Oggi l’Ucraina National Flag Day: rappresentazione extra-realistica

Although [Wikipedia ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_National_Flag_(Ukraine))says that “the yellow-and-blue flag is first verifiably documented in Ukraine on 25 June 1848”, the history of the flag is much older than that.

The same colors can be seen in the most famous painting of Ilya Repin “The Reply of the Zaporoshian Cossacks to the Turkish Sultan” which describes the historic events of the **17th century**. Repin spent more than 10 years researching the details of the Ukrainian Cossacks and two flags – Blue and Yellow, and Black and Red were the colors of the Cossack Hosts.

But the colors go much deeper in age than that. Famous French scholar [Georges Dumézil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Dum%C3%A9zil) (1898 – 1986) ascribed the use of this particular combination of yellow-blue colors to the times of the **Indo-European epoch**.

Edit: The most recent and thorough DNA tests seem to prove what the ‘*Cradle of Civilizations*’ book stated some time ago – e.g., Ukraine was the center of the Indo-European civilization:

[https://www.wsj.com/science/the-ancient-horsemen-who-created-the-modern-world-ba4b314d](https://www.wsj.com/science/the-ancient-horsemen-who-created-the-modern-world-ba4b314d)

looks like the type of place my grandpappy visited in the days of yore. I absolutely loathed him but also miss him if that makes sense.

Fk Ukraine!!!!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