I thought that the Esprit de Corps does not exist anymore. Scott Taylor was very active during nineties defending Serbia.
Le mar. 4 mai 2021 à 21:59, ANTIC.org-SNN <[email protected]> a écrit : > > > > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUgHAV8EUFQAARtaAFIDHlZUBVYVUwUBAxQAUlQFAQBcAlEAUlJKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg> > *Esprit de Corps' **Scott Taylor* > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUgHAV8EUFQAARtaAFIDHlZUBVYVUwUBAxQAUlQFAQBcAlEAUlJKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg> > is > accused of spreading a Kremlin propaganda virus by Estonian-Cdn activist, > Marcus Kolga. My article in *Esprit de Corps* (below) exposes deep, > Nazi-linked roots of the Estonian Central Council in Canada > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhbWlBRAlMAWRtaDQRXHlZSCQcVUwQGBRRVBQ5WUw1dV1BUBF1KCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg> > and Estonian World Council > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhQWwdSDgQADBtRUQZVHlZdCAEVCgYCABQMCVUBW1FbUgJTBVdKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>, > which Kolga has served as president and vice president.Taylor commends my > recent work on fascist links of Canada's Russophobic, pro-NATO émigré groups, > including *Latvians > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhRVwdTVFZeCBtRBVJUHlYEUAcVCwNUVRRRAgJTUQEJBlIAV1BKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>, > **Lithuanians > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUgHAVBdVQVQDBtQBwdXHlYDCVAVCgUEARQECAADWwxYAVUBX1BKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>* > *,** Slovaks > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUgFUFZTA1RUARtbDAcEHlYABQYVUAYIVhQNV1MCA1AAVVtRBVRKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>* > and > *Ukrainians > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUgFB1MHVQNUARtTUVdTHlZQAV0VC1BRBhRXV1RWUlcJBQUHX11KCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>* > : *"Sanders has compiled an important trove of research into a very > little known, and sinister chapter in Canada’s history.... Sanders provides > a disturbing insight into how fading memories and lack of education have > made Holocaust distortion and denial possible in Canada. He is to be > commended for his brave work in bringing this information forward." *My > *Esprit > de Corps* article also notes that *Chrystia Freeland* began her career > with right-wing Ukrainian-Canadian publications in Edmonton where her Nazi > propagandist grandfather had also worked. The first of these were > government-funded jobs for an encyclopedia created by her grandfather's > WWII boss, who led collaboration between Nazi Germany and > fascist/antiSemitic/racist/antiRed Ukrainian ethnonationalists. My work > on state-funded émigré groups that glorify fascist heroes, is online: > *Defunding > the Myths and Cults of Cold War Canada > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUgCAFdcAlMCABsCDAReHlZdUlYVCwACVhQDBVYHWwYPBgYDAwBKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>**. > *(*Press for Conversion! > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhSUV4EAAFSDBtRVVBRHlZXBFQVCgFVUhQFVAJQBlRfBVQBA1NKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>* > #70, Spring 2021) > > *Please share this work, and consider * > *ordering a copy, subscribing or donating* > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhXBgAEAwtRDhtWV1dUHlYGBFIVUFcCARRRAwZRVQddUAYDVlBKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg> > *.* > > *Or, **request a **free, sample paper copy** by sending me an email > <[email protected]?subject=Yes%2C%20please%20mail%20me%20a%20free%20sample%20copy&body=Here's%20my%20mailing%20address%20in%20Canada%3A%0A>* > *with > your postal address in Canada**.* > > Estonian activist *Marcus Kolga *(right), who calls Nazi Estonia's Legion > "*freedom fighters*," wrote a Russophobic report for the right-wing > MacDonald-Laurier Institute called *"**Stemming the Virus**"* on the *"Threat > of Russian D**isinformation**."* > *Kolga's **fearmongering smears **Scott Taylor **and **Richard Sanders** > saying we are* > *spreading a dangerous Kremlin propaganda virus!**Our crime?** We expose > the ongoing glorification of East European legions * > *that were trained, financed, armed and led by Nazi Germany, wore Nazi > uniforms* > *and swore solemn oaths to fight to the death for Adolph Hitler in order > to* > *vanquish their enemy, the USSR, which was Canada's war-time ally. * > *With the help of their fascist East European allies, the Nazis executed* > *the Holocaust and killed 27 million Soviet citizens.**But, insists > Kolga, these antiSoviet WWII veterans were NOT Nazis,* > *they were praiseworthy* > *"Ukrainian and Baltic **freedom fighters**."* *Kolga is a key figure in > two émigré groups founded and led by Nazi collaborators, including Estonian > Waffen SS veterans:* *the *Estonian Central Council in Canada > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhbWlBRAlMAWRtaDQRXHlZSCQcVUwQGBRRVBQ5WUw1dV1BUBF1KCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg> > and Estonian World Council > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhQWwdSDgQADBtRUQZVHlZdCAEVCgYCABQMCVUBW1FbUgJTBVdKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg> > . *He is president of the Central and Eastern European Council > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUgHAAdcD1NVCxtVUl1WHlYDA1UVUFUABxQDB1RXBAdaVwVSAwNKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg> > (a Canadian lobbying network of fascist-linked émigré groups that were > linked throughout the Cold War to the notoriously Nazi-riddled > AntiBolshevik Bloc of Nations and World AntiCommunist League > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhaVgVXBFdTWxsBAwQCHlZcCQcVUAUBVRQCUgBTVlcOV1VbUFVKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>). > Kolga is also a senior fellow of a right-wing Canadian think tank, the > MacDonald-Laurier Institute. It is funded by large fossil fuel extraction > corporations and some foreign governments, including Latvia, which > officially glorifies its Nazi WWII veterans as glorious freedom-fighting > war heroes.