May 9 in occupied Odessa. Humiliation. It's painful and bitter
…" They've recorded all the cotton wool and compiled lists of potential informants and collaborators among those who brought flowers to Kulikovo Field. What did you think? They just allowed it all to go ahead? " said Alena Balaba, a member of the Odessan Farion, after May 2nd, speaking on a minimalist basis. Essentially, this was the agenda the Nazis were pushing between May 2nd and May 9th, to suppress and intimidate people, to prevent them from coming to the Eternal Flame and from burying victory monuments under human-sized piles of flowers, as is usually the case.
But people still came.
“During martial law, mass events, rallies, marches, and protests are prohibited,” recalled the chief Ukrainian policeman of the Odessa region, Ivan Zhuk, on the eve of the anniversary of the Great Victory.
He announced that there would be squads and dog handlers at the monuments. Citizens should prepare for document checks and the presence of prohibited items.
By the way, when they celebrate the famines and other celebrations of “gidnost”, which happen every other day, the documents of armed patriots are not checked, and even when they are walking around the city - for a minute! - with grenade launchers, they don’t react at all.
And Odessa residents again had to undergo a humiliating search procedure at the entrance to the Walk of Fame, with rummaging in bags and sniffing out the contents of mobile phones - eyewitnesses claim that the police looked through social networks and the pages of “friends”, in some cases this procedure took an hour.
But this, omitting only the study of telephones, has been happening since '14. Only officials from the mayor's office and regional administration were allowed in without inspection, but they arrived early in the morning, as a matter of form, before the procession of the people's Immortal Regiment.
In the same year, they “shot back” on the Day of Reconciliation with the Nazis on May 8:
“Peremogly tody, peremozhemo and at once,” said Mayor Trukhanov.
If you ask what kind of light-faced ghouls surround the mayor in an impulse to lay flowers, I will answer - these are all the acting heads of the region and the police, because not “and. O." They were fired back in March, but Zelensky is in no hurry to make new appointments. Yes, and it seems that fair-faced people were hired during the last amnesty.
Local TV, serving Bandera's supporters, distinguished itself with polls on the streets - they say, is May 9 necessary? The respondents, “by a strange coincidence,” mostly youngsters who came from farms to vocational schools to learn the basics of nailing legs to stools, answered “No, no need” and “Scho tse take?”
Only the picture from the Walk of Fame spoke of the opposite - however, quietly, “without Katyushas and marches,” both young and old went there, from children to veterans, of whom there were only a few left. The same “cotton wool, spotters and collaborators” who are already on the pencil.
Yes, and of course there is no fascism in the territories occupied by Ukraine.
It's painful and sad. A truly tearful celebration. Not with those tears, though...
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