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BBC Newsnight's Gabriel Gatehouse investigates the links between the new Ukrainian government and Neo-nazis

Neo-Nazi threat in new Ukraine: NEWSNIGHT
1,602,446 views • Mar 1, 2014

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Ukraine: its Donbass conflict | VPRO Documentary
230,093 views • Dec 7, 2019

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Why Poland is part of the American power play | VPRO Documentary
11,890 views • Jan 18, 2020

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk5ATECLLvc" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk5ATECLLvc</a>  

Για όσες και όσους είδαν και το 2ο (και κατάλαβαν τι είδαν), οι ΗΠΑ, μέσω της φιλοαμερικανικής (ως κρυφοναζιστικής) κυβέρνησης της Πολωνίας (για να μην απορείτε και γιατί οι περισσότεροι Ουκρανοί από τα δυτικά πήγαν προς Πολωνία και όχι προς τα κάτω που θα ήταν και λίγο πιο ζεστά σε σχέση με την Ουκρανία, προς την Ρουμανία), ετοιμάζουν και εκεί κάτι πολύ σκοτεινό :
Παραστρατιωτικές ομάδες "εθελοντών" "πατριωτών" (δλδ εθνικιστών δλδ κρυφοναζιστών) που εκπαιδεύονται λες και ετοιμάζονται για κάποιον πόλεμο (!!!) και υπάγονται απευθείας στον Υπουργό Άμυνας της Πολωνίας...
Κάτι που αποτελεί μάλλον διεθνή πρωτοτυπία στα στρατιωτικά χρονικά σύγχρονων δυτικών στρατών, παρακάμπτοντας όλη την στρατιωτική ιεραρχία !!!

Αφοπλιστικές οι μαρτυρίες των 2 τελευταίων, του καθηγητή σε κολλέγιο που απολύθηκε έτσι απλά επειδή (ενώ αρχικά βοήθησε έμμεσα στην δημιουργία της "αντιπυραυλικής ασπίδας", τελικά) άρχισε να κάνει "κριτική", ή μάλλον, για την ακρίβεια, να θέτει άβολα ερωτήματα που χτυπάνε ακριβώς στην καρδιά του ρόλου που παίζει το ΝΑΤΟ και στην Πολωνία :
Πέρα από την "πάρα πολλή δημοκρατία" που έχει πέσει και στην Πολωνία, και την "ελευθερία του λόγου" που δεν απολαμβάνουν τελικά ούτε οι καθηγητές πανεπιστημίου στην Πολωνία (!!!) γίνεται φανερό οτι και μόνο να αναρωτηθείς πόσο σοφό είναι να γινόμαστε ως χώρα (η Πολωνία) τα μεγάλα κορόϊδα των ΗΠΑ και να δεχόμαστε να εκτοξεύουμε πυραύλους πάνω από τα κεφάλια μας (που θα σκάσουν πέφτοντας εννοείται στα κεφάλια μας) που ως μόνο σκοπό έχουν να "αναχαιτίσουν" (δήθεν) κακούς (βαλλιστικούς) πυραύλους των Ιρακινών (των ποιων?) ή των Ιρανών (που τώρα θα μοσχοπουλάνε πετρέλαιο στις ΗΠΑ) ή των (πάντα "κακών") Ρώσων που "στοχεύουν" δήθεν τις ΗΠΑ? Μήπως τελικά όλο αυτό το πυραυλικό σύστημα - η "ομπρέλλα" "προστασίας" έχει άλλο στόχο και σκοπό? Δλδ να επιτεθεί στην Ρωσία?

Για τους λάτρεις της λεπτομέρειας, πείτε μου αν αναγνωρίσατε το ναζιστικό σύμβολο στο φυλλάδιο που δίνει σε νέους (και άμυαλους - ανυποψίαστους - πρόθυμους να μετατρέψουν το θυμό τους για την ακραία φτώχεια τους και τη μιζέρια τους σε αντιρωσικό μίσος και να γίνουν ναζί πριν το καταλάβουν) ο Υπουργός Άμυνας της Πολωνίας που έχει δικό του Στρατό !!!.

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#Nazi #NaziUkraine #DenazifyUkraine #StandWithRussia



Tώρα που όλοι μάλλον κατάλαβαν τι σημαίνει το περίφημο "No Fly Zone" που ζητούσε και απατούσε ο γελοίιος Ζελένσκι (πωπω τι γλυκιά αμερικανιά ήταν πάλι αυτή?, "no - fly zone" ακούγεται πολύ πιο ωραία από το 3ος Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος με πυρηνικά και το τέλος των πάντων) , να θυμίσω πόσο Ζελενικότερος του Ζελένσκι είχε γίνει το δουλικό των ΗΠΑ κυβερνητικό εκπρόσωπό μας, αυτό το "σοφό" ραδίκι εδώ :

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Γ. Οικονόμου: Ανοιχτό το ενδεχόμενο αποστολής μαχητικών και πιλότων στην Ουκρανία
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Ο κυβερνητικός εκπρόσωπος Γιάννης Οικονόμου στην ενημέρωση των πολιτικών συντακτών ρωτήθηκε αν στο συμβούλιο των υπουργών άμυνας της ΕΕ θα ληφθεί απόφαση να μας ζητηθεί να πάνε στην Ουκρανία μαχητικά και πιλότοι.

"Η χώρα μας είναι πλήρως εναρμονισμένη με τους εταίρους και τους συμμάχους μας στην αντιμετώπιση της εισβολής της Ρωσίας στην Ουκρανία. Θα περιμένουμε τις αποφάσεις του συμβουλίου των υπουργών άμυνας", απάντησε.

Για τα κόμματα της αντιπολίτευσης που διαφωνούν με την αποστολή στρατιωτικού υλικού στην Ουκρανία, ο κ. Οικονόμου ανέφερε τα εξής: "Η χώρα οφείλει να είναι καθαρά και ανυποχώρητα απέναντι σε πράξεις που συνιστούν αναθεώρηση του Διεθνούς Δικαίου, απέναντι στην εισβολή της Ρωσίας στην Ουκρανία. Όχι απλώς καταδικάζουμε. Ζητάμε και υποστηρίζουμε κυρώσεις, υποστηρίζουμε ενεργά το λαό της Ουκρανίας. Δεν πρέπει να παίρνουμε αποστάσεις. Δεν πρέπει να εξισώνουμε το θύτη με το θύμα. Η στάση μας είναι απολύτως εναρμονισμένη με τις αποφάσεις όλου του δυτικού κόσμου, με τους εταίρους μας στην ΕΕ και τους συμμάχους μας στο ΝΑΤΟ. Είναι αναγκαίες αποφάσεις που ελήφθησαν με το δέοντα τρόπο και ύστερα από την εξουσιοδότηση που έδωσε το ΚΥΣΕΑ".

https://www.efsyn.gr/kosmos/eyropi/333952_g-oikonomoy-anoihto-endehomeno-apostolis-mahitikon-kai-piloton-stin-oykrania
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Οι τύποι είναι τόσο γελοίοι, ηλίθιοι, ραδίκια και @@@@ που θα ξεκινούσαν από την κεκτημένη ταχύτητά τους να γλείφουν τις ΗΠΑ και τον όμοιό τους Ζελένσκι, τον 3ο Παγκόσμιο Πόλεμο - Κανονικά όμως.

