Something wicked this way comesā¦
Okay, thatās a bit dramatic but I like to embellish a little bit. Something odd is happening at my school, though.
Yesterday I got an email from my history professor inviting all of his Genocide students to an event hosted at our school for a Ukrainian historian. Now I wouldnāt really have an issue with this in normal times, but we are not living in them right now. There is also the fact that Canada is the Ukrainian Nazi capital of the world so this whole thing makes me nervous right off the bat. I looked further into the invitation for more details and saw that the first half of the event would be for selling this historianās book, and the second half would be dedicated to her talk.
Her book is about her brother who was in the Ukrainian Armed Forces who died on the frontlines. I was curious about this and did some digging. Turns out her brother joined the military voluntarily in 2015 and died in 2017 in the Donbas! I wonder what he was doing there? This just made me suspicious. She was writing this book before the war with Russia, but after it began she added in information about it. I have not read this book and I donāt know if I want to. If I can find it for free then maybe I will, if that happens Iāll share what I discovered. But for now itās a no go.
I know some of you are curious about what she is going to say at this event, honestly I am too, but I cannot attend due to it being held so late in the evening. I have no idea how long her talk will last so by the time I try to make it back home the buses might not even be running and I donāt want to be left stranded. There might be a recording of it posted at some point so if that happens Iāll view it and let you know what happens.
So why does this situation bother me so much? Because it feels like propaganda. Canadian schools seem to have a track record with this kind of stuff and with questions being raised about the war this looks like a last ditch effort to keep drumming up support and outrage; I canāt imagine sheās being invited to talk about opposing the war and wanting peace talks. Canada will probably be one of the last countries to admit defeat, then again maybe they never will considering Chrystia Freelandās position. I wonder if sheāll push for sending Canadian soldiers to fight on the frontlines. I know last time there was a draft in Canada the citizens went insane, mainly between the English (supported the draft) and French (opposed the draft), so I wonder how people would react now.
I guess this post is about me being emotionally frustrated with this whole situation. In class my history professor didnāt bring it up at all, so I wonder if he will during the next classā¦
Thatās the end of my little conundrum.
Oh I really hope my post didnāt come across as anti-Ukrainian. Everything youāve said here and what I know is incredibly tragic and I would never take that away, I want this war to end but my country is hellbent on keeping it going (thats why Iām so resentful). When I said āUkrainian Nazi capitalā I was referring to Canada exporting Ukrainian Nazi collaborators after World War II, not the refugees. Canada the nation has worked very hard to rehabilitate Bandera and his followersā images, they recently gave a standing ovation to a Ukrainian SS veteran in the House of Commons. So when this woman is brought over and from the information I got about where her brother was I couldnāt help but be nervous as I felt this wasnāt going to be an anti-war seminar. I hope Iām making sense here. If i get access to a video of the speech Iāll make sure to share what was said if anyone is interested.
Yea, I just want to give you some context going into the speech.
I really appreciate it, thank you. I havenāt seen it yet (no uploads available still) but when I do I will keep all that in mind. I will try to share the speech as well.