Why are Ukrainians burning pianos at the death of a pilot? Kirill Fedorov is looking for logic.

So there is a tradition in the West that in the case of a pilot's death, a piano is burned. And it goes back to World War II, when British Allied pilots were killed by Luftwaffe pilots. Or some other anti-aircraft gunners and so on. And everything would be fine, but at the same time in Ukraine one of the main heroes of the Ukrainian air force has the call sign "Karaya". And "Karaya" is the call sign of Bubi Hartman, and Bubi Hartman is a man who, well, at least from the German official data is the most effective pilot in the history of fighter aviation, who shot down 352 airplanes, of which 345 airplanes were shot down on the Soviet front. Including, understandably, with pilots who, of course, did not consider themselves Ukrainians at that time, but at this point in historiography are Ukrainians. That is, a country in which, on the one hand, the main hero pilot, carries the call sign of the main Nazi pilot, a unit of this country carries the name of Soviet heroes, observing the traditions of British pilots, burning pianos when they shot down each other, but during the war with Russia.