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Victim or Aggressor – Canadian Foreign Minister lies about family's Nazi collaboration

by John Helmer

Liberal Candidate Chrystia Freeland celebrates after winning the Toronto Centre Federal byelection in Toronto on Monday November 25, 2013. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young


Chrystia Freeland (lead image), appointed last week to be the new Canadian Foreign Minister, claims that her maternal family were the Ukrainian victims of Russian persecution, who fled their home in 1939, after Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin agreed on a non-aggression pact and the division of Poland between Germany and the Soviet Union. She claims her mother was born in a camp for refugees before finding safe haven in Alberta, Canada. Freeland is lying.
The records now being opened by the Polish government in Warsaw reveal that Freeland’s maternal grandfather Michael (Mikhailo) Chomiak was a Nazi collaborator from the beginning to the end of the war. He was given a powerful post, money, home and car by the German Army in Cracow, then the capital of the German administration of the Galician region. His principal job was editor in chief and publisher of a newspaper the Nazis created. His printing plant and other assets had been stolen from a Jewish newspaper publisher, who was then sent to die in the Belzec concentration camp. During the German Army’s winning phase of the war, Chomiak celebrated in print the Wehrmacht’s “success” at killing thousands of US Army troops. As the German Army was forced into retreat by the Soviet counter-offensive, Chomiak was taken by the Germans to Vienna, where he continued to publish his Nazi propaganda, at the same time informing for the Germans on other Ukrainians. They included fellow Galician Stepan Bandera, whose racism against Russians Freeland has celebrated in print, and whom the current regime in Kiev has turned into a national hero.
Just before Vienna fell to the Soviet forces in March 1945, Chomiak evacuated with the German Army into Germany, ending up near Munich at Bad Worishofen. On September 2, 1946, when Freeland says her mother was born in a refugee camp, she was actually in a well-known spa resort for wealthy Bavarians. The US Army then controlled that part of Germany; they operated an Army hospital at Bad Worishofen and accommodated Chomiak at a spa hotel. US Army records have yet to reveal what the Americans learned about Chomiak’s war record, and how he was employed by US Army Intelligence, after he had switched from the Wehrmacht. It took Chomiak another two years before the government in Ottawa allowed the family to enter Canada.
The reason the Polish Government is now investigating Freeland is that Chomiak’s wartime record not only victimized Galician Jews, but also the Polish citizens of Cracow. In a salute to Freeland as a “great friend of Poland” by the Polish Embassy in Ottawa last week, Warsaw officials now believe a mistake was made.
Last July, Freeland, then trade minister, was in a large delegation of Canadians accompanying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in southern Poland. Freeland is not included in the press photographs; Trudeau wept. A statement issued by one of the Canadian Jewish organizations in the delegation said:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau signifies the importance of remembering the six million Jews and countless others who died at hands of the Nazi regime. The Holocaust will forever stand as the ultimate expression of human hatred. That is why every Canadian should use this as an opportunity to reflect upon their personal role in combating the forces of antisemitism, racism and bigotry wherever they are found.”


Trudeau (above) and his staff, as well as Foreign Minister at the time Stephane Dion, and the Jewish representatives appear not to have known this was familiar territory for Freeland and her family. Michael Chomiak and his wife Alexandra, parents to Freeland’s mother Halyna, spent the war from 1939 to 1945 working and living just 68 kilometres away in Cracow.
According to the autobiographical details Freeland has provided herself to the Canadian media, Freeland’s family were victims of war. “My maternal grandparents,” she wrote in May 2015, “fled western Ukraine after Hitler and Stalin signed their non-aggression pact in 1939…they saw themselves as political exiles with a responsibility to keep alive the idea of an independent Ukraine.”
In November 2015 Freeland told the Toronto Star:

Michael Chomiak was a lawyer and journalist before the Second World War, but they knew the Soviets would invade western Ukraine (and) fled…and, like a lot of Ukrainians, ended up after the war in a displaced persons camp in Germany where my mother was born.”

