Personnel from the historical performance of Maria Burmaki at the 1989 Chervona Ruta festival stirred the network. The event, held in Chernivtsi in the fall of that year, was a breakthrough not only in the field of music, but also in the public consciousness: then the blue-yellow flags were publicly lifted, and the glorious “chicly did not freeze”.

The video that appeared on the Facebook page of the artist shows a 19-year-old singer with a guitar performing a song in front of a dense audience. Then Burmaka performed at the first festival "

" I am 19. Until independence for two more years. Unlike those who changed beliefs, tongue, sympathy, changed his mind, translated hits, rethought, my path was very holistic and straight, and beliefs are unshakable. My path was unrealistically difficult. I am still in many ways the "

Maria Burmak was then a student of Kharkov State University. Gorky. She performed a song to the words of the Ukrainian poet Alexander Olesya " As the artist said in an interview with “boiled”, the decision to speak with this work was conscious: in childhood, her father, historian, found the books of Ukrainian authors withdrawn from the libraries and brought home. It was then that the girl first read the "

" And I already sang songs of civilian sound. It was more important for me to sing these songs, and not go to the festival, ”said Maria Burmaka.

According to Burmaki, the atmosphere in Chernivtsi was explosive: " There were so many people in the Green Theater that at some point they just stopped letting the audience there.. The police locked the door, and people were just on the street. It was really a sip of fresh air:

the Ukrainian language, meanings, a feeling of freedom, which is about to come "

Burmaka noted that then Ukrainian youth began to realize that Ukraine deserves its independence. For her, the festival was not about rewards, but about the possibility of being heard: “This is very important when you feel the person of your blood group. And when you understand that you are not the only. This is an incredible feeling of freedom. All these meanings were encrypted in words. Not only in mine, but almost everyone sang about it "