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Minister Freeland's Grandfather,
Fake News,
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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) |
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Introduction 2 - The Liberal Government's Warm Embrace of Ukraine's Nazi Collaborators 3 - Historical Amnesia and the Blinding Effects of Propaganda 4 - The Nazis as Victims? Sure, just Blame the Russians! 5 - Canada needs Truth and Reconciliation, not Denials and Obfuscation 6 - Historical Denial among Canada's ultranationalist Ukrainians 7 - Michael Chomiak, The Ukrainian Central Committee and its Nazi Newspapers 8 - Aryanisation and the "Mighty Wurlitzer" 9 - The Ukrainian Canadian Congress and its Fascist Roots 10 - Getting them Early: Building the ultraNationalist Cause among Children and Youth 11 - The Freeland-Chomiak Parallels in Advocacy Journalism 12 - Was Freeland an "Accidental Journalist," or Groomed for the Job? 13 - In 1989, Freeland was Declared an "Enemy of the Soviet State" 14 - A Chomiak-Freeland Fixation on Jewish Oligarchs running the Kremlin 15 - Freeland's Kremlin-Oligarch Theory goes Global with Jewish Plutarchetype 16 - Institutionalised Confidence Scams: An Open Conspiracy of Oligarchs, Politicians and Journalists 17 - Escaping the War Racket starts with Seeing the Elephant 18 - Just Following Orders? Which Orders? 19 - Is there a Bear in the Room? Kill it! 20 - The Collective Care and Feeding of Russophobia 21 - The Need for Truth and Reconciliation
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Canada: This issue (#68) deals with the mass internment of Ukrainian Canadians, this community's left-right split and the mainstream racist, xenophobic anti-communism of progressive "Social Gospellers" (like the CCF's J.S. Woodsworth) who were so captivated by their false beliefs that they carried out the genocide of First Nations and turned a blind eye to government repression during the 20th-century "Red Scare." The main thesis is captured here: |
Part 19 Because of Chrystia Freeland's deeply-engrained cultural programming within the ultranationalist Ukrainian Canadian community, it is extremely difficult if not impossible for her to be objective when it comes to certain important foreign policy issues.
But for anyone who believes that Russophobia is simply a fear of Russian words, Russian culture or living in Moscow, then Freeland ‑ apparently ‑ is not Russophobic. In 2014, when she was banned from travelling anywhere within the world's largest country, she seemed almost overjoyed. This is how she tweeted her followers about that news: "Love Russ lang/culture, loved my yrs in Moscow; but it's an honour to be on Putin's sanction list."[ii]
Freeland's journalism career, like that of her Ukrainian grandfather, never shied away from taking sides in superheated propaganda battles. Her critiques of the Soviet/Russia bear, her overly-confident and incendiary way with words, and her inspired passion for Ukrainian nationalism ‑ which she has credited to her maternal grandfather ‑ were all valuable assets in building her up as a darling of global business press. These same assets also assisted her meteoric rise to Trudeau's Liberal Cabinet. As such, Freeland's service as a mouthpiece for the mighty Russophobic Wurlitzer spans the connected worlds of western governments and their compliant corporate media.
Freeland's Ukrainian grandfather would surely have been as proud of her, as she is of him. While she never publicly mentioned his wartime promotion of Nazi propaganda, she did credit her grandparents' political views as a major inspiration in her lifelong commitment to the ultrapatriotic Ukrainian cause.
"For the rest of my grandparents' lives," she said in My Ukraine, "they saw themselves as political exiles with a responsibility to keep alive the idea of an independent Ukraine"[iv] (Emphasis added.) The recurring theme here is the profound sense of an ongoing multigenerational commitment to the Ukrainian cause. This undying "responsibility to keep alive" a "flame" or "idea" of Ukrainian independence, is certainly something that Chrystia Freeland has held utmost throughout her life. Deeply instilled in her from such an early age, Freeland's deep sense of responsibility to carry on the dream of her Ukrainian forebears, her village and her nation, is something that takes precedence over all else in her being.
Even after the huge success of creating an independent Ukraine, there were other great goals that Freeland's grandfather ‑ in collaboration with the Nazi's extensive media empire and the government of Germany ‑ could only have dreamed of. Like their Nazi overlords, Ukrainian nationalists also dreamed of the day when the Soviet bear would be vanquished. This goal was quickly realised on the heels of Ukrainian independence.
But by the time this second grand dream was
eventually achieved, most of the Nazis and their collaborators had already
died. Those who did live to see this dream come true must have rejoiced
that their successors had kept their flame of anticommunism alive and worked
feverishly to make their fervent dream a reality. While the Nazis
killed 25 to 30 million Soviet citizens in their effort to destroy
communism, that monumental effort had been turned back by the Soviet bear.
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[iii]
Linda Diebel, "How Chrystia Freeland became Justin Trudeau’s first
star," Toronto Star, November 29, 2015.
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/11/29/how-chrystia-freeland-became-justin-trudeaus-first-star.html
[iv]
Chrystia Freeland, "My Ukraine: A personal reflection on a nation's
dream of independence and the nightmare Vladimir Putin has visited upon
it," May 12, 2015.
http://csweb.brookings.edu/content/research/essays/2015/myukraine.html
Chrystia Freeland,
My Ukraine: A Personal Reflection on a Nation's
Independence
and the nation's dream of independence and the nightmare Vladimir Putin
has visited upon it,
2015.
https://books.google.fi/books?id=sJMkCQAAQBAJ
[v]
History, REF/RL website
http://pressroom.rferl.org/p/6092.html