full to capacity with congregants from young to old Narayev (or Narajow — there are about 10 variations on the name) was a predominantly Yiddish-speaking market town in Ukraine and the hometown of the people who founded the shul in 1914 But after getting hold of the yizkor book for the shtetl I learned about the tragic fate that befell its Jewish residents during the Holocaust A yizkor book is a memorial book commemorating one of the thousands of Jewish communities that were destroyed in the Holocaust It includes vivid firsthand accounts of the Holocaust and its aftermath as well as telling stories of the shtetl prior to the Holocaust making it a valuable resource for scholars and descendents of the shtetl’s one-time residents Yizkor books are not history books, so there is no overarching objective context to give a perspective on what happened to the town of Narayev. The accounts are individual recollections. The memoirs in the book were translated twice, from Yiddish to Hebrew and then from Hebrew to English. There are 16 one-to-two page accounts. Eleven of these are available online The Narayev yizkor book apparently has the only known records of the town which is listed there as a subheading under the name of a somewhat larger town called Berezhany (Berezhan in Yiddish) who comprised close to one-third of the town’s population but as it became increasingly difficult to earn a living many Jews began emigrating to the United States and Canada shortly before World War I Those Jews who remained led an active Jewish life Chana described vividly what happened to her wealthy family On the pretext of searching for hidden food the Germans and the local militia looted enough to fill two trucks with leather textiles and other quality items that had belonged to her family Referring to the town’s first year under occupation she wrote that all Jews both rich and poor were forced to do menial labor and were beaten regularly there were rumors that the Germans were planning an Aktion on Yom Kippur An Aktion was a German military or police operation involving mass assembly “the brutal German soldiers arrived … and with the Ukrainians’ collaboration gathered the Jews who were not able to find a hiding place and took them by trucks to Berezhany and from there to the death camp Belzec.” escaped the roundup but were ordered to leave for Berezhany The circumstances of their escape and exactly why they were not sent immediately to Belzec like the others are unknown Chana was forced to do hard labor in the cold “A month later another Aktion came … on the first day of Chanukah Chana and her mother were forced into an extremely crowded cattle car Some people had smuggled tools with them and managed to pry off a wooden plank Chana’s mother retreated to a corner and said that “she was tired of living this way.” She told Chana that she still had her whole life ahead of her so Chana jumped and landed unscathed in a pile of snow Her mother died in Belzec at the age of 40 the “last Aktion in Berezhany was performed and Berezhany was declared Judenfrei,” Chana wrote The term Judenfrei means “cleansed” of Jews Chana had found a hiding place and stayed there Eventually they began to emerge to bake a flat form of bread One of them was waiting for a Christian woman to whom she had given all her possessions When the Christian woman saw the Jewish woman she denounced her and the others to the Gestapo “The rest were murdered in the cemetery,” she wrote Chana found her aunt and her aunt’s three children and survived in the forest together with them the lice were eating me and the sores hurt.” Finally “I was the only one left from my family and from the whole town there were around 25 survivors The rest … were murdered al kidesh hashem (as martyrs) I recently contacted the Jewishgen website asking if anyone knows any descendants of Holocaust survivors from Narayev saying that he had visited the town in 2008 and the only Jewish remnants he found were a few pieces of gravestones in the cemetery I was at a dead end in terms of ever visiting Narayev and doing further research Thank goodness we have stories like Chana’s and others that give us a peek into the lives of the Jewish men and women who once lived in Narayev and whose memory is now preserved by the synagogue bearing its name I’d like to ask you to please support the Forward’s award-winning nonprofit journalism during this critical time we have stood together in strength and sorrow Our Forward team has worked around the clock to help you find clarity amid the chaos At a time when other newsrooms are closing or cutting back the Forward has removed its paywall and invested additional resources to report on the ground from Israel and around the U.S rising antisemitism and polarized discourse Support our work by becoming a Forward Member and connect with our journalism and your community See our full guidelines for more information, and this guide for detail about canonical URLs subject line “republish,” with any questions or to let us know what stories you’re picking up Copyright © 2025 The Forward Association Boris Maftsir has crafted a film which hardly shies away from historical controversy and nuance But to even make waves, The Road to Babi Yar must gain high profile visibility in Ukraine, and it remains to be seen whether that will happen. To be sure, the usual suspects showed up