Such a beloved holiday song, but its story is quite sad
#Shchedryk was composed by #MykolaLeontovych based on Ukrainian #folkMusic during #WWI, when #AustriaHungary and #Russia waged terrible fighting in #Ukraine
And he composed it in #Pokrovsk
Pokrovsk at this very moment is seeing terrible fighting:
Mykola was assassinated at age 43 by a chekist (#Soviet security agent: any Ukrainian seen as nationalistic even remotely was seen as a threat)
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