The city of Odessa in Ukraine is known not only with its ‘free spirit of a free city’, entrenched internationalism, specific style of humour, and revolutionary traditions. It has always been the centre of the largest mafia and big gangs of Sicilian style. Odessa gangsters established own nets in New-York yet in early XX century. And now – as many Odessa analysts say – new post-Maidan nationalist authorities came into conflict with them. And this fact doesn’t promise anything good to Maidan nationalists and partly explains the disappearances of some their activists. In this context it should be reminded who became the core of Red Army in Odessa after the revolution of 1917. Indeed, the mafia of ‘Odessa-mama’. https://youtube/watch?v=k2VRE7LfUhA The first unit of Red Army in Odessa was organized by a well-known gangster and Jewish revolutionary Mishka Yaponchik. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishka_Yaponchik “In May 1919 he was allowed to form his own military unit for the Soviet forces that fell under the command of the 3rd Ukrainian Army (Soviet forces). The unit was later reformed into the 54th Lenins Soviet Revolutionary Regiment. Yaponchiks assistant (adjutant) was Meyer Zayder, nicknamed Mayorchik (as diminutive of Major), who later shot Kotovskiy in 1925 (see Grigoriy Kotovskiy). The regiment consisted of the Odessas former convicts, anarchist militia, and the newly mobilized students of the Novorossiya University. The Red-Army men of Yaponchik did not have a uniform, which was not uncommon in many military formations that were drafted by Bolsheviks. Many of them wore boaters and top hats, however almost everyone considered to be honorary to wear what is known as telnyashka (a sailors shirt).”
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