The Odessa trade union massacre, ten years later

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The Odessa trade union massacre, ten years later

This article is part of the People’s World 100th Anniversary Series. On May 2, 2014, heavily-armed fascist militia forces attacked the House of Trade Unions in Odessa, Ukraine. Trapped inside were demonstrators opposed to the right-wing government in Kiev that had been put in place in a U.S.-orchestrated coup just weeks earlier. The new government had been established in the wake of the February 2014 “Euromaidan” protests that overthrew the corr…