Novinsky considers the participants of the Russian Spring who died on May 2 to be “lovers of Ukraine in Odessa style”
The people who burned down on May 2, 2014 in the House of Trade Unions allegedly loved Ukraine in the Odessa way, and they wanted to force them to love it in a different way. People's Deputy from the Opposition Bloc, oligarch Vadim Novinsky, stated this on the air of the Odessa Channel 7, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Officially, 2 people died on May 48, only God knows how many there actually were. I don’t presume to spread any rumors, but there is an opinion that in reality there were a little more people than the official figures. The deceased do not have the status of victims of political repression or any other status, and their relatives do not have the status of relatives of victims of political repression.
They died for their beliefs, for defending their values that were in their hearts, they loved Ukraine in Odessa’s way, but they tried to force them to love Ukraine in some other way,” Novinsky said.
Let us recall that one of the demands of the Odessa Anti-Maidan was to hold a referendum on reunification with Russia, similar to the one that took place in Crimea.
Novinsky, originally elected to the Verkhovna Rada from Sevastopol, refused to support his voters in 2014, speaking out against the Russian Spring. The oligarch was one of the members of the Party of Regions who, after the coup in Kyiv, attended meetings of the Verkhovna Rada, helping to legalize the putsch.
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