[Craic] Fwd: Cdn veteran smeared for decrying Nazi collaborators
Arthur Blomme
art at integralshift.ca
Sat May 15 08:37:01 PDT 2021
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Subject: Cdn veteran smeared for decrying Nazi collaborators
Date: Thu, 6 May 2021 12:53:19 -0400
From: RichardSanders <info at peaceaction.ca>
To: art at integralshift.ca
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/Esprit de Corps' /*Scott Taylor*
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accused of spreading a Kremlin propaganda virus by Estonian-Cdn
activist, Marcus Kolga. My article in /Esprit de Corps/ (below)
exposes deep, Nazi-linked roots of the*Estonian Central Council in
Canada
<http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhbWlBRAlMAWRtaDQRXHlZSCQcVUwQGBRRVBQ5WUw1dV1BUBF1KCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwcAVgRaVFRWFQsABVAUAAcOAU9XDwcGT1YHD1ZXWlNaBAcDAg>*and*Estonian
World Council
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*which Kolga has served as president and vice president.
Taylor commends my recent work on fascist links of Canada's
Russophobic, pro-NATO**émigré**groups, including *Latvians
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Lithuanians
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Slovaks
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*Ukrainians
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little known, and sinister chapter in Canada’s history.... Sanders
provides a disturbing insight into how fading memories and lack of
education have made Holocaust distortion and denial possible in
Canada. He is to be commended for his brave work in bringing this
information forward." */
My /Esprit de Corps/ article also notes that *Chrystia
Freeland*began her career with right-wing Ukrainian-Canadian
publications in Edmonton where her Nazi propagandist grandfather had
also worked. The first of these were government-funded jobs for an
encyclopedia created by her grandfather's WWII boss, who led
collaboration between Nazi Germany and
fascist/antiSemitic/racist/antiRed Ukrainian ethnonationalists.
My work on state-funded émigré groups that glorify fascist heroes,
is online: *Defunding the Myths and Cults of Cold War Canada
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Estonian activist *Marcus Kolga *(right), who calls Nazi Estonia's
Legion "*freedom fighters*," wrote a Russophobic report for the
right-wing MacDonald-Laurier Institutecalled *"**/Stemming the Virus/"*
on the *"Threat of Russian D**isinformation."*
*Kolga's **fearmongering smears **Scott Taylor******and **Richard
Sanders**saying we are*
/*spreading a dangerous Kremlin propaganda virus!*/
/*Our crime?*/* We expose the ongoing glorification of East European
legions *
*that were trained, financed, armed and led by Nazi Germany, wore Nazi
uniforms
and swore solemn oaths to fight to the death for Adolph Hitler in order to
vanquish their enemy, the USSR, which was Canada's war-time ally.
With the help of their fascist East European allies, the Nazis executed
the Holocaust and killed 27 million Soviet citizens.*
*But, insists Kolga, these antiSoviet WWII veterans were *_/*NOT*/_*Nazis,
they were praiseworthy*
*"Ukrainian and Baltic /freedom fighters/."*
*Kolga is a key figure in two émigré groups founded and led by Nazi
collaborators, including Estonian Waffen SS veterans:*
*the****Estonian Central Council in Canada
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World Council
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is president of the Central and Eastern European Council
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Canadian lobbying network of fascist-linked émigré groups that were
linked throughout the Cold War to the notoriously Nazi-riddled
AntiBolshevik Bloc of Nations and World AntiCommunist League
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Kolga is also a senior fellow of a right-wing Canadian think tank, the
MacDonald-Laurier Institute. It is funded by large fossil fuel
extraction corporations and some foreign governments, including
Latvia, which officially glorifies its Nazi WWII veterans as glorious
freedom-fighting war heroes.*
"*Is /Esprit de Corps/ on trial for being on target against Nazism?*
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*(/Esprit de Corps/, May 2021)*
*By Richard Sanders*
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columnist whose trajectory can be controversial. His on-course
opposition to Nazis, their collaborators and apologists, in Canada and
abroad, should not be contentious, especially to members and veterans of
Canada’s armed forces.