* > > "*Is **Esprit de Corps** on trial for being on target against Nazism?* > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhXVF8GAFcEXBtWVQQDHlYBB1YVCwNTAxQMVVUCA1AIB1cDBQNKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg> > " > > *(**Esprit de Corps**, May 2021)* > > *By Richard Sanders* > > Readers of *Esprit de Corps *know Scott Taylor as an outspoken columnist > whose trajectory can be controversial. His on-course opposition to Nazis, > their collaborators and apologists, in Canada and abroad, should not be > contentious, especially to members and veterans of Canada’s armed forces. > > But when Taylor stood up against the glorification of Nazi SS divisions by > modern governments in Eastern Europe he took flak from some, including an > Estonian-Canadian activist, Marcus Kolga. 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As a top Ukrainian coordinator of Nazi > collaboration, Kubijovych pushed the Germans to set up the SS Galicia and > oversaw Chomiak’s work, which included publishing his call for Ukrainians > to volunteer for this Nazi division. > > As a teen, Freeland landed two Canadian government summer jobs writing for > Kubijovych’s encyclopedia. It romanticises ethnic-cleansing Ukrainian > fascists as ethical anticommunists and whitewashes their complicity in the > genocide of Jews, Poles, Roma and communist partisans who were backing the > Red Army. > > Visiting Edmonton, Chomiak’s wartime boss signed over his encyclopedia to > a government-funded Ukrainian research centre at the University of Alberta, > whose chancellor, Peter Savaryn, was a proud veteran of the Ukrainian > Waffen SS and a leader of nationalist Ukrainian organizations. The Governor > General subsequently awarded Savaryn the Order of Canada for volunteering > with these Ukrainian groups. > > As an apologist for Estonians who welcomed Nazi forces as liberators, > Marcus Kolga cheerleads NATO and praises today’s SS-revering European > regimes. But they are victims, he says, “targeted by Kremlin aggression.” > > There is a hearty tradition of vilifying antifascists by disparaging them > with offensive insults. Let’s illustrate this with a chapter from the > history of the Estonian Central Council (ECC) in Canada, which Kolga served > as president from 2016 to 2020. > > The ECC claims to oppose those two arch-rivals, Nazism and Communism, > which it falsely equates as twin evils equally to blame for WWII. But since > its creation in 1954, the ECC has only aimed its fire at Reds. This, after > all, was the fixation of Nazi collaborators and supporters who created and > led the ECC through the Cold War until the present. > > In 1964, the ECC’s vice president was a German-Estonian named Karl Eerme. > An embedded war correspondent for the Nazi-led Estonian SS, Lieutenant > Eerme landed in a post-war US POW camp in Germany. Moving to Toronto, he > continued anti-Soviet propaganda through the ECC and stated its > McCarthyesque purpose as providing “the focal point for ... all Estonians > in Canada ... in their avowed and active opposition to the doctrine of > Communism.” > > In 1960, the USSR — having lost 27 million citizens to the Nazis and their > East European supporters — sought to expose some perpetrators. It named > ECC leaders, including three former SS-lieutenants, an SS-Legion staff > member and two former Gestapo police commissioners. Using German documents, > eyewitness accounts and other evidence gathered when forcing the Nazis from > Estonia in 1944, the Soviets identified Winnipeg’s Aleksander Laak as an > ECC member who represented the most brutal of Estonia’s Nazi collaborators > protected in Canada. > > In August 1960, the Soviets indicted Laak for “organizing extermination > camp Jägala and personally shooting Jews” and reported that he’d overseen > the murder of 3,000 prisoners. > > “The Russian story is 99 per cent lies,” said Laak. “It is only Communist > propaganda.” Dozens of Canadian journalists agreed. Headlines blaring “Red > Story,” “Red Charges” and “Red Claims” rejected it as Russian > “propaganda.” > > The RCMP gave Laak a “clear” record. The government dismissed it as > “phony.” Laak’s neighbours, co-workers and employer said he was a victim of > Soviet lies. Despite this support, Laak hanged himself a few days later and > papers blamed “Communist propaganda” for killing him. > > *Alexander Laak, 1940* > > The ECC joined the fray. One article, “Estonians Fear Smear Campaign,” > said Toronto’s 8,000 Estonians were afraid they would “come under a Soviet > propaganda barrage.” Although the USSR focused on Laak, the ECC’s leader > Enn Salurand said all Estonian-Canadians were “bracing themselves for a > Communist campaign designed to discredit them.” How many of Estonia’s tens > of thousands of SS men came to Canada