Biography of Alexander Babich

Main menu historian Alexander Babich from Odessa: “I wanted to yell from grief” “Between Russia and Ukraine, I need to dig a ditch of a half -kilometer width and fill it with crocodiles.” So thinks Odessa Alexander Babich. Before the war, he drove tours of the city, wrote a dissertation on history. Helps the army that protects his country from the aggressor.

And the aggressor is Russia. For many Ukrainians today, Russia and Putin are almost identical words. It seems unfair to many Russian citizens. We never voted for Putin - many can object. And we are against the war. This is so, of course. However, the war is on. Think about this before being very indignant at the words of Odessa Alexander Babich. Tell us about myself, I worked as a loader at a sugar factory, firefighter, policeman.

And then he created a travel company. By education, I am a historian, I am mainly engaged in the history of Odessa, I study in graduate school. In general, before the invasion, I sat over the dissertation and took excursions in Odessa. Your first thoughts and feelings on February 24? The war began eight years ago. I am already used to the fact that our country is fighting and digested everything that many, unfortunately, began to be aware only in the last days of February.

I had an understanding that I had to get a family from the country, return and start working in order to win. A phone call woke me up when the first rocket flew to Odessa in the morning of February. And in me with my family - these are two young children, two daughters who are 8 years old, and my wife, left the yard, and rushed to the border. I was so ready that it took me 25 minutes for family fees.

We should not dump everything on one Putin, because it simplifies our perception too much. It occupies absolutely all of my living space. Over the past three months, I had two days off, and both were connected with the commandant’s watch - that is, May 2, on May 9. I allowed myself to drink a little wine and fry the meat in my yard, because I had no right to leave the yard.

Are there any Nazis in Odessa? Probably, there are Nazis in Odessa, because we know that there is some kind of category of people who actively support Russia. I would attribute them to those whom I believe, Russian chauvinists and Nazis, so there are Nazis in Ukraine. We know that we have collaborators, defectors, traitors who help Russia destroy the Ukrainian people.

Speaking seriously, Nazism implies a certain list of quite formal features. And, unfortunately, if we take two state systems that we will decompose on the shelves, then under the category of Nazism the Russian regime falls much easier than Ukrainian. One of the first signs is leadership. We understand that Zelensky weakly falls under the image of the leader and Fuhrer.

If we take Mussolini or Hitler, or Stalin, for example, then we understand that Putin more falls under this characteristic. We understand that our political structure is now far from monoparty. In Russia, in fact, a single -party system. If the opposition is allowed, then it is absolutely legal from the point of view of the Russian politicum. In Russia, the full control of society by security forces, and we, unfortunately, have many power structures, including the SBU.

In Russia, a complete suppression of the opposition. We compare what happened to some conditional Navalny in Russia, Bykov, Shenderovich, and what the opposition in Ukraine does, in the good sense of the word. In Ukraine - freedom of the press. It is enough to compare the militarization of the economy, the budget of Russia, which allocated for war and what happened to us.

When the majority of society already understood that the war would begin, our power continued to make all sorts of restorations and “large construction” with theft on the roads. Most of the signs that are in all textbooks on political science does not allow us to win in this competition. The very exploitation of the term “fascism” and “Nazism” is what Russian propaganda uses is an irrational story.

You can convince yourself that your opponent fascist, drawing your internal system of negative qualities, into which you later put an enemy’s portrait. The Russians successfully coped with this. They convinced themselves that only they are carriers of some kind of truth of the winners of fascism. After a year, everything that happened, they justified the fact that they could not be fascists, because their grandfathers were once a banner of victory over the Reichstag.

They skillfully brains to their people and themselves washed themselves with this terrible propaganda and now with burning eyes are ready to kill everyone and everyone who does not want to accept their hordes with open arms. Are there people in Odessa who support the "special operation" in Ukraine? The number of people supporting Russia to Buchi, to Gostel, to the bombing of Mariupol, was more, now there are fewer, because many have experienced the horrors of war.I have a lot of acquaintances, being loyal to Russia, but not sympathizing with Putin, accepting that we are two fraternal people who must live nearby, now adhere to a diametrically opposite position.

That is, in the near future - only a half -kilometer fence and a moat with crocodiles between. The other day, my friend came to me, he was Russian, he was born in Russia, he has almost all in Russia, but he has been living in Ukraine for a very long time. He always told me: “Sash, here you are rolled a barrel on the Russians, that they are so-sicked, but we must live together.

But now he is in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, fighting in the Marine Corps and to my question “Well, what will you tell me for this? Why do many support the war in Russia? When you tell you 24 hours a day that “all Khokhls are Bandera, Nazis, eat Russian -speaking babies before going to bed”, then you, without sufficient critical thinking, begin to accept this on faith.

If this is pouring from each iron, if you have no desire to find an alternative source of information - because you need to strain for this, and why if you explained everything to you, and Cyril even uttered you from the pulpit, he also put it in the annual speech on the shelves? When a person does not have a reason for personal pride, there is no achievement, and there is nowhere to come from, because he is a slave, he is morally depressed by this system, grew up in conditions of absolute totalitarian spiritual, political, social slavery, when he could not even get something against the state machine, then this is already OURELOVSHOVSKY-“”.

Such a person begins to be proud of the country's military achievements, and the more achievements, the more joyful screeching causes this in the depressed population. Which of the last news shocked you the most? I accidentally stumbled upon four photos of Ukrainian children, my friend published them. These photos from one of the hospitals are children with torn limbs.

There, a girl without arms, the doctor carries a girl without two legs, she only has ankles, a boy cut by fragments without a pen, and a girl in a wheelchair without a leg. I just looked at these photos, and I wanted to yell with grief, I wanted to cry. This is not news, this is a picture before my eyes. War for a long time? I think yes. The battles will last very intensely than another six months, that is, the situation can change dramatically only if we begin to receive a land-lease, namely, heavy artillery in sufficient quantities.

If we get this at least by the middle-end of the summer, we will manage to change something at the front, and then the most difficult way for the liberation of our territories. The offensive is always a more severe type of hostilities. All this should take at least six months - until the end of autumn the beginning of winter. How do you see the future of Ukraine? I am very afraid that our politicians, our officials, our villains will return to what they did before the war.

And those people who fought, survived hell, will not be able to change the political situation in any way, because most of the population will again vote for these villains, the guys are mostly fighting adequate, they will not take weapons and will not go to shoot some kind of thieving mayor or some bastard official. They will simply get quietly, we will have a wave of suicides, there will be social conflicts.

This is from bad news. Of the good, the passionate jerk that the Maidan gave us when a huge number of cool boys, girls, men, women rushed to change something in the country, began to relate to business and taxes, produce some cool thoughts, intellectual products and realize social impulses, and will happen again.

But this war of such people will splash many times more. Navigation by records.