at the film’s premiere, held at the rather charmless Column Hall of the Kyiv City State Administration Sitting in attendance were Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko who has been a prominent supporter of Babyn Yar commemorations members of the Jewish community and several experts who had been interviewed for the film The consequences of Russia’s invasion are visible not only in Ukraine The Kremlin has set off or exploited a series of crises that face most European countries New thinking is needed in policies towards Russia in whatever form it will take after the war Ukraine’s suffering goes well beyond the front line With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine we now see our western values under siege whether we consciously recognise it or not The invasion by Russian forces of Ukraine from the north south and east – with the initial aim to take the capital Kyiv – has changed our region The situation with Russian threats towards Ukraine once again illustrates the high level of instability in our region Only a year ago we witnessed the second Nagorno-Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan It took at least 5,000 lives and significantly shifted the geopolitics in the South Caucuses This special issue aims to honour the plight of Belarusians whose democratic choice made in August 2020 was shamelessly snubbed by Alyaksandr Lukashenka a lot of work still remains for this country And this is why Ukraine’s story is incomplete 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union Our societies are more polarised than ever before which makes them more susceptible to disinformation The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed limitations and weaknesses in nearly all countries around the world volatility and the relationship between Russia and the West The Black Sea region is quickly becoming a geopolitical battleground which is gaining the interest of major powers regional players and smaller countries – and the stakes are only getting higher This issue is dedicated to the 10 year anniversary of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership as well as the 30 years since the 1989 revolutions in Central Europe The consequences of the emerging multipolar world This issue takes a special look at the role and responsibility of the public intellectual in Central and Eastern Europe today In the eastern parts of the European continent 1918 is remembered not only as the end of the First World War but also saw the emergence of newly-independent states and the rise of geopolitical struggles which are felt until this day that Belarus remains isolated from the West and very static in its transformation The Summer 2018 issue of New Eastern Europe tackles the complexity of para-states in the post-Soviet space Show Comments Load More By celebrating a Waffen-SS volunteer as a “hero,” Canada has highlighted a longstanding policy that has seen Ottawa train fascist militants in Ukraine while welcoming in thousands of post-war Nazi SS veterans Zelensky raises right arm to salute as Nazi is introduced to Parliament (Twitter/Thorston Banner/True North/CPAC/Cathy Vogan) In the Spring of 1943, Yaroslav Hunka was a fresh-faced soldier in the 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen-SS Galicia when his division received a visit from the architect of Nazi Germany’s genocidal policies Having presided over the battalion’s formation Himmler was visibly proud of the Ukrainians who had volunteered to support the Third Reich’s efforts also beamed with pride after inviting Hunka to a reception for Volodymyr Zelensky where the Ukrainian president lobbied for more arms and financial assistance for his country’s war against Russia “We have in the chamber today Ukrainian 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,” Rota declared during the Sept “His name is Yaroslav Hunka but I am very proud to say he is from North Bay and from my riding of Nipissing-Timiskaming and we thank him for all his service,” Rota continued Gales of applause erupted through the crowd Wayne Eyre and leaders of all Canadian parties rose from their seats to applaud Hunka’s wartime service Canada’s parliament gives a standing ovation to a 98-year-old Ukrainian Nazi collaborator likely to keep a music box at home stuffed with grainy black and white execution photos If John Demjanjuk had lived a little longer he too could have been a hero https://t.co/WXYBYCwuXr — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) September 23, 2023 Since the exposure of Hunka’s record as a Nazi collaborator – which should have been obvious as soon as the Speaker announced him – Canadian leaders (with the notable exception of Eyre) have rushed to issue superficial face-saving apologies as withering condemnations poured in from Canadian Jewish organizations What an epic due diligence failure for speaker of Canadian parliament to recognize a Ukrainian Waffen SS fighter during @ZelenskyyUa visit prompting standing ovations. pic.twitter.com/Qn3uJAQK7C — Thorsten Benner (@thorstenbenner) September 25, 2023 The Canadian Liberal Party has attempted to downplay the affair as an accidental blunder, with one Liberal MP urging her colleagues to “avoid politicizing this incident.” Melanie Joly, Canada’s Foreign Minister, has forced Rota’s resignation seeking to turn the Speaker into a scapegoat