The Odessa Massacre Rhyme

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The Brits remember their Gunpoweder plot by a simple rhyme:

Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot…

The gruesome events that happened in Odessa on the Second of May 2014, when Right Sector Nazis cornered, burn and short unarmed people in Odessa Trade Union building are worthy of a similar commemoration.

Remember remember the Second of May
Manslaughter, murder, flesh burnt.
That’s enough of a reason that Odessa massacre
Should never be forgot…

UPDATE 2024:

10 years later, The Shieldmaiden from our Telegram channel “Beorn And The Shieldmaiden” came up with this powerful variation on the rhyme:

Remember that day, the Second of May
Nazi-goons, arson, and shots
Best of reasons we have that Odessa massacre
Should never be forgot.


UPDATE 2025: A fiery tribute poem, translated by Putinger’s Cat:

Today marks 11 years since the Odessa massacre, where dozens of Anti-Maidan activists died in the burning Trade Unions House on May 2nd, 2014.

Here’s a translation of a poem, by an unknown author, dedicated to the tragedy. The original poem is below the translation.

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Odessa, May 2nd, 2014
by unknown author

A woman screamed in the defiled Odessa.
A woman screamed, oh, how afraid she must have been…
A woman screamed and demons were rejoicing,
They laughed and howled, a bunch of wild cavemen.

People were sliding out of gaping windows,
Forced by the vile black smoke, trying to breathe –
The devil spun, in Odessa, а reeking chrysalis
And quickly hatched out as an adolescent beast.

Possessing many heads and many tails,
With a vicious tongue, forked and multilingual,
Drunk on his own demonic violence,
He drew a wicked pleasure in the screaming.

Nursed by a cocktail from a dark glass bottle,
A liquid brown, just like all of his sick ilk,
He licked his chops, anticipating likes
And comments from unhinged Internet filth.

Bodies were burning, souls were suffocating.
And no one came. No one. Nobody. None.
A bloated scaly carcass with a vile name:
“The Anti-Terrorist Operation” or “ATO”.

They shot, and hit, and crucified, and tore
Live flesh to kill it for their feast.
They sucked on pain and swallowed mortal fear.
Where, once, were people, there were beasts.

Now, through the backstreets, they have spread
And firmly occupied important office chairs.
Hundreds of folks come out in their defense
When summoned by corrupt and snitching powers.

A woman screamed. And then she died.
And is not coming back a ruined harvest.
I never will forget the way she cried,
As the unsilent ashes beat on my chest.

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Одесса, 2 мая 2014
автор неизвестен

Кричала женщина в поруганной Одессе.
Кричала женщина – как страшно было ей.
Кричала женщина. Возликовали бесы.
Они смеялись, кучка дикарей.

Скользили люди из разверстых окон,
Их гнал наружу жуткий чёрный дым.
Так дьявол свил в Одессе смрадный кокон
И вылупился зверем молодым.

Многоголовый и многохвостатый,
Раздвоеный язык многоязык,
Жестокостью своею бесноватой
Он упивался, слыша этот крик.

Раскормленный коктейлем из бутылки,
Коричневый, как вся его чума,
Он предвкушал, какие будут ссылки
И комментов разнузданная тьма.

Тела горели, задыхались души.
Никто не спас. Никто. Никто. Никто.
Распухшая чешуйчатая туша,
Название паскудное – АТО.

Стреляли, били, рвали, распинали
Живую плоть, чтоб умертвить её.
Сосали боль и смертный страх глотали.
Где были люди, там теперь зверьё.

Оно порасползлось по подворотням,
По важным креслам прочно угнездясь,
В его защиту созывает сотни
Продажная и ссученая власть.

Кричала женщина. Потом её не стало.
Не возродится прежнее жнивьё.
Я не забуду, как она кричала.
Немолчный пепел в сердце бьёт моё.


