Authoritarian Tyrannies: Russia ... Canada?

"People who exterminated Jews, Russians and Poles are alive. And the president, the current president of today's Ukraine applauds him in the Canadian Parliament, gives a standing ovation."

"Can we say that we have completely uprooted this ideology if what we see is happening today?"

"The Canadian Parliament introduced a man who, as the Speaker of the Parliament said, fought against the Russians during the World War II. Well, who fought against the Russians during World War II? Hitler and his accomplices."

"The president of Ukraine stood  up with the entire Parliament of Canada and applauded this man. How can this be imagined?"

"The president of Ukraine himself, by the way, is a Jew by nationality."

Russian President Vladimir Putin

"It might be worth asking yourself, since it is getting pretty serious, 'What is this really about? Why do I hate Putin so much'?"

"'Has Putin ever called me a racist? Has he threatened to get me fired for disagreeing with him'?"

News host Tucker Carlson

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Feb. 6. The interview aired in Russia early on Friday morning. (Gavriil Grigorov/Sputnik/Kremlin/Reuters)

 

Well, actually, no, Mr. Putin. Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a Ukrainian by nationality.  He is, by virtue of his ethnic origins, a Jew. For someone who is quite particular about facts and figures to support a thesis of Russian entitlement and ownership to a geography claimed by its national inhabitants as sovereign, your grasp of origins and heritage leaves much to be desired. But then, conflating Nazism and Jewry seems to fit well in your puzzle of a Greater Russia. 

The Stalin who presided firmly over an eastern Europe that was forced to surrender autonomy and sovereignty to the concept 'all for one and one for itself' under the hammer and sickle also thought so highly of Jews many of whom engineered the social and political structure of Communism that he sought to butcher them all. And you yourself in emulation, focus not merely on individuals of a whole, but a whole nation of those individuals, aligning yourself with the vector of that nation's extermination.

From reality, fiction embellishes the truth and you are a past master at embellishing fiction to resemble the reality. Every nation has its diehard fascists, and although it's difficult to discern where socialism leaves off and fascism takes up, they both target Jews through everlasting hatred and contempt. Designing a campaign of occupation under the rubric of 'saving Ukraine from neo-nazism' suited the special military operation' otherwise known as a land-grab.

The man hungering for greater notoriety and admiration as an icon of interviewing prowess catered to your bruised ego most professionally, Mr. Putin, as you silenced  his queries and launched your professorial lesson in aggrieved heritage and history with its outlines of reality enhanced by deceptive claims of authenticity. What more could be asked for than having an American whose reputation also has been bruised to unctuously play to your paranoia?

According to Dmitry Peskov the interview with Carlson was agreed to, since "he has a position which differs" from other Western media. Where, according to Tucker Carlson, the full-scale invasion of Ukraine was a mere "border dispute" the outcome of which fully revealed America's hatred for Russia. The Jewish-Ukrainian Zelenskyy characterized as a "dictator, a dangerous authoritarian". The Russian dangerously authoritarian dictator fully approved.

But then an embarrassing and completely avoidable incident useful as an example of the perfidy of the West and the revelation of Zelenskyy's true political nature was revealed to Mr. Putin's satisfaction in the Ukrainian President's being confronted in the Canadian House of Commons with the presence of a venerable old Ukrainian-Canadian -- in fact a veteran of the SS Galicia Division of the Waffen SS -- as a WWII hero. 

The Parliamentary Speaker of the House resigned in disgrace following the revelation of 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka's wartime exploits with the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS, involved in massacres and war crimes, including the deaths of European Jews, Roma and Poles. "This was a mistake that has deeply embarrassed Parliament and Canada. All of us who were in this House ... regret deeply having stood and clapped even though we did so unaware of the context. It was a horrendous violation of the memory of the millions of people who died in the Holocaust", confessed Justin Trudeau.

Who seems fond of speaking of the Holocaust as a world-shaking event exemplifying man's inhumanity to man, decrying the institutionalized, planned and executed murder of millions, yet somehow overlooking that the Holocaust is specific to the Jewish experience. As when Canada finally erected a Holocaust memorial, where the official plaque somehow was etched to read regret over the deaths of millions of children, women and men, yet never did the word 'Jew' appear.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tours the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa, Wednesday, September 27, 2017. The monument's dedication plaque didn't mention the six million Jews killed during the Second World War genocide. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

The House speaker resigned in responsible disgrace. "This only confirms our thesis that one of our goals in Ukraine is denazifiction", Putin said. Justin Trudeau apologized, while his government claimed Anthony Rota, the Speaker, was solely to blame. Only much later was it revealed to the public that the same former volunteer for the SS Galicia Division, Mr. Hunka, had been invited by the Office of the Prime Minister to a Toronto reception for Mr. Zelenskyy.

"He [ Putin] will, of course,  use whatever propaganda he can engage in. But I can tell you Canadians will not be fooled. So we will continue to be there with Ukraine for as much as it takes for as long as it takes."

"Unfortunately, we see the lengths to which Russian propaganda will go to try and impact public opinion to try and twist things the way [they] want to."

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau

Mr. Trudeau would know all about propaganda and spreading false information. He is himself quite expert at it. And Canadians have been fooled. Much that has been promised to Ukraine has been well publicized, yet never actually delivered. As for propagada and influencing and impacting public opinion, there is never any end of it to suit Mr. Trudeau's agenda in Canada; dividing Canadians, justifying abandoning the nation's natural resources, creating massive upheavals in Canadian heritage and culture through inappropriate mass immigration of people whose culture and values are inimical to Canada's; and forcing an agenda of Critical Race Theory, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion, along with Transgender issues.

For Canadian Jews, this is a time of huge destabilization, when the spectre of past antisemitic assaults on the Jewish community has flared into life with a passion of hate manifested through labour unions, academic institutions, and on the streets of cities across the nation with hordes of 'pro-Palestinian' protesters marching in condemnation of Israel for responding to an obscenely sadistic slaughter of Israelis by Hamas terrorists in Israel on October 7. Where calls to exterminate Israel are chanted and Jews are taunted and confronted, with no anti-hate laws enforced by authorities.

A man stops to take a photo of the Canadian National Holocaust Monument following its official opening ceremony in Ottawa, Wednesday September 27, 2017. (The Canadian Press)