2/ Decades of pressure made Ukrainians feel their own language was “inferior.”
This is how empires work: erase, replace, dominate.
That legacy still lingers.
Language is not optional.
It is identity. It is resistance.
1/ April 20, 1938: the USSR made russian mandatory in all schools in Soviet Ukraine.
This wasn’t “education.” It was policy - russification by design.
Language was weaponized to erase identity and manufacture the obedient “Soviet person.”
Cover of the magazine "Uke-Views" (USA), November 1942. Variations of the Ukrainian coat of arms illustrate examples of how the letters forming the word "VOLYA" are transformed into elements of the coat of arms.
2/They saluted Ukraine and left for the mainland to keep serving.
While russia staged its “annexation,” these cadets chose honor over betrayal.
Loyalty is not a flag. It’s a choice.
1/ March 20, 2014. Sevastopol.
As traitors raised the russian flag over the Nakhimov Naval Academy, Ukrainian cadets sang the national anthem.
Loudspeakers tried to drown them out.
They sang anyway.
March 18, 2014: russia killed the first Ukrainian defender in Crimea.
Warrant Officer Serhiy Kokurin.
The first blood of this war.
A reminder: russia’s invasion didn’t start in 2022. It started in Crimea.
1/ March 10 — Ukraine's National Anthem Day
"Ukraine Has Not Yet Perished" has a powerful history. Some claim the Polish anthem inspired it, but Pavlo Chubynsky wrote the lyrics in 1862 in Kyiv, long before that idea emerged.
Today we celebrate the Day of the National Anthem of Ukraine!
Its first public performance took place on March 10, 1865, in Przemysl as the final number of a concert dedicated to Taras Shevchenko.
Words by Pavlo Chubynskyi, music by Mykhailo Verbytskyi.
*illustration by Nikita Titov
2/ Shevchenko exposed imperial oppression, slavery, and betrayal with fearless honesty.
For this, the russian empire exiled him.
But his words survived every empire.
“Bury me in my beloved Ukraine…”
The Kobzar lives as long as Ukraine lives.
1/March 9, 1814 — Taras Shevchenko was born.
A serf who became the voice of a nation.
Poet, artist, revolutionary spirit — the man who gave Ukrainians words for freedom and dignity.
3/ In 1979, Ivasyuk was found hanged near Lviv. Official version: suicide.
Few believed it then. Fewer believe it now.
His funeral became a silent protest.
They tried to silence him. Instead, he became immortal.
“Chervona Ruta” still lives.
2/ He faced Soviet harassment from his school years. Expelled. Silenced. Forced to write under pseudonyms.
Yet his songs were sung from Kamchatka to the Carpathians.
Ukraine heard itself in his music and that frightened the regime.
1/ March 4, 1949 — Volodymyr Ivasyuk was born.
Composer. Poet. Author of “Chervona Ruta.”
A genius who gave Ukraine a modern musical voice — bright, proud, unmistakably ours.
2/ Founded by settlers from Miletus in the 6th century BC, Olbia was a center of trade, democracy, and culture.
Proof that Ukraine has been part of the European world since antiquity.
Our history did not begin in Moscow’s shadow.
It began in civilization.
1/ March 3, 2026 — 100 years of the Olbia National Historical & Archaeological Reserve.
Founded in 1926, it preserves the ruins of ancient Olbia near Parutyne — a Greek polis that thrived on Ukrainian land for a millennium.
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2/ 12 years of war.
4 years of full-scale invasion.
We remember every life given for our independence.
We stand. We fight. We hold the line.
Ukraine will be.
1/ 4 a.m., Feb 24, 2022.
From occupied Crimea, through Kalanchak, columns of Moscow’s army rolled into Ukraine.
The full-scale invasion began.
Missiles. Armor. Fire.
But they did not break us.
1/ February 20 – Day of Remembrance of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred
Today, Ukraine honors the memory of the Heavenly Hundred—the brave men and women who gave their lives during the Revolution of Dignity (2013-2014) for freedom, dignity, and Ukraine’s European future.
1/ On this day in 1992, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the trident (tryzub) as the Small State Emblem, linking modern Ukraine to its millennia-old heritage.
2/ Since then, Ukrainian scientists have worked there year-round: climate, oceans, biology, space, magnetism.
New species discovered. Ukraine present at the end of the world.
We were never “too small.” We were only denied and we returned.
1/ Feb 6, 1996: Ukraine raised its flag in Antarctica.
The British Faraday station became Vernadsky station.
After russia tried to monopolize Soviet Antarctic stations, Ukraine fought its way back—through diplomacy, science, and persistence.
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1/ On January 29, 1918, near the Kruty railway station, several hundred Ukrainian students and cadets bravely fought against the advancing Moscow-Bolshevik army. Though vastly outnumbered, their sacrifice delayed the enemy, allowing Ukraine to secure the Brest Peace Treaty.
Jan 13, 2015. Russians destroyed the Donetsk Airport control tower, but not its defenders.
Concrete collapsed. The Cyborgs did not.
DAP became a symbol of Ukrainian defiance and military honor.
Eternal glory to the fallen. Honor those who survived.
Today’s meeting concluded with an agreement to… keep talking.
Trump continues appeasing putin.
Shocked? No.
Support Ukraine’s defense forces.
From Jan 1, 2025, russia moves to open deportations of Ukrainians in occupied territories.
The so-called “special regime” ends Dec 31. After that: take russian citizenship or a residence permit. No alternatives.
This is a new, explicit phase of persecution and forced russification.
Today is the Day of the Ground Forces of Ukraine.
A day to honor hundreds of thousands who hold the front: mechanized, tank, artillery, missile troops, air defense, aviation, TDF.
Thank you for your strength and endurance.
Glory to the soldiers. Glory to Ukraine.
3/ For defying Nazi policy, Melnyk was arrested and sent to Sachsenhausen.
After the war, he worked to unite Ukrainian émigrés; proposed what became the World Congress of Ukrainians.
He foresaw the collapse of the Moscow empire.
History proved him right.
Ukraine lives.
2/ Co-founder of the UMO. Later, one of the architects of the OUN.
Imprisoned by Poland. After Konovalets’ assassination, he became head of the OUN (1938).
Tried to use the German-Soviet war for Ukraine’s cause, but quickly learned Berlin wanted colonies, not freedom.
1/ Dec 12, 1890: Andriy Melnyk was born in Volia Yakubova, Lviv region.
Officer of the Ukrainian Sich Riflemen, commander in WWI, Chief of Staff of the UPR Army (1919).
After defeat, he refused to surrender, choosing an underground struggle for Ukrainian statehood.