Centre: Michael Chomiak and wife Alexandra, with their children in Canada in 1952. Freeland’s mother Halyna is second from left. Source here


According to Freeland, “they were also committed to the idea, like most in the (Ukrainian) diaspora, that Ukraine would one day be independent and that the community had a responsibility to the country they had been forced to flee…to keep that flame alive.”
The Edmonton, Alberta, newspaper obituary for Halyna Chomiak Freeland says she had been “born on September 2, 1946 in Bad Worishofen, Germany in a displaced person’s camp.” The Alberta provincial government library reports it holds Michael Chomiak’s papers. He is described as having “graduated from Lviv University with master’s degree in law and political science. In 1928, as a journalist, he started work in the Ukrainian daily Dilo, and from 1934 to 1939 he served on the editorial staff. During the Nazi occupation, he was the editor of Krakivski Visti, published first in Cracow and then in Vienna.”
There is much more to the story which Freeland has not revealed. The details can be found in Polish and Ukrainian sources; from the archived files of Krakivski Visti (“Cracow News”); and from the evidence of Jewish Holocaust museums around the world. Chomiak was editor in chief of the newspaper after a Jewish editor was removed. The newspaper itself was set up in January 1940, publishing three times weekly in Cracow, until October 8, 1944. It was then published in Vienna from October 16, 1944, until March 29, 1945.

The precision of the dates is important. They coincide with the movement of the German Army into Cracow, and then out of the city and into Vienna. The newspaper itself was established by the German Army; and supervised by German intelligence. Chomiak was employed by an officer named Emil Gassner (left). His title in German indicates he was the German administrator in charge of press in the region. When Gassner moved from Cracow to Vienna, he took Chomiak with him.
Chomiak’s publication was an official one of the German administration in Galicia, known at the time as the General Gouvernement. The printing press, offices and other assets which provided Chomiak with his work, salary, and benefits had been confiscated by the Germans from a Jewish publisher, Moshe Kafner. Kafner was a native of the region; he and his family were well educated and well known until the Germans arrived, and replaced Kanfer with Chomiak. Kanfer was forced to flee Cracow for Lviv. From there he was taken by the Germans to the Belzec concentration, where he was murdered some time in 1942. From Chomiak’s office to Belzec the distance was 300 kilometres.

Left: SS guards at Belzec; right: Ukrainian guards about to kill a Belzec inmate


Krakivsti Visti was “the most important newspaper to appear in the Ukrainian language under the German occupation during World War II,” according to this history from the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, published in 1998. Chomiak — reports the Harvard history by John-Paul Hinka from a contemporary source — “had the ability to sense what could be written and how in the severe German reality, and he gained some trust among the German officials, without which the work would have been impossible.”
In print, according to this archive of Krakivsti Visti, when Chomiak was in charge, there were reports of the “success” of the German Navy in killing 13,000 US Army soldiers, when their transports were torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic enroute to England. Chomiak editorialized:

…this last German attack [was] a smashing blow to the solar plexus of the alliance.”

Chomiak also reported the US “colonization” of Australia and Canada . “Americans who are now living in Australia believe that the economic possibilities of Australia are even much better than those of the USA, and many US soldiers are thinking about staying in Australia after the war… as they feel much better there than in their own Fatherland… There are such close relations between the USA and Canada and Australia that there will be a special trade and tax [agreement] between these countries after the war. In other words, the United States does not hide the intention of the US to begin full economic penetration of Canada and Australia.”
By the standard of Trudeau at Auschwitz, Freeland’s grandfather also produced race hatred to Nazi order, including antisemitism and racism against several other nationalities, including Americans, Poles and Russians.
Chomiak not only justified the death camps surrounding Cracow. He attempted to foster Ukrainian sentiment against the Poles in the region. The German objective was to support the Ukrainian takeover of Galicia and cleanse it of its Jewish and Polish populations. For this reason Chomiak and his newspaper were given special favour by the German administration; Chomiak himself was reportedly held in high esteem by the Nazis. In the Harvard history it is reported:

…there can be no doubt that Krakivs’ki visti enjoyed more autonomy than any other legal Ukrainian-language publication under the German occupation.”

Himka, a Ukrainian-Canadian academic, composed his history of Krakivtsi Visti from Chomiak’s personal papers in Alberta. He mentions the newspaper’s backing for ethnic cleansing of Poles. He omits to mention Jews. Chomiak’s antisemitic record can be found in the files of the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust. For details, read this.
Chomiak didn’t flee from the Ukraine in 1939, as Freeland claims. Five years were to elapse before he left Cracow; that was when the German Army pulled out in defeat, as the Soviet Army advanced from the east to liberate the city. Gassner was moving the media operation to his home town, Vienna.

