• SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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    4 days ago

    The Trudeau government officially inaugurated Canada’s “Memorial to the Victims of Communism” earlier this month. However, no member of the Liberal government was allowed to show their face at the ceremony, for fear it would once again draw public attention to the Canadian state’s longstanding and ongoing patronage of fascist forces.

    That's how you know you're doing the right thing, when you don't want anybody to acknowledge it exists

    In a damning political admission, the Department of Canadian Heritage previously removed all the names listed on the “Victims of Communism” memorial wall. The move followed the release of a government-commissioned report calling for the removal of the names of over 300 individuals—more than half of the total inscribed on the monument—who were directly or potentially linked to the Nazis or the fascist organizations that collaborated with them during World War Two.

    How you REALLY know you're doing the right thing

    Should've just ordered the list by their rank in the Nazi army while you were at it

  • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]
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    3 days ago

    What's funny about this is it will cause the chuds in KKKlanada to scream about how Trudeau is a communist sympathizer, because he's erasing these "victims" from all important monuments.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    4 days ago

    I just finished that episode of Expats & Allies about the OUN and it planted the seed in my mind that this is all being shuttered rapidly, clumsily, and publicly with the list of names being explicitly shielded from records requests not just because of the embarrassment at how many were obvious Nazi war criminals (which is pretty obvious at this point and a national embarrassment) but because to reveal the actual details and names at this stage would unearth something even more embarrassing and potentially destabilizing about the active role the state played in shielding Nazis from European war crime tribunals so they could use them to undermine domestic socialist /trade union organizations or even bolster anti-Semitic groups.

    basically, that that this story isn't the really embarrassing revelation... its just where the current government is applying the tourniquet and amputating because where it could go is far darker and monstrous.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
      hexagon
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      3 days ago

      I suspect another aspect of it is that many people in the current political mainstream have direct family ties to these nazis. Freeland is a perfect example.

  • 7bicycles [he/him]
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    4 days ago

    No member of the liberal government was allowed to show face there? What do you mean? It's a free country, surely?