Original:
Translation by Valentina Lisitsa
Edited by S. Naylor
Edited by S. Naylor
August 7, 2014
In Slavyansk, occupied by Ukrainian troops, the local
residents have practically disappeared. The town is being inundated with
migrants who speak with a foreign dialect, who take over the housing of those
who left to escape the Ukrainian bombing campaign.
This is reported by one of very few residents of
Slavyansk who, trusting Ukrainian official propaganda has made a decision to
return to his native city. The picture that he saw is terrifying. He realized
that the information about residents of Slavyansk returning home is nothing but
a vile lie.
“Please, heed our plea! The people have disappeared from
Slavyansk!
I am a native of Slavyansk, residing here already for 27 years. Or better to
say ‘I was residing‘, having left the town 3 months ago, when it was becoming
dangerous to stay. All this time I found a refuge with my relatives in Odessa.
I made a decision to return when all of Ukrainian media started saying that
everything in Slavyansk is back to normal, that over 60% of residents have come
back.
“In three months of my absence my apartment remained
untouched by shells from junta bombings or by its marauding thugs. I had
already started to unpack when I heard the sound of my neighbor’s doors opening
across the hallway. I thought it must be my neighbor, Sergey Ivanovich, but
then I saw a young man unknown to me. To my question about his identity he
replied that he is Sergey Ivanovich’ son.
“Little problem here – the son of my neighbor died in a
car accident 3 years ago – and he happened to be my childhood friend. I decided
to pay a visit to my other neighbors and ask who this guy really is, perhaps
truly a son about whom I had no idea.
“Most of the apartments remained empty, but not all. And
those which were occupied were occupied by people totally unknown to me. They
introduced themselves as new tenants or relatives of my neighbors.
“I knew everybody in my building, but those people I saw
for the first time in my life. When I wanted to visit my acquaintances elsewhere,
those who I knew, decided to stay in town under siege, I able to find neither
them nor anybody even vaguely familiar. I was trying to locate old friends,
trying all the phone numbers I knew – but nobody answered.
“Where are my friends, will you tell me, Kiev junta? As
I found out from communication with others, the same experience was shared by
others who returned home after Kiev army occupied the town. Streets are
practically devoid of people, those who do walk there are clearly not locals.
“They speak Ukrainian, and if they try Russian one can
spot a strong Western Ukrainian accent. Maybe we are going crazy, but it’s not
only me alone who thinks the population of Slavyansk has been replaced by junta
actors, for the sole purpose of hiding the fact of either extermination of
local inhabitants; or their deportation.
“Please spread this message, everyone must know what is
happening with our city after its so-called ‘liberation’! “, pleads this
resident of Slavyansk.
Source: Slavgrad.org 14-08-2014