UPDATE 2023: A lot of the links below are no longer functioning, what with especially YouTube “freedom-of-speeching” the truth. Here are several alternative video materials:


Resources:
Odessa slaughter survivors reveal their side of story in intl photo exhibit
ODESSA 5/02: The Untold Truth of Kulikovo Field [Part 1 ]
ODESSA 5/02: The Untold Truth of Kulikovo Field [Part 1 ] HD 1080p
Odessa 5/02: La verità non detta di Piazza Kulikovo [ITALIAN]
Kiev protégé allegedly behind Mariupol and Odessa massacres – leaked tapes
Odessa massacre victims died in seconds, not from smoke – emergency service chief
How the thugs killed Odessa inhabitants in the Trade Unions House – the details of bloody scenario
The Ukrainian City That Refuses to Implode


50 people are still reported missing, presumed dead after the Odessa massacre. Ukrainian authorities are not looking for them. Moreover, the Trade Union building, which is considered a material evidence of the crime and is surrounded by a concrete fence, is being quietly renovated and painted from the inside, erasing the evidence.

Recent Ukraine human rights violations released in ‘White Book’ report

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As reported by Russia Today:

A senior Russian human rights official has called the updated research on human rights violations in Ukraine a forced measure, and an attempt to call for action from the international community to stop the violence.

“This was a forced measure. This was not someone’s whim but a reaction to the current situation, and the situation in the South and South-East of Ukraine is extremely grave, disastrous,” the Foreign Ministry’s Plenipotentiary for Human Rights, Konstantin Dolgov, said in a televised interview.

The full updated White Book report is available on the Foreign Ministry’s website. UPDATE: The page is no longer available since July 2015. Here is a link to the WebArchived page.

Direct download (November 2013 – March 2014):
English (Update: local link)
Russian (Update: local link)

Direct download update (April – mid-June 2014):
English (Update: local link)
Russian (Update: local link)

Update: (July – November 2014):
English local link
Russian local link

A poem for a killed child

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Меня убили под Славянском.
Мне было семь неполных лет.
Со мной убиты мама с папой,
Убиты бабушка и дед.

Мне было больно, очень больно.
Так не бывает у детей.
Скажи солдат, в меня стрелявший,
Что скажешь дочери своей?

Отдашь ли ей мои игрушки?
Отдашь с рисунками альбом?
Отдашь в крови моей котёнка?
Как взглянешь ей в глаза потом?

Скажи солдат, меня убивший,
Каким ты молишься Богам?
Кому принёс ребёнка в жертву?
В какой отдашь добычу храм?

Я умерла, и я не плачу.
Застыла на щеке слеза.
Запомни враг, в меня стрелявший,
Убитой девочки глаза.

Автор – Вячеслав Бунеев


I was killed under Slavjansk.
I wasn’t yet even 7.
My mother and father were killed with me
Killed were my grandma and granddad

It was painful, very painful,
As children never should have felt.
Tell me soldier, you who shot at me,
What will you say to your daughter?

Will you give her my toys?
Will you give her my album with drawings?
Will you give her my blood-covered kitten?
How will you look into her eyes?

Tell me soldier, you who killed me,
Which Gods do you pray to?
Which God did you sacrifice a child to?
To which temple will you bring your pray?

I died, and I am not crying.
The tear has dried upon my cheek.
Remember enemy, who shot at me,
The eyes of the murdered girl.

Poet: Vjacheslav Buneev


Child in Slavjansk
She was only 6 when she was killed in Slavjansk by Ukrainian artillery shells on the 8th of June at 13:15.


So far, over 60 children were killed in Novorossia by artillery and bullets from Nazional guard, private bandit armies of Kolomojskij, Klichko, Yarosh, and regular army. Most lost their lives with their families while attempting to break through the blockade of Slavjansk and escape to safety in Russia.

In the meantime, US State Department says that refugee children are simply going from Ukraine to Russia on vacation to their grannies. Prime Minister Medvedev called such statement from US for limitless cynicism. Tonight (02.07) another child, age 5, didn’t reach her “granny in Russia” as she died in an airstrike against Kondrashovka.

Shells devastate entire streets in eastern Ukrainian town (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

“At the site of the second strike the situation is even worse: 9 people have died, and 11 have been wounded. Among the victims is a five year-old girl, who with her father. The impact was so strong her legs were blown off. Once again, the exact number of the dead will only become clear later.”


