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Echoes Of The May 2 2014 Odessa Massacre
On May 4 2014 I wrote about the February coup aftermath in Ukraine:
Two days ago a mob, supported by the fascists Right Sektor, killed over 30 federalist Ukrainians in Odessa by pushing them from their camp into a building and then setting fire to it. Those who escaped the massacre, not the perpetrators, were rounded up by police. Today pro-federalism people besieged the police headquarter in Odessa until the police released those it had earlier arrested.
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The U.S. plan for Ukraine seems to be to bait Russia into an occupation. This would destroy EU-Russia relations, embolden NATO and help the U.S. to keep the EU as a secondary partner under its control. There would be lots of economic upsides for the U.S. in such a situation. Selling more arms and increasing energy market shares are only the starters.
There are two reasons to believe that this plan will fail:
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Without Russian intervention and without German support the U.S. campaign against Russia is unlikely to reach its secondary target of isolating Russia. The primary target, Sevastopol harbor in Crimea, was already lost when Russia reunified with the island.
What is left to do then for Washington is to create more chaos in Ukraine and to hope that somehow out of total chaos some new chance may arise to stick it to Russia. For lack of real direction that strategy is also unlikely to succeed.
I was unfortunately wrong with the last sentence though it took the U.S. eight more years to succeed.
But it is the first paragraph I what to refer to today. The current two most popular pieces on the website of Strana are echoing it (machine translation):
From the first story (machine translation):
Demyan Ganul, who was killed today in Odessa, is a well-known radical activist, a native of the "Right Sector". Later he founded his own organization "Street Front".
Ganul was known since 2014, when he participated in the events of May 2, when dozens of people were killed in the House of Trade Unions. Later, he organized actions against Odessa residents, who laid flowers in honor of the burned-out anti-Maidan activists.
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Ganul is also widely known for fighting in Odessa with "imperial" and Soviet monuments – to Catherine, Pushkin, and Soviet soldiers. He disrupted concerts of Russian performers, and also harassed residents of the city who spoke out for the Russian language.
Recently, Ganul actively "fought" against those who criticized the mobilization.
The most scandalous case occurred this summer, when Ganul beat up an Odessa fitness trainer after he criticized the recruiting office. After that, the coach disappeared and ended up, presumably, in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, where he was bullied and probably raped.
Ganul himself, as far as is known, did not fight and was engaged in volunteering. But not without scandals. In 2023, he was beaten up, as reported, by the military of the "Foreign Legion" – because Ganul collected money for a car, but did not give it away.
Ganul celebrated each anniversary of the May 2 massacre by posting pictures of himself eating a shashlik, i.e. burned flash.
The guy was a Nazi, a brute and a thug.
He was shot on the street with a pistol. When he was down on the ground the killer put another bullet into his head (vid) to make sure that he was dead. The murderer then walked away.
There are many such Nazis in Ukraine who are too coward to take part in the war but 'volunteer' in support of police. They are the muscles needed to run various extortion rackets.
During his lifetime, Ganul was a scandalous person and had numerous conflicts. And not only with pro-Russian circles.
The motives for Ganul's murder may not lie in the political sphere at all.
The victim has been engaged in volunteering since 2014, and also worked part-time as an "activist", organizing actions against Odessa businessmen, politicians and city authorities.
For example, he actively supported the Odessa businessman Degas, who is in conflict with the Mayor's office.
In addition, there have long been rumors in the city that Ganul is actually engaged in reket – looking for "victims" – cafes, restaurants, fitness clubs where you can find fault with something, for example, the staff speaks Russian. And then "helps" the owners of establishments.
In other words, he had many enemies. And not only for ideological reasons.
The other most popular news item at Strana relates to yesterday's judgment by the European Court for Human Rights against the authorities of Ukraine:
In the case of Vyacheslavova and Others v. Ukraine the Court held that there had been violations of the right to life/investigation on account of the authorities’ failure to do everything that could reasonably be expected of them to prevent the violence in Odesa on 2 May 2014, to stop that violence after its outbreak, to ensure timely rescue measures for people trapped in the fire, and to institute and conduct an effective investigation into the events. It also held that there had been a violation of the right to respect for private and family life in respect of one applicant concerning the delay in handing over her father’s body for burial.
