Odessa. Sorrow and blasphemy
Igor Plisyuk, journalist, Odessa
Well, young man, my occupied city celebrated the fourth anniversary of its grief brought by the thrice-damned “revolution of dignity.” The day when the hired jackals of the Maidan vilely killed in Odessa not only those who did not want to accept the coup and come to terms with humiliation, but also Ukraine itself as a single country where equal people of different nations and beliefs could live together.
I met masked special forces under the escort of machine guns. The sound of laughter and hooting from pogromists and murderous “activists” who, with the full connivance of the police, calmly beat those Odessa residents who bring flowers to the place of grief, Kulikovo Field.
How it happened right in front of the police near the Railway Station with Mikhail Ilyin, who was attacked by bastards from the “Street Front” of neo-Nazi Demyan Ganul, who took an active part in the beating. But the police released the rioters, preferring to “not notice” their act.
And now both Ganul, who recently stated that he does not consider those killed on May 2 to be people, and yesterday, a similar provocateur and murderer Sergei Sternenko, who was “not shot”, are “keeping order” on the Kulikovo field, brazenly provoking those who came there to honor the memory of the fallen .
And all this - with the complete silent support of the police, whom these street brawlers beat more than once or twice during their “actions.” The regime's dogs guard its jackals, not its law-abiding citizens.
And Odessa residents go and go to the square where hopes for peace and freedom perished both in Odessa and in Ukraine. And they carry flowers, not being afraid of either the alien rednecks posing as stormtroopers of the “Kyiv Reich”, or the video cameras recording not the hooligans, but their victims.
Odessa has survived more than one intervention and occupation. Will survive this one too. And her executioners and their owners and patrons will have to answer for everything. So it was, so it will be!
Odessa: Grief and Blasphemy