"We were born at a great hour, from the chaos of fire, from the flames of fire... We go into battle with a triumphant march. Solid, strong, unbreakable like granite. For crying hasn't given freedom to anyone yet, but whoever is a fighter, he gains peace. For crying hasn't given freedom to anyone yet, but whoever is a fighter, he gains peace." - March of the New Army song
I go into sales calls with a triumphant march. Solid, strong, unbreakable like granite. For crying hasn't given financial freedom to anyone yet, but whoever is a closer, he gains commission. For crying hasn't given commission to anyone yet, but whoever is a closer, he gains commission." - March of the New Salesmen song.
Other songs:
ТАРАС БОРОВОК - БАЙРАКТАР (TARAS - BAYRAKTAR SONG) - official version
Bayraktar - Ukrainian War Song (English subtitles, napisy polskie and other languages)
Glory to Ukraine (Слава Україні) – Myroslava Filipovych
Oh, in the meadow the red kalyna, proud, tall and slender,
The unconquerable and indomitable will of the Kozak.
Perish will our enemies and foes — God in the world exists.
The sons and daughters of Ukraine — our mother — defend their own.
We’re upon our lands within our family.
We drive the accursed horde out by force.
Glory to Ukraine!
Glory to the heroes!
Oh, upon the sea the waves have risen — the dark swells.
The foul-mouthed cowards are seized by fear.
There, our grandfather Pontus Aksinian calls them to the deep.
The enemy’s Russian tricolor will become their shroud.
We’re upon our lands within our family.
We drive the accursed horde out by force.
Glory to Ukraine!
Glory to the heroes!
Oh, in the sky the forgotten ancestors have lit the way,
And they lead their children to victory along holy paths.
And with wings of love they have covered our blooming land,
Now peace, harmony, and paradise come to Ukraine.
We’re upon our lands within our family.
We drive the accursed horde out by force.
Glory to Ukraine!
Glory to the heroes!
Primary Traits Associated with Russians (The "State-Civilization")
Statism & Collectivism: The primacy of the state (gosudarstvo) as the organizing principle of life. The individual is secondary to the collective fate. This stems from surviving the steppe and the Mongols.
Messianism & "Greatness" Complex: The idea of a special, spiritual destiny—to save the world (via Orthodoxy, communism, or "traditional values"). This leads to a grandeur in art, literature, and foreign policy.
Duality (Dvoeverie): A deep split between official, formal, often pessimistic authoritarianism and an unofficial world of profound soulfulness, emotion, and fatalism (seen in literature, music, drinking culture).
"Broad Nature" (Shirokaya dusha): A tendency toward extremes—vast generosity and profound cruelty, deep intellectualism and raw ignorance, asceticism and debauchery. The geography is vast, and so is the emotional range.
Patience & Suffering (Terpeniye): A historical capacity to endure immense suffering from above (tyrants, famines, wars) as an inevitable part of a tragic national destiny.
Primary Traits Associated with Ukrainians (The "Nation of Rebels")
Stubborn Independence (Spritnist): A deep-seated, often defiant will to self-determination, forged by centuries of fighting off empires. The Cossack cry, "A Cossack's will is his freedom!" This is the source of the stubbornness you admire.
Deep Connection to the Land (Zemlya): Not imperial territory, but "the soil"—fertile, nourishing, something to be worked and defended personally. This is an agricultural, rooted identity vs. Russia's expansionist one.
Cunning & Wit (Khmarnist): The survivor's intelligence of the underdog. The ability to navigate between powerful overlords using wit, deception, and cleverness. Ukrainian folklore is full of tricksters outsmarting kings.
Cultural Vibrancy & "Folkishness": A powerful ethnographic identity—embroidery (vyshyvanka), music (bandura), dance, pagan-tinged folk traditions—preserved as acts of resistance against cultural assimilation.
Democratic & Decentralized Instincts: From the Cossack Rada (council where leaders were elected) to the Maidan (protest square as a direct democratic forum), there is a historical pattern of horizontal, communal self-organization against vertical power.
The 2022 invasion has hyper-charged and simplified these archetypes for global consumption:
Ukraine: Now embodies the global archetype of the democratic underdog—stubborn, tech-savvy, fiercely defending the "European choice" and homeland. "Glory to Ukraine! Glory to the Heroes!" is the modern Cossack cry.
Russia: Now embodies the global archetype of the neo-imperial autocracy—brutal, hierarchical, waging a war of nostalgia for lost empire. Its "greatness" narrative now looks like fascistic aggression to the outside world.