Chris Avramidis
@chris_avramidis · 23h

Όταν γράφουμε για τις νοθείες και τους αποκλεισμούς που επιβάλλει ο Πούτιν είμαστε ευυπόληπτοι & υπεύθυνοι πολίτες.
Όταν γράφουμε για την απαγόρευση κομμάτων σε #Ουκρανια είμαστε πουλημένα #Πουτινακια

Καλή και η δημοκρατία, αλλά μέχρι εκεί που ευνοεί τα μεγάλα Δυτικά συμφέροντα

https://twitter.com/chris_avramidis/status/1505626561248124935


dinos
@dinos123ab · 4h

Στην Ουκρανία σπεύδουν Γερμανοί νεοναζί.
Σύμφωνα με δημοσίευμα της εφημερίδας Süddeutsche Zeitung του Μονάχου 27 ακροδεξιοί ήδη ταξιδεύουν στην Ουκρανία για να υποστηρίξουν τις δυνάμεις του τάγματος του Αζόφ.
Αλληλοσκοτωθειτε να ξεβρωμισει ο τοπος..
#Ζελενσκι #πουτινακια #Αδωνις

https://twitter.com/dinos123ab/status/1505926030418141193


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Ναι στην ανθρωπιστική βοήθεια, αλλά όχι στη στρατιωτική. Την αποστολή ανθρωπιστικής βοήθειας στην Ουκρανία υποστηρίζουν 9 στους 10 (91%) Έλληνες πολίτες. Αντίθετα, την αποστολή στρατιωτικής, καταδικάζουν 7 στους 10 (67%) - https://publicissue.gr/ukraine/ #Ουκρανία #Ουκρανιας #Ukraine



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Σημαντική δυσαρέσκεια από τους κυβερνητικούς χειρισμούς στο ζήτημα της Ουκρανίας εκδηλώνει το 68% των πολιτών (σχεδόν 7 στους 10). Ικανοποιημένοι δηλώνουν 3 στους 10 (29%), κυρίως ψηφοφόροι της ΝΔ και του ΚΙΝΑΛ - https://publicissue.gr/ukraine/ #Ουκρανία #Ουκρανιας #Ukraine



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H έμμεση αποκάλυψη εδώ είναι οτι ΝΔ και ΚΙΝΑΛ μαζεύουν μαζί 29%.     

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Τα καλύτερα άρθρα είναι αυτά των δυτικών ΜΜΕ που είναι γραμμένα πριν τις 24/02/2022. Για αυτά δε μπορούν να πεταχτούν οι θαυμαστές του Ζελένσκι και τα δουλικά των ΗΠΑ να σε λένε "πουτινάκι"

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Why is a monument commemorating a Nazi SS division still standing outside Toronto?
The cenotaph at the St. Volodymyr Cemetery in Oakville honours members of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division

Harrison Samphir / July 26, 2020


Heinrich Himmler, centre, reviews troops of the Ukrainian 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, June 3, 1944. Photo courtesy the US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

From a distance, the cenotaph at the St. Volodmyr Ukrainian Cemetery in Oakville, Ontario, just outside of Toronto, looks innocuous.
Flanked by flagstaffs and set on a small, paved plateau, the monument is hardly out of the ordinary.

Yet few Canadians may be aware that this memorial commemorates a major battle fought by the Ukrainian Galician Division of the Waffen-SS against the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War. Fewer still may connect it with a more insidious form of far-right nationalism—one that quietly glorifies Nazi collaborators while giving credence to a far-right brand of historical revisionism.

Around June 21, the stone cenotaph was vandalized and spray-painted with the words “Nazi war monument.” Halton Regional Police initially began investigating the incident as a “hate-motivated” crime, but issued a statement on July 17 to clarify that the incident is now being treated as vandalism.

This was not the first time the monument has come under fire. In 2017, the Russian Embassy to Canada was accused of fomenting division by posting comments online that the memorial glorifies a Nazi history. In the context of Moscow’s then-recent annexation of Crimea, however, Canadian media immediately dismissed this criticism as part of a Russian “disinformation campaign.” Ihor Michalchyshyn, executive director and CEO of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, denounced the comments as an attempt to “stir up controversy” and “obfuscate the [situation]” taking place in Europe at the time.

Since then, many others have urged a more serious reckoning with the monument, the sordid history of the Ukrainian independence movement, and the political allegiances of some of its forebears during the Second World War. The Ukrainian nationalist movement that first arose during the Tsarist era of the Russian Empire, culminating in defeat at the end of the Ukrainian-Soviet War in 1921, became split between moderates and the more radical Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). This split was most apparent in the historical region of Galicia, which until the First World War was a part of Austria-Hungary, located in what is now western Ukraine.

The OUN was a far-right insurgency movement that fostered a sometimes-complicated relationship with the Nazis. The OUN and its two splinter groups—a conservative wing, the OUN-M, led by Andriy Melnyk, and an extremist ultranationalist faction, the OUN-B, headed up by Stepan Bandera—viewed Russia as the greatest enemy of Ukrainian nationhood, along with other neighbouring non-Soviet countries at the time such as Poland and Czechoslovakia.

The ‘Banderists’ in particular saw Jews as the “vanguard of Muscovite imperialism,” and were openly willing to commit barbarous crimes against them, as they believed it would lead to Ukraine’s independence from Russia and the Soviet Union. In 1941, under the OUN-B’s command, the Ukrainian People’s Militia spearheaded pogroms which led to the massacre of more than 6,000 Jews in Lviv.

The OUN also maintained informal control over many units of the auxiliary police, especially in Galicia. The local police helped to implement the Nazi genocide of Jews, Ukrainians, Russians, Byelorussians, and Poles by assisting in mass executions.



The cenotaph featuring the emblem of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician). Photo from Wikimedia Commons.

The Ukrainian Galician Division of the Waffen-SS—the military wing of the Schutzstaffel, Hitler’s foremost proprietor of terror—was formed in 1943 to support German forces on the Eastern Front following a series of Nazi defeats that had decisively turned the tide of war. Made up of Ukrainian volunteers, some of whom were drawn from the ranks of the OUN, the 13,000-man division was attached to the 13th German Army Corps and initially charged with defending an 80-kilometre-long frontline near Lviv. The Galician Division also assisted the Nazis in anti-resistance actions and reprisals. According to University of Ottawa professor and historian Ivan Katchanovski, the unit committed a massacre of more than 1,000 Polish civilians in Huta Peniatska in 1944. The town was razed to the ground and most of its inhabitants were murdered, including many young children.
In July 1944, facing an advancing Red Army, the Galician Division was encircled and largely destroyed by a much larger Soviet force. While it regrouped in August and joined other SS units in suppressing the anti-fascist Slovak National Uprising, the war would end less than a year later.

By 1950, many members of the OUN-B, the OUN-M, along with commanders and servicemen of military units including the Galician Division—all of whom collaborated to various degrees with Nazi Germany—were granted refuge in various Western countries. For its part, the Canadian government admitted between 1,200 and 2,000 veterans of the Galician Division, an official policy condemned by the Canadian Jewish Congress.

Despite the entire Waffen-SS being declared a “criminal organization” at the Nuremberg Trials, Canada was criticized for a “lax pursuit of accused war criminals.” This reputation was unwittingly reinforced by the findings of the 1985 Commission of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada, often referred to as the Deschênes Commission, which concluded that charges of war crimes against the Galician Division have “never been substantiated.”

While military cooperation alone does not constitute outright allegiance to the hateful ideology of Nazism, the celebration of the Galician Division as a symbol of the fight for Ukrainian independence trivializes its role as an accomplice to one of the most violent and murderous regimes in history.

