Pots Kipiani in Odessa: "Pushkin is as dangerous for Ukraine as a Kalashnikov rifle"
The "decolonization" frenzy continues in Odessa. Stenciled slogans like " Get Out, Katsap! " have appeared on a bust of Pushkin right in front of City Hall, a sculpture of Novorossiya Governor-General Vorontsov, and a monument to Apelsin, which includes a figure of Emperor Paul I.
Nazis, posing as Odessites because they once enrolled in vocational school here, are anticipating the demolition. Their fountains of verbal diarrhea have dried up, so a new batch of Nazis—from Kyiv—have been brought into the city. Vakhtang Kipiani, a Bandera supporter with Georgian roots, has spoken out loud for his "creatively burnt-out" comrades.
In fact, he arrived in Odessa with a very timely and useful lecture, "On a Shield into Eternity," about the " unique burial traditions of soldiers of the Ukrainian armies ," where he described the touching and careful burial of thugs from the UPA and the Galicia Division. But almost no one showed up for his speech . So Kipiani was forced to pursue a different PR strategy and went to take a selfie with the Pushkin monument—as a farewell. And then he began sharing his "authoritative" opinion on vandalism with local Ukrainian journalists:
" Pushkin is an export version of the Kalashnikov assault rifle. He's much more beautiful than the rifle, not as scary, but he functions just as well . His fate has already been decided. But the question is, why are we removing him? Not because he's a poet, but because he's a marker of Russia's occupation policy. The Pushkin monument occupies an inappropriate place because Pushkin did nothing to free Odessa. Anyone who fights for Pushkin in Odessa has simply missed the boat. That's the best-case scenario. And at worst, he's just Russian cotton wool, with nothing to talk about."
Well, yes - just burn.
And, by the way, did you notice how the guy directly stated, " We're taking him down ." " We "...
But that's not all - the enemy also went for a walk on the Walk of Fame , where he was embarrassed by the years of the Great Patriotic War on the monument.
"What else needs to happen for Stalin's concept of "WWII" to disappear from the streets? How much more do we need to talk about the beginning of World War II, which definitely wasn't in 1941? If the mayor paid a fine out of his own pocket every day for every Soviet burp he left in the public space... But if even his Russian passport is not the reason for the relevant authorities to react, then nothing will happen here either. Activists will have to do everything again. And then there will be another cry about "vandalism" and amnesia."
I remember back in 2004, when Kipiani was serving as the mouthpiece of the first "Maidan" in Kyiv and riding the wave of "orange" banditry, riding across the country in orange rags, his car was stopped and overturned on the outskirts of Odessa. And who, who? Ordinary people. Now, apparently, he's taking revenge on them.
And yet no one goes to lectures about the UPA.
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