In a quirk of the calendar, the somewhat ideologically divergent holidays of May Day and Orthodox Easter fell on the same Sunday this year. In Odessa, the Easter Sunday festivities took place on an afternoon so lovely that the citizens of the city could be forgiven for forgetting the generalized sense of dread that had taken hold of the town for more than a week. Still, anyone who did manage to forget would be quickly reminded by the sight of armed men, many decked out in full camouflage attire and sporting baklavas, holding down almost every block of the city.
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Source: The American Interest
