>DOUGH
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/russia-disinformation-ukraine-hunka-parliament-1.6980638
Opposition, disinfo experts push government to fight Russian propaganda in wake of Hunka incident
Federal site fighting disinfo by Moscow not updated since before event
While Russia continues to blast Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for venerating a Nazi combatant in Parliament, Ottawa's main website designed to fight Russian disinformation hasn't been updated since the day before the incident.
During a visit to the House of Commons by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday, the Speaker of the House led a standing ovation for 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka, who had fought for Ukraine against the Russians in the Second World War, and was present at the event.
Since Sunday, when news stories began to highlight that Hunka had served with the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, or the SS 14th Waffen Division, a voluntary unit that was part of Adolf Hitler's forces, Russian government statements have leaned into a narrative about the Canadian government and Nazis.
On the social media platform X, Russia's foreign affairs ministry called Parliament's ovation to Hunka a vivid portrayal of "the regime of Justin Trudeau." The embassy in Canada called the event an "insult to the memory of Canada's sons and daughters who fought Nazism in WWII."
Also on X, the Russian foreign affairs ministry quoted its spokesperson Maria Zakharova stating "Canada is funding and training ideological heirs of the Waffen 'SS' Division Galicia," next to a cartoon of Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, along with Zelenskyy, doing the Nazi salute.
https://www.ucc.ca/2023/09/28/ucc-statement-sept-28-2023/
Ukrainian Canadian Congress Statement Sept 28, 2023
For many centuries, all peoples who lived on the territory of what today is Ukraine, including the Jewish people, suffered successive occupations by foreign empires and colonizers who sought to subjugate the many peoples for whom Ukraine was home.
Some thirty years ago, with the declaration of Ukrainian independence and statehood, the difficult process of reaching mutual understanding and comity began and continues to this day.
There are difficult and painful pages in the shared history of the communities who made their home in Ukraine. The UCC acknowledges that recent events that brought these pages to the forefront have caused pain and anguish.
Today, Russia wages a brutal war of conquest against Ukraine, seeking to subjugate Ukraine to Moscow’s tyranny. All the peoples of Ukraine who live in a pluralist, democratic state fight together to defend their freedom against the spectre of Russian genocide. The Ukrainian Canadian community is grateful to Canada and all Canadians for their unwavering support of Ukraine.
The court order – issued yesterday and shared by Holland’s lawyer – bars Ziobro from making public statements, including social media posts, in which Holland and her work are “referenced, juxtaposed or compared…[with] criminal authoritarian regimes from history or the present day (e.g. the Third Reich, Soviet Union, Stalinism, Putinism)”.
The ban was imposed for the duration of a defamation case Holland has brought against the minister for likening her to a Nazi propagandist due to her new film, which depicts mistreatment of asylum seekers at Poland’s border with Belarus.
“In the Third Reich, the Germans produced propaganda films showing Poles as bandits and murderers. Today, they have Agnieszka Holland for that,” wrote Ziobro, before the film had been released. He has since made further comments likening the director’s work to Nazi and communist propaganda.
>preparing my entire life for this battle
Listening to Chrystia Freeland's uncle Myroslav Shkandrij lecture Canadian Banderites on "The Myth - The Legend - The Reality" of the "Galicia Division" (Ukrainian Waffen-SS), which his father enlisted in
>archive
According to a history of the division written by Myroslav Shkandrij, a professor at the University of Manitoba, “the primary motivation” for signing up to the division in 1943 was “to fight Stalin, Russia and Bolshevism, and to create a military formation that would struggle for Ukraine’s independence.”
In the Maelstrom: The Waffen-SS “Galicia” Division and Its Legacy, Myroslav Shkandrij
5:59 Waffen-SS "Galicia" Division literature, books, poetry, magazines, newspapers
7:25 DeschĂŞnes Commission
8:29 Voids, gaps in our knowledge
12:31 Scholarship and East European studies. Many points of convergence among scholars now. Consensus on many issues
17:02 In WWII, UPA fought both the Soviets and the Nazis
22:06 Scholarship on Waffen-SS "Galicia" Division
25:51 5 million Ukrainians killed, 1.4 million Jews. 2-2.5 million Ostarbeiter slaves taken to Germany. The issue of collaboration must be examined more closely
31:04 Winston Churchill, Operation Unthinkable. In the late 1940s, many Ukrainians recruited by MI6 and US Intelligence. Hundreds were parachuted into Ukraine to work as radio operators, make contact with the local underground. Most were picked up immediately and executed. British intelligence officer Kim Philby betrayed Ukraine and Ukrainians
32:38 The Waffen-SS were largely non-German
33:25 Anders Collection, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
35:09 Dirlewanger Brigade
37:24 DeschĂŞnes Commission decision to find the Waffen-SS 14th Galicia Division not guilty of war crimes
42:07 Stories from the twilight of living memory
43:59 It's important people know the full story
45:28 Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russian studies will change. Slavic departments have to address this. The whole of Russian history will be rewritten
>Canada knowingly admitted 2,000 Ukrainian SS members after World War II
https://www.jta.org/1997/06/05/global/canada-knowingly-admitted-ss-members-after-world-war-ii
Canada knowingly admitted 2,000 Ukrainian SS members after World War II
The Canadian government, with British complicity, admitted more than 2,000 members of a notorious Ukrainian Waffen-SS division in 1950, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has charged.
