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Trudeau Government's Continued Falsification of History A Continuation of Harper's Campaign to
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The "Holodomor National Awareness
Tour" is a joint
project of four reactionary organizations: the CUF, the Ukrainian
Canadian Congress (UCC), the Ukrainian Canadian Research and
Documentation Centre (UCRDC) and the Holodomor Research and
Educational Consortium (HREC). One of the directors of CUF is
Andrew Robinson, Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine from 2001 to
2005, the period which included the U.S.-financed Orange
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It was the Hitlerite Nazis who created the famine myth in 1933 to discredit the Soviet Union, the enemy they most feared. The Nazis wrote front page stories in German newspapers, which were then taken up by the reactionary British press. One enthusiastic promoter of the story was Lord Rothermere, the owner of the London Daily Mail monopoly press. He was anti-Soviet, anti-communist, and anti-labour. A friend of Hitler and Mussolini and sympathetic to Oswald Mosley's British fascist party, Rothermere sent a number of congratulatory telegrams to Hitler before the invasion of Poland. On June 27, 1939, he wrote: "My Dear Fuhrer, I have watched with understanding and interest the progress of your great and superhuman work in regenerating your country."
In September 1934, multi-millionaire William Randolph Hearst, leading U.S. publisher of the "yellow press" and an open supporter of Nazism, met with Hitler and Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in Berlin and signed a cash deal to promote a positive image of the Nazis in the U.S. The Hearst papers soon carried columns paid for by Adolf Hitler, Herman Goering and Benito Mussolini, and Hearst attended the huge 1934 Nazi Party Nuremberg rally, featured in Leni Riefenstahl's notorious Nazi propaganda film, Triumph of the Will.
Hearst was virulently anti-Soviet, anti-communist, anti-labour and racist to the core. He hated minorities, particularly Mexicans, whom he portrayed as lazy, degenerate and violent. The Hearst "yellow press" sensationalized, exaggerated and even fabricated news stories, to try to push its reactionary agenda and to sell more newspapers. Egged on by the Hitlerites, Hearst's papers became the biggest propagandists for the Ukrainian famine myth, using fake photographs and printing lies that have been refuted by solid evidence over and over again.
Hearst's fraudulent famine campaign began on February
8, 1935
with a fabricated front-page headline in his Chicago American: "6
million people die of hunger in the Soviet Union." Using material
supplied by Nazi Germany, Hearst began to publish lies about a
genocide which was supposedly deliberately perpetrated by the
Soviet leadership, causing several million to die of starvation
in the Ukraine. What actually took place in the Soviet Union at
the beginning of the 1930s was a major class struggle in which
poor landless peasants rose up against the rich landowners, the
kulaks, and began a struggle for collectivization of
agriculture.
Soviet posters circa 1930. Left: “In our collective farm there is
no room
for priests and kulaks;”
Right: "We will keep out the kulaks."
The Hearst press articles falsely asserting that millions died of a man-made famine in the Ukraine were the origin of the larger myth alleging millions died in the Soviet Union. These myths were taken up by the CIA and Britain's MI5 and, in the post-war period, by the McCarthyite witch hunters, and by paid propagandists such as Stanford Professor Robert Conquest, a former MI5 agent. For decades, such slanders have spread a negative view of socialism in the Soviet Union.
In Canada, former Nazi collaborators and their spawn
have
long led the phony Holodomor campaign. After the Second World
War, Canada became a haven for Ukrainians who had collaborated with
the Nazis and killed their fellow citizens to serve Nazi aims. Once
in Canada, and with the help of the Canadian state, these war
criminals built reactionary domestic organizations (e.g., the Ukrainian
Canadian Congress) which persist to this day. These organizations
displaced
already-established progressive Ukrainian organizations. Some
collaborators achieved high positions, for example, Waffen SS
member Petro Savaryn served as VP of the national PC Party and
was Chancellor of the University of Alberta for four years.
Prime Minister Trudeau, and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland
with Paul Grod (centre), President of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress.
Trudeau Government's Aim in Supporting Ukrainian Fascists
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Just like the Harperites, the Trudeau government is more and more revealing that it openly supports the most reactionary forces. The Holodomor Big Lie Campaign is just one example. Recent revelations exposed Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland's blatant cover-up of her grandfather's role as a Nazi collaborator in wartime Poland and Austria. This, in turn, has led both government ministers and many media pundits to expose themselves as apologists for the Nazi-fascist occupation of Europe during World War II and its collaborators.