for her party’s collective actions pointed to the “deeply embarrassing” event as a reason to “push back against Russian propaganda,” as though the Kremlin somehow smuggled an nonagenarian Nazi collaborator into parliament then hypnotized the Prime Minister and his colleagues NEW – Justin Trudeau blames Russian propaganda for Canadian Parliament honoring a Nazi it's extremely upsetting that this happened… this is something that is deeply embarrassing to the Parliament of Canada… It's going to be really important that all of us push… pic.twitter.com/Zvk5ytkxmC — KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) September 25, 2023 Before Canada’s government and military brass celebrated Hunka in parliament they had provided diplomatic support to fascist hooligans fighting to install a nationalist government in Kiev and oversaw the training of contemporary Ukrainian military formations openly committed to the furtherance of Nazi ideology Ottawa’s celebration of Hunka has also lifted the cover on the country’s post-World War Two policy of naturalizing known Ukrainian Nazi collaborators and weaponizing them as domestic anti-communist shock troops The post-war immigration wave included the grandfather of Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland who functioned as one of Hitler’s top Ukrainain propagandists inside Nazi-occupied Poland Though Canadian officialdom has worked to suppress this sordid record it has resurfaced in dramatic fashion through Hunka’s appearance in parliament and the unsettling contents of his online diaries as a member of the Waffen-SS Galicia division The March 2011 edition of the journal of the Association of Ukrainian Ex-Combatants in the U.S. contains an unsettling diary entry which had gone unnoticed until recently the journal consisted of proud reflections on volunteering for the 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen-SS Galicia Hunka decribed the Nazi Wehrmacht as “mystical German knights” when they first arrived in his hometown of Berezhany and recalled his own service in the Waffen-SS as the happiest time in his life and the rest were Jewish children of refugees from Poland We wondered why they were running away from such a civilized Western nation as the Germans.” The Jewish Virtual Library details the extermination of Berezhany’s Jewish population at the hands of the “civilized” Germans: “In 1941 at the end of Soviet occupation 12,000 Jews were living in Berezhany most of them refugees fleeing the horrors of the Nazi war machine in Europe 500–700 Jews were executed by the Germans in the nearby quarries 1,000–1,500 were deported to Belzec and hundreds murdered in the streets and in their homes 4–5) hundreds more were sent to Belzec and on June 12 the last 1,700 Jews of the ghetto and labor camp were liquidated Less than 100 Berezhany Jews survived the war.” When Soviet forces held control of Berezhany Hunka said he and his neighbors longed for the arrival of Nazi Germany “we looked impatiently in the direction of the Pomoryany (Lvov) with the hope that those mystical German knights who give bullets to the hated Lyakhs are about to appear.” (Lyakh is a derogatory Ukrainian term for Poles) when the Nazi German army entered Berezhany “We welcomed the German soldiers with joy,” he wrote knowing that there would no longer be that dreaded knocking on the door in the middle of the night and at least it would be possible to sleep peacefully now.” Two years later, Hunka joined the First Division of the Galician SS 14th Grenadier Brigade – a unit formed under the personal orders of Heinrich Himmler. When Himmler inspected the Ukrainian volunteers in May 1943 (below), he was accompanied by Otto Von Wachter, the Nazi-appointed governor of Galicia who established the Jewish ghetto in Krakow Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler inspecting Ukrainian volunteers of the SS-Galizien division “Your homeland has become so much more beautiful since you have lost – on our initiative, I must say – those residents who were so often a dirty blemish on Galicia’s good name, namely the Jews…,” Himmler reportedly told the Ukrainian troops “I know that if I ordered you to liquidate the Poles … I would be giving you permission to do what you are eager to do anyway.” Following the war, Canada’s Liberal government classified thousands of Jewish refugees as “enemy aliens” and held them alongside former Nazis in a network of internment camps enclosed with barbed wire fearing that they would infect their new country with communism Ottawa placed thousands of Ukrainian veterans of Hitler’s army on the fast-track to citizenship The Ukrainian Canadian newsletter lamented on April 1, 1948 “some [of the new citizens] are outright Nazis who served in the German army and police It is reported that individuals tattoooed with the dread[ed] SS Hitler’s elite torturers and murderers have been passed on RCMP [Royal Canadian Mounted Police] orders and after being turned down by screening agencies in Europe.” The journal described the unreformed Nazis as anticommunist shock troops whose “‘ideological leaders’ are already busy fomenting WWIII propagating a new world holocaust in which Canada will perish.” In 1997, the Canadian branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center charged the Canadian government with having admitted over 2000 veterans of the 