Жданкiн, Морозов, Драч - Ще не вмерла! Червона Рута, 1989

A very moving historical video document. The final moments of the legendary Chervona Ruta Festival in Chernivtsi in 1989 which had turned into a festival of renewed Ukrainian national assertiveness. Remember, the blue and yellow Ukrainian colours were still banned, as was the national anthem -- Sche ne vmerla Ukraina. In defiance of this ban by the Soviet authorities (the USSR was not to disintegrate until December 1991!), three of the young stars of the festival, Vasyl Zhdankin (who set the tone for the