“Even if they kill me, but I will come out”: Odessa rises to defend the monument to Catherine

Tatiana Gerashchenko – one of the few Russian journalists who remained and continue to work in Odessa under conditions of terror, was recently attacked in the very center of the city – the scumbag, pretending to be a robbery, struck her several times in the temple.

Despite serious injuries, Tatyana, like many Odessa residents, is going to a court hearing on December 27, where the fate of the main symbol of the city, the monument to its founders and Catherine the Great, will be decided.

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A few but well-trained gangs of Nazis are planning to suppress the actions of Odessa residents.

Tatyana Gerashchenko spoke in an interview with a columnist about the fact that there is nowhere else to retreat, that there is no choice, and that Odessa is a Russian city. PolitNavigator to Valentin Filippov.

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Valentin Filippov: Hello, Tan. What's going on, how are you holding up?   

Tatiana Gerashchenko: Hello. I don’t even know how, to be honest. But I'm holding on. On friends.

Valentin Filippov:  Well, you have adventures all the time. Is this attack on you just hooliganism? Just a crime, right?  

Tatiana Gerashchenko: Personally, I think this is really, stop. We will proceed from logic, from how many years I actually worked as a crime journalist. 15-20 years, I don’t even remember exactly.

But the horror is that a lot of people, good people, normal people, said that they just don’t knock three times on the temple. I got it pretty cool. So, they tell me, they kill.

Valentin Filippov:  You know, now these gopniks are not professional.  

Tatiana Gerashchenko: I, too, am inclined to gopnik. But here it is.

Valentin Filippov:  It used to be that Gopniks were able to knock someone out with one blow and take away everything they needed.  

Tatiana Gerashchenko: I didn't pass out with one hit. In an incomprehensible way. They finished me off with two more. But you understand, if you just, well, snatch the bag and run, right?

Valentin Filippov:  Not. Well, you'll remember it. And we have Odessa women, as soon as they grab hold of it, they will still catch up.   

Tatiana Gerashchenko: This is not the first time I have been robbed. It’s just that I’ve never been hurt like that before. Sorry, they hit where it hurt the most. They broke my face. OK. You don't see, thank you God. Anyone who has seen it can appreciate it.

Okay, let's get down to business.

Valentin Filippov: Okay, Tanyusha. Listen, what is happening now in Odessa, regarding the monument to Catherine the Second, don’t you think that Kyiv has decided to rock Odessa? That I really want Odessa to also be included in the list of hot spots...

Tatiana Gerashchenko: You know, it seems to me that I have decided. Decided. It’s not us who decide all these things. Unfortunately, our life is primitive people about primitive people. Yes? How did Donbass begin to break away? From a question about language. Although, perhaps, it was not the main thing then. The problems were deeper. But this is what is on the surface.

The same thing happens to Catherine. That's it, it would seem. Any other problems? Well, shouldn’t I give a fuck about her, for example? And it’s tearing my soul. This is what I stood on and what I stand on. Because I understand perfectly well that at any second they could just come and take me to a pre-trial detention center. Like Lenka Romanov. Understand? Any second. My child is set up for this. But I will declare it: Odessa is a Russian city. Understand?

Yes, they hit the sore spot. That's why people gathered. Why I wrote that post - let’s remember the requiem from the Walk of Fame. What's the difference? For us, Russian people, normal people, and not those who fight over nonsense, it’s all the same. They killed us and beat us on all fronts. But I will not give up either the Walk of Fame, or the fallen soldiers, or Catherine. Will not give it back. And I'm sure people will come. Here I come, beaten.

Valentin Filippov:  What is the purpose of this buildup? Is it to identify the last ones like you? Shall I bring you under the article?    

Tatiana Gerashchenko: I have this point of view, excuse me, maybe I’m crazy, maybe I’m paranoid, so that later there will be a way to justify it when we retreat to Russia. That's what I want to tell you.

What are they doing? Now all the people will come out. Any. Orthodox, communist, soviet, any. He will come out. They have already brought us under such Hell and trash, this is from the “Crimea is ours” section, an indulgence, so that there is a way to justify ourselves. They no longer know how to pull it off. They don't know how to save the last bastion. Roller, this is the sea. That's all already. What's going on here? Should there be the cruiser Aurora?

Valentin Filippov: Cruiser "Moscow".   

Tatiana Gerashchenko: They killed us, we are dead, we are zombies, we are all crazy, we are in pain, if only you knew what is happening to all of us now. If only you knew what is happening with the local “cotton wool”. And when we calm down a little, they hit us in a new way. They know that, of course, we will go.

