Canada recruits Nazi apologists to battle “disinformation” and indoctrinate the public
Written by: Marthad Shingiro Umucyaba & Aidan Jonah
Canada’s descent into fascism will be spearheaded by Global Affairs Canada, headed by the genocidal maniac, Melanie Joly. Joly, as a representative of Canada’s currently governing Liberal Party, will invoke the Nazi cells and pro-colonial propaganda divisions hidden and sheltered throughout the Canadian political environment, including the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, the Estonian Central Council, and the MacDonald-Laurier Institute.
The first major indication of this fact is a Global Affairs Canada two-part interview where a senior fellow of all three aforementioned rightist organisations, Marcus Kolga, is interviewed to explain “disinformation”.
Meanwhile, the Liberal Party as a whole has also moved to rehabilitate Jaroslav Hunka, with the complicity of every other political party in Canada’s parliament. The invited witness to a Canadian parliament committee, Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk, spread Nazi apologia including a vigorous defense of the Waffen SS 14th Division (Galicia), which was explained in detail by Aidan Jonah’s recent article for The Canada Files.
So what do these shameless events indicate for Canada’s “liberal democratic” political direction? If Jaroslav Hunka does receive Dr. Luciuk’s sought after “apology” from the House of Commons, then every racialized diaspora in Canada should buckle up.
Who is Marcus Kolga?
Marcus Kolga, the project lead for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute's US government-funded Disinfowatch.org, is the “disinformation expert” invited by Global Affairs Canada to gaslight the Canadian public about Stalin, the KGB, communism, and the Russians in general. He's infamous for multiple reasons.
One being a 2018 paper for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute that quietly spewed apologia for an event commemorating the Estonian Nazi formations that fought on the Tannenberg Line, including the 20th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Estonian), the Estonian Legion, and the 3rd Estonian SS Volunteer Brigade. Celebrated annually in NATO-controlled Estonia (page 23), the event was portrayed by Marcus Kolga as “an annual commemoration of Estonian soldiers who died on the Tannenberg Line”, which “commemorated those who resisted against the Soviet Red Army as the Germans retreated in 1944.”
Kolga made the claim that “Nazi” insignia at the celebration was the work of “Russian agents”.
Kolga is also known for being the President of the pro-Nazi collaborator coalition in Canada known as the Central Eastern European Council, which includes shameless organisations like the Ukrainian Canadian Council and the Estonian Foundation of Canada, who have both supported the infamous 2019 Black Ribbon Day vigils throughout Europe. The BRD vigils are for Nazi collaborators, but are disguised as vigils for the “Victims of Nazism and Stalinism”. The last one was led by CEEC in 2023 during Marcus Kolga’s ongoing tenure.
The CEEC, under Kolga's leadership, was also a main force behind the infamous Toronto Ukraine memorial which contained apologia for the fascist OUN-B leader, Stepan Bandera.
Richard Sanders revealed that “In 2012, Estonia passed a law to hail Estonia’s Waffen SS as "freedom fighters." Sanders further details how “the Estonian Central Council in Canada and the Estonian World Council praise Estonia’s government,” but “have not condemned its glorification of Nazi veterans.”
Kolga, as with the Estonian Foundation of Canada Director, continued with EFC’s partnership with the ECCC, as they stayed silent about the Estonian government honouring Nazis.
Meanwhile, in more recent times, Kolga inferred that Dimitri Lascaris should be charged for visiting Crimea and doing journalism there. He also referred to University of Ottawa professor Ivan Katchanovski’s academic journal article proving that the Ukrainian government wasn't behind the massacre of 100 Maidan protesters as a conspiracy theory (27:00 - 27:50). Further, he denied that the Myrotvorets list was a kill list designed to intimidate critics of the Ukrainian government, a kill list which has two Canadian journalists on it.
