The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that the Russian side is confident that Odessa will get rid of the oppression of Ukrainian neo-Nazis and be free.
“We believe that Odessa will be able to get rid of the oppression of Ukrainian neo-Nazis and become free again and, as Leonid Utyosov sang, a sunny, acacia city by the Black Sea,” she said during a briefing.
The diplomat recalled that on April 10, 1944, Odessa was free from Nazi invaders, but after many years it again faced the manifestation of Nazism.
According to Zakharova, the native Odessans have not forgotten that the soldiers of the Red Army saved them from the “brown plague”, “they are bound by the memory of their liberators”.
Earlier a monument to Vladimir Lenin was demolished in Odessa and a memorial plaque honoring Russian commander Alexander Suvorov was dismantled .
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