This glorification, embodied by the cenotaph at the St. Volodmyr Cemetery in Oakville, represents a troubling form of ethno-nationalism rooted, at least in part, in the ‘double genocide’ theory—an under-recognized form of historical revisionism equating the crimes of the Nazis and the Soviets. The theory’s ultimate purpose is to portray those who were accomplices to mass murder and war crimes as heroes who fought a repressive communist regime. This political doublethink whitewashes history and presents a dangerous moral equivalency between those who defeated fascism and those who allied with it. At worst, the double genocide theorists display a blithe disregard for the slain while participating in a form of competing victimology to justify past violence against Jews and other groups.

The last couple of months have seen a reckoning with historical monuments in the United States and around the world. Here in Canada, too, many have advocated for a closer examination of the historical deeds of some of our celebrated former leaders, demanding we confront their legacy in light of contemporary attitudes. Perhaps it is now time to break the silence around other uncomfortable parts of our past and demand the removal of the cenotaph at St. Volodmyr Cemetery and others like it elsewhere.

Harrison Samphir is an editor, writer and policy analyst based in Toronto. His work has appeared in CBC, Jacobin, NOW Magazine, Huffington Post, rabble.ca, Ricochet, Truthout, and the Winnipeg Free Press, among others. In 2016, he completed an MA in International Relations at the University of Sussex. Harrison has served as Dimension’s web editor since 2014.

A different version of this article originally appeared in NOW Magazine.

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/why-is-a-monument-commemorating-a-nazi-ss-division-still-standing-outside-of-toronto
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Τα καλύτερα άρθρα είναι αυτά των δυτικών ΜΜΕ που είναι γραμμένα πριν τις 24/02/2022. Για αυτά δε μπορούν να πεταχτούν οι θαυμαστές του Ζελένσκι και τα δουλικά των ΗΠΑ να σε λένε "πουτινάκι"

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Ukraine’s fascist-backed government erasing Red Army from history
December 23, 2020 2:32 PM CST  BY BEN CHACKO



Local government officials are tearing down a monument to Red Army soldiers in Lviv, Ukraine, hometown of Soviet World War II veteran Nazar Morgunov, seen here on Victory Day, May 9, 2014, when he was 88 years old. | Markus Schreiber / AP

Ukraine’s Communists are condemning what they call “state vandalism” as authorities in the city of Lviv announced their decision to dismantle the city’s Monument of Glory, a memorial to Red Army soldiers who died fighting the Nazi invasion.

Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko denounced the act as “moral terrorism” and called it “a crime against the memory of the soldiers of the Red Army, a slap in the face of the international community and to all members of the anti-Hitler alliance.”

Ukrainian authorities have dismantled thousands of Soviet-era monuments and renamed hundreds of streets since the fascist-backed “Maidan” coup of 2014. Lviv’s Monument of Glory had survived so far because the Institute of National Remembrance, an institution tasked with “de-communization,” said it was not a specifically communist symbol but one commemorating the defeat of the Nazis



Fascist vandals have repeatedly attacked the Monument of Glory in Lviv. The local government is now finishing the job they started.

But neo-Nazis have repeatedly vandalized the monument. The city authorities’ claim that it is unstable and dangerous was slammed as “hypocritical” by the Communist Party, which pointed out that they plan to relocate the monument to the anti-communist “Territory of Terror” museum.

More than 27 million Soviet citizens—including at least nine million Ukrainians—lost their lives in the struggle against Hitler’s Nazi Germany.

Morning Star

https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/ukraines-fascist-backed-government-erasing-red-army/
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Aκόμα και "καμμένοι" παιχνιδάδες βαρούσαν το καμπανάκι

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Note to devs, this insignia is used by a Neo-Nazi battalion in Ukraine



HanigerEatMyAssPls
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I’m sort of worried it was intentional considering the colors are just inverted. Azov is neo-Nazi battalion that uses neo-Nazi imagery and has been guilty of war crimes and torture of Ukrainian minorities. They have explicitly been deemed a threat to humanity by the US government and any aid sent to Ukraine cannot be sent to Azov.

It’s also been recognized by neo-nazis and is being used as a dog whistle in game



Don’t let sympathizers gaslight you into thinking this is the same as the hammer and sickle. The Soviet Union hasn’t existed in 30 years, Azov is currently still going and practicing fascism.

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Greek in Mariupol: “The fascist Ukrainians would kill me, they don’t let us leave the city” (VIDEO)



With Russian forces besieging Mariupol, in which 120,000+ ethnic Greeks live, SKAI news spoke with a Mr Kiouranas who lives in the city and exposed that Ukrainian “fascists” are killing people for trying to leave the city.

When asked by SKAI news if he planned to leave the city, Kiouranas responded “how can I leave? When you try to leave you run the risk of running into a patrol of the Ukrainian fascists, the Azov Battalion.”

“They would kill me and are responsible for everything,” he added.

Who are the Azov Battalion?

Azov Special Operations Detachment (Ukrainian: Окремий загін спеціального призначення «Азов»), or Azov Battalion, is a right-wing extremist and neo-Nazi unit of the National Guard of Ukraine, based in Mariupol, in the Azov Sea coastal region.

In 2014, the regiment gained notoriety after allegations emerged of torture and war crimes, as well as neo-Nazi sympathies and usage of associated symbols by the regiment itself, as seen in their logo featuring the Wolfsangel, one of the original symbols used by the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich.

Representatives of the Azov Battalion say that the symbol is an abbreviation for the slogan Ідея Нації (Ukrainian for “National Idea”) and deny connection with Nazism.

In 2014, a spokesman for the regiment said around 10–20% of the unit were neo-Nazis.

In 2018, a provision in an appropriations bill passed by the U.S. Congress blocked military aid to Azov on the grounds of its white supremacist ideology; in 2015, a similar ban on aid to the group was overturned by the Congress.

Members of the regiment come from 22 countries and are of various backgrounds.

It's his personal ideology': USA Today finds Nazis among Kiev's volunteer brigade — RT World News

More than half of the regiment’s members speak Russian and come from eastern Ukraine, including cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.

The unit’s first commander was far-right nationalist Andriy Biletsky, who led the neo-Nazi Social-National Assembly and Patriot of Ukraine.

In its early days, Azov was a special police company of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, led by Volodymyr Shpara, the leader of the Vasylkiv, Kyiv, branch of Patriot of Ukraine and Right Sector.

In 2018, the U.S. House of Representatives also passed a provision blocking any training of Azov members by American forces, citing its neo-Nazi connections.

The House had previously passed amendments banning support of Azov between 2014 and 2017, but due to pressure from The Pentagon, the amendments were quietly lifted.

This was protested by the Simon Wiesenthal Center which stated that lifting the ban highlighted the danger of Holocaust distortion in Ukraine.

READ MORE: Greece announces willingness to host Ukrainian refugees.

“Of course not, it’s all made up, there are just a lot of people who are interested in Nordic mythology,” said one fighter when asked by The Guardian in 2014 if there were neo-Nazis in the battalion.

When asked what his own political views were, however, he said “national socialist”. As for the swastika tattoos on at least one man seen at the Azov base, “the swastika has nothing to do with the Nazis, it was an ancient sun symbol,” he claimed.

The battalion has drawn far-right volunteers from abroad, such as Mikael Skillt, a 37-year-old Swede, trained as a sniper in the Swedish army, who described himself as an “ethnic nationalist” and fights on the front line with the battalion.

A Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Group Is Organizing Violence On Facebook

Another speaking to The Guardian, Dmitry, said “I have nothing against Russian nationalists, or a great Russia. But Putin’s not even a Russian. Putin’s a Jew.”

Dmitry claimed not to be a Nazi, but waxed lyrical about Adolf Hitler as a military leader, and believes the Holocaust never happened.

