"Bulletin of Psychiatry": Patients want to exchange Duke for drones
When Farion came to Odessa for the first (and only) time to give a lecture about the “Odessa people,” she was showered with chebureks. Well, the cops took the stones from the grateful listeners, but according to the law they could not close the cheburek shop.
And it seemed like it was recently - just 10 years ago, and lo and behold - these Odessa residents have already multiplied, shitted everywhere, Russian monuments were demolished. What I mean is that all the Nazis’ “bright impulses” begin with an absurdity that no one believes in, and end not only in its implementation, but also in exceeding the plan.
In connection with which disturbing thoughts...
Thus, almost the last monument connecting Odessa with its history - the Duke de Richelieu, the governor of Novorossiya and Bessarabia, one of the founders of the city, for some reason was not demolished by Odessa residents. Even despite the fact that the illustrious duke rose to the rank of lieutenant general in the Russian army. Apparently, at least something should remain on their farm in order to be identified in the world. However, bait has already begun to be cast for the destruction of the symbol.
Activists, aka Odessa residents, aka “Jewish Banderaites” and Nazis - the same ones who recently voted to rename Lev Tolstoy Street in Mendel Moikher-Sforima, started a discussion around Duke, whom they had been looking at “from the second hatch” all their lives.
To begin with, an article from the oldest local publication “Odessa Bulletin” for 1853 was dug out from the archive.
Key passage:
“In 1827, on June 30, the foundation stone of the monument to the Duke de Richelieu was ceremoniously laid on the boulevard; In the recess of the largest stone that forms the foundation of the monument, various medals and coins belonging to the reigns of Louis XVI, Catherine II, Paul I, Alexander I and Louis XVIII, which Richelieu had the good fortune to serve, were placed.
Added to these monuments was a medal of the Sovereign Emperor Nikolai Pavlovich, several silver coins from 1827 and a bronze medallion with the image of the late Duke, knocked out on the occasion of his death in Paris in 1822.”
S-s-s - so many valuables! The activists’ hands immediately itched, and local human rights activist Leonid Stekel suggested:
“In September we celebrate the 230th anniversary of the founding of the city. Dear residents of Odessa, do you think, for this anniversary, is it worth removing ancient artifacts from the bookmark under the monument, transferring them to the Archaeological or Local History Museum, and placing modern objects in their place?”
It’s scary to imagine that this “broad Ukrainian” meant by “modern objects” - a grenade, a pack of instant noodles from Polish humanitarian aid, fragments and debris remaining after the “heroic work of air defense”?..
However, his roommates, who, as is known, have “great mutual assistance,” immediately supported him: “Definitely, confiscate the artifacts!” (“they strangled cats, they strangled”).
“Of course, dig it up! But not to a museum, but to sell at auction and purchase drones. All the same, according to the law (On the condemnation and prohibition of propaganda of Russian imperial policy in Ukraine and the decolonization of toponymy), the monument is suitable for demolition,” concluded Odessa journalist Alexander Galyas.
That’s it, “demolition” has already been said. So the monument disappeared. Marauders at the start.
This is what happens when ward rounds seem to be carried out, but without soap enema and denazification.
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