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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Trudeau government officially inaugurated Canada’s “Memorial to the Victims of Communism” earlier this month. However, no member of the Liberal government was allowed to show their face at the ceremony, for fear it would once again draw public attention to the Canadian state’s longstanding and ongoing patronage of fascist forces.

That's how you know you're doing the right thing, when you don't want anybody to acknowledge it exists

In a damning political admission, the Department of Canadian Heritage previously removed all the names listed on the “Victims of Communism” memorial wall. The move followed the release of a government-commissioned report calling for the removal of the names of over 300 individuals—more than half of the total inscribed on the monument—who were directly or potentially linked to the Nazis or the fascist organizations that collaborated with them during World War Two.

How you REALLY know you're doing the right thing

Should've just ordered the list by their rank in the Nazi army while you were at it

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Department of Canadian Heritage

What do you suppose they do all day

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago

I assume they just quietly hide whatever Canada's latest shame is

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What is the memorial even if there are no names on it?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

"Communism is not ok (fascism is though)"

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hey why do all these victims of communism have German names

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Ukrainian as well

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's accurate now, there are no victims of Communism

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

but won't somebody think of nazis and kulaks?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think about nazis and their allies all the time, friend ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆. I think about how much I want to kill nazis. Would you like to kill nazis with me?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

let's just say I'm not gonna be broken up about nazis getting what they deserve

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago

Fascist mentality in action!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No member of the liberal government was allowed to show face there? What do you mean? It's a free country, surely?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago

More victims of authoritarian communism

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

*KKKlanada, to be more euphonic

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just finished that episode of Expats & Allies about the OUN and it planted the seed in my mind that this is all being shuttered rapidly, clumsily, and publicly with the list of names being explicitly shielded from records requests not just because of the embarrassment at how many were obvious Nazi war criminals (which is pretty obvious at this point and a national embarrassment) but because to reveal the actual details and names at this stage would unearth something even more embarrassing and potentially destabilizing about the active role the state played in shielding Nazis from European war crime tribunals so they could use them to undermine domestic socialist /trade union organizations or even bolster anti-Semitic groups.

basically, that that this story isn't the really embarrassing revelation... its just where the current government is applying the tourniquet and amputating because where it could go is far darker and monstrous.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

I suspect another aspect of it is that many people in the current political mainstream have direct family ties to these nazis. Freeland is a perfect example.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

New toilet has opened up lol

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's funny about this is it will cause the chuds in KKKlanada to scream about how Trudeau is a communist sympathizer, because he's erasing these "victims" from all important monuments.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So there will be zero "Victims of Communism"?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

a historically accurate monument