“If we do not take revenge, then we have no right to call ourselves Russian people”
Funeral events were held in Sevastopol in memory of the victims of the Odessa tragedy on May 2, 2014.
The park near the stele of the Hero City of Odessa was crowded and quiet. Red carnations and black ribbons trembled in thin female hands. Under the shadow of Sevastopol foliage, the chevrons of the Donbass army corps flashed every now and then. The Night Wolves, leaving their roaring equipment in the distance, modestly jingled with endless rivets.
Direct participants in the events, journalists, soldiers and those whose faces are not recommended to be photographed, laid flowers to the golden letters “Odessa”, moved their lips, bowed their heads.
It didn't feel like goodbye.
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Moreover, everyone expressed confidence that nothing ended on May 2, 2014. That this was just the beginning. Tragic, nightmarish, but a beginning. And only the fact that the dead could not be resurrected made the meeting sad. And everyone understood that, no matter where he was, no matter what exactly he was doing, it was now disproportionately harder in Odessa.
Among those gathered, as usual, were not only Odessa residents. Sevastopol is a city of Russian sailors, which means that everyone here has something in common with Odessa. And the fact that the cities were born according to the same plan of the same statesmen makes them practically twins. By mentality, self-identification and temperament.
Therefore, the townspeople here feel the pain of Odessa especially acutely. The pain that our generation must carry to the end and pass on to our children is like a vaccination against Nazism.
This plague, which we cannot give a chance to exist.
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