Thread by @YIMBYPoland

So Trudeau noted the Black Ribbon Day (based) and obviously all the tankies, DSA types and Canadian socialists completely lost it in the replies.

But I think it's worth mentioning where is this reaction coming from and why Canada recognizes this day more than the US - a 🧵 1/

https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1429823558168064005

Let's start with demographics. In 1924 the US basically closed itself for immigration from Slavic countries, so people from there deflected to Canada (and also Brazil). As a result, Canadian whites are way more Slavic than US whites, particularly Ukrainian and Polish. 2/

These Slavic populations continued to have ties to the old country, and obviously they knew what's going on there (first communism, then nazism, then communism again) and while undoubtedly nazism was worse, communism wasn't a very distant second. 3/

In the US, by contrast, Slavic populations were already quite removed from the old country, so were Jews, but post-WW2 the US received a big influx of Jewish survivors. The US also only reached nazi death camps, solidifying the image of WW2 around the images of the Holocaust 4/

So in the US school you learn mostly about the Holocaust and everything else is a distant background to this unimaginable atrocity, while in Canada you learn about the Holocaust but also about Holomodor or Katyn Massacre 5/

As US tankies and DSAs lack this fundamental knowledge about atrocities of socialism/communism, and they're disappointed in capitalism, adopting a pro-Stalinist stance is easy and seems just. But then someone confronts them about it and we see the cries in replies to Trudeau 6/6