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 Chrystia Freeland has a bachelor’s degree in Russian history, a Master’s in Slavonic studies, and is unrepentant about her Nazi collaborator grandfather.

There’s no way she doesn’t know what it means for someone to have “fought against the Russians in WW2”. And yet…

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 @f1cf1cd7 Liberals have always courted Nazis. They immeditely hired Nazi officers post-WW2 for their knowledge and experience fighting the Soviets. They sponsored neo-Nazi terrorist groups in Europe with operations like the CIA's GLADIO program. Still, today, they support and sponsor neo-Nazi groups like Azov in the Ukraine. Is it really any surprise, when it comes to the old boogeyman of "communism", or the old geopolitical threat of Russia, that Western liberals would parade in and applaud a solider of the SS?