I also held out for two weeks. I think to hell with you. I'll go and do what I do as an editor. I'll forget about everything. And then I understand - of course, I will be there. First.

And this is all so that we will break away, and they will need an excuse. Here's my opinion.

Valentin Filippov: Listen, I noticed our wonderful little tattooed one-eyed monkey, Seryozha Sternenko, what is he? Is Oleg Gubar starting to get threatened?   

Tatiana Gerashchenko: I can’t tell you here, I’m not a friend of Oleg Gubar. But after the attack on me... We had the wildest pain when Grisha Kvasnyuk died, and to experience the very fact of how we spent it, what grief it was. And the fact that after the attack on me, they started calling Simisinova and saying that “You are next.” In general, anything is possible. But I will not mystify or fantasize.

Valentin Filippov:  Our readers both in Kyiv and Moscow, they do not understand the Odessa situation a little. That we have different fascists, and they are all on a commercial basis. Including. In addition to the fact that one is protected by the governor, another by the chief of police, a third by the prosecutor’s office, a fourth by the SBU…. The fifth is covered by our Odessa City Hall, which is considered “cotton,” right?

Do city authorities take any part in all this?

By and large, the monument to Catherine is on their balance sheet.     

Tatiana Gerashchenko: Let me tell you - in one word: - Scumbag.

Valentin Filippov:  In short, they are frozen and out of business.  

Tatiana Gerashchenko: Yes.

Valentin Filippov: How do you see this picture further? I understand, well, come out. Let's say everything is without blood. Everything is quiet.   

Tatiana Gerashchenko: You understand, I really see the picture - either die or have a fracture. This is how I see the picture.

This is already such rot. I am disgusted and terrible by all these beauties who tell me from Russia, from Crimea, from Donbass, about “merged Odessa.”

I myself understand perfectly well that Odessa is a city of traders. Not without it. It is there. But, I remember myself, as we walk, I remember the Russian Spring, I remember the people who are nearby. You are not here now, but those who are here remain. As we go. We walk past Orthodox churches, how they call us back, how church ministers and priests come out with us. As we walk past the synagogues, these guys in hats with sidelocks also walk with us. I remember how everyone joined us, from gopniks to some women with dogs.

And here we go.

I remember this.

On the other hand, well, how can I explain to you the effect of the same Medushevskaya? Where does this come from? I won't explain it. Why is there so much shit, supposedly from the elite, from bohemia, who write, like, think, yes. How she positions herself.

I will say one thing, it’s just that once upon a time only journalists and printers were taught in Lviv. And only because of this this scum has multiplied among us.

Valentin Filippov:  Oh, I'll bet. You know, all these Medushevskys, Gopis, you remember, think about who they are. By age and their life history. These are the guys from OMK. These are Komsomol members. Komsomol entertainment. Association of youth clubs.  

Tatiana Gerashchenko: Exactly! But, my dear, we were buried by a later generation. Lvov had already learned them.

Valentin Filippov: Yes, they had never been to Lvov in their lives.   

Tatiana Gerashchenko: This is what destroyed Odessa. There really is no Odessa now. There we are. Unhappy, killed. You understand that we can't do anything. Well, I’ll do something, how will it end? The fact that I either get fucked on the head or get arrested. Understand? So what can I do? Tell me.

Valentin Filippov: Tanya, I can tell you that you can. You must wait. And you must save the children. Protect the child.   

Tatiana Gerashchenko: I’m saving a child, but it’s difficult for me to answer such questions. You understand where everything started to dance. Someone shapes public opinion, there are opinion leaders. Let's remember Derevianko (Boris Derevianko was killed in 1997). And let us remember what happened after his death. When Grisha Kvasnyuk had not yet become a star. Remember who was on horseback here? Graduates of this Lvov, so to speak, institute. They are the same as the limit. They are flawed. They formed all this for us. And they buried Odessa completely.

What about us? But we didn’t know. We have one relaxation. Go to the sea and admire the two balls. Understand. And these were vigilant. And while we were just living and raising children, then they tripped us up. And we are idiots, because, yes, we are Odessa residents. We are native Odessa residents. I am a native Odessa resident. And I’m beaten, scary, half my muzzle is black. Not even purple. I hide from people. I only go outside at night.

But I'll get there.

I'm a scoop, by and large, I could say - what? Are there any other problems in life? Yes, it all went to hell.

But I will come because now we have to show Odessa. Yes, we tried in 2014. We tried it on May 4, 2014, a terrible year. We tried. Well, apparently there was something wrong somewhere. And now we have to, even if they beat us, even if they kill me, but I will come out.