Get Out of Ukraine, Ugly Russian [“Dégage d’Ukraine, sale Russe !”] is the evocative title of a song by Verka Serduchka, a Ukrainian drag artist, sung during a concert in kyiv at the time of the “orange revolution”, in 2004. Eighteen years later, it was covered by Jerry Heil, another Ukrainian artist, in a parody clip where President Volodymyr Zelensky’s head appears in a 1960s cartoon.
The video is widely streamed on TikTok and has over 500,000 views on YouTube. Using music to highlight the resistance to the Russian offensive is what many Ukrainian artists do, says The Economist.
Patriotism and comedy
Among these songs that have gone viral, we can mention the very popular Bayraktar, who has “a catchy folk tune, written for the army by [le compositeur-interprète] Taras Borovok, and which pays tribute to the Ukrainian victories”, according to the weekly br