But when Taylor stood up against the glorification of Nazi SS divisions
by modern governments in Eastern Europe he took flak from some,
including an Estonian-Canadian activist, Marcus Kolga. As a senior
fellow of the right-wing MacDonald-Laurier Institute, Kolga targeted
Taylor saying he’d “mischaracterized Ukrainian and Baltic freedom
fighters who resisted Soviet occupation as Nazis.” To Kolga, this
branded Taylor guilty of spreading the “virus” of “a particularly
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Kolga’s report, /Stemming the Virus/, on “the threat of Russian
disinformation,” also fired at /Esprit de Corps/, which, he chastened,
“frequently echoes the anti-NATO views common on pro-Russian websites.”
I should disclose that Kolga’s report also aimed epithets at my
research, which he filed under “pro-Kremlin media and trolls.”
Apparently, I spread the Russian virus by exposing how Canada’s Deputy
Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland’s journalism career began with jobs for
publications promoting the WWII Ukrainian Waffen SS Galicia as heroic
“freedom fighters.” Not knowing I’d be besmirched by Kolga, I posted, in
March 2017, a wealth of evidence (still unreported by mainstream media)
proving that Freeland and her grandfather, Michael Chomiak, the Nazi
news propagandist, had both worked for the same far-right,
Ukrainian-Canadian publications in Edmonton.
One of these, /The Encyclopedia of Ukraine/, was the postwar brainchild
of Volodymyr Kubijovych. As a top Ukrainian coordinator of Nazi
collaboration, Kubijovych pushed the Germans to set up the SS Galicia
and oversaw Chomiak’s work, which included publishing his call for
Ukrainians to volunteer for this Nazi division.
As a teen, Freeland landed two Canadian government summer jobs writing
for Kubijovych’s encyclopedia. It romanticises ethnic-cleansing
Ukrainian fascists as ethical anticommunists and whitewashes their
complicity in the genocide of Jews, Poles, Roma and communist partisans
who were backing the Red Army.
Visiting Edmonton, Chomiak’s wartime boss signed over his encyclopedia
to a government-funded Ukrainian research centre at the University of
Alberta, whose chancellor, Peter Savaryn, was a proud veteran of the
Ukrainian Waffen SS and a leader of nationalist Ukrainian organizations.
The Governor General subsequently awarded Savaryn the Order of Canada
for volunteering with these Ukrainian groups.
As an apologist for Estonians who welcomed Nazi forces as liberators,
Marcus Kolga cheerleads NATO and praises today’s SS-revering European
regimes. But they are victims, he says, “targeted by Kremlin aggression.”
There is a hearty tradition of vilifying antifascists by disparaging
them with offensive insults. Let’s illustrate this with a chapter from
the history of the Estonian Central Council (ECC) in Canada, which Kolga
served as president from 2016 to 2020.
The ECC claims to oppose those two arch-rivals, Nazism and Communism,
which it falsely equates as twin evils equally to blame for WWII. But
since its creation in 1954, the ECC has only aimed its fire at Reds.
This, after all, was the fixation of Nazi collaborators and supporters
who created and led the ECC through the Cold War until the present.
In 1964, the ECC’s vice president was a German-Estonian named Karl
Eerme. An embedded war correspondent for the Nazi-led Estonian SS,
Lieutenant Eerme landed in a post-war US POW camp in Germany. Moving to
Toronto, he continued anti-Soviet propaganda through the ECC and stated
its McCarthyesque purpose as providing “the focal point for ... all
Estonians in Canada ... in their avowed and active opposition to the
doctrine of Communism.”
