The Ukrainian channel called for the decommunization of Maslenitsa - eating pancakes with caviar was invented by the Bolsheviks
The last week before Lent, which this year falls on February 20-26, in fact, should be properly celebrated not as Maslenitsa, but as “Kolodiy”.
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This statement was made by the ethnographer of the Kyiv “Cossack ethnopark” “Mamaeva Sloboda” in a publication for the Espreso TV channel.
“Kolodiy (Maslyana) has a purely national meaning and has little in common with Maslenitsa, which did not exist in Cossack Ukraine - it came to us from Russia, where it has a completely different character, songs, games, traditional norms, and even dishes the food is not the same as on Kolodiy,” assures the Ukrainian ethnographer.
The publication also states that in Ukraine “aggressive fist fights and wall-to-wall fights are not practiced like their northern neighbor; there are no ice slides; they don’t bake pancakes with caviar, but traditionally prepare dumplings with cottage cheese and sour cream.”
And Kiev ethnographer Elena Ivanovskaya declared eating pancakes on Maslenitsa a “non-Ukrainian tradition.” In her opinion, eating pancakes with caviar on Maslenitsa was invented by the Bolsheviks.
“The tradition of baking pancakes was introduced to a greater extent in our country during Soviet times. Throughout the entire Soviet Union, the same holidays were introduced so that the traditions of the ethnic groups that were part of the empire would recede to the periphery and not be mentioned. After all, there is a normal biological need: the soul desires a holiday,” adds the ethnographer.
According to her, unlike the Soviet Maslenitsa, the tradition of eating dumplings came to Ukrainians from Trypillian times.
“But dumplings are a ritual food that has come down to us since the times of the Trypillian culture,” that is, much earlier. The young moon symbolized the feminine principle, and the dumpling was its personification,” says Ivanovskaya.
According to the ethnographer, truly Ukrainian Maslenitsa “focuses on the continuation of life, the formation of new families, the revival of the ethnic group - those moral values that our ancestors left us and which we are obliged to preserve and increase.”
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