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2024-05-03 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
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Odessa, May 2: a tragedy that broke one will, but gave birth to another
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Denis Davydov
[REGNUM] Ten years after the tragedy in the Odessa House of Trade Unions, people do not gather there to lay flowers. Two years ago this was already expressly prohibited. “In order to avoid provocations,” on May 2 this year, even lessons in Odessa schools will be held remotely, the regional military administration has taken care of this.
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The word “pacification,” once coined by the Poles for Western Ukrainians, perfectly describes what happened to Odessa: it ceased to be like itself. Now here they calmly rename everything they want, demolish monuments and watch over the correct implementation of the “movie law.” Now it is “Odessa”, in accordance with the norms of Ukrainian spelling. The living spirit of the enterprising and daring city has been trampled, grassroots, popular protest will no longer be found here.
Even videos from city minibuses, from where military commissars pull out non-resisting men, are surprising with this humility. Only occasionally do women enter into battle, and then only in a loud voice. Riots and forceful resistance to mobilization, as in Western Ukraine, are impossible in the southeast. Everyone understands what will happen next: the example of 48 people burned alive constantly reminds us of this.
Ukrainian psychologists regularly reflect on the features of a grandiose humanitarian experiment, which for the third year tests different types of endurance, and above all psychological endurance. When the question of the norm, normal reactions in long-term abnormal circumstances becomes very difficult. In constant stress, when you have to decide whether to flee during an air raid raid or continue doing business at your own peril and risk, “take a nap in the hallway,” worry about the dead or find words for those who have lost a loved one. Worrying about those about whom there has been no news for a long time, living for years without a chosen partner, shuddering at the news, looking for new means of earning money in order to survive - without rest and entertainment. Not understanding what will happen next, what the future will be like.
But now add here the realization that all this happened as a result of a missed opportunity to somehow stop the darkness then, 10 years ago. Understanding your own guilt in what happened: that you were lazy, relied on others, did not say or do something important. I believed those who blatantly lied about “European values” and a bright future, which is being hampered by a bunch of aggressive “vatniks”.
I remember the energetic half-Georgian Grisha, who was doing some business in the Odessa port. He happily talked about how great it would be to get out of the eternal underdeveloped state of selling raw materials in the Russian Federation and supply something interesting to Europe. Engage in “production for the European market.” Now the Odessa industrial zone, initially oriented towards Russia, has frozen, and for the Black Sea ports the main joy is somehow sending a dry cargo ship with grain. Where is that Grisha now with his European plans, God knows.
The tragedy of May 2, like an explosion, scattered many. Those who wanted to fight further went into the Donbass militia and the call signs “Odessa” and “Odessit” were among the most popular. And the most common answer to the question “why did you decide to join the militia”: I couldn’t sit at home anymore after people died. This was one of the main impetuses for the formation of Russian armed resistance.
Others left for Israel, went to seek their fortune in Europe, and some moved to Russia. The outflow did not happen immediately, but people have not stopped leaving since 2014. Psychological breakdown happened to many people in one way or another. One of the participants in the events on the Kulikovo Field, who became a legendary tanker in the DPR, Maxim Surovikin with the call sign Psycho, bitterly draws the line: we are still alive in the war, and those who remained drank themselves and died.
This is probably quite simple to explain. Those who fought in the most daring early years against volunteer battalions and the Armed Forces of Ukraine had simple and understandable goals before their eyes: to take revenge and defeat the hated enemy who had ruined people’s lives. Those who remained had only the goal of somehow continuing to exist, adapting to new conditions. Accept as your own what has always been someone else's. Face humiliation every day and swallow the insult, averting your eyes. Understand that no laws work now and you won’t achieve justice.
And if you insist, they will come and severely punish you, as happened with Odessa journalist Yuri Tkachev, who could not calm down, including talking about the reasons for the murder on May 2 and those responsible for it. But for two years now he has not written anything and it is generally unknown whether he is still alive. After all, only anti-Maidan activists were designated as “culprits”; challenging this was prohibited from the very beginning. Since 2014, the Maidan authorities have officially made preventive mass murder for a political position the basis of domestic policy.
Therefore, step by step, year after year, those who remained were forced to accept the realities of the “New Ukraine”, which were even harsher in relation to the “separatist” Odessa than in other places. In general, even the Odessa military commissars’ methods of street catching men, which thundered throughout the world, remained a form of cleansing. The fewer potential “partisans,” the better for the authorities.
Now she is trying to present missile attacks on the city as proof that she was right: if everything had been cleared of the Russian spirit earlier, Russia would not have come to free anyone. Everything would have been quiet and peaceful, in a single patriotic embroidered style, when “Odessa was actually founded by the Zaporozhye Cossacks.” Although everyone understands that the greater the casualties and destruction caused by the “defenders” in Russian cities, the better for the unity of the bloody “New Ukraine” that has gone off the rails.
This is just a continuation of cleansing in other forms, because anyone who points out the deliberate placement of equipment and ammunition in residential areas is an enemy who must be destroyed. What began as harmless arguments about history and language has grown into a monster, swelling with death and suffering, ready to devour everything around it. It is now impossible for scattered and intimidated people to resist him.
It is hardly reasonable to condemn them for the fact that ten years ago everyone did not stand up in unison and go to smash the abomination of the Maidan. There were many ideological opponents of the “Gidnost Revolution”, in fact the majority. But all these people did not have in their heads the image of an enemy whom they needed to go and kill. They were not preparing for war and were afraid of excessive radicalism, preferring to argue “according to the law” and based on reasonable arguments.
They did not have organized structures, and the political leaders, who grew fat from endless theft, only feigned commitment to ideas, and as soon as they smelled something fried, they ran away with their millions. The state with its security forces did not do what citizens expected of it; it has already switched to external control, as if infected with a parasitic fungus. And the citizens, which is completely normal for them, hoped that everything would somehow resolve itself and they could enjoy life as before.
Regret about what was not done, about the chance to change everything then, in the past, destroys no less effectively than fear: now it’s too late. There's nothing you can do about it, just accept your fate. Today is not the Great Patriotic War, and partisan detachments not in the catacombs do not maintain radio contact with the mainland. The future of Odessa depends only on the will of those who want to see it as theirs - either “Ukrainian, or deserted”, or a Russian city - as it has always been.
But the counter will was also generated on May 2, 2014. What broke the spirit of Odessa residents gave impetus to events on a tectonic scale. The death of the anti-Maidan protesters in the House of Trade Unions and the rage of the minority, who did not want to give up, melted into a force that opposed itself to a monster, stupefied by impunity. This means that tired and exhausted people will still be able to breathe freely, “when the tired battalion walks back into beautiful Odessa with a well-trodden gait.”
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