Freeland’s brandishing of a fascist symbol linked to the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, which collaborated with the Nazis, has been greeted with silence in the corporate media because it cuts across the fraudulent narrative that the imperialist powers are arming “democratic” forces in Ukraine.
Ongoing state support for East European émigré groups with deep fascist roots
by Richard Sanders / January 21st, 2021
For decades the Canadian government has been supporting East European émigré associations whose much-revered founders, leaders and war heroes include veterans of Waffen SS divisions and other fascist military formations, perpetrators of the Holocaust and other ethnic-cleansing campaigns, officials from and apologists for Nazi puppet regimes, postwar CIA propaganda assets, proponents of Cold War terrorist groups like the US-armed Nicaraguan
contras and Afghan
mujahideen, and other virulently anticommunist “freedom fighters” and their ideologues.
Over the past few years alone, the most influential of these ethno-nationalist émigré organizations those representing the right-wing Ukrainian diaspora have received millions of dollars in Canadian government grants and contributions. For many decades, the Canadian government’s financial largesse has hel