Vice President Kerora compared the tragedy in Odessa with the Holocaust

The vice-president of the Congress of Jewish religious associations and organizations in Russia (Keror) Rabbi Zinovy ​​Kogan considers the surge of fascism and Russophobia the tragedy in Odessa.

"The tragic death of 46 residents of Odessa is a terrible murder committed by people who are fed by the Maidan and poisoned by nationalism, Russophobia, hatred and cruelty," Zinovy ​​Kogan said Interfax -religion to the portal.

He has guilty for the actions of the radicals in Odessa on their parents, as well as on Ukrainian politicians, "if, of course, these nonhumans can be called politicians."

The tragedy that took place reminded the rabbi of the Holocaust event, "when during the Second World War Jews and non -Jews were driven into sheds, at home and burned alive."

"These terrible examples were adopted by the young Member Maiden. It is terrible when such as Kolomoisky, Jews themselves, are terrible today, when the rabbis are silent, as if nothing was happening. Here Patriarch Kirill said firmly, touching, but where are the votes of others?" - the interlocutor of the agency asked a question.

Last Saturday, Zinovy ​​Kogan made a memorial service for those who died in Odessa in a memorial synagogue on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow.

As reported , on the afternoon of May 2, the Black Sea and Metalist football fans and the supporters of the local Euromaidan who supported them defeated the armed separatists who attacked the pro -Ukrainian rally in Odessa. In large -scale clashes, hundreds of people on both sides took part in the city center.

According to the Ukrainian media, the separatists who advocated federalization provoked a fight during the peaceful march "For United Ukraine". Law enforcement agencies managed to share supporters of Euromaidan and Anti -Maidan, but the confrontation continued, the former threw the stones of the separatists and broke through the barricades with the help of the fire engine captured by them. The tent camp on the square was defeated and burned. Supporters of Russia, who had previously lived in the camp, occupied the house of trade unions and tried to fight back. The “Molotov cocktail” fell into the building, after which it caught fire.

In Odessa, pro -Russian activists (the so -called anti -Maidan), who stood there, were there for a fortified tent camp, for a long time in Odessa. On April 21, in Odessa, hundreds of participants in the Orthodox, officer and youth organizations of Ukraine gathered in the Kulikovo field proclaimed the creation of the Odessa People’s Republic of Novorossia. The head of the Union of Orthodox Citizens of Ukraine Valery Kaurov, who had already fled to Russia, was elected the national president of the next self -proclaimed republic in Ukraine.