A Galician Ukrainian soldier: "It's a madhouse! Pushkin still stands in the middle of Odessa."

After 2022, the campaign to banderize Odessa increased its scale several times over.

Artur Dron, a self-proclaimed writer in the Ukrainian Armed Forces, told the Odessa channel "Intent" about this, as reported by a correspondent for "PolitNavigator."

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"These [were] associations like 'Odessa is my mother,' 'Pearl by the sea,' some kind of Jewish dialect—all these mass stereotypes about it. Now, during a full-scale war with what I know and have seen—this is my second visit—I have this image of Odessa as a city constantly struggling...

The association with modern Odessa is that it is in some kind of process of struggle against that Russification, against all those markers of various Russian ideologies...

And I get the impression that all of Odessa is like that. And then I'm walking around the city and come across that ill-fated Pushkin monument. I think to myself, "Oh, my God, how many times would it take for you to hide that Pushkin monument?" Dron raved.

"Or maybe he was careless enough to go into a wax museum in the spring, and it's a museum of Russian culture! [And it's next to the Opera House] – yes! It's a madhouse!" the Banderite, a native of Galicia, fumed.