In their eagerness to exonerate the foreign affairs minister for lying about her family history and presenting her Nazi-collaborator grandfather Michael Chomiak as a "victim of communism" and Russian aggression, some have gone as far as to justify Chomiak's actions and those of other participants in the genocide of the European Jews and other myriad atrocities as morally acceptable or even as making the best of a bad situation. Others say that from the relative peace today, no judgment can be cast on those who decided, for one reason or another, to aid the fascist enslavement of Europe.
To give more examples, during its burgeoning love affair with the Ukrainian reactionaries, the Trudeau government has never once officially denounced the fact that the Nazis exterminated over three million people in Ukraine. These horrendous crimes have disappeared into thin air. It is as if the Nazis were Canada's war-time ally, not the Soviet Union. In addition, no Canadian government has made official government announcements or created any memorial days or launched any national campaigns to honour those slaughtered by the Nazis in Ukraine and to denounce their murderers.
The Trudeau government has also remained silent about
how the
Canadian state allowed known Nazi war criminals, including those
from the Ukraine, into Canada after the Second World War and then
protected them from prosecution. This includes, for example, the
2,000 members of the Ukrainian-based Galicia Division --
denounced as a criminal organization at the Nuremberg Trials --
who came to Canada after the Second World War, even though they
were members of the Nazi SS and fought for the Nazis against the
Soviet Union and its allies, including Canada.
Heinrich Himmler inspecting Waffen-SS Galicia Division, June 3, 1944.
The Trudeau government is also continuing the Harperite
project of funding a private, pro-Nazi, anti-communist monument
to be built in downtown Ottawa, based on one already built in the
U.S. This is totally in keeping with its systematic perpetuation
of Nazi myths, such as the Holodomor. Instead of opposing Nazism,
Trudeau and his ministers have made the Government of Canada an
official supporter of it. The anti-communist monument project, which
was supposed
to be realized through private fundraising by the group Tribute
to Liberty, has virtually no support, and would not have
been able to proceed without the Harper government providing it
with $1.5 million in public funds. Later, Tribute to Liberty also
received funding from extremist anti-communist foreign governments
and sources.[1]
Similarly, attempts to create a buzz with a design contest for the monument created the opposite reaction, with many decrying the proposed designs from an aesthetic and political point of view. Most recently, on November 9, Pablo Rodriguez, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism, was joined by Ludwik Klimkowski, Chair of Tribute to Liberty, in a sod-turning ceremony at the planned site of the monument on the west side of the Garden of Provinces and Territories at the corner of Wellington and Bay Streets in Ottawa. Canadian Heritage reports, "Throughout fall 2018 and winter 2019, the project will move forward by completing plans and securing the permits and approvals required for site remediation, constructing the base for the memorial, and landscaping. In addition, Paul Raff Studio will begin preparations for the construction of the 'Arc of Memory,' the main sculptural piece of the memorial. The memorial is scheduled to be inaugurated in fall 2019."
Finally, while 131 countries voted in favour of the November 21, 2017, anti-Nazi resolution at the United Nations, Canada's UN representative shamefully abstained (in 2014, Canada even voted against the resolution). The U.S. and Ukraine (and Palau) were the only countries to oppose the 2017 resolution. This in itself speaks volumes about the fact that apologetics for the crimes the Nazis carried out before and during the Second World War are an integral part of the defence of liberal democracy by the Trudeau Liberals and all those who declare that any country which does not adhere to the liberal democratic values of a multi-party system, a free-market economy and imperialist conception of human rights is a rogue nation not fit to exist.
All these facts make it clear that the Trudeau
government's
support for the anti-communist, pro-Nazi Holodomor myth and Big Lie
circus now travelling through Canada is no accident. The
Trudeau government's promotion of the Holodomor myth is another attempt
to rewrite history in order to
peddle its self-serving imperialist conception of freedom,
democracy, human rights and government of police powers. The aim of
this, which must be vigorously opposed, is to join the U.S. imperialist
chorus which has declared Russia an enemy and to disorient Canadians so
that they cannot organize themselves to wage an effective defence of
their right to conscience and lay the claims which they must to defend
the rights of all.
Note
1. "Trudeau Government's Support for Foreign Interference in Canadian Politics: Foreign Financing for the Anti-Communist Monument -- A Matter of Great Concern," TML Weekly, November 11, 2017.
(TML Weekly, November 24, 2018 - No. 41 )
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