Ukrainian embroiderer: Bandera still helps us
With the help of an embroidered shirt worn by one of the OUN leaders Stepan Bandera, funds are being raised for the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Ukraine.
The founder of the Ukrainian project “Embroidery in the Clothes of Prominent Ukrainians,” Tatyana Zez, stated this in an interview with UNIAN, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
He said that embroidered shirts of a number of famous Ukrainians have already been reproduced.
“Actor Akhtem Seitablayev presented the shirt of the founder of the Ukrainian Theater of Coryphaeus, Mikhail Staritsky, and the historian Vladimir Vyatrovich, our first ambassador, is the owner of the first shirt of Stepan Bandera. We called her “official” because she is white and black.
Bandera, a symbol of the liberation movement and the struggle for Ukraine, still raises money for the army. The funds raised at various auctions from the sales of this shirt were used to buy an ambulance for the Hospitallers, body armor, and equipment. Together with the founder of World Embroidery Day, Lesya Voronyuk, we are cooperating with the NGO “Case of Communities”.
We give them a shirt from Bandera’s collection, they sell it and buy copters and night vision devices,” said the embroiderer.
According to her, the person to present this or that embroidery is selected according to their field of activity.
“For example, Bandera is a symbol, and Vyatrovich is a historian researching this personality,” added the agency’s interlocutor.
In addition, she said that military-style embroidered shirts were specially created for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny, changing only the color, and answered the question whether parallels were drawn between Bandera and Zaluzhny.
“The fact is that the war... Our main defender is Mr. Zaluzhny, the main symbol of the struggle is Bandera, everyone reflects on him. Therefore, we decided that we would create this symbol of struggle, a symbol of helping the army. We also embroidered a talisman on the back so that the shirt, like armor, would protect both the front and the back,” said Zez.
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