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Source: coat.ncf.ca
Part 1
Introduction
Canadians should not be surprised by the fact that our Liberal Foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland, has been hiding a big Nazi skeleton in her family closet.
Like so many other ultranationalists in the Ukrainian émigré community whose forbears came to Canada soon after WWII, Freeland has covered up the truth about a close and revered family member who collaborated with the Nazi regime. In that way, Freeland's case is not terribly unusual.
What is truly impressive about this whole story is how the ultranationalist Ukrainian diaspora, the Liberal government and the mainstream corporate media have managed to keep a lid on broader issues surrounding Ukrainian collaboration with the Nazis in executing mass murder and genocide, including the Holocaust.
Under Chomiak's guidance and oversight, this Nazi-empowered newspaper spouted vile antiSemitic fake news which helped Ukrainians to justify and rationalise the liquidation of some seven million Jews. The newspaper also actively promoted vile hatred towards the most powerful enemy of Nazism, namely, the Soviet Union. In case anyone has forgotten, that country lost 25 to 30 million citizens as a result of the Nazi onslaught against their homeland. This incredible death toll included about 8.7 million members of the Red Army who died fighting the Nazis. The Soviets eventually repelled the Nazi military and chased them back to Germany. It is no wonder that the Soviet people called WWII, "The Great Patriotic War."
Chomiak was officially responsible for at least one other newspaper, a weekly called Kholmska zemlia (Cholmer Land). It, like Krakivs'ki visti, contained many edited speeches by Nazi leaders including Adolph Hitler, propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, Governors Hans Frank and Otto Wächter, and many others. Baron von Wächter was a lawyer, Nazi politician and the SS-Gruppenführer (Major General) who oversaw the creation of the 14th Waffen SS Galician division in 1943. This Ukrainian military formation was funded, armed, controlled and led by the Nazi regime. Its members were volunteers who swore a religious oath to fight to the death for their supreme leader, Adolph Hitler. Recruitment for the Waffen SS Galicia was done by the Nazis, Ukrainian church leaders and Ukrainian newspapers, including that leading propaganda organ, with Chomiak at its helm, Krakivs'ki visti.
The many Nazi leaders whose words and deeds were so favourably promoted in the pages of Krakivs'ki visti and Kholmska zemlia, represented the master race of fake news in their day. For his part, Michael Chomiak was their faithful servant, turning out a daily whirlwind of Nazi news, and spinning war stories to suit their propaganda needs. As chief editor and office manager for these newspapers of the officially-sanctioned Ukrainian Publishing House, Michael Chomiak facilitated the largest mass media outlet by which the Nazi's psychopathic political phobias against Judaism and communism were spread to the Ukrainian diaspora across Europe.
As we'll see, Michael Chomiak's direct boss was Volodomyr Kubijovych, the chief shareholder and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Ukrainian Publishing House, which oversaw the production, printing and distribution of newspapers, magazines, books and other propaganda materials under the Nazi regime. More importantly, Kubijovych was the president of the Ukrainian Central Committee, the main political body of Ukrainians that was coordinating their national collaboration with the Nazi's Government which controlled German-occupied Poland. This collaborationist committee had a close relationship with the Nazi's Abwehr ("Defence"), the German military intelligence organisation. Pawel Markiewicz, a Polish doctoral candidate now writing his PhD thesis on Kubijovych and the Ukrainian Central Committee, explains that:
Partial list of chapters:
Introduction
2 - The Liberal Government's Warm Embrace of Ukraine's Nazi Collaborators
3 - Historical Amnesia and the Blinding Effects of Propaganda
4 - The Nazis as Victims? Sure, just Blame the Russians!
5 - Canada needs Truth and Reconciliation, not Denials and Obfuscation
6 - Historical Denial among Canada's ultranationalist Ukrainians
7 - Michael Chomiak, The Ukrainian Central Committee and its Nazi Newspapers
8 - Aryanisation and the "Mighty Wurlitzer"
9 - The Ukrainian Canadian Congress and its Fascist Roots
Please go to coat.ncf.ca to read more.
Related:
Immune to Irony: Nazi Collaborators and Authoritarian Personalities Denounce Russia
NATO WAR CRIMINALS HAVE NO MORAL STANDING
Source: coat.ncf.ca
Minister Freeland's Grandfather,
Michael Chomiak,
the Nazi's Top
Ukrainian Propagandist:
Fake News,
Mighty Wurlitzers,
Historical Amnesia and the
Elephant (or Bear) in the Room
Introduction
Like so many other ultranationalists in the Ukrainian émigré community whose forbears came to Canada soon after WWII, Freeland has covered up the truth about a close and revered family member who collaborated with the Nazi regime. In that way, Freeland's case is not terribly unusual.
What is truly impressive about this whole story is how the ultranationalist Ukrainian diaspora, the Liberal government and the mainstream corporate media have managed to keep a lid on broader issues surrounding Ukrainian collaboration with the Nazis in executing mass murder and genocide, including the Holocaust.
Even now, after the story has been "covered" by the mainstream mass media, precious few details have actually been allowed to creep out about Freeland's grandfather (her dido in Ukrainian). This "coverage" amounts to more "cover up" because, while it exposes some information, it falls far short of revealing far more damaging truths. It is what the "intelligence" community calls a "limited hangout."[i]
Michael Chomiak (1905-1984) held the influential position of editor in chief for the Nazi's leading Ukrainian-language newspaper, Krakivs'ki visti (Krakow News). As the flagship Nazi propaganda mouthpiece for Ukrainians all across Greater Germany and occupied Europe, this daily newspaper played a key role in riling up widespread support within Ukrainian community for the military efforts of Canada's wartime enemies.
As we'll see, Michael Chomiak's direct boss was Volodomyr Kubijovych, the chief shareholder and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Ukrainian Publishing House, which oversaw the production, printing and distribution of newspapers, magazines, books and other propaganda materials under the Nazi regime. More importantly, Kubijovych was the president of the Ukrainian Central Committee, the main political body of Ukrainians that was coordinating their national collaboration with the Nazi's Government which controlled German-occupied Poland. This collaborationist committee had a close relationship with the Nazi's Abwehr ("Defence"), the German military intelligence organisation. Pawel Markiewicz, a Polish doctoral candidate now writing his PhD thesis on Kubijovych and the Ukrainian Central Committee, explains that:
"The Central Committee building at Grunestrasse ... was in fact a shared building. The Ukrainians were headquartered there as well as the German military intelligence or Abwehr."[ii]Please go to coat.ncf.ca to read more.
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Partial list of chapters:
Introduction
2 - The Liberal Government's Warm Embrace of Ukraine's Nazi Collaborators
3 - Historical Amnesia and the Blinding Effects of Propaganda
4 - The Nazis as Victims? Sure, just Blame the Russians!
5 - Canada needs Truth and Reconciliation, not Denials and Obfuscation
6 - Historical Denial among Canada's ultranationalist Ukrainians
7 - Michael Chomiak, The Ukrainian Central Committee and its Nazi Newspapers
8 - Aryanisation and the "Mighty Wurlitzer"
9 - The Ukrainian Canadian Congress and its Fascist Roots
Please go to coat.ncf.ca to read more.
Related:
Immune to Irony: Nazi Collaborators and Authoritarian Personalities Denounce Russia
NATO WAR CRIMINALS HAVE NO MORAL STANDING
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