
222 - Odessa - the vibrant symbol of urban irreverence and why it irritates Putin so much.
The David McWilliams Podcast
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What's Replaced by the Soviets?
By 19 forty fivehe jewish population is decimated completely. It's virtually wiped out, from having been walkd like for about a quarter of the population before, to being virtually zero. For those that remained, it was virtually impossible to survive within odessa itself. And so people were either deported, theyid of starvation or disease, or were actively killed by byremanian soldiers and gendarmes during the second world war. I know, its its o funnyis it's, it was very eye opening for me reading it, because it's an episode that i think very, very few people are aware of. But there was this sort of ashen thread that that
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