Canada’s Deputy PM Chrystia FreelandPosed With A Ukrainian Fascist Symbol
On February 27, a large Ukraine solidarity protest was held in downtown Toronto. The event unsurprisingly received a ton of coverage from mainstream media, but all of it failed to mention a certain red and black flag at the protest.
The red and black flag in question belongs to the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), which was a fascist paramilitary group that operated during the Second World War, and collaborated with the Nazis at times throughout this period.
In 1943, according to researcher Terry Martin, the UPA “adopted a policy of massacring and expelling the Polish population of Volhynia and Eastern Galicia.” Researchers estimate that members of the group killed around 100,000 Polish civilians over the next year. In his 2006 book, Europe at War 1939–1945: No Simple Victory, historian Norman Davies wrote, “Villages were torched. Roman Catholic priests were axed or crucified. Churches were burned with all their parishioners. Isolated farms were attacked by gangs carrying pitchforks and kitchen knives. Throats were cut. Pregnant women were bayoneted. Children were cut in two.”
The flag continues to be used by groups in Ukraine today that share a similar far-right, fascist ideology. This resurgence of the flag has been tracked by Eduard Dolinsky, the director general of the Ukrainian Jewish Committee in Ukraine, among others. He has documented that it has appeared at all levels of society and government throughout Ukraine (although obviously not all Ukrainians support it.)
https://www.readthemaple.com/canadas...ascist-symbol/
![]()




Reply With Quote
?


