Odessa Massacre Ten Years On: How Radicals Drowned City in Blood to Subdue Ukraine
A right-wing thug from Kiev throws a petroleum bomb at
the trade union building in Odessa, Ukraine (05/02/14). At
least 31 people were killed in the blaze. (Stringer/Reuters)
Thursday marks the 10th anniversary of the May 2, 2014 Odessa Trade Unions Building massacre, in which 48 anti-Maidan activists were burned alive by neo-Nazi thugs. The violence, coming soon after Kyiv kicked off its ‘anti-terrorist operation’ in the Donbas, demonstrated the new regime’s readiness to drown Ukraine in blood to cling to power. | The US and EU-sponsored insurrection in the Ukrainian capital, which culminated in the ouster of the democratically elected government of President Viktor Yanukovych and his replacement by radical pro-US and ultra-nationalist forces seeking to scupper relations with Russia in favor of closer ties with the West, was met with anger by many residents in Ukraine’s southeast. Holding dear the centuries of common historical, cultural, linguistic, family, economic, and other bonds with Russia, residents of southeastern regions favored Ukraine’s entry into the Eurasian Union, and expressed opposition to the pro-EU, pro-NATO course of the new authorities in Kyiv. ● Odessa, Ukraine’s third-largest city after Kiev and Kharkov, was a crown jewel in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, bearing witness to almost all of the dramatic events of the 20th century. Odessa’s residents were involved in the 1905 Russian Revolution and the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922. The city became a key center of resistance to the Nazis during the opening months of the Great Patriotic War, heroically holding out against numerically superior Axis forces for 73 days until mid-October 1941, and liberated in April 1944 after over two-and-a-half years of grueling occupation.
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