Chomiak closed down Krakivsti Visti in Vienna in March of 1945 for the same reason. The Soviet Army was days away, and a new Austrian government replaced the Third Reich in April of that year. With the retreating Wehrmacht Chomiak then moved westwards into Germany. But a full year is missing from the official records available publicly. That’s between March of 1945 and April of 1946, when the displaced persons camp was opened in the Bavarian town of Bad Worishofen, where Freeland says her mother was born.

As the name indicates, Bad Worishofen was (still is) a thermal waters resort for wealthy Bavarians and day-trippers from Munich. Freeland claims her mother was born as a victim in a refugee camp. In fact, she was born in a hospital administered by the US Army, while her parents were living in a spa hotel managed by a US Army intelligence unit.

A US Army parade in Bad Worishofen after the US took the town on April 27, 1945; Source here.


During the war there had been a Luftwaffe training aerodrome at Bad Worishofen. But it was so insignificant operationally, it wasn’t bombed by the allies. More or less intact, along with the spa hotels, the town welcomed new paying guests from the US Army when they arrived in April of 1945.
According to US records, a US Army Intelligence “training unit” was established, as well as a US Army hospital. The trainees weren’t Americans; they were East Europeans, including Lithuanians, Ukrainians, Poles and others who had been fighting on the German side.
On June 28, 1945, the 2nd Hospitalization Unit of the 30th Field Hospital left a forward position at Ebsenee, Austria, where it had been caring for the survivors of the Ebensee-Matthausen concentration camp.

The war in Europe now over, the hospitalization unit regrouped in the rear at Bad Wörishofen, where its role was to support the 80th Infantry Division. The unit history says: “As usual, living quarters proved excellent (buildings), with many conveniences added to make living conditions very comfortable.” Among the people the American Army doctors now cared for were Mr and Mrs Chomiak.
The camp for displaced persons or refugees at Bad Worishofen was not formally established for another year, until April 1946. Ukrainians who were there at the time say the camp housed mostly Lithuanians, and also 490 Ukrainians. The term camp is a misnomer. The records show that many of the Ukrainians were living in spa hotels when they were subject to the administration of the camp. Although the subsequent records of the Ukrainians are voluble on what happened there between 1946 and 1948, including testimony from Ukrainians who moved on to the US and Australia, there is no reference to the Chomiak family at all.
“All the camps in Bad Worishofen were liquidated in May 1948 due to consolidation of the various camps by IRO (International Relief Organization),” remembers this Ukrainian.
It is not (yet) known when Chomiak presented himself to US Army Intelligence, offering the same services he had been performing for Gassner and the Wehrmacht. Journalism, however, wasn’t what the US occupation authorities wanted from him. In return, Chomiak received accommodation; living expenses; and the hospitalization which produced Freeland’s mother in September of 1946.
Two years were to elapse before Chomiak left Bad Worishofen for Canada, arriving there in October 1948. He already had a sister in Canada, but no job of a professional kind to which his university education and experience qualified him. In Alberta Chomiak worked as a manual labourer. Why the Americans didn’t offer him intelligence and propaganda employment in the US may be revealed in the Chomiak files in Washington. The Canadian government file on his admission in 1948 is likely to include some of the details Chomiak revealed about his work with the Americans. Unless he kept that secret.
Last week the Polish Embassy in Ottawa issued this tweet in celebration of Freeland’s promotion:

This week Polish political analyst and journalist Stanislas Balcerac has opened the dossier on Freeland and Chomiak. The Polish Foreign Minister, Witold Waszczykowski, has been asked to investigate, and to decide if, according to Balcerac,

…the circumstances and family loyalties of Mrs Freeland may affect the support that Canada provides the pro-Bandera Government of Ukraine, so they can have a direct impact on Polish interests.”


Regarding Bandera (right), the record of Chomiak’s involvement with him when they were under German, then US supervision, Freeland did not reveal in the Financial Times when she reported Bandera as one of the Ukraine’s all-time heroes.

Yaroslav the Wise, the 11th-century prince of Kievan Rus, was named the winner in a last-minute surge, edging out western Ukrainian partisan leader Stepan Bandera, who led a guerrilla war against the Nazis and the Soviets and was poisoned on orders from Moscow in 1959…The Soviet portrayal of Bandera as a traitor still lingers. That would be a mistake.”

