Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland applauds nazi Yaroslav Hunka in Canadian parliament (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mechwarrior2@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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Chrystia Freeland has a bachelor’s degree in Russian history, a Master’s in Slavonic studies, and is unrepentant about her Nazi collaborator grandfather. There’s no WAY she doesn’t know what it means for someone to have “fought against the Russians in WW2”.

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

I've come around to the argument that there is a chance everyone in that room was simply too stupid to put two and two together, but there is ZERO chance she didn't.

[-] drinkinglakewater@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

100%. A while back she or her office scrubbed a bunch of pictures from her social media that she took with prominent OUN-B members at a Ukrainian festival in Canada, so she's already aware of the optics

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

Watching the civilty lib Canadians go mask off because they want to have nuanced takes on Ukrainian SS

lib scratch decade happening in weeks

[-] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

i saw Canadian libs on reddit linking to the same blog posts by the old nazi that were being shared here as if they were exonerating rather than damning

[-] showmustgo@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Isn't she the ~~child~~ grandchild of a Nazi herself? There's images of her with an OUN flag

[-] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 1 year ago

It is possible but also her grandfather was a nazi collaborator:

For starters, The Ukraine Archival Records held by the Province of Alberta. It has a whole file on Chomiak, including his own details about his days editing the newspaper Krakivski Visti. Chomiak noted he edited the paper first in Crakow (Cracow), Poland and then in Vienna. The reason he edited the paper in Vienna was because he had to flee with his Nazis colleagues as the Russians advanced into Poland. (The Russians tended to execute collaborators well as SS members).

[-] showmustgo@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

his Nazi colleagues

Possible is putting it lightly

[-] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

if you are up for some reading, this site documents her family history and the multi-generational project of the Ukrainian nazi diaspora to which they belong

https://coat.ncf.ca/research/Chomiak-Freeland/C-F1.htm

Moss Robeson also covers this movement

https://banderalobby.substack.com/

https://mossrobeson.medium.com/

[-] showmustgo@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Holy shit it's literally a circle??

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

Chomiak was CF's dido (grandpa)??

[-] drinkinglakewater@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

Grandchild. I'd say she's more ideologically Banderite than Nazi if that has any meaningful difference

Fun fact about her parents though! Her mother was for some reason the one that drafted the post-soviet Ukrainian constitution

[-] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Second fun fact! Deputy Freeland, a fluent Ukranian speaker, went to Ukraine to study the Ukranian language in college. While there, she had unrestricted access to the Canadian diplomatic pouch, as well as being closely linked to the Canadian diplomatic corps there, all while being just an average student and anti-Soviet activist without governmental ties. And during the 1980s, to boot. Neat! Love to see a girlboss.