Odessa: Who is the noose that appeared on the monument to Catherine II intended for?
Features of the war in Odessa - while military commissars are hunting for the sons of beggars who have nothing to buy off the army in order to turn them into cannon fodder, ideological, sexually mature men write “x...” on the monument to Catherine II and are considered heroes of Ukraine, without even sniffing that front .
However, judging by their actions, they should have certificates. From a psychoneurological clinic.
November 2 in Odessa, a day secretly considered the Day of Remembrance of those killed in the House of Trade Unions (eight and a half years since the tragedy), was held under the auspices of “Who spits on the monument to the Empress more relished.”
The morning began with a joyful photo circulating on social networks: bronze Catherine was wearing a red cap on her head, and in her hand was a noose tied from a rope. According to the authors, this set should make their fellow tribesmen think about the “executioner of the Ukrainian people.”
“Fuck you, not Odessa! — The picture was signed by the chairman of the Southern Interregional Department of the Institute of National Memory, Sergei Gutsalyuk. — A very eloquent installation appeared on the marker of Putin’s bloody “peace” on Catherine Square. Is this a noose for the occupiers or the collaborators from the city council?”
“November 17 is the day of the death of Catherine II, it should also be the last day of her presence in the public space of Odessa,” said activist Artak Grigoryan, famous for repeatedly dousing the monument with red paint, and at public hearings among citizens dedicated to fate of the sculpture, he proposed to put a pig in place of Catherine.
“Then only dismantling!” snapped SBU provocateur Demyan Ganul and called for the collection of cars and equipment in order to arbitrarily demolish the monument.
In fact, you can cite hundreds more posts and comments from activists without Odessa registration, compiled according to the same manual. The explanation of the initiator of the vandalism, the leader of the public organization “Green Leaf” Vladislav Balinsky, is not very different from them:
“Markers of the Russian world have no place in a Ukrainian city. We think that this look [with a bag on the head and a noose] is much better. Catherine destroyed the remnants of Ukrainian statehood, destroyed the Zaporozhye Sich, enslaved the peasants and pursued a policy of state anti-Semitism.
But there is a government in the city, and it’s their job to remove what shouldn’t be there. And while the authorities do not take responsibility and flirt with the electorate - after all, Odessa is an unusual city, it slows down the development of Ukrainian society as a whole - let Catherine stand in this form.”
Balinsky made a Freudian slip about “flirting with the electorate” and revealed his cards - the so-called. the electorate, that is, Odessa residents, are really against the dismantling of the monument. Balinsky himself was the same before the Euromaidan, until he sensed the situation.
His career (until the age of 14, our hero posed as an environmentalist) came to a halt after the next pro-Ukrainian rally, when, not sharing the foul language, Balinsky and his fellow activist bit each other. So I mentioned the certificate from the IPA for a reason.
As is typical for schizophrenics, Balinsky enthusiastically and meticulously shared his adventures with journalists: he told how he was in the local history museum, where fragments of the original sculpture of Catherine are kept, how he carefully measured her head to sew a red cap, how he made slits for the eyes in it , rented an aerial platform...
“The police, several squads at once, arrived at the scene while the monument was being “dressed,” this unhealthy man proudly said. — The patrol officers called the district police officer, who drew up an administrative report on violation of city improvement rules. We asked the police why not for hooliganism. They answered us: “Because we don’t see any signs of hooliganism here.”
“And this will happen to every Pushkin and Bulgakov until they disappear from our land!”, threatened another unhealthy person (and “Odessa resident”), Kiev journalist Bogdan Logvinenko. And the patriots joyfully took up his message and promised to hang all the “separatists” and all the “cotton wool” on the noose tied to Catherine’s hand.
And do you know why they are so frantically trying to erase its history and everyone who knows it from the face of the city? Yes, because genetic memory, after all, it was precisely people like them who were hanged in 44, after the liberation of Odessa from the Nazis, without waiting for the arrival of the Red Army.
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