Soviet cinema was a tool of Russian colonialism. Under the guise of entertainment, films promoted Moscow and imposed Russian culture while marginalizing others. Our analysis reveals how this cultural imperialism worked. #colonialism #Russia #UkrainianView texty.org.ua/articles/116...

"Look closely, America...!" A leaflet from the 1950s distributed by the Ukrainian diaspora in the U.S. Ukrainians were warning the world about Moscow’s imperialism 70 years ago.

A mother and her daughters. Uman, early 20th century.

1/ 25 years ago today, September 16, 2000, journalist Heorhiy Gongadze, founder of Ukraiinska Pravda, was abducted and murdered. His fearless reporting exposed corruption and helped shape independent Ukrainian media.

On 9/11 we remember every life lost. It was the only time NATO invoked Article 5. Ukraine’s parliament declared solidarity and offered moral, technical & military support. Over 5,000 Ukrainians served in Iraq, the 3rd-largest Coalition force.

1/ On September 10, 1854, Ivan Tereshchenko was born, Ukrainian entrepreneur and philanthropist. He funded Murashko’s drawing school, supported Kyiv schools, and with his family helped found the Kyiv Free Hospital for the poor - today’s OKHMATDYT, partly destroyed by russian shelling.

1/ On Sept 8–11, 1943, near the Zahoriv Monastery in Volyn, 44 young UPA soldiers resisted 1,500 German troops. With only 1 mortar & 4 machine guns, they fought for 2.5 days against artillery, tanks & mortars, turning the monastery into a fortress.

History teaches us one thing: Ukraine survives because people choose to act, not stay silent. Our defenders need electronic warfare equipment to stop russian FPV drones. Let’s be part of this history. 💵 paypal.com/pool/9i44fMS...

1/ On September 8, 1514, near Orsha, the combined Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian army under Kniaz Kostiantyn Ostrozky dealt a crushing defeat to Muscovy’s forces. Ostrozky used brilliant tactics: crossing the Dnipro overnight, feigned retreat, and devastating artillery fire that broke Muscovy’s lines.

1/ 🇺🇦 August 29 - Day of Remembrance of the Fallen Defenders of Ukraine. Today, Ukraine bows its head before all who gave their lives for our freedom. They stood against russian aggression so that future generations could live free. Eternal memory. Eternal gratitude. 💙💛

1/ On August 28, 1974, the CPSU Central Committee and USSR Council of Ministers issued a resolution introducing universal passportization. For the first time, collective farmers received passports, until then they were tied to their villages, unable to move freely.

1/ August 24, 1991, in the Verkhovna Rada, the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine was approved. At 9 p.m., deputies carried a huge blue-and-yellow flag into the chamber. The hall rose and sang “Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished.”

1/ August 23 is Ukrainian Flag Day. Our blue and yellow banner has stood for centuries of struggle, dignity, and hope. A thousand-year story of colors that unite Ukraine.

1/ On August 22, 1992, the President of the UPR in exile Mykola Plavyuk resigned his powers, declaring independent Ukraine the legal successor of the Ukrainian People’s Republic. After 72 years of exile, the government of the UPR fulfilled its 1919 resolution: the mission was accomplished.

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A letter from the Sudzhany Zemstvo to the Ministry of Education of the Ukrainian State requesting the opening of 8 new Ukrainian schools in the Sudzhany district of Kursk province. 1918

1/4 On August 7, 1932, the USSR passed the “Five Ears of Grain” law. Its purpose? To criminalize hunger. Steal a handful of grain - get executed or sent to the gulag for 10 years. Even starving children were punished. This law helped trigger the Holodomor: a genocide by famine.

1/ On August 6, 1914, the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen (USS) were formed in Lviv, the first national Ukrainian military unit since Mazepa’s army was crushed at Poltava in 1709. Formed at the start of WWI, the USS symbolized the revival of Ukrainian military tradition under Austrian rule.

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1/ August 5, 1937 is the day the Great Terror began. Order No. 00447 of the NKVD launched the bloodiest campaign of political repression in the USSR. Millions were targeted as “anti-Soviet elements,” and extrajudicial killings began on a mass scale.

The russian terrorists attacked us with missiles, our whole neighborhood is damaged, people are injuried. Don't let anyone silence us. Donate to savelife.in.ua/en/ Donate to sternenkofund.org #Ukraine #UkrainianView

Треті роковини масового вбивства українських військовополонених в Оленівці. Цього року вперше на державному рівні ми можемо вшанувати пам’ять усіх, хто загинув тієї страшної ночі. Це не просто дата в календарі. Це глибока рана в серці кожного, хто пам’ятає. 1/3

1/ On July 28, Ukraine remembers fallen soldiers, volunteers, and civilians tortured or killed in captivity. One of the darkest crimes: the Olenivka terrorist attack on July 29, 2022, when russia murdered 53 Azovstal defenders and wounded over 130 more in a penal colony near Volnovakha.

We’re raising funds for a vehicle for a reconnaissance unit defending Sumy region. In just 2 days, they lost both combat vehicles, and a brother in arms was killed in one of them. 🎯 Goal: 203,000 ₴ 🔗 Monobank: send.monobank.ua/jar/6HoscJSEmF 💳 Card: 4441 1110 4485 0315 💸 PayPal: [email protected]

The history of Ukraine in just 30 minutes. Where we came from. Who we are. Why we fight. This must-watch video now has English audio. If you want to understand Ukraine, start here. #UkrainianView 🎥 youtu.be/2PrthVAZRro?...

1/ In July 1616, 6,000 Cossacks on 120+ "seagulls" (chaikas) set sail from the Dnipro. Near the Dnipro-Bug Estuary, they clashed with and defeated a squadron of Ottoman galleys, capturing half of them. But that was only the beginning.

