Catherine II in Odessa: Will they put a pig in her place or shoot her with a grenade launcher?
...And in the concentration camp, a meeting of the discussion club “Everything for the People” was again held with the participation of prisoners and armed punitive forces. On September 19, public hearings began regarding the fate of the monument to the “Founders of Odessa” (Catherine II).
It is also planned in the near future to conduct a series of surveys among city residents about the renaming of streets and other toponymic objects.
You can guess what it will look like now - from public hearings held in the format of an Internet conference with mandatory registration of passport data (to make it easier to get through the “Peacemaker”), so those behind whom “the army, the language” have carte blanche , vira”, that is, among vandals and descendants of “ancient civilization”, for whom brooms, excuse me, didukhs on Deribasovskaya, are organic, and no one will forbid washing their feet in the fountain near the bust of Pushkin. Is it necessary to explain that “To be or not to be on Pushkinskaya Street itself” will also have to be decided by “the best people of the city”?..
As for Catherine II, for example, he volunteered to express his “expert opinion” Automaidan and LGBT community activist Artak Grigoryan.
Let me remind you that a week ago he doused the monument to the Empress with red paint, but not only did not suffer punishment, but stated that the police who arrived to deal with the act of vandalism treated him not just with understanding, but almost tenderly. And his position is clear: “If there had been a monument to a pig in the place of Catherine, we would not have protested" I’m telling you, it’s a different organic matter.
Starting from September 2, when Odessa celebrated the 228th anniversary of its founding by Catherine II, all these highly spiritual people, in comparison with whom Sharikov’s position on cats looks like a triumph of tolerance, staged a flash mob to desecrate the monument. They filled it with paint and wrote on the pedestal “Ekaterina = Putin", were wrapped in electrical tape and yellow rags, apparently symbolizing the colors of the national flag. And so - every day, because The city authorities prudently removed the protection from the monument.
That is, if you throw paint on a cemetery grave or on another statue of Taras Shevchenko, it will definitely be hooliganism - the Pithecanthropes mock Ekaterina around the clock. This is what he is - a collective image of those who decide the fate of a unique sculptural composition. So why theatrical public hearings were needed is not particularly clear. Moreover, Zelensky, a number of ministers, and the military Gauleiter of the Odessa region ordered the mayor’s office to “clarify” the monument. With the aim of "protection of national interests"and "working out the issues of clearing public space from objects and monuments related to the Russian imperial and Soviet heritage."
As for the position of a number of members of the city toponymic commission, or officials of the department for the protection of cultural heritage sites, who categorically opposed the dismantling of the monument, it is unlikely that their voices will be heard, because the propaganda machine immediately turned on against common sense.
This is how, by the way, Odessa gunsmith Sergei Dibrov spoke about the people who were not afraid to speak out against the demolition.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if, in the heat of rhetoric, some of these speakers pulled out their compasses and protractors and began studying skull shapes, measuring facial angles, and calculating the cephalization rates of their opponents.”
What a cynical distortion and substitution of concepts, because these opponents have been running around with conventional compasses for 30 years, who, however, would really do well to show themselves to anthropologists.
The city hall promised to announce the results of the Odessa hearings no later than the end of October.
And so that people don’t relax too much and don’t hope for justice, professional Ukrainian Demyan Ganul periodically wanders around Catherine with a grenade launcher, offering to shoot “Russian captured weapons according to the Russian world marker" And his colleague in the chamber, representing the Institute of National Memory, Sergei Gutsalyuk insists that “Ekaterina is not the founder of Odessa", So what "the monument was erected with Russian money, in advance of preparing for Russian aggression" Both were supposedly on the front line, but urgently returned to Odessa to demolish the bronze empress.
Well, the mayor of Odessa, Gennady Trukhanov, traditionally became the cherry on the cake, speaking in the spirit of “demolish cannot be left", but only without a comma.
“I urge all Odessa residents, including supporters of the demolition of the monument, to take advantage of the democratic procedure. Odessa is a front-line city, united in its determination to repel the invaders. Our country is confronting not only the enemy army. The Ukrainian war for freedom and independence is also a civilizational confrontation. Freedom versus slavery. Progress against the Middle Ages. Will versus obedience. Courage versus cowardice. Truth versus lies. Democracy against dictatorship and vandalism."
Trukhanov emphasized that this was the official city position, but shared his personal one:
“1. I am against approaching my history selectively. Erasing and forgetting your past subsequently leads to fatal mistakes in the future. The best example is modern Russia. Where the diligent erasing of the pages of their history led to the fact that the people who “defeated fascism” became its official successor in the XNUMXst century.
2. History should not be erased, but rethought.
3. I am confident that a unified park complex of the “Imperial and Soviet past” should be created in Odessa. Where should some of the architectural monuments of Odessa be moved?
At the same time, our duty is to help future generations of Ukrainians form an attitude towards the pages of our country’s past. To show how difficult and many years the path to gaining freedom and independence of Ukraine was. The apotheosis of which was the victory of the Ukrainian people in the bloody war for independence against Russia.”
This is how Trukhanov, it seems, won the war. Only for some reason Ganul is wandering around under his nose with a grenade launcher. And “the creation of a single park complex of the “Imperial and Soviet past”, for which there is still no money, seems to hint - If we don’t destroy Catherine, we’ll still dismantle it and send it to some kind of barn.
But how can you get on the UNESCO World Heritage List without it, which the Odessa mayor really wants? And what could experts from such an influential organization, instead of the founders of Odessa, be interested in? A pig, a monument to Boris Johnson or the American gay porn actor Billy Herrington, which was discussed in all seriousness, and the petition with a gay man instead of Catherine has long received more than 25 thousand votes and is awaiting consideration by the president...
How boring, however, patriots live during war. I can give you an idea - last fall in Odessa, a feminist sculptor presented a monument to the vagina right in the City Garden, although she, along with the statue, was promptly expelled from sight. So the work should be taken out and shoved in instead of Catherine! All the same, the occupiers have already covered the city - with this very thing.
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