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[Arthur Blomme]

Canada is secretly participating in all of American imperialistic wars.


        An Ominous Context of the Nazi Debacle in Canada


A few days ago, I raised questions that stem from the standing ovation 
for Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian veteran of the SS in the Canadian 
parliament (see this). These questions deserve answers. Here are some of 
them.

How is it that the background of this unrepented Nazi – he wrote in 
blogs in 2010 and 2011 that the years spent under the SS colours were 
the best years of his life – had become invisible to those who arranged 
his invitation to the Canadian parliament? The answer is the mainstream 
media presentation of the war as a conflict between Good and Evil. 
Obviously, the Good cannot be suspected of harbouring Nazi skeletons in 
the closet. If there is no longer even a pretense of even-handedness in 
the covering of the Ukraine war in Western media, there is no reason to 
expect a politician to dare have a critical approach to anyone or 
anything Ukrainian.

Thus, mainstream media ignore Nazi insignia on the uniforms of certain 
units of the Ukrainian army. This Manichean view of the essentially 
geopolitical conflict impede a clearer understanding of and, more 
importantly, a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine. The Ukrainian 
parliament eliminated a diplomatic solution by means of a decision to 
ban negotiations with Russia. Without formally doing as much, Western 
powers have cornered themselves into a dead end: it is impossible to 
negotiate with Russia, painted in much of the Western media as the Evil 
incarnate. Moral indignation has replaced geopolitical rationality.

In presenting Hunka, the speaker of the Parliament in Ottawa said,

“We have here in the chamber today a Ukrainian Canadian war veteran from 
the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the 
Russians and continues to support the troops today even at his age of 98.”

Fighting against the Russians has become a supreme moral value. The fact 
that Hunka had volunteered for the SS unit does not, in the mainstream 
view in the West, invalidate his heroism in “fighting against the 
Russians”. In today’s frenzied climate, having fought in a SS unit pales 
in comparison with being blamed as a “Putin’s apologist” for calling for 
an end of hostilities.

Moreover, continuing efforts have been made in Eastern Europe to equate 
the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany. Monuments to Soviet soldiers who had 
freed Eastern Europe from Nazism in 1944-45 have been systematically 
removed and destroyed. Energies spent to efface historical memory have 
borne fruit both in Europe and elsewhere. East European diasporas in 
Canada, many of them tainted with collaboration with Nazism, have 
erected monuments to Nazis, who fought against the Soviet Union. While a 
monument to the victims of communism was erected on the Parliament Hill, 
there seem to be no plans to build a monument to the victims of fascism. 
Less informed people may simply forget that Canada fought alongside the 
Soviet Union against the fascists during the Second World War.

This is not innocent ignorance but a result of consistent whitewashing 
of fascist tendencies in the ethnic nationalism in Eastern Europe. One 
of those who, since her young age, took part in this whitewashing is 
Chrystia Freeland, deputy prime minister of Canada, a powerful éminence 
grise and an unabashed Ukrainian nationalist. She has so far been 
eloquently silent about the scandal in the parliament. If the ovation 
for the Nazi had passed without protest or controversy, this would have 
become a crucial milestone on the path to rehabilitation of fascism.

This effort goes beyond exculpating Canada from having welcomed hundreds 
of Nazis in the aftermath of the Second World War. Zelensky said on the 
same occasion in the parliament, that Canada should be proud to have 
always been “on the bright side of history” (he probably meant “right” 
instead of “bright”, but this hardly matters). On that sunny side of 
history, one apparently finds offering safe haven to Nazis fleeing 
retribution for crimes against humanity committed during the war.

All this concerns more than history. This rehabilitation opens the way 
to wholesale scapegoating of ethnic, national, and religious groups, 
even entire countries and their culture. Canceling Tchaikovsky and 
Pushkin in the West dovetails with removing Russian books from public 
libraries in Ukraine. Both are a grim reminder of the banning of Jewish 
composers and the burning of Jewish books in Germany in the 1930s. 
Demonization of “the other”, practiced by the Europeans for centuries on 
their own continent and in their colonies, is raising its head again. 
Hatred is dressed up as moral indignation reflecting “progressive 
European values”. The pretext, as in the past centuries, is impeccable: 
a war against the Evil.

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//Yakov M. Rabkin is Professor Emeritus of History at the Université of 
Montréal. His publications include over 300 articles and a few books: 
Science between Superpowers, A Threat from Within: a Century of Jewish 
Opposition to Zionism, What is Modern Israel?, Demodernization: A Future 
in the Past and Judaïsme, islam et modernité. He did consulting work 
for, inter alia, OECD, NATO, UNESCO and the World Bank. E-mail: 
yakov.rabkin at umontreal.ca. Website: www.yakovrabkin.ca/

Read original  here: 
https://www.globalresearch.ca/ominous-context-nazi-debacle-canada/5834936


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