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It originated inUkraine in 2014, having grown from afootball chant first performed byFC Metalist Kharkiv andFC Shakhtar Donetskultras in March 2014 at the onset of theRusso-Ukrainian War. The phrase has become aprotest song and is widely spread in Ukraine amongst supporters of Ukrainian sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as those opposing Vladimir Putin in both Russia and Ukraine.
Theobscene term (mat)хуйло́ is variously transliterated ashuilo,huylo,khuilo,khuylo, orchujlo. Also there are dialect variantsхуи́ла (huila),хуи́бла (huibla). Its core isхуй (huy), literally "penis", in both Russian and Ukrainian. Combined with the suffix-lo, it is a personal insult. It can be translated as "dickhead", but its connotation is far more pejorative in those languages than in English.[2]
Marker graffiti "ПТН ПНХ" (PTN PNKh). "ПНХ" stands for пошёл на́ хуй (poshól ná khuy), "go fuck yourself", so the graffiti can be translated asPTN GFY, "Putin go fuck yourself"). NovosibirskAkademgorodok, Russia, July 2022.
The first recorded public performance of the"Putin khuylo!" chant and the song that grew from it took place in March 2014 inKharkiv, when the local fans chanted it during their street march.[9] The recording was soon posted toYouTube. Various groups of Ukrainianultras of major Ukrainian clubs with the exception ofFC Sevastopol have historically held strong pro-Ukrainian political views. These football fans sided with Ukraine at the onset of theRussian annexation of Crimea andmilitary intervention, as well as during the pro-Russian unrest in the east and south of Ukraine, when the city ofKharkiv was in turmoil.[10][11]
Soon, the song gained wider popularity, spreading amongst other clubs. The fans ofShakhtar Donetsk (Donetsk) andDynamo Kyiv (Kyiv), who were formerly feuding, sang the song together.[10][12] During the beginning of theRusso-Ukrainian War in 2014, in which Russiaannexed Crimea from Ukraine and usedproxy forces tooccupy parts of the easternDonbas region, the ultras of various Ukrainian clubs set aside theirrivalries and chanted the song in joint street marches.[8] The chant became "a nationwide culturalmeme" according toThe Guardian.[13]
In June 2015, the RussianFederal Security Service started a criminal prosecution and investigation of activist Daria Poludova for using the song onVK.[15] The case was dropped after Poludova's lawyer demanded a confrontation with the victim, Putin, as required by law.[16]
When Russian television channelTNT aired one episode of the Ukrainian sitcomServant of the People in December 2019,[9] a scene containing a joke that referenced the song, in which the fictional president played byVolodymyr Zelenskyy asked "Putin khublo?" («Путин — хубло?») when told that Putin wore aHublot watch, was cut out of the episode.[17] The omission occurred only withincentral Russia and theMoscow region, but not in theeastern regions of Russia.[18]
Several Ukrainian mainstreamrock music bands included or adapted the chant into their music. A metal remix, released in April 2014 by AstrogentA, added instrumentation and reworked the video of the 30 March protest chant to depict its spread throughout Ukrainian football clubs.[19]
In May 2014, the Ukrainian bandTeleri [uk] released a song and avideo titled "PutinHello!" Their song uses adouble entendre, substituting the objectionable word "khuylo" with the English word "Hello!" Alluding to the "Putinhuylo!" chant, the video features band players wearing Ukrainian football club colors and posing asultras marching and chanting "Putin Hello" as therefrain of the song. The band members asserted,tongue-in-cheek, that the linking of their song to an offensive anti-Putin chant was a misunderstanding and insisted that the only people who found the chant objectionable were Russians unfamiliar with English.[20]
Hromadske.TV aired alive performance of the song by Lemonchiki Project in May 2014.[21] The rock bandDruha Rika performed the song at their concert in June 2014.[22] Other rock adaptations were made byMad Heads[23][24] andHaydamaky.[25] TheKyiv Post reviewed nine video versions of the song and two other related songs.[26]
In October 2014, Belarusians joined visiting Ukrainians in a performance of the chant by "nearly the entire stadium" at aUEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match inBarysaw,Belarus, resulting in more than 100 Ukrainian and 30 Belarusian football fans being detained and interrogated, reportedly on suspicion of using "obscene language".[27] Seven, all Ukrainian, were sentenced to five days in jail for obscene language, whilst one was given a 10-day sentence for allegedly wearing aswastika.[28]
In December 2022, a statue giving a visual interpretation of "Putin khuylo" was erected in the English town ofRowley Regis,[29] but by 5 February 2023 it had been removed.[30]
Shortly afterward,Ukrainian PresidentPetro Poroshenko nominated a different diplomat to lead the Foreign Affairs ministry.[43] According to the Ukrainian media, the presidential plan to replace the minister was known prior to the incident,[44] being proposed as part of a bigger reshuffle in theUkrainian government. Soon after, Poroshenko praised the work of Deshchytsia, who was then leaving his ministerial position, and the parliament gave the outgoing minister a standing ovation.[45]
Deshchytsia's use of the wording caused widespread discontent amongst the Russian leadership.[1] However,Geoffrey Pyatt, theUS ambassador to Ukraine, wrote onTwitter that minister Deshchytsia's use of the chant had been "seeking to defuse a dangerous situation", calling Deshchytsia "a skilled diplomat and credit to Ukraine."[1]
In July 2014,Arsen Avakov who was the UkrainianMinister of Internal Affairs, one of the country's majorsecurity agencies, published aFacebook post with a photo he took that showed a bus stop nearSloviansk covered by a"Putin Khuilo!" graffiti.[46] The minister's post included his comment with the picture saying: "A private opinion some place near Sloviansk. Aligning myself."[47]
The phrase became popular again during theRussian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian brewer Yuri Zastavny began preparing glass bottles to be used for anti-RussianMolotov cocktails with the English-lettered label "Putin Huylo".[48][49]
Ukrainian hackers disabled electric vehiclecharging stations in Russia so that instead of providing a charge, the stations display a scrolling message that includes the phrase.[50][51]
^Ольга Бычкова (18 June 2014)."Особое мнение: Артемий Троицкий" [Special opinion: Artemy Troitsky (An interview with Artemy Troitsky)] (in Russian).Echo of Moscow.Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved6 April 2015.
^Gordon, Aaron (28 February 2022)."Russian Electric Vehicle Chargers Hacked, Tell Users 'PUTIN IS A DICKHEAD'". Vice.com. Retrieved1 March 2022.AutoEnterprise's Facebook page re-posted a video taken by an Instagram user from the M11 motorway showing the disabled chargers. The chargers show an error message reading in English "CALL SERVICE NO PLUGS AVAILABLE" before new screens show additional messages in Russian: 'GLORY TO UKRAINE / GLORY TO THE HEROES / PUTIN IS A DICKHEAD / DEATH TO THE ENEMY.'
^Goodin, Dan (28 February 2022)."After Ukraine recruits an "IT Army," dozens of Russian sites go dark". Ars Technica. Retrieved1 March 2022.Instead of recharging vehicles, the stations displayed a message that said, among other things: 'GLORY TO UKRAINE / GLORY TO THE HEROES / PUTIN IS A DICKHEAD / DEATH TO THE ENEMY.'
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Frédéric Döhl, Klaus Nathaus. Annäherungen an einen flüchtigen Gegenstand. Neue Literatur zur Geschichte der Musik aus Journalistik, Historiographie und Musikwissenschaft // Neue Politische Literatur. — 2017. — Bd. 62, Nr. 3. — S. 491.
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