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Hello and welcome to Spectator Out Loud, where every week a few of our favourite writers read out of their articles in the magazine.

I'm Cindy Yu. This week we're joined by Svetlana Moranetz, who writes about the blurred lines

between patriotism and profiteering in Ukraine. We're also joined by Owen Matthews, who interviews

Alexei Navalny's chief of staff. And finally, we'll be joined by Yusinda Maxton Graham,

who's trapped in a 15-minute city. First up, it's Svetlana Morinitz.

What is the right way to commemorate a war when it is still been fought?

Many victories, tragedies and acts of defiance have already been depicted in Ukrainian books, films and art.

Popular subjects include the liberation of Snake Island, the defense of the

Azov-Stal plant, the horrors of the Bucha massacre, a woman offering sunflower

seats to an occupying Russian soldier, so they can grow when he dies, and the sinking

of the Moscow warship. However, it doesn't take much to blur the lines between patriotism and profiteering.

Anything with the military logo sells.

Military patriotic themes are being used to flog all sorts of products.

War symbols have been slapped on socks, flip- flops, vodka labels, designer clothes, sweets

and even sex shops.

Ukrainians are keen to buy from local sellers who promise to share profits with the army.

In Kiev you can get heroic Bucha kombucha with citrus flavor, as of style radish seeds and

Ukrainian rage, onion bulbs.

There are heroes don't dye beer and coffee cups burying the face of an assassinated

Ukrainian soldier.

One restaurant offers Chernubayvka steaks, named after an occupied village in Herzlund Oblast,

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