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Offline waldo

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Re: The Trudeau Brand
« Reply #2445 on: August 11, 2022, 11:45:31 pm »
The fact he may have had little say on the content doesn't later the fact he was indeed the editor-in-chief of a collaborationist newspaper who worked directly with the Nazis.

"who"... who is who? You've repeatedly attempted to leverage the statements of John-Paul Himka (professor emeritus at the University of Alberta)... yet you somehow now choose to ignore the waldo's quoted Himka statements from the Ling/VICE News article; again:
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Ultimately, he said, it is also difficult to pin any of this onto Freeland’s grandfather.

“He wrote nothing for the paper. He was largely a figurehead, a liaison with the German censors and a guy to call on the carpet when a whipping boy was needed,” Himka said over email.

and now you're left to emphasize, as fact, the "editor-in-chief" role... while completely ignoring the particulars of just what that role entailed.

more pointedly, drawing reference to:
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Ernest Gyidel: a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta. He received his B.A. from Uzhhorod State University and M.A. degrees from the Central European University (Budapest) and University of Alberta. His doctoral dissertation (under the supervision of Professor David R. Marples) deals with the legal Ukrainian press in the General government, focusing on the newspaper Krakivs'ki visti.

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Calling {Chomiak} him chief editor is a bit of a misnomer. He managed the technical aspects of the paper — the printing, the type set, the distribution, the logistics. Throughout the whole of the war, he never wrote a single article.

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He was in no way an intellectual collaborator. But you could definitely see him as a situational collaborator.

Just labelling him a collaborator oversimplifies a horrifically complicated time. But it certainly suits Vladimir Putin and his allies now to insinuate that Freeland’s credibility is tainted by her grandfather’s past.