hanse_mina, 10 years ago, in early May 2014, after several months of widespread political unrest in #Odesa, #Ukraine, street clashes between pro-#Russia and pro-Ukraine factions resulted in a deadly fire in the city’s Trade Unions building. It’s still unclear who exactly is to blame for the deaths. Nonetheless, the Russian state-run media machine started churning out propaganda about the fire the very next day, characterizing the events as a merciless attack by “Ukrainian neo-Nazis”
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/05/08/the-making-of-a-myth