Concrete Sunflowers

Tag: merchandise

  • Ghost of Kyiv merchandise

  • Pes Patron merchandise

  • Russian Warship/Go fuck yourself merchandise

  • Misc merchandise pictures

    Jack Russels on a shopping cart in Kyiv, March 2026

  • 3D printing characters for fundraising

    V: Can you ask him if they didn’t 3D-print things like the “Ghost of Kyiv” or “Pes Patron” [Patron the Dog]? R2: Pes Patron? Nah. We do universal prints. No one ordered stuff like that. V: People don’t like them? R2: No, why? I wouldn’t say they don’t like ’em. First off, we’ve been at…

  • Vlada’s story

    Part 1: Vlada on folk heroes Part 2: Vlada’s story Vlada: Okay. Um… Ask Vic if I should tell her about… about the experience of the full-scale invasion. Valeriia: Do, do you want to hear about her experience of the start of the full-scale invasion? Vic: Um. I mean, if… if you’re happy to speak…

  • Vlada on folk heroes

    Valeriia, a friend of Vlada, originally joined to be a translator between Vic and Vlada. Half of Vlada’s responses were in Ukrainian and half in English Part 1: Vlada on folk heroes Part 2: Vlada’s story Vic: First, could you tell me your name and your age roughly? Valeriia: You are not required to answer…

  • Aliona on language and swearing

    Aliona: [starts speaking Ukrainian] We know, that our reality has a great impact on our language, and language impacts our reality just as much. When the full-scale invasion started, I was in the middle of research, for my dissertation, on invective [swear] lexis in Ukrainian language, in a political discourse. Because of that, certainly, I…

  • Ira from Kyiv: Part 2

    Part 1: Ira from Kyiv: Part 1 Part 2: Ira from Kyiv: Part 2 Vic: So back in 2022, Ghost of Kyiv. As a person from Kyiv, did you follow the news about him at all? Ira: Yes, of course. We all were, we all were. We were so proud. We discussed it, we tried…

  • Ana on superstitions

    Part 1: Ana on wartime culturePart 2: Ana on superstitionsPart 3: Ana on stamps Ana: I remember you asked about the superstitions, so I tried to think about some of them, but actually I don’t know. Vic: It feels like Ukrainian people have a lot of the same superstitions as British people, like black cats…

  • Ana on wartime culture

    Part 1: Ana on wartime culturePart 2: Ana on superstitionsPart 3: Ana on stamps Ana: Well, again, before, like when it started in 2022, I guess we get more stories like the Ghost of Kyiv or Chornobaivka, if you heard about that. Like it was a village in Kherson which was- the Russian troops, they…

  • Mary on folk heroes

    Vic:  So can you tell me about Pes Patron? Mary: I’ve always loved Pes Patron. When I first came to Lviv in December of 22, there were Pes Patron posters everywhere, and I just thought it was amazing. I have young refugee friends in Berlin. I purchase Pest Patron books for them. I purchased Pes…

  • Max on his experiences and the stories he’s heard

    Trigger warning: This story contains mentions of sexual violence Max: So, my name is Max, I’m 19 years old, I was born here at Lviv oblast, in small town named Zhydachiv, but later I moved to another region named Rivne oblast and almost for 12 years I lived here before moving. Vic: Thank you. So,…

  • Valeria on folk heroes: part 2

    Series: Valeria’s story Valeria on folk heroes: part 1 Valeria on folk heroes: part 2 Vic: Do you think that language barriers contribute to people’s decisions? Valeria: Yes, because you know, Russian propaganda works really well, and they think that- well, there are indeed some people like this. But in truth, most of Ukrainian speaking…

  • Chrystyna on folk heroes

    This interview took place whilst volunteering in a kitchen in Kyiv.  Part one: Chrystyna’s story Vic: Back when like Pes Patron was popular was that more for kids or? Chrystyna: Oh, no… Did you… Do you have an account on Twitter? Vic: I’ve got a Twitter, yeah. Chrystyna: So there was a, like, flash bulb,…

  • Jason on stories filtering into the US

    [Note: This interview took place whilst volunteering in a kitchen in Kyiv] Vic:  So that’s recording now. Hopefully it’ll pick you up, there’s definitely background noise here! But yeah, if you could tell me the characters that you’ve just mentioned? Jason: Yeah. I’m definitely not as immersed in this as the volunteers who have been…

  • Dariia on culture

    Wider interview with Dariia: Daria from Melitopol Українською мовою: Дар’я про культуру Vic: I think, you mentioned knowing about Pes Patron? Dariia: Yes, I do know [it], but… like… because I was in occupation, we didn’t have such things there. I read about all those jokes about Pes Patron only when I went back to Ukraine.…

  • Aidan on Ukraine pub talk

    Vic: First up, can you tell me your name and a little bit about yourself? Aidan: My name is Aidan Lynch. I’m from New Zealand originally. I went to volunteer in Ukraine in the winter of 2023 over the new year into 2024 for three months, mostly doing humanitarian work. Vic: Cool. As most international…

  • Ivan on folk heroes

    Українською мовою: Іван розповідав про народних героїв Vic: Okay, so first up, can you just give me like a brief “who are you”? Your name, where you live in Ukraine? Ivan: Okay, so I’m [Redacted] Ivan, Ivan [Redacted] in English, we say differently, because in Ukrainian, usually surname goes first. In English, usually first name…