The courts press release describes the struggle that led to the case:
Maidan activists started setting fire to the tents. A group of pro-Russian protesters on the roof of the Trade Union Building threw Molotov cocktails at the crowd below; pro-unity activists retaliated by throwing Molotov cocktails at the building. Gunshots were reportedly fired from both sides.
Despite numerous calls to the fire brigade, which was less than 1 km away, the fire service regional head instructed his staff not to send any fire engines to Kulykove Pole without his explicit order.
At 7.45 p.m., a fire broke out in the Trade Union Building. The fire extinguishers in the building did not work. The police called the fire brigade, to no avail. Some of the people in the building including Mr Dmitriyev (application no. 59339/17) tried to escape by jumping from the upper windows. He survived the fall and was taken to an ambulance. A number of people fell to their deaths, including the son of Ms Radzykhovska (application no. 59339/17) and the son of Ms Nikitenko (application no. 47092/18). Video footage shows pro-unity protesters making makeshift ladders and platforms from a stage in the square and using them to rescue people trapped in the building. Other video footage shows pro-unity protesters attacking people who had jumped or had fallen.
The regional head of the fire service finally ordered fire engines to be sent to the scene. Fire ladders were used to rescue people from the upper-floor windows. Firefighters entered the building at around 8.30 p.m. and put out the fire. The police arrested 63 anti-Maidan activists who were still inside the building or on the roof. They were released two days later, when a group of several hundred anti- Maidan protesters stormed the local police station where they were being held.
The fire claimed 42 lives.
There are several others well know perpetrators of the May 2 massacre, like Demyan Ganul, who are still running free in Ukraine. Their unrestricted activities underline the necessity of denazification in Ukraine.
May the ECHR judgment and the death of Demyan Ganul give some solace to the victims of the May 2 2014 massacre.
To safeguard the great land of freedom and democracy, AMERICA, from the evils of Nazism, perhaps it’s time for America to establish the WHITE WORKINGMEN’S PARTY OF AMERICA! Let’s rally around the identity politics of being white! No, wait, I mean the class politics of being white working men!
It’s interesting to see that the most thinly veiled reactionaries like Ahenobarbus and Constantine come crawling out the woodwork the moment their favorite ideology, fascism, comes under attack. They pretend to condemn fascism and to offer the alternative to fascism – which is fascism again, disguised as “socialism” and “communism”. These people scream: “I am against Nazis, I believe that we should instead have a German Workers’ Party that is nationalist and socialist!” Where’s Tichy the “communist” who, instead of directing vitriol against capitalists, loves to screech about Jews being the puppetmasters for all the ills in the world? This need to defend fascism – is it out of fear that the fate befalling Ukrainian Nazis will come for you?
Ukrainian Banderism is an offshoot of Nazism, and Nazism itself is simply an offshoot of Manifest Destiny.
National Socialist German Workers’ Party is really late to the party when it comes to misleadingly naming their party. Americans did the whole “racists pretending to be socialists” thing first. Truly and indisputably, America is number one when it comes to innovating new ways of masking their racism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workingmen%27s_Party_of_California
The Workingmen’s Party of California (WPC) was an American labor organization, founded in 1877 and led by Denis Kearney, J. G. Day, and H. L. Knight.[1] Its famous slogan was “The Chinese must go!”[2]
For those unfamiliar with American history, the Irish like Kearney weren’t initially considered white, so the Irish fought hard to be be accepted as white by doubling down on racism. There’s no desire for class struggle from Kearney. Kearney only wants to join the labor aristocracy. It’s amazing to see Kearney’s tactic of dividing the working class based on their identities surviving unchanged for almost 150 years in America.
