeting 'Slava Ukraini' (Glory to Ukraine) and a fascist-style hand salute were modeled by the OUN on a basis of similar greetings and salutes by other fascist and semi-fascist parties... The OUN officially adopted these greeting and salute during their second congress in Rome in the end of August 1939, while the OUN-B reconfirmed their official use in a slightly modified form during their congress in German-occupied Krakow in April 1941.
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And in that spirit I join you in saying slava Ukraini.
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So our message today is simple: We offer our unequivocal support for Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. We call on President Putin to stop this senseless war. And we urge all fellow Members of the United Nations to speak up for Ukraine and to defend the Charter. Slava Ukraini!
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