1. This is a good & balanced report on Chrystia Freeland's twitter account posting a photo of her with a scarf that was an emblem of the UPA, a Ukrainian fascist paramilitary group once aligned with the Nazis.https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/2022/03/02/the-controversy-over-chrystia-freeland-and-the-ukrainian-scarf-explained.html?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=Federalpolitics&utm_content=freelandscarf&utm_source=twitter&source=torontostar&utm_medium=SocialMedia&utm_campaign=&utm_campaign_id=&utm_content= …
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5. There were in fact historically Ukrainians who were fascists, some of whom aligned with Nazis. (One of those was Freeland's maternal grandfather). Recording the deeds of this faction & keeping them marginalized remains politically imperative. That's not a KGB agenda.
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6. Right now, Putin is smearing the whole of Ukrainian nationalism as being fascistic, arguing he's "de-nazifying" country. That's cynical and vile propaganda. But Freeland by posing with UPA colors & her office tweeting out image, is feeding into propaganda.
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7. To put it another way, the very fact that Putin is engaged in smearing Ukrainian nationalism (and denying Ukraine's right to exist) makes it more imperative, not less, that prominent Canadian politician Freeland to make clear distance from fascist group.
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8. More broadly, the whole story shows how the claim of Russian disinformation (sometimes real, sometimes not) is used as a smokescreen to hide real problems that deserve scrutiny & criticism.
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