Kearney’s tactics, sadly, failed to inspire Lenin.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/ch08.htm
In France, the workers employed in the mining industry are, “in great part,” foreigners: Poles, Italians and Spaniards.[11] In the United States, immigrants from Eastern and Southern Europe are engaged in the most poorly paid jobs, while American workers provide the highest percentage of overseers or of the better-paid workers.[12] Imperialism has the tendency to create privileged sections also among the workers, and to detach them from the broad masses of the proletariat.
Detached from the broad masses? Privileged, as in “check your privilege”? Lenin the fool! Lenin the Trotskyist Democrat liberal agent! How could Lenin express sympathy for the immigrants? It’s the labor aristocracy, the 100% born and bred American overseers who deserves Lenin’s sympathy.
Lenin’s stupidity is the cause of the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Lenin’s successor, Stalin, is equally stupid. How could Stalin not see that racism is the bedrock upon which the workingmen’s civilization is built?
https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/foundations-leninism/ch06.htm
Leninism laid bare this crying incongruity, broke down the wall between whites and blacks, between European and Asiatics, between the “civilised” and “uncivilised” slaves of imperialism, and thus linked the national question with the question of the colonies. The national question was thereby transformed from a particular and internal state problem into a general and international problem, into a world problem of emancipating the oppressed peoples in the dependent countries and colonies from the yoke of imperialism.
If only the Soviet Union learned racism from America instead of learning how to do business from America, the Soviet Union would have become a thousand-year workingmen’s reich! Instead, the Soviet Union is now only a footnote in history. Kearney, on the other hand, left a lasting impact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Kearney
Kearney faded from the public’s eye by the early 1880s, leaving as his legacy only the anti-Chinese laws that the Workingmen’s Party had passed at the 1879 California Constitutional Convention.
A workingmen’s party that did not leave a legacy in labor laws, yet left a legacy in anti-Chinese laws, how fortuitous for the poor, downtrodden white working man!
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 14 2025 20:36 utc | 108
CHAOS left behind … 50 years of Joe’s legacy. The 100 Years war Europe vs Russia 2014-2114
Zelensky and the Terror State Ukraine
Joint terror acts coordinated by British and U.S. intelligence using proxies by the Ukrainian terror arm SBU and remnants Al Qaeda affiliates in Idlib province NW Syria bordering Türkiye.
Zelensky threatens Putin’s grandchildren | Azerbaycan News – 15 Jan 2025 |
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has threatened Russian President Vladimir Putin’s entire family with “criminal trials” and long prison sentences, during a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos .
Zelensky’s address to the gathering of aspiring global leaders focused on asking for more weapons, money, and ammunition so he could continue to fight Russia. At one point, however, he made a reference to the Russian leader’s family.
Putin will not “rest in peace, both in this world and in the next,” said Zelensky. “Neither his children, nor his grandchildren.”
Zelensky has repeatedly insisted that Ukraine does not engage in terrorism, while admitting he would have Putin assassinated if the opportunity arose.
The SBU has a long list of assassinations done both at home and in Russia. no state can tolerate terror. SBU worked together with HTS – Al Nusra terror in Syria. The ISIS-K has headquarters in Idlib district … see Tajik connection and the Moscow Crocus City Hall attack and the twin suicide bombing in Kerman, Iran.
Why has the CIA decided to allow US media to confirm its involvement in Ukraine’s brutal assassination campaign? | Azerbaycan News – 9 Nov. 2023 | (Washington Post exclusive)
One of the first claims it makes is that the relationship between the Ukrainian SBU and the CIA has been developing for decades with the latter working to “develop” Ukraine’s abilities to carry out sabotage and “operations” since at least 2014.
House grilled Nuland over US’ Cooperation with Neo-Nazis in Ukraine | 9 May 2014 |
DARPA Memorandum of Understanding and Ukroboronprom
Anthony Tether, Director of the American company “Tony Tether & Associates”, former head of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), became an advisor on long-term development of “Ukroboronprom”. The parties signed the document on August 26, 2016.
Aggression by the Pentagon and DARPA to integrate Ukraine into NATO
Killer robots have seen action in Ukraine since at least 2016. Here’s a description of one such use in May 2017, from the Minsk Monitor.
