The Canadian ruling class provided safe-haven to the Nazis’ Ukrainian accomplices, helped them whitewash their crimes, and incubated and promoted a far-right Ukrainian nationalism that has served as the political-ideological spearhead of the drive to transform “independent” Ukraine into an instrument of the NATO powers.
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<em>This is the fourth article in a multipart series. Click <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/05/16/vxen-m16.html">here</a> for the first part.</em>
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.