Odessa was by far the most popular Ukrainian city with Russians before the war.
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Odessa was by far the most popular Ukrainian city with Russians before the war.
Please... that houses are more than 400 years old..
Pick a better example like this : "CAMORRA" buildings SCAMPIA-NAPOLI
https://notizie.tiscali.it/export/si...1096145172.jpg
Italians forever Plagiarists
In Russia St.Petersburg had a second name "Northern Palmira" and Odessa "Southern Palmira" and "Pearl by the sea". That's some of our core lands. Some distant land of the far north in Norilsk may be important by resources and some other reason (normally nobody will give anyone anything), but those lands are essential, more important than anything else, a Promised Land and living space for generations.
There's still a big hope that after VERY DESTRUCTIVE as possible fall of minor Donbass towns, Dnepr elites will change the sides (they're not anything's patriots, just $$$ matter) and Odessa regional influential guys (like mayor Trukhanov who was pro-Russian for decades and surprisingly still in power) and criminals will help, too.
None in Dnepr (the most independent clan of Ukraine who installs presidents, like Zelensky, who was "stolen" by Brits) wants to lose all the industry like oligarch Akhmetov lost in Donbass.
None here wants warzone in Odessa, too.
There are enough of influential people in Odessa and Dnepr without taking sides before they realize what future is coming and it's good.
Legal system ( civil law and comon law ) romanesqyue and baroque style and Italian fashions and classic music has nothing to do with Greece and Greeks.
For 2000 years, Greece's contribution to civilization has been practically zero.
And we must not forget that the Greeks learned almost everything from the civilizations of the Middle East and Egypt.