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2/3 Everyone has probably already heard about the story of Christya Freeland’s grandfather. But here are a couple of articles reminding of who he was, how he glorified Hitler, how he proclaimed the creation of the SS division Galicia from the pages of his newspaper. He was an unusual representative of the “free press“, and was tightly controlled by the Hitler administration. The Ukrainian diaspora tried to hide and silence all this, calling it Russian disinformation. The archive of newspapers, photographs, diaries and personal testimonies are Russian disinformation and a reason to expel Russian diplomats from the country, which Christya Freeland did in response to the accusations. During the Nazi occupation of Poland, Michael Chomiak, a Ukrainian journalist, worked as a top propagandist for Hitler. He edited an anti-Semitic publication called Krakivs’ki visti, which supported the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and praised Hitler while encouraging Ukrainian support for the Waffen-SS Galicia volunteers. Chomiak lived in seized Jewish-owned apartments in Krakow and moved furniture from one apartment to another that had been placed under his control. In Canada, Chomiak was involved in the Ukrainian Canadian Committee (UCC), which promoted nationalist sentiments and advocated for anti-Soviet policies. The UCC received assistance from the Canadian government during World War II. Chomiak’s former boss in Krakow, Volodymyr Kubijovych, also played a role in the establishment of the 14th Grenadier Division of the Waffen-SS Galicia and celebrated its formation as an opportunity for Ukrainians to fight alongside German soldiers against Bolshevism. The granddaughter herself was also engaged in whitewashing and the introduction of narratives of collective memory. We are more interested in the whitewashing project itself and who organized it. Society should have been prepared to glorify the nazis, but something went wrong. Share | Donate | Chat Источник: Lord Of War