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References 1. 2. Ronald Smelser and Edward Davies II, The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture, 2008. http://bit.ly/NaziMythUSA 3. Richard Landwehr, "The European Volunteer Movement in World War II," Journal of Historical Review, Spring 1981, p.59. http://bit.ly/LandwehrJHR 4. Cited in Smelser and Davies, op. cit., p.162. 5. Myron Kuropas, "Faces and Places: The ugly face of ‘60 Minutes,’" The Ukrainian Weekly, Oct. 30, 1994. http://www.ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1994/449426.shtml
government-funded job for The Encyclopedia of Ukraine (created by Ukraine’s top Nazi collaborator, who was her grandfather's WWII boss) shared the page with praise for a leading veteran of the Waffen SS in Canada W hen he died in 2017, the University of Alberta said of its former chancellor: "[A]fter growing up in Ukraine and enduring the hardships of Russian occupation," he came to Canada in 1949.1 Saying nothing of Nazi "hardships" or Savaryn’s role as a soldier in Ukraine’s Waffen SS (which the Nazis created, trained, armed, funded and led), they instead praised his "accomplished career" as a lawyer, his lead role in Alberta’s Progressive Conservative Party and in "championing multiculturalism and education."2"Savaryn was proud of his SS past," said historian Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe. He made it "an important part of his Ukrainian identity and probably understood it as a contribution to Canadian multiculturalism." 3 Savaryn was a University of Alberta governor and senator who cofounded its Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS). The publishing deal for its biggest project, The Encyclopedia of Ukraine, was cosigned by Savaryn in 1976. This memory project was created and led by Volodymyr Kubijovych who also led Ukrainian-Nazi collaboration in WWII. Kubijovych’s top news propagandist, Michael Chomiak, worked on the encyclopedia in 1978-79, as did his granddaughter, Chrystia Freeland, in the 1980s.In 1987, when Savaryn received the Order of Canada, Governor General Jeanne Sauvé praised his work for "multiculturalism" and for being "active in his community as a volunteer." 4 Savaryn, "a stalwart leader"5 of Plast Edmonton, also volunteered as president of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians (1983-88), which still reveres WWII fascist Stepan Bandera. During the Cold War, it worked closely with the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations.In WWII, Savaryn joined the SS and swore a "holy oath" to Adolph Hitler, which said in part: "I swear before God ... that in the battle against Bolshevism, I will give absolute obedience to the commander in chief of the German Armed Forces Adolf Hitler and as a brave soldier, I will always be prepared to lay down my life."6 Four University of Alberta endowment funds named for Ukrainian Canadian SS vets, include the "Peter Savaryn Award for Contributions to the Development of Ukrainian Studies."7 The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) described Savaryn as "a great leader in the Ukrainian Canadian community" who "made a major contribution" to the UCC.8
References 2. Ibid. 3. Grzegorz Rossolinski-Liebe, "Celebrating Fascism and War Criminal-ity in Edmonton: The Political Myth & Cult of Stepan Bandera in Multicultural Canada," Kakanien Revisited, Dec. 29, 2010, p.7. http://bit.ly/CultCda 4. Order of Canada http://bit.ly/SavGG 5. UCC expresses condolences for loss of Peter Savaryn, Apr. 9, 2017. http://bit.ly/Sav-UCC 6. Per A.Rudling, "‘They Defended Ukraine’: The 14.Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (Galizische Nr.1) Revisited," Journal of Slavic Military Studies, Sep. 2012, p.343. http://bit.ly/UkrSS 8. Peter and Olya Savaryn Award supports Ukrainian studies at CIUS. http://bit.ly/SavCIUS 9. UCC expresses...., op.cit. |
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antiSoviet article on the Holodomor, co-authored by Chrystia Freeland, appeared
on the same page of Ukrainian Weekly (UW) as an ad for a book
glorifying the Nazi’s Ukrainian Waffen SS.1 Historians Ronald Smelser and Edward
Davies say the book ignored "SS atrocities against civilian populations" and
that "tens of thousands of Waffen-SS men served as guards in concentration
camps." Full of praise for the SS, Richard Landwehr’s book says for example
that:
