[CondoleezzaProtege]

[napscoordinator]

Odessa is paradise on earth. I luckily was able to spend 3 weeks for three summers there from 2009 to 2011. What a beautiful place. Sad what it’s become.

[Carry_Okie]

I looked it over by satellite. Odessa ain’t squat as a port. There’s some bulk loading there (probably grain and oil) but only one container dock capable of only two or three ships.

[The Truth Will Make You Free]

I wasn’t aware that there were so many Jews in Odessa killed by Hitler. Here’s a chatGPT list of the top 10 cities:

• Warsaw, Poland – ~375,000
• Łódź, Poland – ~233,000
• Vilnius, Lithuania – ~55,000
• Kraków, Poland – ~60,000
• Lvov (Lviv), Ukraine – ~110,000
• Budapest, Hungary – ~40,000 (in Budapest; many more Hungarian Jews were killed elsewhere)
• Minsk, Belarus – ~90,000
• Kiev, Ukraine – ~34,000 (Babi Yar massacre)
• Odessa, Ukraine – ~50,000
• Białystok, Poland – ~50,000

The 50k is less than the 200k implied in the article. I’ve visited all except Białystok, Łódź, and Minsk. I’m surprised Prague isn’t listed.

[PIF]

Bee Gees 1969
Odessa (Pathe film version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRcBJyDCRa0

[Brian Griffin]

It is my understanding that Odessa is Ukraine’s finest city.

[Brian Griffin]

The number of war dead in recent years is comparable to the number of Russian ethnics dissatified with being ruled from Kiev.

The war is a disaster. Most wars are.