The grandfather of Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s deputy prime minister, worked for a Nazi newspaper that recruited for the Galicia Division of the Waffen-SS — the same division as Yaroslav Hunka, the Nazi who was recently honored by Canada’s Parliament.
    • @jonne@infosec.pub
      4•1 year ago

      The Ukrainian army has a ton of Nazis fighting for it, and pictures of Nazi symbols keep popping up on uniforms. I understand that the Ukrainians know they’re in an existential war and need every man they can get, but it’s not a good look, and honouring actual Nazis in parliament is not going to help with keeping political support for continuing to fund this war.

      Same is true for Russia, btw. The Wagner group used a lot of Nazi iconography as well, and Russia was equally ok with it.

      There’s just a huge Nazi problem in both countries, and it’s definitely something we need to worry about. Having a bunch of Nazi’s with combat experience and potentially modern western weapons running around Europe is not something you want after this war. Operation Gladio showed what that can lead to.

  • CoachDom
    11•1 year ago

    This is just ridiculous - prosecuting Yaroslavl Hunka makes sense, as he himself was a part of a nazzi military outpost.

    Prosecuting or using it as a political tool against Chrystia Freeland makes absolutely no sense as it was her grandfather (!) who was at involved in the nazzi business.

    Blame granddaughter for grandfather’s sins…

    I don’t know what’s going on politically in Canada, but this is just pathetic in my opinion.

    Edit:

    Michael Chomiak, Freeland’s maternal grandfather whom she’s repeatedly cited as a political inspiration

    The link to her essay mentions her grandfather a couple of times, but never “cites as a political inspiration”. Just to give a historical context.

    Terrible piece of journalism