odessa

Just like it was the russians in Odessa that burned all those people alive?

I think the baby carriage is an homage to the Odessa Steps scene of Battleship Potemkin.

Read the nytimes article, and look up videos from the Odessa massacre.

The Russian-speaking section also encompasses the major ports of Odessa and Sevastopol.

And it is very important difference from the sociological point of view, because it was also after the Odessa Massacre and Ukrainian Forces attack on Mariupol.

So what you read about people in Odessa is true for people in Nikolayev - majority here value respect for each other more than political beliefs.

I also visited Kiev and Odessa (Ukraine) on the same trip, and am glad I did so before this violence broke out.

Both are right wing, fascist parties, and Right Sector even has paramilitary forces which engaged in attacks on political opponents, for instance the attack in Odessa in which they killed and burned alive dozens of Russian-speaking Ukrainians in the Odessa trade union building...

I read some accounts by people from Odessa who said they didn't bother much and saw as their first priority that nobody died no matter on what side.

[1] - The lack of prosecution in the case of Maidan snipers (and evidence against the Ukrainian gov't as being behind it) and the Odessa fire.

+My mother works on the Odessa TV and runs a popular program for teenagers "Speak Russian right!" Every Odessian teenager heard her famous "For those putzs who schmooze Russian in a goddam lame way: drop by and listen to mine!" >>It's your birthday.

You can see that New York is pretty much still considered 'correct' whereas Odessa, TX is rather behind.

The message was clear - you either continue beating up and burning pro-Russian protesters in Kharkov, Odessa, etc...

By the time Russia gets to Odessa, Moldova is going to look like a free acquisition.