In a related case, the CBS news program “60 Minutes” reported that about 1,000 SS men and Nazi collaborators, mainly from the Baltic states, immigrated to Canada about the same time.
And the German public broadcasting network reported that 50,000 war criminals are receiving “victim pensions” from the German government. According to German sources, 1,882 of them are Canadian residents.
Canadian officials have acknowledged that almost all the suspected war criminals and Nazi collaborators have lived openly under their own names in Canada for the last 47 years.
The Wiesenthal Center’s dean, Rabbi Marvin Hier, and its Canadian representative, Sol Littman, outlined the case of the 2,000 SS veterans at a news conference Monday after returning from Ottawa. They spoke about their meeting with Canadian Solicitor General Herb Gray, the Cabinet minister in charge of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
“Mr. Gray seemed genuinely disturbed by the material we presented and promised to investigate the charges,” Hier said.
Littman, who has been investigating the Nazi presence in Canada since 1980, said the 14th Volunteer Waffen-SS Grenadier Division, also known as the Galicia Division, was made up mainly of Ukrainians who had served with Nazi police battalions and death squads. The surviving 9,000 members of the division surrendered to the British army at the end of the war, and eventually were brought to England.
In 1950, Britain appealed to Commonwealth countries to admit them. Canada agreed to take 2,000, after receiving assurances from London that their backgrounds had been investigated and that they had been cleared of any complicity in war crimes. But according to recently released British documents and interviews with officials who conducted the investigations at the time, the Ukrainians were not screened, partly because none of the interrogators could speak their language, Littman said.
The 2,000 settled in major Canadian cities, and it is estimated that about half of them are still alive.
One of the ways of getting into Canada during the postwar period “was by showing the SS tattoo,” Canadian historian Irving Abella told “60 Minutes” interviewer Mike Wallace. “This proved that you were an anti-Communist.”
Abella cited his meeting with longtime Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau to illustrate the lackadaisical attitude of the Canadian authorities. Trudeau said the reason his government did not go after war criminals “was because they were afraid of exacerbating relationships between Jews and Eastern European ethnic communities,” Abella said. “So he didn’t do anything, and he admitted it quite openly.”
John Sims, the Canadian official in charge of prosecuting war criminals, acknowledged to “60 Minutes” that “Canada did virtually nothing for decades after the Nuremberg trials.” However, Sims promised that “1997 is going to be an important year, in which I think considerable progress will be made in ridding this country of Nazis.”
The latest revelations about suspected war criminals living openly in Canada come in the wake of a Jerusalem Post series in November that described Canada as a “near-blissful refuge” for Nazis. Steven Rambam, a private detective from New York, working with two Post reporters, uncovered the whereabouts of about 150 suspected war criminals living in Canada, often by simply looking up their names in phone books.
Masquerading as a professor from a fictitious Central American university, Rambam, a former member of the Jewish Defense League, obtained secretly taped interviews with a former Lithuanian police chief, who described in chilling detail his part in the execution of 5,000 Jews.
Meanwhile, the German television program Panorama reported last week that 50,000 war criminals and members of army units who participated in atrocities were receiving bonus pensions, ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars each month. These so-called “victim pensions” are paid on top of regular pensions to anyone who suffered from a disability linked to World War II, or to their dependents.
Although a 1950 German law excludes war criminals living abroad from receiving these pensions, the law is apparently not enforced for Canada, or the United States. Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, has charged that some 3,300 German veterans living in the United States are receiving pensions.
all over the target for a larp
>We have seen it all and unshakable at this point.
glasses frame logo, lady to the right
>Files released Thursday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur state that the star had received death threats from the Jewish Defense League, an organization that has been characterized as terrorist group.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Defense_League
What kind of drink is that?