Government-funded Ukrainian-Canadian organizations
that glorify Nazi collaborators and whitewash their role in genocide

Canada's ongoing state funding to organizations that still glorify and memorialize their community's fascist wartime leaders, includes government grants to the (1) Ukrainian Canadian Congress, (2) the League of Ukrainian Canadians, (3) the Ukrainian Youth Association, and (4) the League of Ukrainian Women.

The history of these government-funded, Ukrainian-Canadian lobby groups is referenced in numerous articles this 64-page edition of Press for Conversion! magazine:

Defunding the Myths and Cults of Cold War Canada:
Ongoing state support for East European émigré groups with deep fascist roots
(Collaborators, Crusades and Coverups in an era of “truth and reconciliation”)

(1) The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) is referenced in the following articles.
Astericks (*) mark articles that refer to government funding of the UCC, or to state projects that its leaders have helped initiate & organize (**).

Note: The UCC's creation in 1940 was funded and facilitated by the Canadian government. Its function was to unite all anticommunist Ukrainian organizations and to form a bulwark against the Ukrainian Left which then dominated this diaspora community in Canada. The UCC brought together the two conflicting factions within the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN). These factions, led by Andriy Melnyk and Stepan Bandera, known as the OUN(M) and the OUN(B), both had racist, antisemitic, fascist ideologies, employed terrorist tactics and allied militarily with the Nazis. The two factions however differed on some views regarding Ukrainian independence from Hitler's Germany. Throughout the Cold War and since, the UCC's national member groups have included veteran's associations representing the Nazi's OUN(M)-affiliated Waffen SS Division and the OUN(B)'s Ukrainian Insurgent Army.

(2) The League of Ukrainian Canadians (LUC) is referenced in the following articles:
Astericks (*) indicate articles which reference government funding to LUC.

Note: LUC is the leading organization in Canada devoted to memorializing the "Banderite" faction of the historic Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, and its political and military leader Stepan Bandera. For decades, LUC has dominated the top executive positions within of Ukrainian Canadian Congress. Throughout the Cold War, LUC was the organization in Canada which represented an international alliance of Nazi-collaborating diaspora groups known as the AntiBolshevik Bloc of Nations (ABN). The ABN arose from a wartime network of fascist East European guerrilla armies that came together in 1943 to support Nazi Germany's military forces as they were being expelled from the USSR by the Red Army. The ABN's OUN-B leaders also played a pivotal role within the World AntiCommunist League (WACL). (Learn more about the ABN and WACL.)

(3) Ukrainian Youth Association (UYA) is referenced in the following articles:
Astericks (*) mark articles that refer to government funding of the UYA, or to state projects that its leaders have helped initiate and organize (**).

Note: Being the youth affiliate of the League of Ukrainian Canadians, the UYA represents the Banderite faction of Canada's Ukrainian youth movement.  As a scouting association, the UYA is organized along quasi-military lines.  Its members dress in army-style uniforms, are taught to march in military formation, and engage in ritualistic ceremonies such as carrying OUN(B) battles flags or portrait photographs to glorify their such leaders as Stepan Bandera, Yaroslav Stetsko and Roman Shukhevych.

(4) League of Ukrainian Women (LUW) is referenced in the following articles:
Astericks (*) indicate articles that refer to government funding of LUW.

Note: The LUW is the women's affiliate of the League of Ukrainian Canadians.