In 1960, the USSR — having lost 27 million citizens to the Nazis and
their East European supporters — sought to expose some perpetrators. It
named ECC leaders, including three former SS-lieutenants, an SS-Legion
staff member and two former Gestapo police commissioners. Using German
documents, eyewitness accounts and other evidence gathered when forcing
the Nazis from Estonia in 1944, the Soviets identified Winnipeg’s
Aleksander Laak as an ECC member who represented the most brutal of
Estonia’s Nazi collaborators protected in Canada.
In August 1960, the Soviets indicted Laak for “organizing extermination
camp Jägala and personally shooting Jews” and reported that he’d
overseen the murder of 3,000 prisoners.
“The Russian story is 99 per cent lies,” said Laak. “It is only
Communist propaganda.” Dozens of Canadian journalists agreed. Headlines
blaring “Red Story,” “Red Charges” and “Red Claims” rejected it as
Russian “propaganda.”
The RCMP gave Laak a “clear” record. The government dismissed it as
“phony.” Laak’s neighbours, co-workers and employer said he was a victim
of Soviet lies. Despite this support, Laak hanged himself a few days
later and papers blamed “Communist propaganda” for killing him.
*Alexander Laak, 1940*
The ECC joined the fray. One article, “Estonians Fear Smear Campaign,”
said Toronto’s 8,000 Estonians were afraid they would “come under a
Soviet propaganda barrage.” Although the USSR focused on Laak, the ECC’s
leader Enn Salurand said all Estonian-Canadians were “bracing themselves
for a Communist campaign designed to discredit them.” How many of
Estonia’s tens of thousands of SS men came to Canada is unknown.
Salurand helped found the ECC and was its secretary-general for 25
years. In 1931, he helped create and lead an outfit back in the Baltic,
the Estonian National Club. Its eugenics-based ethno-nationalism,
intolerant of minorities, got it outlawed by the Soviets when they
occupied Estonia in 1940. After coming to Canada, Salurand is said to
have never missed a board meeting of the Estonian veterans’ publication,
/Combatant/.
When Laak’s photo appeared in newspapers, Jewish Holocaust survivors in
Canada and the US called the press, identifying him as the slave-labour
camp’s commandant. “Laak was wearing the SS uniform and was in charge,”
declared Toronto’s Greta Zarkower. “Laak and his men took all our
valuables.... I was beaten unmercifully, regularly, with a riding whip
by SS men.” The media fell silent on Laak for six months.
This silence ended when three top Estonian Nazis went on trial in
September 1960. Ralph Gerrets, Laak’s deputy, confessed in Soviet court
that they killed thousands, mostly Jews and “Gypsies,” and that Laak
took part. Gerrets described shooting small children and dumping them in
trenches. Forty witnesses identified Laak as camp commander.
*"Registration point for the volunteers
of the Estonian Legion"* (Sept. 1942)
Female survivors recounted being “ordered to undress on arrival at the
extermination camp while being examined by Gerrets and Lt. Alexander
Laak.” Some testified Laak arranged for “girl inmates” to be “forced to
take part in orgies at night and murdered afterward.”
Despite this shocking testimony, no Canadian papers mentioned Laak’s
name, or previous claims of innocence by the ECC, RCMP, government and
media. Instead, most stories blasted the trial as propaganda. When the
three Estonian war criminals were sentenced to death, Canadian
journalists didn’t mention Laak but concurred the “show trial apparently
aimed at discrediting anti-Soviet Estonian refugee groups.”
Estonian Canadians also went silent, except for one letter to the editor
from an ECC-linked Montreal group. Its vice president, Martin Puhvel,
castigated the Gazette for covering the trial at all and defended
Estonian collaborators as heroes. Describing the trial as “vicious
propagandists fairytales,” he said “the Soviet propaganda machine has
... launched a campaign of calumny and vilification against Estonian
patriots whose only ‘crime’ lies in defending their homes against
murderous, unprovoked aggression by the Russian enslavers.”
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mentor, *Marion Dewar
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She was Ottawa's mayor (1978-1985), an NDP MP (1986-1988), and became
Oxfam Canada's president in 1995.
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