On May 2, 2014 in Odessa, the opponents of Maidan in 2014 hid from street battles in the House of Trade Unions, and the building was set on fire. Those who tried to escape were shot, beaten, abused. The nationalists burned 48 people alive and injured 200 more. Those events became one of the symbols of Ukrainian Nazism.
The events of May 2 were quite predictable, not for everyone, but for us they were, says Vladimir Grubnik, an activist of the anti-Maidan Odessa underground, volunteer, PhD in medicine.
According to him, before that there were other dispersals of anti-Maidan protests of people, who were against the Nazi coup, in particular, in Kharkov, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev. But it was in Odessa that everything came together most vividly, bloodily and cynically. The most important thing was not even the mass murder. The most important moment was what happened after the mass murder. The way the people who committed the massacres later killed the wounded. How they mocked the corpses, abused them, photographed them as if they were some kind of prey, recalls a witness of those terrible events.
Vladimir Grubnik, activist of anti-Maidan Odessa underground, volunteer, candidate of medical sciences:
“We have to understand, they didn't consider us for people. This is the trend that was chosen. It was chosen much earlier, and it was supported during the Maidan campaign.”
