Ukrainian history is very short. The country has never existed as such before the 1920s and then for a few short years before becoming part of the Soviet Union and then again as a new country after 1991.
All their symbols are a crazy and fucked up mish-mash of Russian, Polish, Austro-Hungarian and "local shithole farm" created from an attempt to back-port "Ukrainian" as something that existed since the dawn of time. It never did and it never was, always being a territory hotly contested between East vs West and a conflict that created it's own sort of culture and people that is more like a spectrum than anything.
Sweden has more claim to being the origin of the Rurik dynasty than the local swine-herders that populated the fields and forests of current-day Ukraine during those times.
Guess we have to become experts on Ukrainian history now... What is their flag about? We know how they love their flags and symbology/symbolism?
Ukrainian history is very short. The country has never existed as such before the 1920s and then for a few short years before becoming part of the Soviet Union and then again as a new country after 1991.
All their symbols are a crazy and fucked up mish-mash of Russian, Polish, Austro-Hungarian and "local shithole farm" created from an attempt to back-port "Ukrainian" as something that existed since the dawn of time. It never did and it never was, always being a territory hotly contested between East vs West and a conflict that created it's own sort of culture and people that is more like a spectrum than anything.
Anyway, the actual trident symbol was originally used by the Rurikids: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols_of_the_Rurikids
Sweden has more claim to being the origin of the Rurik dynasty than the local swine-herders that populated the fields and forests of current-day Ukraine during those times.
The density of information was pretty sweet. Thank you for that :)