And against the backdrop of such blatant murder, Ukraine urges Russia not to accept orphans fleeing war zones.

Two Ukraines – with a Statistical and Historical View at Novorossia

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The original article “Two Ukraines” appeared as blog by colonelcassad in Decmber 2013 in Russian.

I present here a translation of the article into English, with the infographics legend explained whenever feasible; but first I want to give some historical backdrop to where Novorossia comes from.

In his article Cold War Renewed With A Vengeance While Washington Again Lies Paul Craig Roberts very astutely writes:

The EU, ordered by Washington, told Russia to suppress the opposition in southern and eastern Ukraine to Washington’s stooge government in Kiev. But, as every educated person knows, including the White House, 10 Downing Street, Merkel, and Holland, Russia is not responsible for the separatist unrest in eastern and southern Ukraine. These territories are former constituent parts of Russia that were added to the Ukrainian Soviet Republic by Soviet Communist Party leaders when Ukraine and Russia were two parts of the same country.

The county of Novorossia was established by the Highest Decree of the Russian Empress Ekaterina II in 1764 and existed until 1802, when it was divided into three smaller counties: Nikolaevskaja, Ekaretinoslavskaja and Tavricheskaja counties. The reason for creation of Novorossia countie on the former territories of Slavjano-Serbia was to create a buffer zone against Osmano-Tatar aggression

Below is the maps of the Novorossia:
1800_Novoros_gov

And here is the Ekaterinoslavskaja county shown against the borders of Ukraine:
Gubernia_de_Ekaterinoslav_-_Imperio_ruso

Here is what Ukraine consited of until February (Crimea made a lucky escape and re-joined Russia):
Ukraina1653
Legend:
Light yellow – Zaprozhje – Ukraine before 1654
Orange – Presents of Russian monarchs between 1654 and 1917
Light-green – Novorossia – Lenin’s present in 1922
Medium-green (5+6) – Eastern Galicia – Stalin’s present of 1939-1940 (given to USSR according to Molotov-Ribbentrop agreement)
Dark-green – Crimea – Khrushjov’s present in 1954
Transcarpathia (9) – taken from Czechoslovakia in 1945
Northern Bukovina and Southern Southern (7+8) – captured by USSR in 1940

So bearing in mind that Ukraine is a collection of disparate lands, and remembering the Russian roots of the Cossacks living on the lands of Novorossia, the move performed by Lenin after the coup d’etat of 1917, in creating Ukraine and assigning to it the territories of Novorossia was a direct recipe for creating a problem for future generations.

The people of the East differ to much from their Polish-rooted Western cousins.

And now it’s time to introduce the translation of the blog post Two Ukraines.



(Legend: “Yukraina” to the left; “Yakraina” to the right, with percentage of people who voted for Yushenko or Yanukovich during the last legitimate presidential elections)

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The Wild-Wild West – A view on Maidan from 2014 Kiev

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This letter was printed in the #10/2014 international paper edition of Argumenty i Facty in Russian at the time when the Second Maidan was about to turn violent. It presents an interesting background view on the situation from a perspective of a person living in Kiev. Here is an English translation of the letter:


If someone says Ukraine nowadays, a word combination “West-East” is always attached to it.

I’ve lived in Kiev centre for 22 years. When I was 6, I for the first time went to the “west” with my parents – to Lvov, and asked in a shop there to sell me a bun. The female seller demonstratively didn’t hear me, as if I was speaking Chinese. A granny from the queue called me for “little moskal” (translator note: the term “moskal” is used by Western Ukrainian about all Easter Ukrainians and Russians and has the same connotation as British “Frogs” with regards to French of Mexican “Greengos” with regard to Americans). My mother, blushing brokenly translated my request to Ukrainian, and I got my bun after all, while at the same time taking away the feeling of a united and friendly Motherland.

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The Unreported War in Ukraine

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This is a collection of links to sites, resource and video content that portrait what is happening in the East-Ukraine, the war, brutality, motives and backgrounds. The war raging in the centre of Europe in unreported and hidden from view by the Western media. I came across these links during my research of the problem, and will expand this list as time goes.

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