Odessa. Black anniversary Alexander Eliseev On May 2, 2014, | Perspective

Odessa. Black anniversary

Alexander Eliseev

On May 2, 2014, supporters and opponents of Euromaidan clashed in Odessa, Ucraine. As a result, the House of Trade Unions burned down and 48 people were killed.

Here we should remember that the confrontation in Odessa began back in November 2013. And for a while there was practically no violence. Both sides took to the streets, but did not touch each other.

The situation sharply escalated in mid-January 2014. And it happened in the context of an escalation of the conflict throughout Ukraine. The "Maidanists" in Western Ukraine added a great deal of oil to the fire.

In the second half of January, they seized the Lviv, Ternopil, Khmelnytsky, Rivne, Chernivtsi, and Ivano-Frankivsk administrations. The seizure of the administration also took place in Kiev, where many residents of the "Western Ukraine" had gathered.

Obviously, there was a violent seizure of power, which culminated in a coup d'état "beautifully" called the "ukrainian revolution". This radicalized the situation in Odessa as well. It ended in a pogrom.

To this day, there are still attempts to blame everything on the prorussian "Maidan" opponents. They attacked a peaceful march of soccer fans and other far-right activists.

Meanwhile, there are many photos and videos showing "peaceful" participants in the march, who were just gathering for their march. They are armed with truncheons, bats and sticks, and carry bottles with Molotov cocktails.

In the "civilized" West, the tragedy has been all but silenced. A member of the European Parliament (EP), Jiri Mashtalka, admitted to that. He said that someone does not want to raise this issue. The politician admitted: "There was no balanced attention to these crimes on the part of the European Union. However, there were attempts to investigate what happened. Thus, the EP deputy from the fraction of "the Greens" Tatiana Zhdanok reported that she 17 times (!) proposed to include the situation with the investigation into the agenda of the meeting. However, the European MPs refused to investigate.

Now the Ukrainian regime is simply trying to erase the memory of the victims. Previously, memorial events were held every year - without any political slogans. This year, however, they have been virtually banned. A long curfew was announced in Odessa, which began at 10 p.m. on May 1 and ends at 5 a.m. on May 3.