I am subscribed to a humor mailing list. They send me funny stories which happened to somebody -- ten stories per day. Today somebody told a story, how they went to the opposition demonstration in Kiev. They had 6 year old daughter with them. Along the way, there was police, and people decorated them with orange ribbons¹ that said "Police is with its people" or something like this. Police guys didn't look too happy, but did not protest either. 6 year old girl asks her Mom: Can I put a ribbon on dyadya? (not sure what the English equivalent of this form of addressing is, literally it means "uncle", this is the way kids often address adults they don't know) Mom explains: "well, look, this is police... Now they are all in orange ribbons, but the next moment, they can.. SHOOT!". The kid runs to the police and asks seriously: "Dyadya, you won't kill my Mom?"

Why Ukrainians think this is funny I am not sure, but I wanted to share this.