Not everyone in the Azov battalion thinks like Dmitry, but after speaking with dozens of its fighters and embedding on several missions during the past week in and around the strategic port city of Mariupol, the Guardian found many of them to have disturbing political views, and almost all to be intent on “bringing the fight to Kiev” when the war in the east is over.

https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/01/greek-in-mariupol-fascist-ukrainian/



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Minister Freeland's Grandfather, Michael Chomiak, the Nazi's Top Ukrainian Propagandist :
Fake News, Mighty Wurlitzers, Historical Amnesia and the Elephant (or Bear) in the Room


By Richard Sanders, editor, Press for Conversion! magazine of the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, March 22, 2017

"It takes a village to raise a Nazi" (old African proverb, slightly modified)

Part 1
Introduction

Canadians should not be surprised by the fact that our Liberal Foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland, has been hiding a big Nazi skeleton in her family closet.

Like so many other ultranationalists in the Ukrainian émigré community whose forbears came to Canada soon after WWII, Freeland has covered up the truth about a close and revered family member who collaborated with the Nazi regime. In that way, Freeland's case is not terribly unusual.

What is truly impressive about this whole story is how the ultranationalist Ukrainian diaspora, the Liberal government and the mainstream corporate media have managed to keep a lid on broader issues surrounding Ukrainian collaboration with the Nazis in executing mass murder and genocide, including the Holocaust.



Even now, after the story has been "covered" by the mainstream mass media, precious few details have actually been allowed to creep out about Freeland's grandfather (her dido in Ukrainian). This "coverage" amounts to more "cover up" because, while it exposes some information, it falls far short of revealing far more damaging truths.  It is what the "intelligence" community calls a "limited hangout." [ i ]



Michael Chomiak (1905-1984) held the influential position of editor in chief for the Nazi's leading Ukrainian-language newspaper, Krakivs'ki visti (Krakow News). As the flagship Nazi propaganda mouthpiece for Ukrainians all across Greater Germany and occupied Europe, this daily newspaper played a key role in riling up widespread support within Ukrainian community for the military efforts of Canada's wartime enemies.



Under Chomiak's guidance and oversight, this Nazi-empowered newspaper spouted vile antiSemitic fake news which helped Ukrainians to justify and rationalise the liquidation of some seven million Jews.  The newspaper also actively promoted vile hatred towards the most powerful enemy of Nazism, namely, the Soviet Union.  In case anyone has forgotten, that country lost 25 to 30 million citizens as a result of the Nazi onslaught against their homeland. This incredible death toll included about 8.7 million members of the Red Army who died fighting the Nazis. The Soviets eventually repelled the Nazi military and chased them back to Germany. It is no wonder that the Soviet people called WWII, "The Great Patriotic War."

Chomiak was officially responsible for at least one other newspaper, a weekly called Kholmska zemlia (Cholmer Land).  It, like Krakivs'ki visti, contained many edited speeches by Nazi leaders including Adolph Hitler, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Governors Hans Frank and Otto Wächter, and many others.  Baron von Wächter was a lawyer, Nazi politician and the SS-Gruppenführer (Major General) who oversaw the creation of the 14th Waffen SS Galician division in 1943. This Ukrainian military formation was funded, armed, controlled and led by the Nazi regime. Its members were volunteers who swore a religious oath to fight to the death for their supreme leader, Adolph Hitler.  Recruitment for the Waffen SS Galicia was done by the Nazis, Ukrainian church leaders and Ukrainian newspapers, including that leading propaganda organ, with Chomiak at its helm, Krakivs'ki visti.



Part 2
The Liberal Government's Warm Embrace of Ukraine's Nazi Collaborators

Chrystia Freeland's grandfather is something of a diversion. The broader truth that must come out of the Canadian closet is that in the years immediately following WWII, tens of thousands of "displaced persons" of Ukrainian heritage were brought into this country by Canada's notoriously antiSemitic Liberal government.  Many thousands of these immigrants harboured such extremely nationalistic ideologies towards Ukraine that they had sympathised and collaborated with the Nazi regime during the war.  Many were pleased to do this because they had been led to believe ‑ by their mass media, the church and other powerful civic institutions ‑ that the Third Reich was a benevolent, liberating force which was assisting them in the noble cause of promoting Ukrainian culture. They also felt a strong affinity to the Nazis because they shared a common worldview which despised two mortal enemies: Jews and communists. This worldview ‑ regarding a Judeo-Bolshevik enemy ‑ was also shared by many mainstream Canadians at that time, including many among this country's top political and religious leaders.



The new Ukrainian Canadians who emigrated here after WWII included several thousand veterans from two military formations within the Nazi military's embrace: the  Waffen SS Galicia and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (known by its Ukrainian acronym, UPA).  The latter was the militarized wing of that faction of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists, the OUN(B), that was led by an infamous Ukrainian fascist named Stepan Bandera. Many Canadian offspring of this "Third Wave" of Ukrainian immigrants still continue to perpetuate a hero-cult reverence towards the memory of these WWII veterans, their political and military leaders, and the extremely rightwing, nationalist ideologies that they epitomise. For example, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, and its longstanding president Paul Grod, who Chrystia Freeland counts among her friends, has long had numerous core national member organisations that represent the leadership of both factions within the OUN, including the more extreme Banderites. Congress membership has also included the key associations representing the UPA, the Waffen SS Galicia, and a Bandera youth organisation, the Ukrainian Youth Association, which ‑ like scouting outfits across the British empire ‑ is structured along military lines.



When the Liberal government orchestrated this largescale, postwar influx of Ukrainian émigrés, some Canadians were overjoyed to welcome them.  Others however felt betrayed, again.  The organisation which most vociferously supported the Mackenzie King government's move to allow former Nazi sympathisers, supporters and collaborators into Canada was the Ukrainian Canadian Congress. This organisation had been established by the Liberal government in 1940 in order to consolidate all anticommunist Ukrainians under one roof.  Their rival organisation in Canada was the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (AUUC), a progressive organisation which includes social democrats, socialists and communists.  Before the Liberals manufactured the Congress and brought in tens of thousands of Ukrainians after the war, the AUUC had been the most powerful voice within Canada's Ukrainian émigré community. [ i ]

The Liberal government's efforts to bring thousands of Ukrainian nationalist war veterans into the Canadian fold was passionately opposed by the AUUC and the Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC).[ii]   The AUUC and the CJC both represented cultural communities that had been severely repressed by successive Anglo-Protestant Canadian governments. While the Jewish community suffered bigotry and segregation based merely on religious/ethnic discrimination, the AUUC was punished for its politics.  Red Scares had twice made the AUUC illegal and all of its newspapers and other publications were banned.  Tons of books from AUUC libraries were literally burned, its leaders arrested, and its printing presses and Labour Temples (meeting halls) were seized and in some cases even turned over to ultranationalists associated with Ukrainian Canadian Congress.[iii]  Canada's decidedly antiSemitic and anticommunist state has gone through phases of extreme social paranoia which exhibited zero tolerance for either Judaism or communism.  These -isms were seen as totally contradictory to Canada's "Christian values."



