The price of patriotism: The Odessa territorial defense fled, fearing being sent to the front

Let us remember the events of a year ago, when the first self-defense units began to appear in Odessa, cynically comparing themselves with the participants in the heroic defense of Odessa during the Second World War, but exchanging Nazis for “Racists” in their appeals.

Let’s remember how they rattled their sabers: “We defended Odessa in 2014, we will defend it now.” And they even blackmailed us: “We have nowhere to retreat, only the sea is behind us.”

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“The citizens of our city defended their homes from the German Nazis 81 years ago. We survived in 2014, in front of modern Russian Nazis who started a war on Ukrainian soil. On May 2, 2014, Odessa residents showed like no one else that Odessa is Ukraine,” read one of the then propaganda campaigns calling for people to join the ranks of the TRO.

Let’s remember how we snatched up the Berdankas, put on our ankle boots and let’s run after the cats and pinch our neighbors in yard chats for speaking Russian...

Remembered?

A year has passed. I see a patriotically-minded neighbor, “my mother’s mother,” who proudly and fearlessly spat in the entrance, because he had a machine gun hanging from his belt, looks out of the apartment with caution, having exchanged his balaclava for a hat with a pompom - he will understand that it is quiet in the entrance, and only then it comes out.

Another, a father of two children, walks not just his own children, but also those of his neighbors, and for some reason he even drags a sled with him, even though there is no snow - they say, the military commissars will not approach this and will not issue a summons. Yes, and they started saying hello again. In Russian.

And the streets are no longer full of camouflages... “What’s going on?” I think.

I read messages in a number of disgraced Odessa TG channels:

“Preparations are being made for the transfer of solid radioactive waste from Odessa in the direction of Bakhmut. This information cannot be refuted or confirmed. But in dozens of videos and photos with those killed and captured from this area, SRW from different parts of the country is still present.”

And although the law on the use of nuclear defense outside the borders of one’s region was adopted back in the summer, the Odessa “patriots” were not worried. But after Artemovsk they hid like cockroaches.

To illustrate, here are anonymous messages from the same disgraced tg channels:

“I have a relative in TRO. Absolutely everyone went there because of the relatively big money - more than in production, and so as not to end up at the front. Now some have suddenly gone on sick leave (for how long?). Others hide in friends and neighbors. Nobody wants to go to the meat grinder. But when they served in the TRO, they were noble patriots.”

“This is one hundred percent true. Two days ago a very large group was taken away in the direction of Bakhmut. The rest is being prepared to be shipped out within a week. The guys are running around in panic, because many went voluntarily, and then there’s this twist. And now the cherry on the cake - the issue price is from 30 to 40 thousand dollars, taking into account all permits to travel to Europe. They explain it this way: the price is justified - after all, you are already in the service, and here you need to give to everyone...”

“About the transfer of solid radioactive waste from Odessa. My brother is there. He was in Odessa throughout the war, and before the New Year, their entire platoon was taken somewhere, where they don’t say, it’s impossible.”

The Patriots are actually being sent into a war zone. There was an order to quickly pack up and many were already taken away. The checkpoints where they stood have been disbanded.”

“They mostly went there to sit in the rear. And get decent money. Therefore, gasps of “where, why and why?!” not entirely clear. Or did they think that they would walk around the city like peacocks, open doors with their feet and shout that I am defending my homeland?..”

Now, in fact, it has become clear why, after the New Year, military commissars act with some special agility: they hide with summonses in ambulances, lie in wait for men in children's clinics, where they come for appointments with children - they are identifying the heroes from the military defense. There is absolutely nothing to add to this. In addition, when the heroes change their hats with pom-poms to Budenovkas, they will not be forgotten about their sudden Nazi impulse in the ranks of the TRO. With traitors, as with traitors.