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”.
source https://twitter.com/StrikePoster/status/1706185887720104275
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.
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