Despite this history of repression, the Liberal government has a reputation for embracing diversity and multiculturalism.  This image stands in stark contrast to its notoriously antiSemitic immigration policies before and during WWII.  Just before the war, Mackenzie King's Liberal government actually used the Canadian Navy to turn away a passenger ship carrying about 1000 Jewish refugees. These unwanted souls were pushed away from the safety of Canadian harbours and sent back to Europe where most met their deaths in the Holocaust.  When it came to Jews, Canada's immigration policy was that "none is too many."[iv]



Then, during WWII, when Britain sent tens of thousands of its POWs to Canada, the Liberals found ‑ to their horror ‑ that there were thousands of Jewish and Communist refugees among these prisoners. The Liberal government was outraged. They managed to send about half of these unwanted refugees back to Britain but were forced to keep some 2,000 Jews and 300 communists.  The Government of Canada promptly interned these refugees in POW camps in four provinces, including Camp "N," where they were surrounded by barbed wire, guard towers and armed Canadian soldiers, for much of WWII.[v]



And, lest we forget, MacKenzie King wrote glowingly in his diaries about the various friendly personal meetings that he had in Europe with luminaries such as Benito Mussolini, Adolph Hitler, Gestapo-founder Hermann Göring, SS Gruppenführer Konstantin von Neurath and other infamous Nazis. Besides being a hardcore antiSemite, King greatly admired Europe’s fascist leaders. In particular, he greatly respected the ardent zeal with which they persecuted communists.[vi] These are only a few of the shady parts of Liberal Canadian heritage that many party faithful would rather not know about, and probably never will.

But within the sheltered world of the newly-arrived, ultranationalist Ukrainian-Canadian village, the Government of Canada has always been seen as a benevolent force that has guarded and encouraged their particular political, religious and ethnic rights.  After leaving the generous and nurturing protection of the Nazi regime, which provided him with shelter and employment during the war, Michael Chomiak again felt welcomed after the war when Canada's beneficent Liberal government welcomed him to his new land.  And, let's not forget another parallel.  In both cases, the governments which welcomed Chomiak and his community, had taken political possession of the territory through occupation and colonisation, using processes that included xenophobic and racist propaganda, ethnic cleansing and, yes, genocide.

Here is how Chrystia Freeland has described her Ukrainian grandfather's unquestioningly vociferous devotion to his newly adopted country:

"I remember his kids once saying something mildly critical of Canada. He pounded his fist on the table and said he'd lived in six countries and Canada was the best in the world.”[vii]

While this still-popular view of Canadian global supremacy is not shared by Indigenous populations and others, many Ukrainian Canadians ‑ whose parents and grandparents emigrated here soon after WWII ‑ feel an understandable debt of gratitude towards the Canadian state. The Liberal government and succeeding Conservative ones did, after all, institute a multicultural model which actively encouraged Ukrainians to proudly promote their culture with all of its strongly focused belief systems.  Chrystia Freeland is not alone in retaining a corresponding sense of great pride and respect for her Ukrainian forebears who after coming to Canada, passed along to their offspring an undying support for the cause of patriotic Ukrainian national building.

Part 3
Historical Amnesia and the Blinding Effects of Propaganda

As is typical among many ultranationalist Ukrainians within the Canadian diaspora, any feelings of shame or dishonour that might reasonably be linked to their forebear's collaboration with Germany's war atrocities are deeply sublimated by either outright denials regarding Ukrainian complicity in Nazi horrors such as the Holocaust, or by rationalisations which claim that in the grand patriotic struggle for Ukrainian independence, their national heroes were merely fighting the evil Soviet Union, not aiding the Third Reich.  This sublimation of the truth about Nazi collaboration involves both psychological and cultural processes.



Individuals are aided and abetted in the process of repressing, forgetting and justifying uncomfortable historical truths, by cultural institutions which construct the core narratives about history and contemporary events.  The institution of family is of prime importance because of its role in creating a child's foundational beliefs and attitudes, and in establishing which social authorities they should place their confidence in throughout adult life.  For some, the leaders of their national, ethnic or religious identities are the key sources of information in whom faith should be placed. For others, the mass media is seen as the most reliable source of facts. When messages received from all of these social institutions are virtually the same, and people's beliefs are reinforced from all angles, they develop an almost unshakable confidence in the presiding narrative. Even if one's cultural myths completely ignore basic historical realities and truths, it does not matter, they will be accepted as gospel and believed because people just don't know any better.

Freeland's grandfather, Michael Chomiak, contributed to Ukrainian ignorance about the war by spreading German war propaganda across Europe through a Ukrainian-language mass media network that was established by Nazi largesse. Of course, that's not her fault.



But what Freeland does need to explain is why she kept this truth hidden from the Canadian public.  For at least twenty years, Freeland has known many of the gory details about her Ukrainian grandfather's key role in the Nazi news behemoth.  She knew for example that the daily newspaper under his control disseminated antiSemitic fake news which conflated Jews with those much-reviled political enemies of the German-Ukrainian axis that were said to be operating from the Kremlin in Moscow.

We know that Chrystia Freeland was made aware, in great detail, of her Ukrainian grandfather's pivotal role as a newspaper editor overseeing this hatemongering "fake news," because she was acknowledged in a scholarly article on that subject. The article, "Krakivski visti and the Jews, 1943," was published in 1996 by John Paul Himka, a prominent Ukrainian Canadian scholar who was then a professor of history at the University of Alberta. He listed Freeland as having reviewed his article and he credited her, among a few others, with "pointing out problems and suggesting improvements." Himka then added an additional caveat, saying: "In the case of this particular article, I would like to say explicitly what should go without saying: that I alone am responsible for the views expressed herein." [ i ]

However, despite having this information in 1996, Freeland has never mentioned it in any of the glowing narratives that she has publicly shared about her maternal grandfather. For many years, Freeland's whitewashed renditions of her grandfather's war-time life were spread far and wide thanks to the corporate news machine. These narratives completely hid all information about what he was actually doing during the war. And, there seems to be no evidence that any journalist ever asking her to elaborate even a little on what her grandfather was actually doing during any of the war years.  Even now, after the news of complicity with the Nazi regime finally broke through the Great Wall of Media, very few details of Chomiak's propaganda work have slipped through the cracks.  Tons of detailed evidence is there waiting to be exposed, if only the media were interested.



Despite the major lacunae in Freeland's official version of her grandfather's war years, she has always been sure to use that family story to malign the Soviets and to highlight the positive role that her collaborationist grandfather played in inspiring her fiercely patriotic Ukrainian spirit.  This spirit has clearly been a driving force throughout her life as a strident Ukrainian political activist, an advocacy journalist vilifying Russian leaders and now a Liberal cabinet minister responsible for representing Canada's decidedly antiRussian foreign affairs' policies.

Chomiak's daily paper, Krakivs'ki visti, presented the Nazi version of truth by whitewashing the Holocaust and other mass murders from history. It was a prime example of what the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust (LAMOTH) called a "Ukrainian Collaborationist Newspaper." LAMOTH houses an online collection of three such newspapers, including numerous issues of Krakivs'ki visti.  It describes this group of records by saying:

"Ukrainian newspapers followed official German ideology. They adopted anti-Bolshevik rhetoric, but emphasized Ukrainian economic and cultural development under German auspices. The editorial boards carried out a policy of soliciting Ukrainian support for the German cause. German administration limited the scope of both publications, Lvivski Visti and Krakivski Visti, to pure Ukrainian internal affairs and to the demonstration of Ukrainian support of the Nazis’ 'New Order.' It was typical, within these publications, to not ... give any accounts of the German genocidal policy, and largely, the editions resorted to silencing the mass killing of Jews in Galicia. Ukrainian newspapers presented the Jewish Question in light of the official Nazi propaganda, corollary to the Jewish world conspiracy.

