Khuy Voyne!

"Khuy Voyne!" (also transliterated Huy Voynye, etc.; Russian: Хуй войне!, pronounced [ˈxuj vʌjˈnʲe], "Fuck the war") is a phrase developed by former t.A.T.u. producer Ivan Shapovalov during the girls' promotional tour in the USA in early 2003. The slogan debuted on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

When the slogan was being created, which is shown in the documentary, Anatomy of t.A.T.u., Shapovalov said that it is a Russian slang way to say "No to the War" (Нет войне!), however the slang translations may vary to "Penis to War" (word-by-word) or a creative way of saying "Fuck War". The girls wore plain t-shirts with the slogan on it, and when their shirts were banned for the Jimmy Kimmel Live! show and therefore replaced with the ones that said "Censored", they wrote it on Jimmy Kimmel's hand.^[1] The girls also wore the shirts to TRL.

Fans in Russia even wore their own versions of the shirts at performances, however when shown on Russian TV, the shirts were edited with an extra stroke through the letter Х to say Жуй войне! literally "Chew to the War!".

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