Never Ever Can We Be Brothers
“Never Ever Can We Be Brothers” () is a Ukrainian poem written in Russian by Anastasia Dmitruk in response to the Russian occupation of Crimea in 2014. The poem celebrates the 2014 Ukrainian revolution and rejects "Great Russia":
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Freedom’s foreign to you, unattained;
From your childhood, you’ve been chained. In your home, “silence is golden” prevails,
But we’re raising up Molotov cocktails. In our hearts, blood is boiling, sizzling. And you’re kin? – you blind ones, miserly? There’s no fear in our eyes; it’s effortless,
We are dangerous even weaponless... The YouTube video of Dmitruk reading her poem went viral, quickly accumulating more than a million hits. A song based on the poem was created by musicians from Klaipeda. It also quickly accumulated more than a million hits. The poem was hotly debated in the press and received many thousand responses from Russian and Ukrainian audience  According to Yuri Loza, the "elder Russian brothers" in the poem appear as the reincarnation of Big Brother from Nineteen Eighty-Four It is one of the two most popular poems which were written in Ukraine immediately following the Euromaidan. According to literary critics, the poem might have been influenced by Russian translation of the "Britons never will be slaves!". References

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НИКОГДА МЫ НЕ БУДЕМ БРАТЬЯМИ! The poem on the poetess's website
2014 poems
Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation
Russia–Ukraine relations
Ukrainian nationalism
Ukrainian poems