kravietz 🦇<p>A whole parade of <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/russia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Russia</a> activists and publicists expressing their anger and disgust of <strong>Vladimir Bodelan</strong>, former head of emergency services in <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/odesa" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Odesa</a> during the tragic <a class="hashtag" href="https://agora.echelon.pl/tag/odessa2014" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Odessa2014</a> fire. On that day Bodelan personally gave an order not to send fire brigades to and delayed their arrival for an hour, contributing to the large number of victims.</p><p>The Russians express their anger because immediately after that murderous negligence that killed mostly Russian-speaking activists Bodelan… escaped to Russia and was awarded high government positions there.</p><p>So just to reiterate:</p><ol><li>Since 2014 Russia accused Ukraine of murder or at best causing death of Russian activists who burned on 2 May 2014 in the House of Unions. Russia made it a central point in their propaganda even though all evidence indicates the <strong>fire started from inside</strong> from a badly thrown Molotov’s cocktail.</li><li>At the same time <strong>Russia offered asylum to one of the main contributors to the tragedy</strong> and not only <strong>not started an investigation against him, but quite the opposite - awarded him well paid positions</strong> in Russian administration.</li><li>Russian activists are outraged about Bodelan’s role in the tragedy, but the only thing they do is to write emotional posts on Telegram and <strong>none of them actually filed any formal complaint</strong> with the Investigative Commitee or any government organisations. Of course, they never had any problem to denounce other people for such a terrible crime as speaking Ukrainian language.</li></ol><p>The best ending to this story was written by Bodelan himself: he’s got his own Telegram channel where each 2 May he makes a sad face in a church and speaks as as he was the main victim of the tragedy. And nobody challenges him.</p><p>Russian blind cowardice towards the authorities is a well-known phenomenon but anyone who knows Russia understands why this is the case. All of them perfectly understand that <strong>if Bodelan was offered asylum and awarded with job, he must have been working for Russia from the start</strong> and remains under protection of FSB. </p><p>What kind of job Bodelan was doing in Odessa on 2 May 2014 is left as an exercise to the readers…</p>