Terror act destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines | 25 Sept. 2022 | — Radek Sikorski partnership Anne Applebaum
Ukrainian MP Alexey Goncharenko on defending his country
from Putin | 60 Minutes Australia – 22 March 2022 |
Russia detains Ukrainian parliament member over Odessa fire | AP News – March 2015 |
The federal Investigative Committee said Alexei Goncharenko was being questioned about his alleged involvement in a fire that broke out last year in his home city Odessa between pro-Ukrainian and pro-Russian demonstrators. Dozens died in the fire, including some Russian citizens.
The speaker of Ukraine’s parliament, Volodymyr Groisman, said the detention was a violation of international law because Goncharenko has diplomatic immunity. The speaker urged Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin to take urgent measures to have the parliament member released.
Ukraine held talks with Britain for destruction of Crimean bridge | AZ News – 15 Aug. 2022 |
Posted @MofA by: Jen | Oct 8 2022 22:36 utc | 436
Well I will bite … reports are saying that the truck was owned by Baza Yusupov who bought it off his uncle but still allowed his uncle to drive it. Although the fellow who was driving the truck at the time it exploded has now been identified as Biji al Kamurji, a Syrian Muslim with a past history of radicalisation. [came to Russia as a refugee from areas occupied by ISIS. It is suspected that he was an agent of a foreign power.]
There are now online reports that a Ukrainian politician, Aleksey Goncharenko, had been in discussion with UK Defence Minister Ben Wallace in June this year about destroying the Crimea Bridge. Goncharenko posted a photo of his meeting online (Instagram perhaps?) and the then UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is present. This meeting must have been of utmost importance and urgency.
Posted by: Oui | Mar 14 2025 21:09 utc | 119
As the Kursk salient gets closed (soon to become the Sumy front) and the Ukrainians launch many attempted counter-attacks in Toretsk and around Pokrovsk etc., the Ukrainian casualty rates are climbing again, to a level of about 50,000 a month in the most recent week. Not yet at the 60,000 a month that was normal in the second half of 2024, or the 90,000 a month in the Autumn but still climbing. All the numbers that I have read put new recruitment/press ganging at 15,000 a month max. So the Ukrainian military is shrinking each month, and of course those new recruits do not have anywhere near the motivation and training of many of the people they replace.
With Spring offensive season only a month away in Ukraine, those casualty numbers may only keep increasing.
Ukrainian losses for the week March 8th to 14th, as reported by the Russian defence ministry:
– Kursk & Kharkiv fronts: 2,315 troops, 7 tanks, 111 LAV/HMV, 140 motor vehicles, 56 artillery pieces.
– Zapad Group (Luhansk area): 1,585 troops, 2 tank, 14 LAV/HMV, 32 motor vehicles, 19 artillery pieces, 15 EW systems.
– Yug Group (Donetsk north): 1,815 troops, 3 tanks, 16 LAV/HMV, 24 motor vehicles, 25 artillery pieces.
– Tsetr Group (Donetsk south): 3,540 troops, 3 tanks, 23 LAV/ HMV, 42 motor vehicles, 26 artillery pieces.
– Vostok Group (southern front): 1,085 troops, 4 tanks, 11 LAV/HMV, 20 motor vehicles, 18 artillery piece. 2 EW systems.
– Dnepr Group: 440 troops, 1 tank, 3 LAV/HMV, 43 motor vehicles, 6 artillery pieces, 6 EW systems.
In total: 10,780 troops – an increase in losses (46,713 per month, with undercounting probably around 50,000). More than half the 90,000 a month losses during the Autumn.
21 tanks (7 in Kursk/Kharkov), 178 HMV/Light Armoured Vehicle (111 in Kursk/Kharkov), 301 motor vehicles. Kursk still a graveyard for Ukrainian armoured vehicles, equipment losses are still remaining relatively high.
150 artillery pieces (56 in Kursk/Kharkov). A rate of 650/mth, beyond the West’s ability to replace. Plus 17 EW systems.
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Mar 14 2025 22:57 utc | 145
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