14th Volunteer Waffen-SS Grenadier Division That same year, 60 Minutes released a special, “Canada’s Dark Secret,” revealing that some 1000 Nazi SS veterans from Baltic states had been granted citizenship by Canada after the war told 60 Minutes that the easiest way to get into the country “was by showing the SS tattoo This proved that you were an anti-Communist.” [60 Minutes reported in total around 1,800 Nazis were allowed to settle in Canada after the war.] Abella also alleged that Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (Justin’s father) explained to him that his government kept silent about the Nazi immigrants “because they were afraid of exacerbating relationships between Jews and Eastern European ethnic communities.” https://twitter.com/deathguard00/status/1629269806493974529 Yaroslav Hunka was among the post-war wave of Ukrainian Nazi veterans welcomed by Canada. According to the city council website of Berezhany, he arrived in Ontario in 1954 and promptly “became a member of the fraternity of soldiers of the 1st Division of the UNA affiliated to the World Congress of Free Ukrainians.” Also among the new generation of Ukrainian Canadians was Michael Chomiak the grandfather of Canada’s second-most-powerful official Throughout her career as a journalist and Canadian diplomat, Freeland has advanced her grandfather’s legacy of anti-Russian agitation, while repeatedly exulting wartime Nazi collaborators during public events Throughout the Nazi German occupation of Poland the Ukrainian journalist Michael Chomiak served as one of Hitler’s top propagandists Chomiak edited an antisemitic publication called Krakivs’ki visti (Krakow News) which cheerled the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union – “The German Army is bringing us our cherished freedom,” the paper proclaimed in 1941 – and glorified Hitler while rallying Ukrainian support for the Waffen-SS Galicia volunteers Chomiak spent much of the war living in two spacious Krakow apartments that had been seized from their Jewish owners by the Nazi occupiers. He wrote that he moved numerous pieces of furniture belonging to a certain “Dr Finkelstein” to another aryanized apartment placed under his control https://twitter.com/DonaldBestCA/status/1495903242781347843 Chomiak participated in the Ukrainian Canadian Committee (UCC) which incubated hardcore nationalist sentiment among diaspora members while lobbying Ottawa for hardline anti-Soviet policies On its website, the UCC boasted of receiving direct Canadian government assistance during World War Two: “The final and conclusive impetus for [establishing the UCC] came from the National War Services of Canada which was anxious that young Ukrainians enlist in military services.” [Read of related U.S. program working post-war with Ukrainian fascists in On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine – Consortium News.] The UCC’s first president Volodymyr Kubijovych, had served as Chomiak’s boss back in Krakow. He also played a part in the establishment of the 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen-SS Galicia, announcing upon its formation “This historic day was made possible by the conditions to create a worthy opportunity for the Ukrainians of Galicia to fight arm in arm with the heroic German soldiers of the army and the Waffen-SS against Bolshevism Following his death in 1984 in Canada, Chomiak’s granddaughter, Chrystia Freeland, followed in his footsteps as a reporter for various Ukrainian nationalist publications. She was an early contributor to Kubijovych’s Encyclopedia of Ukraine, which whitewashed the record of Nazi collaborators like Stepan Bandera referring to him as a “revolutionary.” She soon scored a staff position at the Edmonton-based Ukrainian News where her grandfather had served as editor A 1988 edition of Ukrainian News (below) featured an article co-authored by Freeland, followed by an ad for a book called “Fighting for Freedom” which glorified the Ukrainian Waffen-SS Galician division “Countless ‘tendentious’ news stories about life in the Soviet Union, especially for its non-Russian citizens, had her fingerprints as Ms. Freeland set about making a name for herself in journalistic circles with an eye to her future career prospects,” the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reported the CBC described Freeland as a de facto intelligence agent: “The student causing so many headaches clearly loathed the Soviet Union but she knew its laws inside and out – and how to use them to her advantage avoided surveillance (and shared that knowledge with her Ukrainian contacts) and expertly trafficked in ‘misinformation.’” Soviet security agents rescinded Freeland’s visa when they caught her smuggling “a veritable how-to guide for running an election” into the country for Ukrainain nationalist candidates She quickly transitioned back to journalism, landing gigs in post-Soviet Moscow for the Financial Times and The Economist, and eventually rising to global editor-at-large of Reuters – the U.K.