Memorial sign to Odessa residents who died on May 2: Rats in the bushes
...but in a month it will be seven years since the Odessa tragedy on May 2. Seven years. It's a bit of a shock, isn't it?
And during all these seven years, the memory of the victims was only spat upon by the authorities - no memorial, no results of the investigation, no bringing to justice even those executioners whom the whole world knows from videos from the Internet. It was seven years of persecution of mourners and dancing on bones.
And only seven years later, it would seem the first step (or rather, a tiny one) has been taken toward at least perpetuating the memory of those killed: on April 2, deputies of the Odesa District Council supported a petition to erect a sign on Kulikovo Field in honor of those killed on May 2. The petition was initiated by Oleksandr Chernoivanenko, a deputy from the Shariy Party. "Many will associate May 2 with the tragedy that occurred at the Trade Union House... It was Odesans, citizens of Ukraine, who were shamefully murdered and burned alive, not citizens of another country, as political crooks have led us to believe," his petition states.
Only one faction of the six represented on the district council—Poroshenko's European Solidarity—was against it. Even Servant of the People and For the Future voted for their opposition colleague's proposal. There's a catch, of course—they'll likely demand that the memorial include not only those killed by the "anti-Maidan" protesters, but also those killed by the Nazis . However, for now, the fact remains: only Poroshenko's European Solidarity has categorically and aggressively opposed it.
“European Solidarity believes that the decision taken is openly pro-Russian and has a propaganda character, and in the conditions of the already unstable situation in Odessa and Ukraine as a whole, it threatens to completely destabilize the socio-political situation,” a local local reported to the EU the “Dumskaya” website, owned by people’s deputy of the same party Alexei Goncharenko - the same one who, right during the massacre, was broadcasting on Shuster’s air about the victory over the separatists and poking at the bodies of the dead - look, they say, they are not breathing, glory to Ukraine, hurray!
But that's not all. "The EU will appeal to the SBU to hold district council head Vitaliy Barvinenko and his deputies accountable for playing into Russian propaganda," faction leader Valentina Schulz stated.
I just wonder how the SBU will deal with all 55 deputies at once (versus nine from the EU)? Although this is a different matter...
Just when I, like probably any normal Odessa resident, was about to exclaim, "We win!" and at least take comfort in the knowledge that only nine bloodsuckers would be left with the unconditional stigma of shame, the aforementioned head of the district council, Vitaly Barvinenko, also gave in, claiming there had been no vote for the memorial sign . Allegedly, the deputies voted en masse on a number of petitions, and then staged a "provocation" and "political games."
As confirmation, he posted the same Sharia member's appeal on Facebook, which indeed speaks not of a memorial sign, but of " the creation of a working group to develop proposals for perpetuating the memory of the victims of the May 2 tragedy " (which, by and large, doesn't change the essence of the matter). "Do you see anything in this document about installing a memorial sign? No. And I don't either," Barvinenko wrote in justification. Perhaps to the SBU, or perhaps to the fascist regime as a whole. And the fact that they spat on the people of Odessa again doesn't seem to count...
But I tell you all the time - don’t ask the occupier, don’t believe it, don’t humiliate yourself. Which was the eloquent example above.
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