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A fact from Chicken Kiev speech appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 January 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that in the Chicken Kiev speech, then-US President George Bush encouraged Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Chicken Kiev speech.

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Contested deletion

This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because... extremely relevant historical speech, used in numerous articles and books. Washington Times is only one of many sources. User misidentified and used wrong deletion tag, there is no mention of the chicken kiev speech in the article Chicken Kiev, except for "see also" which i added a few minutes before creating the article.[1] --Spoildead (talk) 15:22, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

This article should not be speedy deleted as being recently created, having no relevant page history and duplicating an existing English Wikipedia topic, because... It got ample coverage, and years later Bush even explained things to clarify his position. Editing article now. -- Dream Focus 15:34, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Highbeam shows 93 results for this [2]. Dream Focus 15:39, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As an admin who reviews speedy deletion noms I would suggest there was very little chance the article was ever in real danger of being deleted for the reason specified in that nom. Being mentioned in a section in another article that is only tangentially related is not what that criterion is intended for and I would like to think most admins would not fall for that. Nice improvements in the meantime, I've done some re-organizing and cleanup as well. Beeblebrox (talk) 18:07, 4 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

chicken George

Was Chicken George related to this at all? He was too chicken to face Clinton in a debate, so they mocked him that way. But did this have anything to do with the Chicken Kiev speech? Dream Focus 22:18, 5 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I can't say I have seen a source that definitively ties the two together, but the whole "Bush is a chicken/wimp" thing, as I recall, first came up in the 88 election. Before anyone knew what the word "meme" meant we had one for Bush. He got away from it for a while with the first gulf war, but it came back in the 92 campaign. It seems at lest tangentially related, perhaps more suited for a "see also" now that I think of it. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:18, 6 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Significance of "Chicken Kiev"

It is not yet noted in the article that Safire's deeply wounding barb evokes the commonplace that the familiar Chicken Kiev of US fundraising luncheons would likely be the only cultural reference to Kiev (or perhaps to anything Ukrainian) for an American of superficial education, with a parochial worldview and little comprehension of the contemporary political subtleties. The reference itself passed right over Bush's head... --Wetman (talk) 17:27, 12 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That's an interesting, if condescending, opinion on the matter. I doubt most people would think that the former head of the CIA and Vice President under Reagan or his speechwriter, a professor of political science specializing in the Soviet Union, would meet that description. They were certainly both very wrong about what would happen if Ukraine left the Soviet Union and about the Ukrainians resolve to do so, but I don't think ignorance was the cause. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:06, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Is the speech related to that dish? One is a type of chicken meal, and the other is a speech where chicken means cowardice. They just happen to both have started in Kiev. Dream Focus 20:09, 16 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 18 April 2025

It has been proposed in this section that Chicken Kiev speech be renamed and moved to Chicken Kyiv speech.

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Chicken Kiev speech → Chicken Kyiv speech – Kyiv is the correct spelling of the city Stidmatt (talk) 11:50, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose, no evidence of WP:COMMONNAME, and likely WP:HISTORICALNAME per WP:KIEV, as it was spelled "Kiev" at the time. This is not a sub-topic of the city so doesn't need to follow the city's spelling automatically, its name is determined independently, just like Chicken Kiev (which has a discussion of its own) Nor do we follow "correct spellings", we only follow most-common. Per my comment at the Chicken Kiev discussion, "Chicken Kiev" is still overwhelmingly more common, doubt a recent rename occurring after the speech took place would lead to the renaming of an historic event. Dank Jae 15:03, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Chicken Kiev remains the common spelling for the dish and for the speech.[3][4] Per WP:KYIV, the spelling Kyiv is likely to be appropriate, but proceed with caution for topics dated/occurring on or after August 24, 1991. This speech occurred weeks before this date. This article concerns a historical speech that was referred to at the time, and continues to be referred to, using the spelling Kiev. To even consider a change we would need to see an overwhelming majority of independent, reliable sources make this change first. --MYCETEAE 🍄‍🟫—talk 15:33, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - it may be the more common name for the city but not the speech and food dish. Fyunck(click) (talk) 18:00, 18 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - This is futile. Such a name change will require a broader discussion. ArvindPalaskar (talk) 11:27, 19 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose. Is this serious? Nobody calls the dish a chicken Kyiv and the speech was made when the city was still known in the west as Kiev in any case! -- Necrothesp (talk) 14:01, 24 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]