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Mykhailo Chomiak: Trudeau Government and History Ukraine

mykhailo chomiak: And this is the person chosen by the Trudeau government to be our Foreign Minister, dealing with a nation that is still a bubbling hotbed of contending factions, ethnic hatreds, and alternate versions of history, according to Rabble. Ukraine is a country where streets are now being named after Jew-killers, and where it is now illegal to refer to these butchers and their militias as anything other than heroes. So her grandfather, Mykhailo Chomiak, was a pro-Nazi Ukrainian collaborator -- so what Well... As it turns out, Freeland has quite an affection for the old man, whom she describes as someone who worked hard to restore freedom and democracy to Ukraine. Some just throw up their hands and say the situation there is and was too complex to permit moral judgements. But I cannot share in the apparent nostalgia for the past that leads some of my comrades to support the great Russian chauvinist Vladimir Putin, while the continual whitewashing by the West of the ultra-right influence in Ukraine deserves unqualified censure. Others pick sides. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.