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Odessa is a predominantly Russian-speaking city located on the Black Sea. It was the third largest city in the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine with one million inhabitants.
Odessa is a transport hub consisting of three ports: the Odessa port complex itself, and the ports of Chernomorsk (formerly called Ilyichevsk) and Yuzhny, where the world's only ammonia pipeline Togliatti-Odessa ends.
Odessa Trade Unions House massacre
- See also: Odessa Trade Unions House massacre
On April 16, 2014 Forbes reported Obama CIA Dir. John Brennan's visited Ukraine.[1] Two weeks later on May 2, 2014 Ukrainian nationalists murdered at least 42 Russians[2] most burnt alive in the Odessa Trades Union Building. The bodies were removed and buried in secret. Survivors of the fire inside the building were executed with bullets to the head. Some were beaten to death with clubs when they jumped from Windows of the burning building. A pregnant woman was strangled.[3]
History
In the 14th century Odessa was a port of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Later it belonged to Crimean Tatars and then to the Turks. After Russia took it, Czarina Catherine II founded the city in 1794.[4]
Great War and aftermath
- See also: World War I
In late 1918 French troops occupied the city of Odessa to prevent troops of the Ukrainian People's Republic (UPR) from capturing it, transferred formal power over the city to the Russian White Guards (monarchists), quarreled with the local rule of Hetman Grigoriev, who went over to the side of the Bolsheviks (Reds), which played a huge role in the subsequent military collapse of the UPR.
After several months of being in Southern Palmyra, the French troops were thoroughly decomposed by Bolshevik agitation, sang the Communist Internationale in pubs, and as a result, the French command decided to leave Odessa in early April 1919, calling it "unloading" the city in order to reduce the food shortage.
Great Patriotic War
During the Second World War Odessa was occupied bythe German and Romanian army in 1941, but was liberated by Russians from the Nazis, Romanian and Ukrainian Nazi collaborators in 1944. Under the Romanian military rule Jews were deported.[5]
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References
- ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/melikkaylan/2014/04/16/why-cia-director-brennan-visited-kiev-in-ukraine-the-covert-war-has-begun/#248cdd8510cb
- ↑ https://www.opednews.com/populum/pagem.php?f=Odessa--the-First-Pogrom-by-George-Eliason-Activism-Anti-War_Civil-Disobedience_Class-War_Obama-Warmonger-140507-595.html
- ↑ http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/videos-photos-odessan-massacre-done.html
- ↑ http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/world/odessa-city-ukraine-history.html
- ↑ http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_15016.html