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title: '''Bravery is in our DNA'' Brave.ua panel, Berlin'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/brave-ua-bravery-in-our-dna-berlin-2023/
description: 'A large printed panel on a construction fence in Berlin: a blue field with the Ukrainian trident and the words ''Bravery is in our DNA'' and ''brave.ua''…'
section: Collection
---

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[!['Bravery is in our DNA' Brave.ua panel, Berlin](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/brave-ua-bravery-in-our-dna-berlin-2023.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/brave-ua-bravery-in-our-dna-berlin-2023.jpg)

# 'Bravery is in our DNA' Brave.ua panel, Berlin

A large printed panel on a construction fence in Berlin: a blue field with the Ukrainian trident and the words 'Bravery is in our DNA' and 'brave.ua', beside a credited photograph of a firefighter lowering an elderly woman on a rescue ladder from a smoking, damaged apartment block. The tell: a virtue word, bravery, is fixed to a whole nation as an inborn trait ('in our DNA'), a statement no evidence on the panel could test.

- **Date:** December 22, 2023
- **Period:** [Contemporary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=contemporary)
- **Made by:** Government of Ukraine (Brave.ua campaign: President's Office, Cabinet of Ministers, Ministry of Culture and Information Policy)
- **Region:** [Eastern Europe and Eurasia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=eastern-europe-eurasia)
- **Country:** [Ukraine](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=ukraine)
- **Medium:** [Signs and banners](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=sign-banner)
- **Issuer type:** [State](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=state)
- **Regime:** [Zelensky Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=zelensky-government)
- **Leader:** [Volodymyr Zelensky](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=volodymyr-zelensky)
- **Audience:** [Foreign public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=foreign-public)
- **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support)
- **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information)
- **Event:** [Russian Invasion of Ukraine](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=russian-invasion-of-ukraine)
- **Techniques:** [Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/)
- **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ukrainische_Propaganda_Unter_den_Linden_(2).jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026
- **Rights:** CC0 (Commons photograph by Koffeeinist); brave.ua states CC BY 4.0 for its content Koffeeinist, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; campaign Brave.ua (Government of Ukraine), CC BY 4.0 per brave.ua.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
BRAVERY IS IN OUR DNA
brave.ua

[credit on the photograph:] [PA]VLO PETROV
[partly visible at the left edge, from the next panel:] ...VERY ... R
```

The Ukrainian trident emblem beside 'BRAVERY' is a graphic. The photographer credit is partly hidden by the rescue ladder; the first letters are inferred.

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