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