Freeland was asked directly to clarify her own claims about Grandfather Chomiak’s war record. Her press spokesman, Chantal Gagnon, asked for more time, but then the two of them refused to answer.
“The sins of the grandfather can hardly be attributed to the granddaughter,” says Polish investigator Balcerac, “…except for two, race hatred and lying. Chomiak made a lucrative war selling hatred of Jews, Poles and Russians. Freeland is doing the same preaching race hatred of Russians. To mask what she’s doing, she has lied about the Nazi record of her family. The Chomiaks weren’t victims; they were aggressors.”
A Washington source adds:

Chomiak was recruited by US intelligence to wage war in the Ukraine against the Russians. Let’s see what the US Army and intelligence files reveal about his role, and let’s compare that to the one Freeland is now playing in Canada.”


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veraserebrennikova
veraserebrennikova
Mar 23, 2017 11:48 PM

Its funny how Freeland wants to attack Russians yet dose not want to chat about her families past. Sometimes pointing the finger comes back around, after all you can’t play victim when you really aren’t. Its nice that her story was uncovered, as a Russian person I find it a bit mean to say bad things about Russians without taking the time to see your own flaws. She is her grandfather child after all he two did whatever he could to over his own behind. People like her should be called out for their lies and have to answer. It is something to lie about your past, and maybe just maybe at her age she had no idea of her families true history. However one must stop and think a woman with and education can figure out her own history before trying to make history. As a person who actually had family members who did suffer from those wars I do strongly believe she should have to answer for her statements. And those who put her in power should rethink that as well after all if she lacks any idea of who she is can she really be a good person to fix others with her many flaws.

marley engvall
marley engvall
Mar 14, 2017 2:03 PM

we can only be judged on our actions moving forward, as the new paradigm begins to materialize.
nobody has any control over who their parents were, and only marginal control over their own behavior, constrained, as we presently are, by the funny-money / wall street / war machine resource syphon.

Norman Pilon
Norman Pilon
Mar 14, 2017 12:39 PM

A personal but related aside:
In the backwater town where I grew up in North Ontario, Canada, there were a handful of Ukrainians, all kin, who I learned had taken refuge in Canada in the years after WWII.
One of the Ukrainians was a woman who had married an Englishman, and their son wooed and eventually married my older and eldest sister.
In my encounters with the tribe, so to speak, as young as I was, two things had always struck me as being incongruous: the stories of the harsh persecution they had had to endure, the poverty, the hunger, the destitution, and on, and on And the other, the wealth that in relative terms they commanded.
They were the wealthiest and most ostentatiously successful people in our small town, immigrants who had arrived with only rags on their backs but apparently with also the wherewithal to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps from penury to wealth in no time at all, while the French Canadians, of whom I was a son, who were many in our small town and who had been rooted in this country for generations, could not for the life of them get beyond living from paycheck to paycheck.
The Ukrainians never tired of boasting about how smarter and more resourceful than everyone else they “just” were.
So even for a child of ten or so, none of it really added up.
It was only much, much later that I was able to sort out for myself that particular conundrum. What particular skeletons they had in their closets, I still don’t know. But certainly there had to be at least a few. And I cannot say that I ever then knew or since have come to know firsthand, individuals so racist and bigoted.
As Frank aptly put it: “The North Americans apparently have a soft spot for collaborationist Nazi mass murders.”

Prole Center
Prole Center
Mar 14, 2017 1:14 PM
Reply to  Norman Pilon

Thanks for relaying that experience, Norman. Very interesting.

mohandeer
mohandeer
Mar 16, 2017 3:20 PM
Reply to  Norman Pilon

Another one for Taking Sides? Await ed so that I can forward it on.

Norman Pilon
Norman Pilon
Mar 14, 2017 12:00 PM

Reblogged this on Taking Sides.

John Gilberts
John Gilberts
Mar 14, 2017 6:26 AM

And Helmer’s latest – a sequel to this, is also a must-read!
http://johnhelmer.net/in-the-canadian-cartoon-dudley-do-right-can-do-no-wrong-snidely-whiplash-no-good-in-real-life-can-robert-fife-david-walmsley-terry-glavin-alan-freeman-and-scott-gilmore-save-the-galicia-gang/
“This is a story of the moment when the crimes of the past and the criminal intent today turn out to be the same thing. Russia-hating today is a race crime, just as Jew-hating and Pole-hating were crimes, and still are…”

jwtwd
jwtwd
Mar 15, 2017 4:11 PM
Reply to  John Gilberts

I read the article you linked to and it is very informative. I clicked the links there in provided by the article and continued reading about this subject. Thanks.

mohandeer
mohandeer
Mar 13, 2017 12:06 PM

Reblogged this on Worldtruth.

