Odessa. Adventures of a Rag
...all in all, it was like this for almost ten years. Ten years! Although it's hard to believe... the yellow and blue flag of the murderous country "fluttered" near the Trade Union House on Kulikovo Field, where several dozen Odessans were burned alive , pitifully and torn by the winds, like old, washed-out underpants that someone forgot to take off (they got too drunk or died). Periodically, it would fall, be picked up, but the underpants were once again destroyed by natural phenomena.
Once, the head of the Odessa branch of the infamous "Institute of National Remembrance of Ukraine," Serhiy Gutsalyuk, even filed a police report about a hurricane that toppled a flagpole and tattered its flag. And your humble servant witnessed a task force arrive at the "crime scene," and the "Ukrainian centurions," pretending to be intelligent individuals, crawl around it with magnifying glasses, like Pinkertons.
But the "Odessa Khatyn" itself took revenge on the Nazis—the flag was still torn off by the wind . And this wasn't the work of humans, not of the Kulikovo men—there were cameras everywhere, and anyone who dared touch a rag would have been instantly packed off to the "basement." Only flowers were allowed, so...
And with the start of the Second World War, the inhuman monsters completely destroyed the memorial at the House of Trade Unions, which Odessans had created and preserved for years – portraits of the dead, icons, and lamps.
...and only the “pissing rag” still haunted the Nazis.
“The local authorities of Odessa still don’t get around to replacing the flag damaged after the storm at the end of November last year at the place where in 14 Odessa residents fought back against Putin’s lackeys. And this is actually a mockery of state symbols,” Gutsalyuk squealed a couple of days ago.
Other types of patriotic public also supported him and howled on social networks about the lawlessness. But they didn't hear them.
The fact is that after the tragedy of '14, the city and the region, in order to wash their hands of the tragedy and do nothing, divided Kulikovo Field into two parts—one for the city, and one for the region . Mayor Trukhanov was still a weather vane, and the succession (about a dozen) of constantly changing temporary Gauleiters certainly didn't dabble in "local affairs." The point is, no one wanted to do even the most trivial, albeit patriotic, thing—change the flag.
“While the Odessa local authorities were sorting out where and what belongs to whom on the Kulikovo Field, the caring soldiers of the UDA (Ukrainian Volunteer Army) “South” and the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service in the Odessa region decided everything in a day. Sincere gratitude to the Odessa soldiers, who destroy the enemy in the front lines and respect state symbols in the rear, in particular our flag. They have time. By the way, the guys have been doing this constantly since 2014, since our Victory over the Kremlin in Odessa. And local authorities are still figuring out where, what and who belongs,” Gutsalyuk happily reported (less than ten years have passed).
So there you have it – we've won, the rag has been replaced. I wonder how much longer it will last?
However, let us remember those who "defeated the Kremlinites." To take revenge.
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