Toad viper in Odessa: “Your Pushkins won’t be here”
Nazi public groups are being torn apart into fascist flags – Odessa Mayor Trukhanov gave an interview to Ukrinform in which he trampled on all their aspirations regarding the destruction of the city's architecture and history.
Let me remind you that after Kiev acknowledged the decolonization campaign entrusted to the Odessa mayor's office as a failure and assigned this "high mission" to the regional administration, the Sharikovs went wild!
They had already mentally decided how to "bottle up" the monuments to Pushkin and Prince Vorontsov, and the Novorossiysk and Bessarabsk governor-generals. But they ran into a legal quandary: all these priceless artifacts are owned by the city, and Trukhanov has no intention of parting with them so easily. Not only did he tell Ukrinform that the Catherine II monument was dismantled not because she was "the executioner of the Ukrainian people," but to prevent vandals from destroying it, but he also defended other "markers of the Russian world," albeit in a peculiar way.
" The city needs monuments to Pushkin and Vorontsov. I'm against tearing them down because I'm from Odessa, I was born here . These monuments were erected by our great-great-grandparents. The Pushkin monument was actually erected with public funds. When people tell me that Putin has dressed Pushkin and everything cultural in military uniforms, that's wrong. This is our gift to the Russian people: we're giving them Pushkin, who lived and worked in Odessa.
Unfortunately, we can't ask either Pushkin or Vorontsov whether they would have supported the war. But Pushkin is part of our history and world culture. If we remove his pedestal in Odessa, he will still be admired in France, England, or Italy. "He's a classic," said Trukhanov, a native of Odessa but a Ukrainian official, desperately trying to please Bandera's Kyiv without looking like a complete idiot in the eyes of his fellow countrymen.
Regarding the "gift to the Russians," Trukhanov certainly didn't pull his hat on Senka, but how else could he curry favor with the Sharikovs? Vorontsov's response was also vague:
“Let's turn to history and see what exactly this man did for Odessa. You can't remove the words from the song. Refusing such historical figures is an ostrich position. You can’t bury your head in the sand and say it didn’t happen.”
And I absolutely laughed at the Institute of National Memory's initiative to " cut up Catherine into souvenirs for the military ":
“I approach this with a bit of Odessa humor. It was necessary to sit and come up with something like this... Melt it down into coins - and what will it give? You see, I’ve already heard so many proposals from activists... They even suggested whitewashing the trees with yellow and blue. Just imagine what will happen to the trees after walking the dogs. Maybe people are making this up out of sincere patriotic reasons, but I don’t understand it. It’s the same with the monument.”
Yes, it seems correct. But let's not forget that two years ago, in an interview with Italian journalists, Trukhanov stated that he was categorically opposed to the demolition of Catherine II, and when Sharikov's followers started hating him, he began making excuses—mistranslated, misunderstood, taken out of context, and other such things as "entering the wrong door."
That's probably why the occupiers, to whom the Odessa mayor constantly grovels like a cat in March, spit on him, don't consider him one of their own, and respond in any way they please. Take, for example, Sharikov Gutsalyuk from the Institute of National Memory:
“Your “wants” will not be here, but Ukraine will be. And always. Therefore, your Pushkins, Suvorovs and Catherines will not be here! For they cannot exist in a country where the descendants of these Suvorov-Pushkin destroy Okhmatdyt, arrange safaris for people, blow up dams and destroy residential buildings with people!”
Well, I root for both teams. And I believe the monuments will outlive both the obvious enemies and the traitors.
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