Arrby
Arrby
Mar 13, 2017 10:27 AM

Chrystia Freeland belongs in Justin Trudeau’s cabinet and Party. The two of them are patriotic Americans (with the Canadian contigent making every effort to align government foreign policy with uncle Sam’s), true fascists and true friends of fascists everywhere and they are both liars.
Justin poses with Ukraine officials, including neo-Nazi Andriy Parubiy – http://bit.ly/2lSF9mb
“‘He’s a liar’: Why the Left Coast may be writing off Justin Trudeau” by Michael Harris – http://bit.ly/2mBn7lf

Ziggy F
Ziggy F
Mar 13, 2017 10:03 AM

So many words and not one mention of holodomor or any other inconvenient holocausts.

Admin
Admin
Mar 13, 2017 12:37 PM
Reply to  Ziggy F

what does Holodomor have to do with with this woman concealing her Nazi roots?

Jen
Jen
Mar 14, 2017 11:43 AM
Reply to  Ziggy F

There’s no need to because the area where Chomiak and his fellow Banderites originated is in western Ukraine which was part of Poland during the 1930s and thus not affected by the famine that afflicted eastern Ukraine (the Donbass region), southern Russia and parts of Kazakhstan.
Strange how it’s western Ukraine that supports Holodomor in spite of having no experience of it.

Prole Center
Prole Center
Mar 14, 2017 1:09 PM
Reply to  Ziggy F
Jen
Jen
Mar 14, 2017 10:51 PM
Reply to  Prole Center

Very good article and we’ll keep this in mind when Louis Proyect turns up here as he is sure to do.

Prole Center
Prole Center
Mar 15, 2017 5:26 PM
Reply to  Jen

Yes, indeed. Let’s counter right-wing propaganda wherever we find it!

mohandeer
mohandeer
Mar 15, 2017 3:54 PM
Reply to  Prole Center

Many thanks for this link, it should prove very interesting, presumably it confirms what is already known and acknowledged by the west, albeit grudgingly, that Stalin did indeed ensure that Ukraine received it’s equal and fair share, or so the narrative showed.

Prole Center
Prole Center
Mar 15, 2017 5:23 PM
Reply to  mohandeer

You’re welcome. Keep fighting!

mohandeer
mohandeer
Mar 16, 2017 3:17 PM
Reply to  Prole Center

Followed the link you gave me and found it very good. Glad also to know that I had my facts right since my memory is not that good. We all must keep fighting for the truth and glad we are sharing the same boat.

mohandeer
mohandeer
Mar 15, 2017 3:35 PM
Reply to  Ziggy F

Holodomor was a Ukrainian pro Nazi and anti Semite construct, the holocaust had everything to do with a famine that saw the deaths of Russians and Ukrainians alike and considering the logistics involved, Stalin took on an unenviable task in ensuring that as many people, Russian and Ukrainian might survive the ordeal. No fan of Stalin, but his “collectivization” program was the reason why as many Ukrainians survived as did. A fact worth remembering, one which the western democracies at the time acknowledged as a truth rather than the false Holodomor myth.

tutisicecream
tutisicecream
Mar 13, 2017 7:58 AM

There are two other articles which compliment this piece Robert Parry’s: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/03/09/another-russia-fake-news-red-herring/
and Arina Tsukanova’s:
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/02/27/a-nazi-skeleton-in-the-family-closet/
Robert Parry connects this story with the MSM’s “Fake News” meme showing how this editing out of true background information and deliberate promotion of false information demonstrates manipulation of stories regarding Russia and especially the illegal coup in Kiev.
Not Surprisingly Christya Freeland has been a vociferous Russo-phobic voice in Canadian politics and is now Foreign Minister. She has also spoken in glowing terms about the elevation of Stepan Bandera to hero status by the illegal Kiev administration.

vierotchka
vierotchka
Mar 13, 2017 6:09 AM

There is a huge community of Banderite/OUN Ukrainians in Canada. She obviously stems from that community.

