I love posting this site https://coat.ncf.ca/research/Chomiak-Freeland/C-F1.htm
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to the best of my knowledge, the name "Red Sails" derives from Roderic Day's affinity for Black Sails which he argues is an allegory for the Russian revolution, with Flint as a Lenin figure
Black Sails.
Thinly disguised allegory about the Russian Revolution set in the fictional pirate republic of Nassau.
It's got imperialist siege, purges, civil war, famine, support for anti-colonial revolutions... remarkably complete.
@yogthos@lemmy.ml wasn't there some university in winnipeg that has a trove of documents on freeland's grandfather?
maybe you have a link
don't have that one unfortunately, but I do have one with some details here https://www.readthemaple.com/chrystia-freeland-must-account-for-her-nazi-collaborator-grandfather/
It even has a watermark
