This despite the fact that neo Nazi Right Sector proudly took responsibility for the murders on its own website and praised the perpetrators of the killings as heroes. and Western European media as the ‘Odessa clashes’ in which both sides were equally at fault. This massacre barely registered in the West. The message was clear- in the new post 2014 Ukraine, Nazis could murder, torture, and rape with impunity. Ukraine’s then acting, later elected President Poroshenko appointed Ihor Palytsia, one of the ultra nationalists who had led the mob, acting governor of Odessa only four days after the massacre. The dead included a pregnant woman who was strangled to death with steel wire, and the youngest victim was a 17 year old boy who was a member of the Ukrainian Communist Party’s Youth League. At least 46 were dead and hundreds wounded. When the embers burned out, the fascists moved in and finished off those who may have still been alive, eliminating the survivors execution style. People who attempted to flee the burning building were gunned down or clubbed to death. The building was set on fire by Molotov cocktails wielded by the Nazis. They were driven into the old Soviet Trades Union building by the mob. The demonstrators were viciously attacked by a mob of armed neo-Nazi thugs of Right Sector. Chief amongst these “heroes” being Stepan Bandera, the aspiring little Ukrainian Hitler whose forces participated in the Babi Yar massacre and Lvov Pogrom against the Jews alongside the Nazi SS, and also committed genocide against 50-100,000 Poles in Galicia and Volhynia. They were rejecting moves to pass laws discriminating against the Russian language, criminalizing Ukraine’s Communist Party, and laws honoring Ukrainian fascists who had collaborated with the Nazis as national heroes.
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On that date, in the Russian speaking majority city of Odessa in Ukraine, pro Russian demonstrators, socialists, Communists and trade unionists took to the streets demonstrating against the new Ukrainian ultranationalist government in Kiev, which had taken power in Euromaidan coup against the Ukrainian President Yanukovych a little over two months earlier. War was declared on Russia, the peoples of the former Soviet Union, and on all socialists and trade unionists everywhere in the world. The iconic photograph became the symbol of the Red Army’s ultimate triumph over Nazism.Įxactly 69 years later, on that very exact day, the fascist enemy re-emerged on the soil of the former Soviet Union. The young man who raised the red banner went on to live in Kiev for much of the rest of his life, where he served in the Kiev Fire Department, and is buried there. He was from Donetsk in the Donbass, the coal mining hub of eastern Ukraine, in many ways the West Virginia of the USSR. His father and three of his sisters had been murdered by the Nazis during the war-only his mother survived the war. The photographer was Yevgeny Khaldei, a Ukrainian Jewish Soviet naval officer. He was assisted by two other soldiers, a Muslim soldier named Abdulraham Ismailov from Dagestan in the Caucasus, and Leonid Gorychev, from Minsk in Belarus. Accounts differ, but according to the photographer himself the man who raised the flag was a 18 year old Russian soldier from Kazakhstan named Aleksey Kovalev. The day after, the last Nazis had finally been cleared from the building, the flag was raised once again and photographed. In addition, the building had not been fully secured from the enemy and the flag was taken down by German soldiers the next day. 1 However, it was not suitable for a propaganda photograph because it was too late at night. The first Red Army soldier to scale the Reichstag and raise the flag on top of it was not a Russian but a Kazakh by the name of Rakhimzhan Koshkarbayev, who scaled the Reichstag on April 30. The Red Army waged a ferocious battle with fanatical SS die-hards to seize the building.
Stalin was eager to exploit the symbolism of storming the Reichstag, the symbolic heart of German power, in time for May Day, and have the red banner waving from the top of the building as a great propaganda victory. After the most titanic, nightmarish war in modern history, after rivers of blood shed from Kiev to Moscow, from Stalingrad to Kursk, the workers and farmers of the Soviet Union had vanquished the most vile killing machine the world had yet seen. He had slaughtered 25 million of the Soviet Union’s people to wipe out the “Judeo Bolshevik menace” once and for all, yet failed to break them. Adolf Hitler had committed suicide in his bunker less than 48 hours before. On May 2, 1945, the Red Army raised the banner of victory over Berlin’s Reichstag after the fall of the German capital.
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