Frank
Frank
Mar 13, 2017 1:42 PM
Reply to  vierotchka

This is a fact of historical record. The collaborationist Ukrainian14th Waffen SS Grenadier Division (Galicia) was practically destroyed by Soviet forces at the Battle of Brody on July 1944. They were to surrender to Anglo-American forces and interned in Rimini and many were given asylum to the US and Canada. The North Americans apparently have a soft spot for collaborationist Nazi mass murders. After the various pogroms carried out Volhynia and Eastern Galicia between 1943-45 by the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) military wing of Bandera’s (OUN-B) fought on into the 1950s and was finally wiped out by Soviet forces. Again many fled to the west including of course Canada – homeplace of the Ukronazi diaspora.

mohandeer
mohandeer
Mar 14, 2017 6:37 PM
Reply to  Frank

You may be dismayed to learn then, that the British also had a hand in protecting Ukrainian fascists and War Criminals(the Gallitsia Division et al)
https://slavyangrad.org/2016/11/20/the-british-government-the-waffen-ss-galitsia-division/
Also this with regard the US
https://slavyangrad.org/2015/08/10/americas-dark-history-of-supporting-ukrainian-fascists-and-war-criminals/

vierotchka
vierotchka
Mar 14, 2017 7:20 PM
Reply to  mohandeer

I already knew about the US (it too has a huge Banderite/OUN community), but not about the UK. The latter does dismay me.

mohandeer
mohandeer
Mar 15, 2017 2:30 PM
Reply to  vierotchka

I’m British, so I am more than a little dismayed, although I was not consulted in the matter, I feel the shame of those who committed themselves to this in my name. What an utterly disgraceful collaboration they perpetrated.

vierotchka
vierotchka
Mar 15, 2017 2:44 PM
Reply to  mohandeer

I am British too, born British (born in London) of Russian émigré parents who naturalized British after their escape from the Russian Revolution. My father, two eldest brothers, sister, mother and first cousin (all naturalized British in the twenties and thirties) were WWII heroes.

mohandeer
mohandeer
Mar 15, 2017 3:46 PM
Reply to  vierotchka

Glad to know I have a fellow Brit on the site, since we don’t generally post our nationality when we make our comments. I do know the nationality of some of the other commentators and it seems, we share the same in common with them. sometimes it’s just nice to know you are among friends even though many miles and cultures separate us, but at least here on OffG, we are brought together. The wonder of the internet!

susannapanevin
susannapanevin
Mar 13, 2017 3:13 AM

Reblogged this on Susanna Panevin.

bevin
bevin
Mar 13, 2017 3:01 AM

This is a story about the media and the way that it suppresses truths embarrassing to it and the political caste of which it is a part.
For weeks after this story appeared there was nothing in the Canadian media- silence. And now the story is being spun as one of Russian attempts to ‘bring down’ a minister.
What is particularly interesting is the silence of the, very powerful Canadian pro-Israeli lobby, which had clearly been rubbing its hands at the prospect of blackmailing Freeland into doing its bidding.
This updates the story:
https://www.newcoldwar.org/update-false-russia-disinformation-story-promulgated-canadas-foreign-affairs-minister/
There is no way that Freeland can survive this: the political class cares nothing, they rather like her but public opinion, now that the cone of silence has been lifted, will not allow it.

Guest
Guest
Mar 13, 2017 9:40 AM
Reply to  bevin

Bevin you are spot on this story serves as a clear example of how the media and the political classes collude to maintain the anti Russia narrative; even going so far as to defend the Canadian FM lies about her nazi collaborator grandfather.
The Russophobia that underpins all this is brushed under the table
Ms Freeland is presented as a victim of Russian propaganda instead of as the Russophobic FM who supports neo nazi actions in Ukraine

curri
curri
Mar 13, 2017 2:57 AM

Wasn’t everybody in Ukraine 1941-45 a Nazi collaborator, a Soviet collaborator or soon dead?

bevin
bevin
Mar 13, 2017 3:09 AM
Reply to  curri

No.
Chomniak was a thorough going Nazi, read the story, and the Bandera organisation were responsible for large numbers of massacres of Poles, Jews and Russians.
To argue that Ukrainians were obliged to take part in the Holocaust is not only untrue but ignores the fact that millions of Ukrainians fought against the Nazis, many more of them died doing so than did North Americans.
I’ll lay bets that you sport a Poppy on November 11 and keep a minute’s silence and grimace ‘lest we forget.’ If you do it is all hypocrisy.

Dominic Pukallus
Dominic Pukallus
Mar 13, 2017 4:03 AM
Reply to  curri

If those were the only choices on offer, I can imagine many would have been less enthusiastic in the first two just so they could avoid the third.

Doug Colwell
Doug Colwell
Mar 13, 2017 7:47 PM
Reply to  curri

Curri, the author of “Babi Yar, a Document in the form of a Novel”, Anatoly Kuznetsov, was not a collaborator of any description. Well worth reading in my opinion.