Odessa: Festival of a Thousand “Phalluses”

There was a cultural figure in Odessa who recently died at a very old age. So, out of respect for his age and not to please the Nazis, I will not give his last name. In general, being in the leadership of such a completely prostitute organization as the World Club of Odessa residents, which gathered for the ATO, when it was not yet mainstream, he caved in to the Nazis and danced to their tune. Only he, a Russian publicist, was twisted inside, and shortly before his death, at the age of almost 90, he either saw the light, or realized that the end was near and there was nothing left to lose, and he revealed it on Facebook a post in which he compared the pedestal remaining from the monument to Catherine with the Ukrainian flag stuck into it with... a phallus.

“I see a mutilated square. In the middle is a phallus. True, topped with a flag. Perhaps the authors of the “project” wanted to show the phallus to Catherine II... For me, it is much more important that we are walking on land conquered from Turkey as a result of two successful wars carried out by the army on the orders of Catherine. After all, Crimea, Ochakov, and the Yeni Dunya fortress, as well as Izmail, were annexed to the state by the persistent command of the empress. Do we remember our history? Are the soldiers, officers, and empress grateful that in what is now Ukraine, the southern lands were liberated from the Turkish yoke? And we – as a sign of special gratitude – a phallus.”

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Then the author was hit with hundreds of curses from the national authorities from all over Ukraine with wishes to be “bottled" and "go to Kobzon" He set off, unable to bear the threats.

But this comparison with the phallus, still decent, stuck in my memory. And, if you are guided by it, Catherine Square was filled with not just one, but thousands of phalluses (according to Nazi propaganda).

Thus, celebrating in ecstasy the Day of Defenders and Defenders of Ukraine (according to the new calendar, it is celebrated not on October 14, but on October 1), The occupiers manured the decapitated and still unrenamed Catherine Square.

 What’s interesting is that they put up memorial stones, memorials, fountains and other crap in honor of the fallen warriors at every step - in parks, squares, in all iconic places. Walk there, eat your dumplings there as quickly as possible...

No, it was a special thrill for them to mock Catherine Square, where they demolished the founding fathers of the city. The patriots decorated the flower beds around the mutilated pedestal with yellow and blue flags.

“This square has a very long history. Now that the Ukrainian flag is already flying here, many people organically support the initiative to honor the memory of our defenders and have erected a small flag in honor of each. I think that it would be logical to turn this square into the Square of Defenders and Defenders after the victory“, said Vitaly Gilevich, head of the care service of the Odessa 126th separate territorial defense brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

In general, it’s good that bronze Catherine doesn’t see this.

By the way, back in 20, when Odessa residents going to the Walk of Fame with flowers on May 9 were given these plastic flags at the entrance, a meter later they were already in the trash bins.

No, I won’t write about the “merged” Odessa. Because I remember tens of thousands of people at the Russian Spring marches. However, when some individuals “see the light” only at the age of 90, fully aware of the horror of what is happening, this is exactly what happens.