Communism memorial: a tale
Not a Montreal story exactly, but local journalist Taylor C. Noakes has written a terrific piece about the soi-disant victims of communism memorial in Ottawa, a project dating from the Harper years but which has received support as well from the Trudeau government. There’s almost nothing that isn’t wrong with this project.
Raymond Lutz 10:23 on 2021-07-23 Permalink
From the article: “A NCC spokesperson said the estimated total cost of the monument is now $7.5 million, with $6 million coming from the federal government after Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland included an additional $4 million in this spring’s budget to complete the monument.”
I’ll add: Freeland knew her grandfather was editor of Nazi newspaper.
Bonus points: Ukraine was the sole nation to maintain a non-german staffed Waffen-SS garrison, source, in French. Beware, the pictures in this serie are horrible.
thomas 12:35 on 2021-07-23 Permalink
@Raymond there were more than a dozen of non-German Waffen-SS divisions varying in size.
Tim S. 18:46 on 2021-07-23 Permalink
Given that anti-Communism was at the core of the Nazi electoral appeal, this is not surprising.
qatzelok 08:43 on 2021-07-24 Permalink
Imagine a “Victims of Protestantism” memorial, erected by the Vatican.