-based media giant which today functions as a cutout for British intelligence operations against Russia Protestors occupied Kiev’s City Hall replete with Confederate flag and portrait of Stepan Bandera Canada’s Foreign Ministry provided shelter to the neo-Nazis (above) who occupied and vandalized the city hall in 2014 In the midst of the coup attempt, a group of neo-Nazi thugs belonging to the C14 organization occupied Kiev’s city council and vandalized the building with Ukrainian nationalist insignia and white supremacist symbols (Azov has since deleted the record of the session from its website) Azov was controlled at the time by Adriy Biletsky the self-proclaimed “White Leader” who declared “the historic mission of our nation in this critical moment is to lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade for their survival… A crusade against the Semite-led Untermenschen.” US and Canadian military officers meet uniformed members of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion during a November 2017 multinational training session in Ukraine Photos from a deleted page on Azov's website: https://t.co/08C1FLQ6Ee pic.twitter.com/5RAIif6OFf — Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) March 20, 2022 Freeland’s troubling family history was surfacing for the first time in the media Weeks after she was appointed in January 2017 as Foreign Minister – a post she predictably exploited to thunder for sanctions on Russia and arms shipments to Ukraine – her grandfather’s role as a Nazi propagandist in occupied Poland became the subject of a raft of reports in the alternative press Freeland right back row as Nazi is introduced to Parliament Yet few, if any, of the outlets responsible for excavating Chomiak’s history had any connection to Russia’s government. Among the first to expose his collaborationism was Consortium News For her part, Freeland deployed a spokesperson to lie to the public, flatly denying that “the minister’s grandfather was a Nazi collaborator.” When Canadian media quoted several Russian diplomats about the allegations, Freeland promptly ordered their deportation accusing them of exploiting their diplomatic status “to interfere in our democracy.” By this time, however, her family secrets had tumbled out of the attic and onto the pages of mainstream Canadian media. On March 7, 2017, The Globe and Mail reported on a 1996 article in the Journal of Ukrainian Studies confirming that Freeland’s grandfather had indeed been a Nazi propagandist and that his writing helped fuel the Jewish genocide The article was authored by Freeland’s uncle who thanked his niece in its preface for helping him with “problems and clarifications.” “Freeland knew for more than two decades that her maternal Ukrainian grandfather was the chief editor of a Nazi newspaper in occupied Poland that vilified Jews during the Second World War,” The Globe and Mail noted After being caught on camera this September clapping with unrestrained zeal alongside hundreds of peers for a Ukrainian veteran of Hitler’s SS death squads Freeland once again invoked her authority to scrub the incident from the record LPC House Leader Karina Gould sought unanimous consent to strike Anthony Rota's comments about Yaroslav Hunka from the record and the CPC denied it CPC MP Marty Morantz says “deleting the words from Hansard would only have one purpose, to try and forget what happened" #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/S78DkwyPra — Mackenzie Gray (@Gray_Mackenzie) September 25, 2023 Three days after the embarrassing scene, Freeland was back on the floor of parliament, nodding in approval as Liberal House leader Karina Gould introduced a resolution to strike “from the appendix of the House of Commons debates” and from “any House multimedia recording” the recognition made by Speaker Anthony Rota of Yaroslav Hunka Thanks to decades of officially supported Holocaust education the mantra that demands citizens “never forget” has become a guiding light of liberal democracy this simple piece of moral guidance is now treated as a menace which threatens to unravel careers and undermine the war effort in Ukraine Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America’s state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions This article is from The Grayzone. The views expressed are solely those of the author and may or may not reflect those of Consortium News To amply — why would a Ukr-Cdn newsletter critically report on the Nazi ties of their former fellow nationals — this was the newsletter of the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians a progressive group based in pre-war immigration waves of Ukrainians to Canada To read about the Canadian government’s suppression of the AUUC and promotion of the right-wing see hxxp://coat.ncf.ca/P4C/70/70_46-47.htm (scroll down) a very lengthy story as to how Ukraine has become a caldron of massive eruptions The US involvement with Ukraine is the latest element for all this a brief look at what became of Ukranian Neo-sympathizers the British accepted thousands of these people into their country It seems they were such a mass cauldron of discontents that Great Britain reached out to its colony: Canada and Hungarian history reveals hundreds of years of massive invasions by the Mongolians that all those countries had great difficulties in building solid foundations Churchill and others conducted massive involuntary migration of millions into or out of Hungary I am very interested in learning more about the OUN’s involvement with the CIA including members of Freeland’s family and possibly Freeland herself for continuing to be a source of truth and reason in this world of abject corporate evil