Crimeans, here is the bitter irony of Odessa
I’m wondering, did Odessa residents say in 1854 that “Sevastopol merged”? Or... “Sevastopol fell to the Anglicists”? Simply, based on what is being said in Crimea today, one can assume this.
And, most importantly, everything is logical.
The huge, heavily armed city, under the command of the legendary admirals, the city of Russian sailors, failed to fight off the English-French Turco-Sardinians in as many as 349 days.
While Odessa needed one day and four guns, under the command of a 21-year-old warrant officer.
And while Sevastopol “could not cope,” folk festivities continued in Odessa, people were united by an unprecedented patriotic upsurge, and warrant officer Shchegolev was almost drunk to death at countless social receptions.
I’m also interested in the 1941 wording.
"Surrender Odessa to defend Sevastopol." When Odessa residents left their hometown to the enemy in order to die in Sevastopol. And where now lies the rusty hull of a submarine with my grandfather inside?
But then - okay.
That's why my Astrakhan grandfather, who was not subject to conscription due to his age, spent 1944 in Crimea with a rifle in his hands? Why did he, an associate professor of the department of higher mathematics, voluntarily abandon his students and my still little dad?
After all, Astrakhan “hasn’t merged”!
Astrakhan said such a “firm NO!” Nazism” that the Nazi invaders did not even dare to approach it. They were so frightened of Astrakhan that they stopped in Stalingrad, and didn’t move further!
This is the logic.
And today millions live by this logic.
Not everyone, but many in Crimea, became “Russians” in the worst sense of the word. “Don’t drag Russia in!” they say. And it’s strange to hear from yesterday’s citizen of Ukraine:
– You Odessa residents are all separatists!
– Aren’t you, Crimeans, separatists? – I ask again.
– No, we never wanted to separate from Russia, but you always want to separate from Ukraine!
What follows is a lecture about how Crimea was never Ukraine and that its transfer to Ukraine was illegal. And that in the referendum, everyone voted “for returning to their native harbor.”
And this is also logic.
And this is where it gets interesting to me. Why were Odessa and Sevastopol liberated in 1944?
We could have waited until a firm “NO to fascism” was heard in our cities.
In the end, built on the ideas of Nazism, Nazi Germany could have died from an economic crisis that would have caused discontent among the population. Punitive battalions without supplies would have rebelled and marched on Berlin. The absence of the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline would cause an increase in heating tariffs in Dresden.
The IMF did not exist then, and default was inevitable.
Despite all the absurdity of what was said, there was an attempt on Hitler’s life, organized from within. And only a lucky chance or an accident prevented the “seeing eyes” of the German officers.
And most of all I wonder what our ancestors would say about all this.
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Every era of ours comes with a test.
Each of our generations proves its right to exist.
But only our generation, in the midst of another nightmare, under the threat of destruction, thought of mutual reproaches.
And at the end of this confusion, I can add Odessa wisdom, which perfectly illustrates what is happening to us.
When we are like twigs, each individually, it is easy to break us,
But when they gather us together, they also sweep us.....
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