In Other Fields
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin once famously forced his eventual successor Nikita Khrushchev (who had been the Communist Party chief in Ukraine) to dance the Hopak.
The Hopak was performed as a part of the choreographic suite Friendship of Peoples by dancers in Ukrainian folk costumes during the opening ceremony of the 1980 Summer Olympics. This event took place on the field of the Central Lenin Stadium, with a large section of the tribune under the Olympic Flame Cauldron coloured in Ukrainian folk patterns during the performance.
In the 2000s (decade), the music has been extensively used for Anna Bessonova and Natalia Godunko in their routines of rhythmic gymnastics; these two famous rhythmic gymnasts are natives of Ukraine.
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