Career
Since March 2, 2014, Odarchenko is the governor of Kherson Oblast. On August 27, 2014 he resigned his position as governor due to disagreements with the new President of Ukraine. On May 9, 2014, on the 69th anniversary of Victory Day, Governor Odarchenko held a speech in front of veterans of the Great Patriotic War where he questioned the intentions of the communists, as if they were not any better than those of the Nazis.
Governor Odarchenko also implied that a similar situation exists today in Ukraine’s southeast.
The crowd was not amused, and his microphone was snatched and thrown away. According to local news website Khersonskie Vesti, supporters of Ukraine’s Communist Party led the effort to interrupt the speech.
Although, Governor Odarchenko was comparing Russia and Fascist Germany, implying that both foreign powers swept through Ukraine, the communists attempts to represent his speech as "pro-Hitler".
