Odessa
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| Odesa/Odessa | |
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| Country | Ukraine |
| Region | Odesa Oblast |
| Population | 1,017,699 |
| Area (sq mi) | 62.71 sq mi |
| Population density (/sq mi) | 16,000/sq mi |
| Current mayor | Gennadiy Trukhanov |
| Demonym | Odesan, Odesite, Odessan, Odessite |
| Co-ordinates | 46°29′8.6″N 30°44′36.4″E |
Odesa or Odessa is a bilingual (Russian and Ukrainian-speaking) city located on the Black Sea. It is the third largest city in the country with one million inhabitants, having the same place during the Ukrainian SSR.
Odesa is a transport hub consisting of three ports: the Odesa port complex itself, and the ports of Chornomorsk (formerly called Ilyichevsk) and Yuzhny, where the world's only ammonia pipeline Togliatti-Odessa ends.
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Odessa Trade Unions House massacre
- See also: Odessa Trade Unions House massacre
Two months after the illegal Maidan coup overthrew the democratically elected government on Ukraine with Obama regime backing, Forbes reported CIA Dir. John Brennan visited Ukraine on April 16, 2014.[1] Two weeks later on May 2, 2014 Ukrainian nationalists murdered at least 42 Russian-speaking Ukrainian citizens,[2] most burnt alive or shot trying to escape from the Odessa Trades Union Building set on fire by Ukrainian Nazis and sympathizers with the US-backed Maidan regime. 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] It was a major precipitating event and provocation of the NATO war in Ukraine and the Special Military Operation on the territory of Ukraine. None of the perpetrators were ever arrested.
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.[5]
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 in 1944 from the Nazis, Romanian and Ukrainian Nazi collaborators. Under the Romanian military rule Jews were deported.[6]
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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
- ↑ Odessa-- the First Pogrom-- The Obama Genocide, By George Eliason, OpEdNews, 5/7/2014.
- ↑ http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/05/videos-photos-odessan-massacre-done.html
- ↑ Lenin statue replaced by Darth Vader in Ukraine. Fox5 News (October 24, 2015).
- ↑ http://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/world/odessa-city-ukraine-history.html
- ↑ http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_15016.html