What is “disinformation”? Marcus Kolga’s Falsehoods vs Reality
Kolga’s first task for the GAC series was to define a propaganda tactic called “disinformation” (0:22-1:57), whose origins he attributed to Stalin, Lenin, and the KGB during the cold war era. He used the Russian “dezinformatsiya” translation as its nefarious “origin”. Capitalist Jeremy Norman, another shill for NATO, claims the term “dezinformatsiya” is coined from Stalin himself, linking it to an alleged “KGB Black Propaganda” department.
Notwithstanding the fact that the NKVD did not transition into the KGB until 1956, three years after Stalin’s death in 1953, and that Lenin died in 1924, well before the USSR was officially established in 1936, even the term “disinformation” was used in American press well before even the 1917 Russian Revolution. The term was used in its original English in American papers as early as 1887, if not even earlier.
In fact, “Black Propaganda'', where scandalous statements are falsely attributed to someone else, was an early American colonial tactic against Indigenous nations. It was also a regular tactic employed by the Nazis in the areas under their colonial occupation, such as Ukraine and Denmark. The Irony is that the very act of attributing the “disinformation” and “black propaganda” tactics to the enemies of NATO are shameless acts of hypocrisy and projection, both historically and in the present day.
The Nazi apologist professor of the Royal Military College: Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk
Dr. Lubomyr Luciuk spent a good eight minutes (0:00-8:13) in the House of Commons spreading propaganda about the Waffen SS 14th Division and Ukrainian Nazi collaborators. He also highlighted the 1980s cover-up of Canada’s harbouring of Nazis as “evidence” of due diligence by the state on this topic, the most infamous example being the “Deschenes Commission”. Finally, he demanded an apology from the House of Commons to Jaroslav Hunka. That shameful moment in history was explained in detail by The Canada Files.
What should be noted though, is whom Dr. Luciuk held responsible for the “scrutiny” on Jaroslav Hunka, as he was demanding an “apology”. He noted the “Russian agents” and “Soviet agents” within the country and the “left-wing”, international condemnation of the standing ovation to Jaroslav Hunka notwithstanding. His comments were intentionally vague and broad, and meant to cast a wide net, Dr. Luciuk himself being an educator for the Royal Military College of Canada.
Liberal MP Jennifer O’Connell shamelessly continued the insinuation (8:13-8:32), by providing Dr. Luciuk with a leading question about how the backlash against the standing ovation and the controversy itself “were used by Russia”. The message is now clear from the Liberal Party. Any protestation against Nazi apologia will be “used by Russia”, so better to tow the line than raise objections, or else.
Global Affairs Canada and the NATO-Nazi propaganda playbook
The fact that many of the far-right Nazis that currently shape propaganda tactics in NATO and Global Affairs Canada today were brought in from abroad might give the false impression that “free” and “democratic” Canada was being tainted by malign “foreign” influence since the Second World War. The fact remains, however, that the Final Solution is a term originally coined by Canadian officials in the context of genocide. Even the forefather of Nazi ideology himself, Adolf Hitler, idolized and revered the American and Canadian actions towards Indigenous nations and was inspired by “Manifest Destiny” and the Western Expansion.
NATO ideology today, just like the Western imperialist ideology of antiquity, is pro-colonial, and viciously opposed to any ideology that diametrically opposes colonialism, such as communism. Fascism is a development in the modern capitalist state designed to protect against a communist uprising, but in general is designed to crush anti-colonial dissent. Therefore, what’s happening in Global Affairs Canada is simply Canada welcoming immigrants who’ve truly understood and embraced the essence of the Canadian experience and Canadian foreign policy: genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Recent events should be seen as a very clear and blunt message for the “Russian/Soviet agents” of tomorrow.
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Marthad Shingiro Umucyaba (formerly referred to as Christian Shingiro) is a Rwandan-born naturalized Canadian expat. He is known for his participation in Communist/anti-imperialist national and international politics and is the radio show host of The Socially Radical Guitarist.
He is also a freelance web developer in Hong Kong, China, striving to provide “Socially Radical Web Design at a socially reasonable price”.
Aidan Jonah is the Editor-in-Chief of The Canada Files, a socialist, anti-imperialist news outlet founded in 2019. Jonah wrote a report for the 48th session of the UN Human Rights Council, held in September 2021.
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