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In reply to the discussion: Anti-Kiev separatists score major successes against loyal forces near Donetsk. [View all]Tommy_Carcetti
(43,166 posts)Odessa happened. It just didn't happen anything like you want us to believe it happened.
You want to believe that what happened at the Trade Union building was an unprovoked, out of the blue "massacre" of "trade unionists"/"anti-fascists". That's a deliberately dishonest narrative of the entire unfortunate incident.
A much fuller reading of the day's events was that pro-Russian activists attacked and then shot into an initially non-violent pro-Ukrainian demonstration, killing several pro-Ukrainian demonstrators. This enraged the pro-Ukrainian side, who then marched over to the Trade Union building where the pro-Russian side had taken camp. This is where unfortunately the deadly fire started. But even then, the violence was two sided.
What happened in Odessa that day was horrible, horrific, and no one on either side should ever have died. But it was classic mob violence at its worst.
You make it sound like the people at the trade building were attacked unprovoked by "fascists" who only wanted to recreate some decades old pogrom. That's a deliberately misleading narrative of the situation that removes altogether the overall context of the day's tragic events.