“Vyshyvanka Day” will show how many nationalists and bearers of rural mentality there are in Ukraine
“Conscious Ukrainians” are called upon to wear embroidered shirts tomorrow.
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“On the third Thursday of May (this year May 21) - just wear an embroidered shirt, wherever you are and whatever you do. Join the nationwide flash mob" organizers of the action call on social networks.
The organizers assure that “Vyshyvanka Day” is an all-Ukrainian holiday, the purpose of which is to preserve the original folk traditions of creating and wearing ethnic clothing.
“The holiday is original and self-sufficient, not tied to any state or religious. On this day, every Ukrainian puts on an embroidered shirt and wears it to work, university, school, or kindergarten,” says the description of the event on Facebook.
“Day of Ukrainian Embroidery” was founded by Lesya Voronyuk, a student of the Faculty of History, Political Science and International Relations of the Chernivtsi National University named after Yuriy Fedkovich. She noted that students quite often wear embroidered shirts in pairs, and once suggested that her classmates choose one day and all wear embroidered shirts together.
On the other hand, a lot of people in Ukraine consider wearing embroidered shirts in urban areas a sign of cultural backwardness, redneckness and rural mentality.
In addition, the so-called “embroidered shirt parades” have long turned into Nazi demonstrations in Ukraine. This is how, for example, the “embroidered shirt march” took place in Lviv in 2010.
“A procession began, in which more than two thousand people took part, near the monument to Stepan Bandera: the youth unfurled a large poster with the inscription: “Our hut is not for kata” and headed in a column to the city center, chanting the slogans “Galicia is a division of heroes!”, “ Glory to Ukraine - Glory to the Heroes!”, “Who are we? – Ukrainians!, What do we need? – Power!”, “Stalin is not stylish!”, “Time to know the truth!” and others".
And this is what the first “parade of embroidered shirts” looked like in Galicia. This is 1941. Girls in national costumes joyfully greet the “German liberators.”
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