bullshit he will dig up whatever they try to bury when it comes to fascist scum I believe the old and the new Nazi criminals should be tried punished and expelled from wherever are living… also the Jewish government members in Israel also should be tried and being forced to follow the International Laws in regards with innocent Palestinians … Justice should be for everybody or nobody… What can we learn from this hilarious episode One thing is that total ignorance of history does not cease as you go north from the lower 48 If Jewish Organizations hadn’t protested this Anthony Rota would still be speaker of the House Sometime ago Canuckistan went from being a UK colony to a vassal state of the United States of Atrocities (USA) was being ruled by Third Reich supporters who were disappointed that we were not part of the Axis powers during WWII (see Now I know that Canada was in the same boat Canada’s Liberal government classified thousands of Jewish refugees as “enemy aliens” and held them alongside former Nazis in a network of internment camps enclosed with barbed wire Ottawa placed thousands of Ukrainian veterans of Hitler’s army on the fast-track to citizenship.” You simply couldn’t make this stuff up is the most apt response to the Canadians abject gormless humiliation If it wasnt for Canberras generationally collossal $368b subsidy of the US Navy Canada would be a serious rival to Australia for the title of Washington’s most greasy dupe In Nazi uniform he was nothing more than a traitor to his country at the time the USSR who was ‘our’ most integral and staunch ally in the defeat of the barbaric Nazi regime Were all the adolescent German boys not mere cannon fodder to fulfill the demented Nazi dictators delusions of victory still at-hand; forcibly conscripted into the Nazi German army in the closing stages of WW II which was already by then being accepted as lost by the remaining commanding Generals Does this not smack of the disaster befalling Ukraine today as well as the elderly are being rounded up on the streets and forced into combat in the delusional hope of its purported maximum leader not be considered to have been but a 16 year old misguided youth attempting to find his way in a world of utter chaos and being laid waste; following the dictates of the then traitorous narrative in the Ukraine If a mere human being can be elevated by his cohort of peers so too can any individual be demonized as evil by those who unilaterally sit in negative judgment of humanity are that the nature in the ‘human nature’ of humankind or so it appears by inhumanity’s displays of genocidal tendencies are that it has not evolved to a higher plane than from the moment when we first recognized ourselves as a species separate from all the other animals; capable of acting consciously as commanded by the forces of the dark side – unconscious side and I was surprised at just how little of a ‘scandal’ this really is who’s extradition is now being requested by the government of some of the alleged victims is honored in a ‘western’ parliament I took a quick tour of some of the MSM websites I don’t normally visit including the Canadian State Media known as the CBC and then a story about how Toronto is losing its last affordable neighborhood (a true shock to anyone who tries to live in a North American city I’m sure) and then this story was only on the news ticker feed as the piece where the Speaker had fallen on his ceremonial sword as a rather silly and transparent act of damage control And the obvious tone across the North American corporate mainstream media was that this puts an end to what has been an unfortunate mistake Considering that the world just saw the entire political leadership standing and applauding a lying SS officer the above is not nearly the huge scandal that one would have expected It is just what one would expect from propaganda controlled by a small number of corporations that are profiting from their partnership of corporate power and state power first envisioned by Benito Mussolini and his fascist party from what I’ve seen of the corporate news There have been a number of articles and podcasts and plenty of people are going to remember My father volunteered to give four years of his life to serving his country in Belgium contributing to the effort to defeat Adolf Hitler’s forces in Europe in the hopes that one day the Prime Minister of Canada would promote a Nazi to the position of deputy Prime Minister The comments I have read online from Canadian WWII veterans are very And it seems even high school students know better than to honor someone who “fought Russia during WWII.” We the people are not as stupid as the dimwit “leaders” assume (my god Trudeau’s expression in that photo!) It is Chrystia who is a creature of the deep state Interestingly Chrystia is also on the Board of Governors of the WEF the Ukraine nationalist lobby group UCC was encouraged to submit to the Canadian parliament an incredibly one-sided and tendentious “history” of Ukraine which served as the essential background informing official Canadian policy (“Briefing Note to Parliament: The Situation in Ukraine and Canada’s Response” Feb 9 It is possible that most of the MPs who stood and applauded knew little of Ukraine beyond this document – a serious dereliction considering the large allocations of public money directed to that