"Execution of the Final Solution was never a theme for the Ukrainian periodicals published under German control."[ii]

So, while shocking realities ‑ like Ukrainian participation in the Holocaust and the mass murder of Poles and Soviets ‑ were consistently left out of their newspapers' narratives, Ukrainians living under the Nazi's generous protection were left free to build proud images of themselves and their culture.  Despite the horrors of WWII, these untarnished self-images still remain largely intact among many offspring of the Third Wave Ukrainian émigrés who came to reside under the safety blanket of multicultural, "Canadian values."

Forgotten (or, rather, never learned) by so many of those living in the ideological village which raised Freeland, are basic historical realities about how the German military ‑ with the assistance of their ultranationalist Ukrainian collaborators ‑ exterminated 1.6 million of the 2.5 million Jews who had lived in Ukraine before the war. The Third Wave émigré village, and many others within Canada's mainstream culture, have also been sheltered from learning another basic truth ‑ that 900,000 Jews survived the Ukrainian "Holocaust of bullets" because they escaped to the safety of the USSR in 1941.

Their escape from the mass murder that befell most Ukrainian Jews was achieved thanks to the protection offered to them by the Soviet Red Army which was forced to retreat from Ukraine when the Nazis launched Operation Barbarossa.  This massive German invasion ‑ across a front that spanned 2,900 kms ‑ deployed 3.8 million Nazi troops, 3,350 tanks, 2,770 warplanes and 7,200 artillery pieces.  It remains the largest invasion in world history.[iii]



Operation Barbarossa unleashed horrors that are still largely unknown and unacknowledged by many Canadians, such as the murder of 25 to 30 million Soviet citizens. Details of the Nazi invasion were outlined by Soviet prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials.  Evidence presented there showed that besides devastating many large Soviet cities, "1,710 towns and more than 70,000 villages and hamlets" were "totally or partially destroyed and burned." Also demolished were "31,850 industrial works" and "6 million buildings" that "rendered some 25 million persons homeless." The Nazis also targeted communication systems ("36,000 postal and telegraphic offices, telephone centers") and transportation infrastructure ("65,000 kilometers of rails and 500,000 kilometers of cables for the automatic railroad controls, signals, and communication lines... 13,000 railway bridges, [and] 4,100 railway stations").[iv]

The Nuremberg Trials also revealed that the Nazis destroyed "40,000 ...  medical institutions." This left millions of wounded Soviet citizens without their state health-care system. And, because the Nazi invasion killed tens of millions of cattle, pigs, sheep and goats, and "destroyed and looted 98,000 collective farms" and "1,876 state farms,"[v] the Soviet people faced starvation.  Six million Soviets died from disease and lack of food.  This was a genocide beyond comprehension.  But, to those whose cultural narratives make them blind to Soviet suffering ‑ preferring instead to always see the "Russian Bear" as the evil aggressor ‑ the Barbarossa invasion has been ethnically cleansed from history, and hidden in a mass grave of facts about the Nazis horrendous crimes against peace and humanity.



To many Ukrainian nationalists, the Nazi's mercilessly brutal invasion of the Soviet Union was welcomed with gleeful euphoria.  For example, a Banderite newspaper in Ukraine rejoiced in 1941, proclaiming

"We are all so happy that tears well in our eyes. Some of our people were so shocked by the good news that they fell ill from sheer happiness. ... [T]he heroic German Army is helping to create an independent Ukraine and is bringing freedom to all the nations. Hence...our simple gratitude to the Fuhrer and his triumphant army in which Ukrainians take pride.  All our people, all over the country are cheering their liberators.... Glory to Adolph Hitler Fuhrer of the German nation! Glory to the heroic German Army!"[vi]

And how was Nazi's genocidal Barbarossa invasion and its mass murder of Soviet citizens portrayed in that Ukrainian propaganda organ under Michael Chomiak's control?  "At last the hour has come!" declared Krakivs'ki visti in 1941.  "Our dreams, our ambitions are now reality.  This is our resurrection.... The German Army is bringing us our cherished freedom."[vii]  This is how the daily newspaper edited by Chrystia Freeland's grandfather delivered the wonderful news about the early victories of the Nazi's unprecedented killing spree against the Soviets.



Soviet civilians not only took the brunt of Germany's war crimes, 75% to 80% of the allied forces who died fighting against Michael Chomiak's Nazi side in the war, were Soviets.  By eventually turning back the Nazi invasion in the massive battles of Kursk and Stalingrad, it was the Red Army that turned the whole tide of WWII. It was the Soviets that then chased the Nazi invaders back across Europe to Germany, and thus led the war's victory over fascism.

But even the most obvious truths of history, such as the fact that the Soviets and Nazis were mortal enemies throughout WWII, are studiously ignored by Freeland and others who have been sheltered by the ultraright ideology of her Ukrainian village.  Instead, they try to equate the Nazis and the Soviets.  This historical illiteracy requires them to deliberately turn a blind eye to the Nazi's vehement hatred of all things Soviet and communist. This Nazi hatred can be seen in everything from their staging of the Reichstag fire in 1933 (and then framing communists as a pretext for repression), to their 1941 invasion of the USSR.  And how can Freeland forget the prodigious outpourings of Nazi propaganda against Soviet communism, including that expressed in Ukrainian newspapers overseen by grandfather Michael Chomiak? But instead of acknowledging the most basic reality of WWII ‑ that Germany and the USSR were diametrically opposed enemies ‑ Freeland and others aggressively project their fake rendition of history to brand the Soviets and Nazis as close friends and allies during WWII.

For example, in 2016, Freeland invoked the memory of her Ukrainian grandparents in order to highlight an ultraright propaganda event called "Black Ribbon Day."  On that day, she tweeted: "Thinking of my grandparents Mykhailo & Aleksandra Chomiak on Black Ribbon Day."[viii] This day exemplifies the kind of historical amnesia, obfuscation and outright denial of historical facts that allows people to ignorantly proclaim the fallacy that the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany were actually allies during WWII.[ix] This day was used by Prime Minister Harper to launch the controversial "Memorial to the Victims of Communism" in 2014.  His announcement on that day, made at a $250-per-plate fundraising dinner, included an initial pledge of $1.5 million from the Government of Canada.

• Besides being promoted by the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, both Black Ribbon Day and the anticommunist monument are also promoted by the Liberal government, and supported by all the parliamentary parties.

Part 4
The Nazis as Victims?  Sure, just Blame the Russians!

Chrystia Freeland has always been careful to portray her Nazi propagandist grandfather and his family as victims of the Soviets during WWII.  In all of her narratives of their wartime experiences she creates the impression that they were innocent people who were forced in 1939 to flee from their beloved Ukrainian homeland by the Soviet communists and their invading Red Army.  Freeland's simplistic morality tales about her grandfather's life during the war never actually mentioned anything about his complicity with the Third Reich. In fact, she never divulged a single thing about what he was actually doing during the entire length of the war.  Instead, Freeland has always used her narratives as an excuse to criticise the Soviet Union and suggest that they were the real aggressors of WWII. [ i ]

One of the memes basic to many of Freeland's narratives, one which she often falls back on ‑ regardless of the subject at hand ‑ is that Russian leaders are to blame.  In her world, the official all-enduring backstory is that, whether communist or capitalist, Moscow's Kremlin can never be trusted.  This, of course, is not a fringe belief.  For a century, the world of mainstream western institutions ‑ whether political, economic or military ‑ have all used narratives that use the bogeyman of Russian leaders to arouse moral panics on the homefront.  The main machinery used to spread these social phobias has been the mass corporate media.



A typical Russophobic response to crisis was clearly evidenced in Freeland's recent efforts to divert public attention from the truth that her maternal grandfather was indeed a Nazi collaborator.

