Thread by @EmpireinWinter

Supporting neoNazis abroad, smearing Canadians as fascist at home: #Freeland #Fascist #convoytoottawa2022

'The source in Kyiv credits Ms. Freeland as the key intervention that changed the Ukrainian government’s plan to arrest the former president.'
theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…

'Poroshenko, who served as president from 2014 to 2019, was placed under investigation for high treason and left Ukraine in December. '
themoscowtimes.com/2022/01/17/fac…

'The sources in Ottawa and Kyiv say she [Freeland] warned that the arrest of the former president would send an antidemocratic message to the world and undermine efforts to bolster the country in the face of a threatened Russian invasion.'

Arresting a billionaire oligarch & former President anti-democratic...?

"Poroshenko, often called Ukraine's "chocolate king," owns a confectionery empire and two television channels. Forbes magazine estimates his fortune to be worth $1.6 billion."
themoscowtimes.com/2022/01/17/fac…

"Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko (right) posing with a soldier brandishing the TotenKopf on his chest (second left). The TotenKopf was used by Nazi SS divisions, the version in this photograph was the second version of the TotenKopf which was used by the SS from 1934–1945."

'The Ottawa Citizen reported that military and Defence Department officials attempted to conceal a 2018 meeting between a group of Canadian “officers and diplomats” and....an openly fascist group with members embedded in the Ukrainian National Guard.'
wsws.org/en/articles/20…

'Fully briefed in 2017 on its Nazi ideology, Canadian officials were concerned only that the meeting remain secret. It was exposed when Azov boasted about it via social media.'
wsws.org/en/articles/20…

'A study from the Institute for European Russian and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University recently exposed Canadian military forces training students at Ukraine’s National Army Academy (NAA) belonging to a neo-Nazi organization called “Centuria.”'

' The Azov Battalion, which celebrates the Ukrainian nationalist fascists who collaborated with the Nazis in their “war of extermination” against the USSR, has been branded a terrorist organization by the US State Department'

'this despite Washington itself having made use of Azov and other far-right Ukrainian nationalist groups to overthrow the Ukrainian government in the February 2014 “Maidan” coup. '

'the group participated in a march glorifying the exploits of the 14th Division of the Nazi Waffen-SS, the “Galicia Division,” which was comprised of Ukrainian fascists '

'The 14th Division of the Waffen-SS was declared a criminal organization during the Nuremberg trials. Its top leadership was drawn from the ranks of seasoned Nazi mass-murderers. '

'The far-right Ukrainian Canadian Congress, which openly defends these Nazi veterans and glorifies the fascist World War II Ukrainian leader Stepan Bandera, wields considerable influence in Ottawa. '

'The Deputy Prime Minister, Chrystia Freeland, has been an activist within the right-wing Ukrainian diaspora her entire life. She is the granddaughter of one of the Waffen-SS Galicia division’s principal promoters, Mihailo Chomiak, the editor of a pro-Nazi newspaper'

'Chomiak and the Ukrainian Central Committee, the organization for which the newspaper spoke, used it to whip up hatred of “Jewish Bolsheviks” and to appeal to Ukrainians to join the Waffen-SS.' '

'supporting the US-led military-strategic offensives against Russia & China, the Trudeau government, w/ Freeland very much at the centre...backed the far-right coup attempt fronted by Juan Guaido in Venezuela & the overthrow of the [socialist, Indigenous] Bolivian government'

If students at the 🇨🇦Royal Military College are being taught that the Ukrainian Nazis in WWII were fighting a “just cause,” will they be prepared to suppress strikes, or put down an insurgency of the Canadian working class?'

How far are we from seeing the Freeland government bring Canadian Forces training neoNazis in Ukraine back to suppress non-violent protest in Ottawa, while having the chutzpah to smear a #ProChoice, #AntiSegregation human-rights protest as fascist?

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