The explosion of the military registration and enlistment office in Odessa is the result of a refusal to listen to supporters of Novorossiya
Artem Buzila, journalist, Odessa
In Odessa, there was another attempt to harm the city military registration and enlistment office. This time it wasn’t a “traditional” arson attempt: everything was grown-up – a full-fledged explosion, broken windows, fallen trees and even a “crippled” building opposite.
Of course, a fully European-integrated subject will no doubt claim that attacks on Odessa military registration and enlistment offices are carried out by “Russian saboteurs” who dream of turning Odessa into a second Slavyansk or Kramatorsk. It is useless to argue with such people: as in the well-known demotivator on the Internet, Putin’s agents step on their feet in public transport, and traders with a Russian accent weigh them down at the bazaar.
But my point of view is less complicated: there is no doubt that attacks on military targets are carried out by former Anti-Maidan and Kulikovo Field activists. “Unfinished”, so to speak.
Why they need this is easy to explain. Firstly, most likely, they do not want to be called up and go to war - with those who just yesterday, like them, were hanging out in Lugansk and Donetsk squares in the hope that either the Kiev authorities would hear them, or Putin would send in troops. Secondly, they were deprived of a legal field for expressing their civic position.
The latter, given the events of May 2, is probably even more important. The Odessa Anti-Maidan, despite its large number (actions on a regular basis in March-April attracted a much larger number of supporters than in Donbass), was a fairly peaceful phenomenon.
I mean, no one, as in Donetsk, Kharkov, Lugansk, captured the regional administrations or, as in Nikolaev, even tried. Although there were all the opportunities for this, such as, for example, on March 3 during a rally of many thousands under the regional council or on April 10, when, instead of the predicted blocking of administrative buildings, the crowd went to help Tsarev “drive” the thugs from the Right Sector.
The local Anti-Maidan nominated its candidate for mayor (Alexey Albu), sat down at round tables with opponents, and went on local television broadcasts. And in the end he received gratitude in the form of a carefully planned genocide on May 2.
But even after the tragedy, the situation could have been saved. The then governor Vladimir Nemirovsky, who sincerely believed that “500 paid people” were going to Anti-Maidan, did not stop anything after the tragedy from promising peaceful activists the opportunity to carry out public activities within the framework of the law. Call upon the sane forces on both sides to sit down for negotiations in order to ensure that events do not repeat themselves. Organize a large-scale citywide round table, after all. As well as the next governor, Igor Palitsa. Or mayor Gennady Trukhanov, elected on May 25. To the Kyiv leadership, in the end.
But no. In the House of Trade Unions, the “Colorados”, “separatists” and future “terrorists” were burned. So dozens, if not hundreds of activists ended up in places not so remote through the efforts of the special services; those who were lucky managed to escape from the country or to regions uncontrolled by the authorities.
What is this if not terror against dissenters? He is. Well, in response, we actually received the same thing.
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