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Come Back Alive's Project 61 has unlocked on-the-go servicing, re-arming, and mission planning for the F-16 with minimal staff. Nobody's pulled this off before. CBA is indispensable to Ukraine. They deliver equipment, training, and logistics to back it all up. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19475...

On July 20, 1993, the UN Security Council officially stated that the resolution adopted by the Russian State Duma on Sevastopol’s status as a “Russian city” had no legal force. UN made it clear: Sevastopol is Ukrainian. Crimea is Ukraine.

1/ Iryna Danilovych is being tortured in a russian prison. Her crime? Being a nurse, a journalist, and telling the truth in occupied Crimea. Now she’s rotting in Colony No. 7, Zelenokumsk. 🧵 #UkrainianView

We’re raising funds for drones for the Rubizh Brigade. 🎯 Target: 10,000 ₴, a small goal that makes a big impact. 🔗 Monobank: send.monobank.ua/jar/9VFeEFX5Pm 💸 PayPal: [email protected] Let’s help Rubizh Brigade see the enemy first and hit hard. 💛💙

1/7 July 18, 1917 In Kyiv, the soldiers of the 2nd Ukrainian Cossack Regiment named after Hetman Pavlo Polubotko rose up with one demand: Independence for Ukraine. Not someday. Not later. Now.

1/7 On July 17, 2014, Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down over Ukraine near Torez, then occupied by russian forces. All 298 people aboard were killed. It remains one of the deadliest crimes of russia’s war against Ukraine.

1/5 On July 16, 1990, the Verkhovna Rada of the Ukrainian SSR adopted the Declaration of State Sovereignty. Ukraine declared itself a sovereign state, independent in its laws, economy, foreign policy, and defense. A year later, this declaration would become the foundation for independence.

1/ On July 11, 1946, Vasyl Makukh, a 19-year-old UPA intelligence officer, was sentenced to 10 years of hard labor. His “crime”? Fighting for an independent Ukraine. He survived torture in Lviv's brutal Bryhidka prison and spent nearly a decade in Soviet camps, but never broke.

1/ July 9, 1961. Winnipeg, Canada Canadian PM John Diefenbaker unveiled the first monument to Taras Shevchenko outside Ukraine in the heart of Manitoba, funded entirely by Ukrainian Canadians. A moving story of memory and diaspora.

1/ Today, July 8, General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, former Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, turns 52. Born in Zvyagel, he rose through every rank with integrity, courage, and deep love for Ukraine. He led the army with honor in its darkest hours and changed the way we fight.

Today is Roma Ratushnyi’s birthday. Roma was a man of courage, passion, and love for Ukraine. He should have lived, should have built the future he dreamed of. We must never forget the price we are paying in this war. The price of our best.

1/ Yes, the Ukrainian people have carried a bitter fate. But fate has also gifted us with people of greatness. On June 30, 1907, Roman Shukhevych was born, Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), Hero of Ukraine, the legendary “Taras Chuprynka.”

1/🧵 On June 27, 2014, Ukraine signed the economic part of the Association Agreement with the EU, completing a decade-long journey. The signature was a milestone, our formal step toward political association and economic cooperation with Europe.

1/ On June 25, 1939, the Shevchenko Scientific Society held its last meeting in Lviv. With the Bolshevik occupation in September, the Society was destroyed. Its museums were looted, collections scattered, and its mission silenced. Some members were repressed or murdered.

We’re raising funds for a DJI Matrice 30T drone for the reconnaissance battalion of the Unmanned Systems Forces, because superior eyes in the sky save lives on the ground. 🎯 My goal: 20,000 ₴ 🫙 Monobank: send.monobank.ua/jar/8o5JZbmZ94 💸 PayPal: paypal.me/YuliiaPetrenko88

1/ On the night of June 15–16, 1920, Bolsheviks executed 63 people in Odesa. Their "crime"? Being Ukrainian. Prosvita members, teachers, students - accused of ties to a fabricated “Petliura underground.” Shot in basements. Buried without names.

On June 11, 2017, Ukraine finally tore down the paper curtain. The visa-free regime with the EU came into force, giving Ukrainians the right to travel freely to Europe. A historic step toward reclaiming our place in the European family — earned, not gifted.

1/ On June 10, 1911, Petro Veskliarov was born. Actor, patriot, and the man every Ukrainian child knew as Grandpa Panas (Did Panas). From village theater in Talne to the stage of wartime frontlines, and later into homes via radio and TV, he became a legend of Ukrainian storytelling.

1/ "I said to one of the detention center employees: "Not on the stomach, I have a shrapnel wound (after the terrorist attack in Olenivka)." He asked if my head was okay and started beating me there", - Oleksandr Verengov, Azov fighter. #UkrainianView www.slidstvo.info/news/ukrains...

“The more russians we kill now, the fewer russians our children will have to kill.” — Roman Ratushnyi. Three years without Roma 💔 Activist. Defender. Voice of a generation. Killed in action on June 8, 2022, near Izyum. We remember.

1/ Two years ago, on 06.06.2023, russia blew up the Kakhovka dam—the largest man-made disaster of the 21st century. On D-Day, no less. The day the world remembers how Nazi Germany began to fall. And yet, on this day, russia committed another crime of genocidal scale.

Today is the International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression—and in Ukraine, it’s also a day of mourning. Since russia's full-scale invasion, at least 631 children have been killed. The real number is higher. We still can’t reach the occupied territories.

1/ On June 1, 1996, Ukraine gave up the last of its nuclear weapons—2,000+ warheads, strategic bombers, and missiles—under the Budapest Memorandum. We kept our word. russia got the nukes. We got “security assurances.” We all know how that turned out.