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

    • loathsome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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      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).

    • mechwarrior2 [he/him]
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      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 [he/him, comrade/them]
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        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 [he/him]
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      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 [he/him, they/them]
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        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.