“Fine, she was responsible for building Odessa and a handful of other Russian cities in the lands of which Ukraine is currently comprised.”
She didn’t build squat. Odessa (fka Hacibey when it was under the Ottoman Empire, and long before that it was a Greek settlement) wasn’t even Russian until the end of the Russo-Turkish War in 1792. All Catherine the Great did was rename it to Odessa in 1795 (and she died a year later). Odessa is just the feminine name of the Greek city Odessos in present day Bulgaria (where it is known as Varna). If I bought the Sears Tower (I still call it that) and renamed it the Ought-Six Tower, that doesn’t mean I built.
!! I did not know this. So many lies built into the barbaric Roooskie empires. Real, failed and then dumbass Putin’s. Even back in public school I was taught how the poor widdle Russians needed and deserved a warm water port on the Black Sea.
In my book, these Mongolian informed (some Mongol genetics too) Russians deserve nothing. The only great thing they ever produced was some great literature. Derived from gloom and suffering in the deep winter snows. Because in their retrograde way, this is what they like.
Let’s just agree to disagree.
Ukraine 100,000 - 125,000 dead, 350,000 wounded
Russia (Including Chec/Wagner Group) 25,000 100,000 wounded
Findem and Grindem til Biden yell’s Uncle Xi.