It’s for sale at around 35 hrivnya’s (about 5 euro’s) in one of the many passages under ‘Maidan’, the main square of Ukraine’s capital. It reads ‘Дякую тобi, боже, що я не москаль!’, which is Ukrainian for ‘Thank you, God, that I am not Moscovite!’. It was a present to me from a lovely russophobe.

The saleswoman had the shirt available in most sizes, and according to sources it’s been quite popular amoung Ukrainians and ‘CIS-tourists’. It is a significant change. The last time I was paying attention to the shirt-sellars in Kiev they mainly had orange t-shirts reading ‘Yes to Yushenko’, or any other orange-revolution attributes. Now, all that has been replaced with Ukrainian patriottic shirts (such as ‘Ukraine – born to be free) and this russophobe example. The woman did have a couple of Russian and Soviet-flags on stock.

A lesson of macro-economics thus learns that the Orange Revolution isn’t much of a selling point any longer, Ukraine’s future lies in pattriotism and Soviet nostalgia. Well… It’s all made in China anyhow

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