On March 6, Freeland was asked to respond to what the Globe and Mail called "allegations" that her grandfather was a Nazi collaborator.  Here is what she said:

"I don't think it's a secret. American officials have publicly said, and even [German Chancellor] Angela Merkel has publicly said, that there were efforts on the Russian side to destabilize Western democracies, and I think it shouldn't come as a surprise if these same efforts were used against Canada.... I think that Canadians and indeed other western countries should be prepared for similar efforts to be directed at them."[ii]



The Globe and Mail followed lock-step in this mainstream line of defence.  It's article, entitled "Freeland warns Canadians to beware of Russian disinformation," confirms her accusations in its very first line:

"Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, who is being targeted by allegations in pro-Moscow websites that her maternal Ukrainian grandfather was a Nazi collaborator, warned Monday that Canada should expect to be the focus of Russian disinformation campaigns..." [iii]  (Emphasis added.)

Outright denial was initially used as another official line of defence. The Globe and Mail, for which Freeland worked as deputy editor (1999-2001),[iv] reported that "An official in Ms. Freeland's office denied that the minister’s grandfather was a Nazi collaborator."[v]

In an effort to rally the faithful, the newspaper called upon the words of Paul Grod, president of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress whose member groups representing fascist political groups and Nazi veterans' associations.  “It is the continued Russian modus operandi that they have," said Grod with the gall of self-assured confidence. "Fake news, disinformation and targeting different individuals.... It is just so outlandish when you hear some of these allegations – whether they are directed at minister Freeland or others."[vi]

This is not untypical. The best defence, after all, is supposed to be a good offence.  And, when in doubt, it is now a century-old western tradition to throw blame at the Russians.



But what if this truth about Freeland's Nazi heritage had been revealed by "proJewish" websites?  Would Freeland, Grod and the Globe and Mail have had the chutzpah to say that she was "being targeted" by Jews?  (Chutzpah, said Leo Rosten, is "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan."[vii])

Even when the Globe and Mail acknowledged on March 7 that Freeland actually knew that her grandfather had edited a Nazi newspaper, it still continued to blame the Russians.  The article's second sentence returned to the fall-back position of blaming the Russians.  It read: "Ms. Freeland's family history has become a target for Russian forces seeking to discredit one of Canada’s highly placed defenders of Ukraine."  Russian forces?  And, the paper also included this gem:



"Conservative foreign affairs critic Peter Kent who said it was obvious the Russians dug up details on Mr. Chomiak’s past to smear Ms. Freeland. 'It is unacceptable. It seems they are trying smear a minister with historical detail that has probably been misrepresented,' he said. “It is unfair and it is typical of what we have seen in other countries and it has nothing to do with her ability to represent Canada.” [viii]

As a former journalist, does Mr. Kent not realise that the truth is actually something worthy of some respect?  And, surely a person's inability to report or tell the truth does actually affect their "ability to represent Canada." Whether someone is representing Canada as a news reporter or as a politician ‑ dual careers that Kent and Freeland share ‑ surely standing for the truth must mean something.  But perhaps in the world of journalism and politics, serving the truth is, at best, not a prime concern.

Many representatives of Canada's Third Wave Ukrainian émigré community prefer not to accept the truth of their forebear's collaboration with the Nazis.  The phenomena of this amnesiac culture has actually been a major focus of study by some scholars within the Ukrainian Canadian community for some decades.  Here for example is a quote from an article called "War Criminality: A Blank Spot in the Collective Memory of the Ukrainian Diaspora,"[ix] by historian John-Paul Himka:



"[T]here persists a deafening silence about, as well as reluctance to confront, even well-documented war crimes, such as the mass murder of Poles in Volhynia by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA)

• and the cooperation of the Ukrainian auxiliary police in the execution of the Jews.[xi] In his submission to the Deschênes Commission [of Inquiry on War Criminals in Canada] in 1986 John Sopinka, counsel for the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, stated that Ukrainian nationalist organizations 'were not in any way allied with the Nazis.'[xii] It has also been denied that the Ukrainian movement in World War II had any ideological predisposition which could have facilitated participation in genocidal actions. UPA veteran and military historian Lev Shankovsky, for example, asserted at a round-table discussion that organized anti-Semitism 'never existed in Ukraine. But there exists a myth about Ukrainian anti-Semitism' promoted by Moscow."[xiii] (Emphasis added.)

The last quotation cited by Himka, is worth highlighting.  Shankovsky, being a veteran of the UPA was hardly an unbiased and objective narrator of military history. (The UPA an army established by the Bandera faction of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists.)  After the war, Shankovsky was on the payroll as a "special correspondent" for a CIA-funded propaganda publication called Suchasna Ukraina, which was circulated to the Ukrainian diaspora in two dozen countries (primarily the US, Canada, England and Germany).[xiv]  In his statement from 1960, Shankovsky demonstrated that when exposed for antiSemitism, Ukrainian ultranationalists have long been using that old standby known as the "blame-the-Russians" defence.

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#Ukraine | For those who still believe that the #Russian invasion came as a surprise to the #Zelensky regime, and that they did not provoke it and weren't prepared for it by the #NATO.
Here is Zelensky's adviser and the talking head of his regime Arestovich a few years ago

Video -> https://twitter.com/r_u_vid/status/1505819753578856449

Άρα ΚΑΙ ΗΞΕΡΑΝ ακριβώς τι θα γίνει και παρόλα αυτά ΤΟ ΠΡΟΚΑΛΕΣΑΝ, για να μπουν στο ΝΑΤΟ (δλδ να κάνουν ότι ήθελαν οι ΗΠΑ!!!)

Ξανά : Ήξεραν οτι θα προκαλέσουν κατά 99,9% έναν μεγάλο πόλεμο με τη Ρωσία αλλά επέλεξαν να προχωρήσουν με την ένταξη της Ουκρανίας στο ΝΑΤΟ, ενώ γνώριζαν οτι αυτό θα κατέστρεφε την χώρα τους!
Αν δεν είναι ομολογία ενοχής και προδοσίας της Ουκρανίας αυτό, τι είναι?

Ποιος είπαμε φταίει για όσα τραγικά γίνονται? Για όλους τους νεκρούς, την δυστυχία, την φρίκη του πολέμου, το δράμα των αμάχων και των προσφύγων που ξεσπιτώνονται?
Ο κακός Πούτιν ή ο ίδιος ο Ζελένσκι?

Όλο το thread... https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1497652803614883844.html

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@r_u_vid · Mar 3

These people rule #Ukraine
Here is Zelensky presidential office advisor praising #ISIS and its methods:

https://twitter.com/r_u_vid/status/1499201471677538304

Aυτός ο γελοίος νομίζει οτι όταν το δουν το βίντεο αυτό οι δυτικοί ηγέτες και αρχίσει να τους ρωτάει ο κόσμος "Αυτούς υποστηρίζουμε?" θα μπορούν να συνεχίζουν υποστηρίζουν τυφλά το καθεστώς Ζελένσκι ή οτι θα συνεχίζει να βγαίνει να μιλάει ο Ζελένσκι ως σοφός της αρχαιότητας στο ένα κοινοβούλιο μετά το άλλο καταχειροκροτούμενος.

