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    1. Drmumdaly on

      “Love one another, Ukrainians, but don’t engage in love with muscovites” -T.G. Shevchenko

    2. Lurkin605 on

      “Katerina”, poem of Taras Shevchenko.

      It says – “Make love, black-browed ones, but not with Muscovites.”

      The “black-browed” part is synonymous with lovely ladies or lovely maidens in context with the poem.

    3. itskelena on

      Many people have already answered that it’s from Shevchenko’s Kateryna poem. I’d like to add some historical context about the poem: Shevchenko talks about Moskali, a name for russian officer/soldier at that time, not just any russians. They would come to a Ukrainian village, entice a Ukrainian girl, make her a baby and then move on. The poem is about a short and tragic life of such young woman.

      These days these words have a wider meaning of course.

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