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Why Sunflowers Are Ukraine’s National Flower?
People around the world are embracing the bright bloom as a symbol of solidarity with the beleaguered country.
Sunflowers have long been a beloved symbol of Ukrainian national identity. From 24 February 2022 as Russia invaded the Ukraine, the flower-soniashnyk in Ukrainian-has taken on new layers of meaning, emerging as a “global symbol of resistance, unity and hope,”
The sunflower movement began with a viral video shared by UkraineWorld on February 24, the first day of the invasion. In the clip, a Ukrainian woman in the southern port city of Henychesk gives sunflower seeds to armed Russian soldiers. “Take these seeds so sunflowers grow here when you die,”
Over the past few weeks, demonstrators from Chicago to Mexico City to London have wielded Ukraine’s national flower in denunciation of Russian aggression, gathering in the streets while holding up sunflowers and wearing sunflower crowns.
According to an entry in the 1993 Encyclopedia of Ukraine, Spaniards brought sunflowers from the New World to Europe in the early 17th century. The flowers were subsequently introduced in Ukraine in the mid-18th century. Ukrainians snacked on the flower’s seeds or crushed them into oil.
Today, sunflowers are a key component of the Ukrainian economy, with Ukraine and Russia contributing upward of 70 to 80 percent of global sunflower oil exports. The flowers are abundant across Ukrainian villages, gardens and fields.
For Ukrainians, sunflowers’ cultural significance goes beyond their prolific growth and role as an economic driver. The flower has historically represented peace. In June 1996, ministers from the United States, Russia and Ukraine marked Ukraine’s nuclear weapon disarmament by planting sunflowers at the Pervomaysk missile base “ensuring that our children and our grandchildren will live in peace.”
Back in 1986, when an explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine released radioactive material into the environment, scientists planted sunflowers-hyperaccumulators capable of extracting toxins from soil-to remove radioactive elements from surrounding soil and ponds. A similar planting project took place in Japan after the 2011 Fukushima disaster.
There is no scenario, however grim, in which this massive Russian agression in the shelled and traumatized streets of Ukraine will be forgotten!!
Sunflowers will always grow, somewhere. Bright yellow sunflowers against a deep blue sky.
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