Trukhanov teased his Nazi friends: “Let’s demolish the Potemkin Stairs and decommunize our parents!”
In his last interview with journalist Natalia Vlashchenko, who left Ukraine, Odessa Mayor Gennady Trukhanov did not hide the fact that he would run for election again. Therefore, he had to charm two polar groups of potential voters, between whom a civil war is actually going on.
It turned out as usual - not very good. Only unlike other "slightly pregnant" Odessans from the media - mainly artists of large and small toilets with instant noodles in their heads, Trukhanov is more demanding. After all, he spent half of his term with the St. George ribbon and promoted himself on the "anti-Maidan" platform. And here, look, a hohol (that's how he called himself in an interview with another "hohol" - Gordon)! Or a hohol, but only partially?..
Trukhanov repeatedly emphasized that Odesa is Ukraine, but at the same time described Ukraine's best friend, Saakashvili, as a con man. He denied having a Russian passport, but admitted to listening to Russian songs and crying . It's difficult to say who will vote for him under these circumstances, and, indeed, when, where, and under what government?
The mayor spoke in a very Shakespearean manner about how he dug babies and their mothers out from under the rubble, but when the conversation turned to air defense in residential areas, he said the following:
"I am very grateful to our armed forces."
Although he added that “none of the Odessans can say that we are protected.”
But Trukhanov finally got carried away when the topic of renaming streets was raised:
"Let's remove the names of writers who made Odessa famous from the public space!.. When they [Nazi activists] say "Because they, Ilf and Petrov, worked for the KGB", I answer: "Well, read "The Twelve Chairs" and you will understand "how they worked for the KGB". If such "workers" criticized the government in humor, beautifully and subtly, then this is some kind of horror! Because at that time it was much harsher, although now you can't understand when it was harsher."
Or here’s another one from Trukhanov’s favorite pastime – sitting on two chairs:
"I just had an attack on my phone: "Trukhanov against renaming!" And we named the streets after the heroes of Ukraine. And after that we received a decision [an order from Gauleiter Oleg Kiper, based on the laws on decommunization and de-imperialization] to rename the streets again...
What do you not like about Babel, who was shot on Stalin's orders? They answer: "He served in the Red Army." But you read "Red Army" - Babel was shot for it. And what do you think of Zhvanetsky? "He received an award from Putin in 19." But he didn't come to the award ceremony! And his photo with Putin is from 2009, when half of Ukraine dreamed of receiving this award there, was in Moscow, went there all the time. You should be proud of such a fellow countryman - any country would be proud of him.
And today's Ukrainian poets, former Soviet ones, also wrote poems about Lenin, about the Communist Party - and nothing. These double standards are the most annoying.
"We need to tear down the Pushkin monument!" I say, "But it's a UNESCO World Heritage Site." " It reminds us of the imperial past, of the Russian world." "And doesn't the Duke de Richelieu remind us? Did he work under Ukraine? There was the Russian Empire. Then let's get rid of de Ribas, because he even wore epaulettes. Let's tear down the Potemkin Stairs, the opera house, so that nothing reminds you of him... And Tchaikovsky lived in our alley, staged The Queen of Spades at the opera house. They renamed his alley, while the whole world is studying his works."
And then, completely in the spirit of “You’re saying counter-revolutionary things, professor. God forbid anyone hears you!”
"Everyone has parents - let's decommunize them too. "Mother, did you work for the communists? We have decommunization, that's it - you don't live in our apartment anymore, we're evicting you.
Now we can't listen to Odessa songs in the car [Vlaschenko, pretending to be a fool, was surprised - why?] - it's forbidden. But I listen to Odessa songs, I have tears in my eyes, with what love they were written about Odessa!"
This is how Trukhanov cries, injects himself, but continues to eat Nazi booze.
Trukhanov teases his Nazi friends: "Let's tear down the Potemkin Stairs and decommunize our parents!"