"You're Asking? We Answer Everyone!" — a street debate on many topics (19.07.2026)
A dense street debate with Vitaliy Dribnytsya in which he answers passers-by’s questions on various topics one after another: the myth of an alleged “famine in Galicia” in the interwar 1930s, the structure of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (an elective king, the “korolevyata” magnates, Kostiantyn Ostrozky’s candidacy for the throne), and the Chernyakhiv archaeological culture as a polyethnic, provincial-Roman formation on the eve of the age of Rus’.
Key moments
- 00:22 The myth of a '1930s famine in Galicia': a single paid newspaper publication
- 03:00 The 'korolevyata' — the richest magnates, sometimes richer than the king
- 05:04 Kostiantyn Ostrozky as a candidate for the throne of the Commonwealth (it 'didn't pan out')
- 06:49 The Chernyakhiv culture: Goths, Slavs, provincial-Roman influences, the 'Getica'
- 08:18 The Slavs' ancestral homeland — the Pripyat marshes; fibulae and the potter's wheel