"Two Colours" (Ukrainian: Два кольори, romanized: Dva kolory) is a 1964 song composed by Oleksandr Bilash, with lyrics by Dmytro Pavlychko.
Dmytro Pavlychko, who was attending the congress together with Bilash, noticed the handkerchief of Liudmyla Moldovan, a woman sitting in front of him.
[2] "Two Colours" was first performed by Anatoliy Mokrenko to an audience of the Artistic Council of Ukrainian Radio, which was at the time required for a work to be permitted for recording and publication.
[1] Pavlychko would later say in an interview that he and Bilash had been frightened by the interrogation as "It could easily be proven that this was a nationalist song, of our OUN party, and so on.
The song has also been performed by at least five other Ukrainian singers, including Kvitka Cisyk, which Pavlychko would later describe as his favourite rendition.