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Not long ago, Zelensky was telling #Donbass residents (whom he loves to call "occupiers") to "move to Russia".Basically, if you pro-West & accept the US-puppet regime - you OK. If you don't & if you pro-#Russian - leave the land of your ancestors' cause "you not real #Ukrainian"


Video -> https://twitter.com/r_u_vid/status/1504969973445275651

Αν σας θυμίζει την "Τελική Λύση" του Χίτλερ δεν κάνετε καθόλου λάθος.
Αλλά αν πεις Ναζί τον Ζελένσκι είσαι "πουτινάκι"

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Seems like a few years back for some #Ukrainian soldiers, killing people of #Donbass was fun and games...but don't trust me - this is Zelensky's advisor Aleksey Arestovich... BTW, did you saw this on CNN at the time?
People of Donbass suffered for 8 years, no one cared

Video -> https://twitter.com/r_u_vid/status/1497652803614883844

Aφήστε τα αγόρια / τους άντρες να πάνε "να περνάνε καλά" να σκοτώνουν κόσμο, "να ψήνουν κρέας", μια χαρά περνάνε στο Ντομπάς σκοτώνοντας αμάχους...

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@r_u_vid · Feb 26

Replying to @r_u_vid

I'll also remind this... this is Poroshenko after they began to bomb #Donbass and cut pensions and social care to Donbass residents. All because Donbass refused to recognize the US-puppet regime that came to power as a result of a coup

Video https://twitter.com/r_u_vid/status/1497655170607423488

Αυτοί είναι οι "δημοκράτες" "πολιτισμένοι" "Ευρωπαίοι" "δυτικοί" Ουκρανοί Ποροσένκο και Ζελένσκι που έτρεξε η Δύση, η Ευρώπη και εμείς να πάρουμε το μέρος τους, ενώ ομολογούν μόνοι τους την διάπραξη εγκλημάτων πολέμου ναζιστικής λογικής εναντίον ενός μέρους των πολιτών της Ουκρανίας, απλά επειδή μιλούσαν Ρώσικα ή ένιωθαν Ρώσοι στην Ουκρανία, και ενώ ομολογούσαν οτι ξέρανε πολύ καλά οτι κατά 99,9% θα προκαλέσουν πόλεμο με τη Ρωσία αν μπουν στο ΝΑΤΟ (με πιο επικίνδυνα χρόνια τα 2020-2022 !!!) και άρα ήξεραν οτι θα καταστρέψουν την χώρα τους και θα προκαλέσουν ΝΕΚΡΟΥΣ και Ουκρανούς πολίτες, και απέραντη δυστυχία για χάρη των ΗΠΑ και της επέκτασης του ΝΑΤΟ σε σημείο να μπορεί να βληθεί η Μόσχα σε 4-5 λεπτά.

Πιο πουλημένα δουλάκια των ΗΠΑ και μεγαλύτεροι εγκληματίες προδότες της ίδιας της χώρας τους που την κατέστρεψαν εν γνώσει τους δεν υπάρχουν.

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@r_u_vid · Mar 3

This type of (pileshit) was spewed on Ukrainian TV for the past 8 years. Channel sponsored by Soros fund, US & Netherland embassies in #Ukraine.
About people of Donbass: should not be allowed to vote, many had to be killed off, are animals - you give them a treat & they'll stop rebelling

Video -> https://twitter.com/r_u_vid/status/1499163325896134656

Yπάρχει πιο γρήγορη λύση
Μια κατηγορία ανθρώπων πρέπει απλά να τους σκοτώσουμε !!!



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Ακριβώς όπως η "Τελική Λύση" των Ναζί του Χίτλερ που πήγε να σκοτώσει το "πρόβλημα" με τους Εβραίους, κομμουνιστές, αριστερούς, ΑμΕΑ, ομοφυλόφιλους, κτλ 
Όχι μόνο έχουν δολοφονήσει 14.000 αμάχους ρωσόφωνους από το 2014, αλλά το ομολογούν κιόλας, και παραδέχονται οτι αυτό ήταν το σχέδιό τους.

Κάτι για εγκληματίες πολέμου και αμάχους άκουγα, μίλησε κανείς?

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Ξανά, εδώ πριν την εισβολή: Περηφανεύονται οι ναζί της Ουκρανίας οτι είναι οι μόνοι που μπορούν να φέρουν σε πέρας την αποστολή της Δύσης, αφού σκοτώνουν με χαρά !!!
Δολοφονούν με χαρά αμάχους στο Ντονμπάς / ανατολική Ουκρανία. Αλλά δεν είναι ναζιστικό και φασιστικό το καθεστώς του Ζελένσκι

Δείτε το βίντεο στη σελίδα.
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Feb 16 2022

Ukrainian neo-Nazi leader: "We the only ones who are ready to carry out the tasks of the West"

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said  that the country had received more than 1,000 tons of weapons worth more than $1.5 billion from Western partners.

On February 5th, at the nationalist forum "Bandera Readings" in Kiev, the leader of the infamous neo-Nazi movement "C14" Yevgeny Karas said that they were now given so many weapons because they are "the only ones who are ready to carry out the tasks of the West", because "we have fun killing and we have fun fighting"

Also Karas talked about "Euro-Maidan" - the West-sponsored coup of 2014 which now often called "Maidan" or "revolution of dignity" in Ukrainian and Western media.

According to Karas, "EuroMaidan" had nothing to do with "Euro-integration" wishes, but everything to do with nationalists' wishes to change course of the country.

It follows from Karas' theses that the West does not want the ultra-right to gain political power but they want for the nationalists to retain control over the street, and if needed - to "fight and kill."

Why are such speeches commonplace in Ukraine? Well, because state institutions, courts, law enforcement agencies do not work, do not protect citizens, do not guarantee their rights. And then such "naZionalists", as Karas here, distraught from impunity, run out into the streets.

When the state is run manually, without laws, principles, trampling on the rights and freedoms of citizens recorded in the Constitution, then only formal signs of the state remain - the flag, coat of arms, anthem. But the state itself loses its meaning as a public institution, as a social organization of citizens. And such a state falls under external control, because since the local authorities are not able to govern the country, then control will come from abroad.

And there is a definition for such countries - "banana republic". Often used for raw materials, natural resources etc,

Ukraine became United States' colony, the Ukrainian government, as the rulers of other banana republics in Latin America for example, became a dictatorship.  

Opposition TV channels are closed down, neo-Nazi gang such as C14 and "National Corps" (Azov Battalion branch) are used to suppress anyone that dares to stand up to tyranny

Latin American countries have their own death battalions that kill journalists, activists, and politicians, terrifying the population. They are engaged in drug trafficking, kidnapping and selling people, actively intervene in politics. It is on this Latin American, banana path that Ukraine is going.

But what does this path mean? Poverty for the majority of the population, crime, epidemics, low level of education, and medicine. This is where modern reformers are leading. And all sorts of "Karas'" help to suppress the resistance of the people, help to silence those who are not indicative of jumping with joy with state symbols, but sincerely wish their country well.

The only problem is that there are no bananas in Ukraine and it is cold in winter, and therefore you cannot run away to the jungle and live there for quite a long time. Therefore, the Latin American version is not acceptable for Ukraine, it leads the state to death.

Reminder: C14 was named a "hate group" by the US State Department in 2019 for its persecution of LGBTQ+ and Roma people. This organization, under Poroshenko and Zelensky, closely cooperates with the SBU (Security Service of Ukraine) and is used for attacks on those who disagree with the course of the ruling elite.

Mayor Vitaly Klitchko (yes, former boxer)  hired the majority of "C14" neo-Nazi gang into... "Municipal Guard" (basically municipal police). So, yes, neo-Nazis are paid by the state of Ukraine to... "protect and serve"  Ukrainian citizens  

https://www.wardiary.net/post/ukrainian-neo-nazi-leader-we-the-only-ones-who-are-ready-to-carry-out-the-tasks-of-the-west
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