Back in September, I spent a couple of weeks in Mykolaiv, where I came across this paper placemat in a restaurant. It’s a great example of the kind of humour that keeps Ukrainians going.
It reminds me of the Wipers' Times, printed (when they could) by the British troops on the area of Ypres in WW1, or the vignettes by Novello, sketched among the Italian Alpine troops on the Eastern Alps, also in WW2. It is amazing how the sense of humour can survive, and be a tool for survival, in such circumstances. Cheers for Ukraine victory!
What is the text of the Ukrainian restaurant placemat translated into English? As a completely blind reader of Anna's Substack publication, I cannot acquire the text from the picture provided.
There's 24 squares, with text and matching illustrations: 1) Defence of Kharkiv, 2) Battle of Kyiv, 3) Defence of Mykolaiv, 4) Sinking of the Moskva, 5) Liberation of Snake Island, 6) Deoccupation of the North, 7) Attack on Chornobaivka Command Centre, 8) Arrival of HIMARS, 9) Izium Cauldron, 10) Undermining of the Kerch Bridge, 11) Liberation of Kherson, 12) Explosion at Engels Airbase, 13) 100,000 Good Russians, 14) Lend-lease, 15) The Great Counteroffensive, 16) Liberation of Mariupol, 17) Capture of Donetsk, 18) Crimea is Ukraine, 19) Complete Deoccupation, 20) Decolonisation, 21) Denuclearisation, 22) Demilitarisation, 23) Collapse of Russia, 24) Death of Putler.
It reminds me of the Wipers' Times, printed (when they could) by the British troops on the area of Ypres in WW1, or the vignettes by Novello, sketched among the Italian Alpine troops on the Eastern Alps, also in WW2. It is amazing how the sense of humour can survive, and be a tool for survival, in such circumstances. Cheers for Ukraine victory!
Thank you, and happy Christmas!
What is the text of the Ukrainian restaurant placemat translated into English? As a completely blind reader of Anna's Substack publication, I cannot acquire the text from the picture provided.
There's 24 squares, with text and matching illustrations: 1) Defence of Kharkiv, 2) Battle of Kyiv, 3) Defence of Mykolaiv, 4) Sinking of the Moskva, 5) Liberation of Snake Island, 6) Deoccupation of the North, 7) Attack on Chornobaivka Command Centre, 8) Arrival of HIMARS, 9) Izium Cauldron, 10) Undermining of the Kerch Bridge, 11) Liberation of Kherson, 12) Explosion at Engels Airbase, 13) 100,000 Good Russians, 14) Lend-lease, 15) The Great Counteroffensive, 16) Liberation of Mariupol, 17) Capture of Donetsk, 18) Crimea is Ukraine, 19) Complete Deoccupation, 20) Decolonisation, 21) Denuclearisation, 22) Demilitarisation, 23) Collapse of Russia, 24) Death of Putler.