Found these two comments on /r/communism:

yeah our deputy pm is a neo-nazi and the granddaughter of an actual nazi that she frequently pays respect to for his work as a nazi

of course acknowledging this just means you don’t know what fascism is and blame the daughter for the crimes of her grandfather or don’t understand that supporting fascism directly is necessary to overcome evil russia boogyman or some vague, lib/fasc frass brained, bullshit /s

and

Holy shit this comment sent me down a rabbit hole.

For anyone who isn’t aware, her grandfather ran a Nazi newspaper in Krakow which ran a lot of pro Nazi and anti-semitic, anti-polish and anti-russian stories while all of those groups were being killed en masse nearby (including at Auschwitz which was only about 40 miles away).

He fled to Canada after the war and changed his name, but when he died in the 80s his wife gave his personal papers/records to a public archive and his son-in-law, who is a historian, published an academic paper (which the deputy PM helped to edit, so she was definitely aware of this) where he stated based on those documents that his FIL worked at the Nazi newspaper.

Like 4 years ago a Ukrainian-Canadian communist discovered this while looking for unrelated info in the archives and started spreading it online but the Canadian government and Freeland have been claiming it’s Russian propaganda, even though Freeland herself edited the damn paper that is being cited as evidence.

She’s publicly made comments honoring her grandfather and stated that he had an impact on her political ideology.

This shit is wild, how is it not more well known?

This is kinda insane lol

  • T34 [they/them]
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    53 years ago

    wikipedia says the same thing:

    Freeland’s maternal grandfather, Michael Chomiak or Mykhailo Khomiak in Ukrainian, had been a journalist before World War II. During the war in Nazi-occupied Poland and later Nazi-occupied Austria he was chief editor of the Ukrainian antisemitic daily newspaper Krakivs’ki visti (News of Krakow) for the Nazi regime.

    In 2017 when Russian-affiliated websites further publicized Chomiak’s connection to Nazism, Freeland and her spokespeople responded by claiming that this was a Russian disinformation campaign during her appointment for the position of minister of foreign affairs. Her office later denied Chomiak ever collaborated with the Nazi Germany. However, Freeland has known of her grandfather’s Nazi ties since at least 1996, when she helped edit a scholarly article by Himka for the Journal of Ukrainian Studies.

    If she’s lying to cover for him, she sure looks like a Nazi sympathizer.

    • lemmygrabberOP
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      53 years ago

      Russian disinformation campaign

      disinformation campaign so intricate you end up publishing an academic work confirming the said disinformation

  • @TeethOrCoat
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    43 years ago

    This shit is wild, how is it not more well known?

    LOL