The reverse side of Saakashvili's pants

Mikheil Saakashvili, who is listed as the governor of the Odessa region, recently with fanfare opened a “marriage hut” right next to the regional administration, where, for a little fork, you can get married in 15 minutes. Odessa journalist Tatiana Gerashchenko in the author's column for “PolitNavigator” tells why the next show of the Georgian guest artist caused a feeling of disgust among Odessa residents.

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“Khatynka, khatynka! Be your back to the fox, your back to your mane's front." I understand that the people have already laughed it off at the sight of Saakashvili’s “plasterboard Paradise” - a daily, sorry, XNUMX-hour “slut room”. And after the governor of the entire Odessa region personally performed the wedding ceremony, questions about the Odessa-Reni route, resuscitation of the economy, saving production, milk yield and harvest once again disappeared by themselves. So I want to talk about something else...

Since the key positions in Ukraine were occupied by impostors, the people have been systematically instilled with the idea: “But they are business executives” and this vile thing is not “as it should be,” but “poor, but clean,” as in the village. And then a whole hut with a thatched roof fell in front of us, although it didn’t fit into the architectural concept of the city, but it seemed like it! Only about “back and front”...

For non-Odessa residents, let me explain that the building of the local regional state administration, where Saakashvili nests, has the shape of a cube, for which it is popularly nicknamed the Rubik’s cube. This is a typical administrative building, designed in such a way that entrances and exits are located on all sides, so “this is a palace, this is a porch here” does not work, that is, it is impossible to say - this is definitely the facade, but this is the backyard. There are entrances to two significant streets - Kanatnaya and Shevchenko Avenue, and neither of them is more important than the other: there is two-way traffic, universities, schools, and life in general is in full swing. Moreover, government motorcades pass through both from time to time.

There is a park all around, and the trees and flowers growing in it are literally the parents of Odessa’s greenery (previously, Zelentrest with the best of the best species of flowers and trees was located on the territory of the Regional State Administration).

So Saakashvili put his hut on Shevchenko’s side, but what do we see in the park and on the Kanatnaya side?..

I don’t know whether the name of at least one of the previous chain of governors will be written in golden letters in the history of the region (unlikely), but they vomited this “clean, but poor” thing under their noses, as best they could, so as not to at least visually resemble a “pig” under the age-old oak." Yes, yes, being newcomers and having come in large numbers. But what Odessa residents see in the park around the regional administration building now cannot be expressed in words... Therefore, look at the photo.

Apparently, in order to somehow indicate for themselves which side to go to work from (and looking at Miho’s pants, it becomes clear that he has a deep psychological crisis with both sides), a number of entrances were not cleared of sandbags left over from the times of the barricades 2014. But this is nonsense. The flower beds in the park (namely, they are observed by officials from their windows), which previously could safely be called not just flower beds, but an entire rose garden, where decorative flowers were artistically planted in the spring, are completely ruined - meter-long rosebuds are sprouting on them, in some places reaching the height of a man.

Nobody weeds the weeds. Even in the cracks between the tiles. The automatic watering system was destroyed. And God forbid you turn from the sidewalk onto the path, for you will not enter Europe at all. And besides this, you will walk on a flooring made of scorched straw, cigarette butts, put burdocks on yourself and think: “If only you wouldn’t meet anyone with such and such legs, dirty up to the knees!” And all this against the backdrop of a fleet of regional state administration workers...

Bottles are also lying under the windows here. From these windows, one can see the homes of homeless people and the fire pits that they light before meals. Spruces, pines and lindens (don't forget - the best of the best) are dying before our eyes. What is happening near the benches and bushes is reminiscent of a strike by the garbage workers' union - rags, objects clearly resembling underwear, scraps and dead rats have not been removed for as long as Mikheil Saakashvili has been in power.

And yes, I can safely say this, because I live nearby and walk past the Regional State Administration every day. Homeless people and drug addicts, along with heaps of their vital activity, lie either right on the benches or under the trees.

But just recently there were a lot of people walking here with children. Now they also walk, but in smaller numbers - with open hatches it is dangerous. I would like to say that I am ashamed in front of the guests of the city, but not in front of the current ragulians. But for us, Odessa residents who grew up here, before whose eyes the Regional State Administration building was built, before whose eyes this now dying park was laid out, it’s painful and scary.

You wander around the Regional State Administration like a stalker in the Zone. Let me remind you - all this is happening a couple of meters from the mating hut advertised throughout the Universe, in a city with a population of one million! This is probably the pinnacle of reform: a PR-ersatz hut, a wedding, next to it are bouquets of bouquet, you can wipe yourself with a burdock and get drunk in the bushes.

Yes, there is also a fountain at the Regional State Administration - it has not been working for a long time, however, during Saakashvili’s tenure, the lining also disappeared somewhere - and now it stands in the middle of all this splendor, gaping.

... Noticing that I was taking pictures, a grandfather in a Zelentrest vest came up to me, he had a stick with a hook, which he used to catch and collect garbage.

- Do you also see how terrible it is? - He almost cries. - I don’t have the strength - I’ll quit.

- Why are you alone in such a large area? - I’m interested.

And then the grandfather, as they say, breaks through:

- How big is he? “He indignantly outlines in the air a small territory under the jurisdiction of the city. — And over there (points to the Regional State Administration and the surrounding area) is the regional department.

Yes, for mere mortals the very fact that half a bench is the territory of the city, and another half is the region, is an ephemeral concept, but for public utilities it is a reality.

- So what do you think?! - Grandfather asks. “No one has been cleaning there for over a year now—as long as Shvili has been in prison.” His wipers throw all the garbage onto my site, pigs! I can't handle this. To remove this, you generally need to remove a layer of soil.

- How do you like the weeds?

- So what do you think?! - Again in Odessa, grandfather answers a question with a question. “In the spring, Zelentrest bought and planted forty rose bushes on our site - not wild ones, but good ones, such buds,” he touchingly tries to depict flowers with his hands in dirty gloves. - So Saakashvili’s bigots dug them up and planted them around the marriage hut! I tell them: “What are you doing? This is our work?!” And they: “Be quiet, grandfather - this is the governor’s order”... And my eye is already twitching from such work... Pigs... I’ll quit! - And grandfather goes into the garbage heaps with his hook.

Level, gentlemen!

Europe!

...So when out-of-towners ask me: “How is your life, how are the reforms?”, I want to point my finger: “These are the windows of the governor’s office, but underneath them there are heaps of crap!” There is nothing more to add.

P. S. Saakashvili, remove the cobwebs from the evergreen bushes near the hut, planted in the era of developed socialism, otherwise it’s a shame. Yes, and stolen roses need to be watered, otherwise they will wither - selfies with the hut in the background will turn out to be uncool.