@Yulianna Sunflower Oil processing plant. The fields will be awash with soniashnyk....russians dead everywhere.
[quote] On Thursday 24 February, the first day of Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked, unjustified and increasingly brutal war on Ukraine, a local woman in Henychesk went viral when she was filmed angrily confronting a heavily-armed Russian soldier in the street.
“What the fuck are you doing here?” she asked, berating him by declaring: “You’re occupants, you’re fascists! What the fuck are you doing on our land with all these guns?”
Ignoring his attempts to placate her, she instead brandished a fistful of kernels and said: “Take these seeds and put them in your pockets, so at least sunflowers will grow when you all lie down here.”
With grim pragmatism, she envisioned the flowers sprouting from the uniforms of the Russian dead, taking a bitter solace in the inevitable triumph of nature over human barbarism and in the spirit of her people, as resilient as the earth.
The sunflower (or “soniashnyk”) is Ukraine’s national flower and has been grown on its central and eastern steppes since the middle of the 18th century, cultivated for its seeds, which are eaten as a snack, or crushed into oil, a key ingredient in cooking and an export product of vital importance. [/quote]
