Something wicked this way comes…
Okay, that’s a bit dramatic but I like to embellish a little bit. Something odd is happening at my school, though.
Yesterday I got an email from my history professor inviting all of his Genocide students to an event hosted at our school for a Ukrainian historian. Now I wouldn’t really have an issue with this in normal times, but we are not living in them right now. There is also the fact that Canada is the Ukrainian Nazi capital of the world so this whole thing makes me nervous right off the bat. I looked further into the invitation for more details and saw that the first half of the event would be for selling this historian’s book, and the second half would be dedicated to her talk.
Her book is about her brother who was in the Ukrainian Armed Forces who died on the frontlines. I was curious about this and did some digging. Turns out her brother joined the military voluntarily in 2015 and died in 2017 in the Donbas! I wonder what he was doing there? This just made me suspicious. She was writing this book before the war with Russia, but after it began she added in information about it. I have not read this book and I don’t know if I want to. If I can find it for free then maybe I will, if that happens I’ll share what I discovered. But for now it’s a no go.
I know some of you are curious about what she is going to say at this event, honestly I am too, but I cannot attend due to it being held so late in the evening. I have no idea how long her talk will last so by the time I try to make it back home the buses might not even be running and I don’t want to be left stranded. There might be a recording of it posted at some point so if that happens I’ll view it and let you know what happens.
So why does this situation bother me so much? Because it feels like propaganda. Canadian schools seem to have a track record with this kind of stuff and with questions being raised about the war this looks like a last ditch effort to keep drumming up support and outrage; I can’t imagine she’s being invited to talk about opposing the war and wanting peace talks. Canada will probably be one of the last countries to admit defeat, then again maybe they never will considering Chrystia Freeland’s position. I wonder if she’ll push for sending Canadian soldiers to fight on the frontlines. I know last time there was a draft in Canada the citizens went insane, mainly between the English (supported the draft) and French (opposed the draft), so I wonder how people would react now.
I guess this post is about me being emotionally frustrated with this whole situation. In class my history professor didn’t bring it up at all, so I wonder if he will during the next class…
That’s the end of my little conundrum.
I think you're very much correct in your assessment. This is a propaganda stunt to white wash Ukrainian nationalists and normalize the holodomor narrative. It's important to keep in mind that a lot of literal fascists from Ukraine fled to Canada at the end of the war, and Canada was actively recruiting them to break up the labour movement here. We have a big nazi community here, they even erected monuments to themselves. People don't talk about it much, but it's really grim when you dig into it a bit.
Canada is the bad place.
The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) are the Nazi loving Ukrainian organization in Canada, big friends of Freeland.
UCC Toronto event containing honouring of Nazi SS division attended by MP Yvan Baker, CAF members
Not directly about the UCC but it has some comments from the president of the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (AUUC) which is the org that is older and was persecuted by the Canadian government to create the UCC.
Bandera-glorifying flyers handed out by counter-protesters of Toronto rally against NATO proxy war
Good breakdown of the persecution of the progressive AUUC by the federal government
Canada’s hostility towards progressive Ukrainians ends myth of concern for Ukrainians’ political rights
Group formed by the UCC literally funding Azov nazis
Canada-Ukraine Foundation’s COO trained Ukrainian Nazis, gives equipment to medical battalion of Nazi's army
Province of Ontario's government approving a UCC anticommunistbust tour to schools
Organization running Ontario-government backed Nazi propaganda bus tour aided Ukrainian Nazi’s army medical section
Sorry about any broken links, Jerboa is a nightmare on my phone to write comments with
Great resources!