country and the harsh righteous posture of Canada’s foreign policy in that region had hastily recognized the 2014 coup as representing a new “legitimate” government effectively halting ongoing international mediation efforts and due to the belligerence of the newly recognized ultra-nationalist interests soon plunged the country into a destabilizing civil dispute The anglo NATO bloc was hugely responsible for this Poland’s Education Minister has announced plans to seek Hunka’s criminal extradition.” You have to give the Poles credit for being even more tone-deaf than the Canadians They’re going after a Canadian Nazi even as they send weapons and money to Ukrainian Nazis Didn’t know there were “good” Nazis and “bad” Nazis where’s Antifa — those intrepid anti-fascists — during this war between Russia and NATO-led Ukrainian fascists Clearly Antifa also subscribes to the “good Nazi – bad Nazi” charade ‘DoubleThink’ is evidence of the use of powerful Mind Control From the beginning of the Ukraine ‘crisis’ some obvious bits of doublethink have been quite visible If I change a few names for purposes of emphasizing a point But that is why this obvious ‘doublethink’ is evidence of the employment of powerful mind control People do not logically reach such positions Thus the evidence of powerful mind control Don’t forget that a small handful of corporations control a vast majority of what almost all people see The only use of this is not the selling of overpriced cell phones and cryptocoin scams “Antifa” is anyone who is anti-fascist It’s not an official organization with a headquarters or anything Millions gave their lives fighting Hitler and the Nazis and now…Nazi-sm becoming ‘sanlonfaehig’ ?? The shame rests with the minority government of the day Our shame is that 32% of us elected a clearly incompetent Liberal government who couldn’t be bothered to properly vet a House guest in the gallery while feting his “ Excellency “ Volodomyr Zelensky The real shame is that western backers of this Kiev regime turn a blind eye to actual neo-Nazis officially incorporated into Ukraine’s government and military ,Azov,Aidar and Right Sector to new a few Especially when those of us who do not shove everything down a ‘memory hole’ can remember that Rupert Murdoch’s media got fooled by the same routine last year An old man was in Rupert’s UK tabloids as a ‘hero who had fought Stalin’ during World War II To fall for this scam requires such zero historical knowledge as to be unable to name either the country or the leader who fought against Stalin in World War II Maybe its not the schoolkids who need more testing but the politicians and ‘the news’ today the same ‘news’ is asking everyone to believe that an important state visit including a speech by a foreign leader before the legislature is not entirely organized and scripted down to the final detail of diplomatic protocol by the government of the nation I can get you a deal on some Florida swampland for a condo development for seniors that will collapse 40 years from now We’ll throw in a free hard hat for ‘safety’ but you’ll be so happy to be on ‘the ground floor.’ You’ll never live to regret it this one will be built with the same concrete the UK uses for schools and hospitals I’ve got some great connections there You can give me your money and make a political donation to the CREEP all with one swipe of your card Don’t forget to vote for Change and Hope And you don’t need the Florida swampland; retirees are still busy buying condos along Florida’s coast which essentially will have no value very shortly but I’ve been doing so ever since she said “How’s that hopey-changey thing workin’ for ya?” All though Canada is immensely wealthy in natural resources it remains a “minor government” in the eyes of the US most Canadians are easily hoodwinked by people like C are quite “laid back” citizens who have rarely if ever revealed much aggressive patriotism A perfect environment for Ukranian-Nazis to fester their animosity “independent media” would be replaced with “free media” when referring to fearless reporting that can’t find favor with anyone in the plutocracy Consortium News and the Grayzone are two of a very few that would deserve the designation Everything else could just be called “b.s I tend to use the phrase “corporate news” While this is a synonym of your suggestion it has an advantage that it points out the source of the problem Once you remember that corporations act in a sociopathic or psychopathic manner to constantly lie and that their ‘officers’ are required to do so under western ‘law’ as their legal responsibility to the shareowners it is at least no longer a surprise that the ‘news’ is ‘b.s.’ there appear to be a huge number of people on the internet who are surprised by such long after the same ‘news’ told you that Kennedy was killed by a ‘magic bullet’ which could change directions in mid-air fired by a social reject who could operate an old mail-order rifle with the efficiency of a skilled and practiced sniper In a world where such nonsense is believed and seriously repeated I do find it useful to refer to this stuff as ‘corporate news’ as a reminder when you let this stuff get stuck to your shoes the odor is the same no matter what name you give it Keep Consortium News going in the tradition of Bob Parry. 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