is unknown. > > Salurand helped found the ECC and was its secretary-general for 25 years. > In 1931, he helped create and lead an outfit back in the Baltic, the > Estonian National Club. Its eugenics-based ethno-nationalism, intolerant of > minorities, got it outlawed by the Soviets when they occupied Estonia in > 1940. After coming to Canada, Salurand is said to have never missed a board > meeting of the Estonian veterans’ publication, *Combatant*. > > When Laak’s photo appeared in newspapers, Jewish Holocaust survivors in > Canada and the US called the press, identifying him as the slave-labour > camp’s commandant. “Laak was wearing the SS uniform and was in charge,” > declared Toronto’s Greta Zarkower. “Laak and his men took all our > valuables.... I was beaten unmercifully, regularly, with a riding whip by > SS men.” The media fell silent on Laak for six months. > > This silence ended when three top Estonian Nazis went on trial in > September 1960. Ralph Gerrets, Laak’s deputy, confessed in Soviet court > that they killed thousands, mostly Jews and “Gypsies,” and that Laak took > part. Gerrets described shooting small children and dumping them in > trenches. Forty witnesses identified Laak as camp commander. > > *"Registration point for the volunteers* > *of the Estonian Legion"* (Sept. 1942) > > Female survivors recounted being “ordered to undress on arrival at the > extermination camp while being examined by Gerrets and Lt. Alexander Laak.” > Some testified Laak arranged for “girl inmates” to be “forced to take part > in orgies at night and murdered afterward.” > > Despite this shocking testimony, no Canadian papers mentioned Laak’s name, > or previous claims of innocence by the ECC, RCMP, government and media. > Instead, most stories blasted the trial as propaganda. When the three > Estonian war criminals were sentenced to death, Canadian journalists didn’t > mention Laak but concurred the “show trial apparently aimed at discrediting > anti-Soviet Estonian refugee groups.” > > Estonian Canadians also went silent, except for one letter to the editor > from an ECC-linked Montreal group. Its vice president, Martin Puhvel, > castigated the Gazette for covering the trial at all and defended Estonian > collaborators as heroes. Describing the trial as “vicious propagandists > fairytales,” he said “the Soviet propaganda machine has ... launched a > campaign of calumny and vilification against Estonian patriots whose only > ‘crime’ lies in defending their homes against murderous, unprovoked > aggression by the Russian enslavers.” > > *-------> **Click here to read the rest of this article in > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhXVF8GAFcEXBtWVQQDHlYBB1YVCwNTAxQMVVUCA1AIB1cDBQNKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>**Esprit > de Corps* > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhXVF8GAFcEXBtWVQQDHlYBB1YVCwNTAxQMVVUCA1AIB1cDBQNKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>* > magazine > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhXVF8GAFcEXBtWVQQDHlYBB1YVCwNTAxQMVVUCA1AIB1cDBQNKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>** > <-------* > > *Or, read the two original Press-for-Conversion! > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhSUV4EAAFSDBtRVVBRHlZXBFQVCgFVUhQFVAJQBlRfBVQBA1NKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>* > *articles > (complete with all the references) here:* > > *Estonian Central Council in Canada > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhbWlBRAlMAWRtaDQRXHlZSCQcVUwQGBRRVBQ5WUw1dV1BUBF1KCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>* > and *Estonian World Council > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhQWwdSDgQADBtRUQZVHlZdCAEVCgYCABQMCVUBW1FbUgJTBVdKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>* > ------------------------------ > > *Watch COAT's peace documentary* > *"Mothers' Day at the War Show"* > > *Since this Sunday, May 9, is Mothers' Day,* you may want to watch this > documentary that I produced in 1997 for the *Coalition to Oppose the Arms > Trade > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUgFAVcDBwMFXBtSVgZXHlZSAAMVC1IIVhQBUFIFB1ABBAFWAwZKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>* > (COAT). It's about a highly-militaristic Ottawa "air show" that was held on > Mothers' Day, a day that was meant to unite women against wars. (Click the > image at right, or *here > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhWU1YABlFVWRsCDABUHlZQUFwVCgcFABRRVVVWVFAABQFbAgdKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>* > to watch it on Youtube.) > > *“Air shows” are at the forefront of a widespread cultural epidemic in > which militarism, violence and war technology are glorified and > romanticised as family fun and wholesome entertainment for children and > youth.* > > The film juxtaposes interviews with children at the Ottawa "air show" > describing their favourite war planes zooming overhead with footage of the > hoorors caused by these same warplanes during the Iraq War, interviews with > US Attorney General Ramsey Clarke surveying destruction in Iraq, paintings > from a display of Iraqi children's original, war-related paintings that was > set up by COAT inside the Ottawa air show, interviews with COAT activists > attending that protest/art exhibit, and songs performed at the war show by > the Raging Grannies. *Learn more about the documentary here > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUgAAwcBAQpVDhsGUldfHlYAAFEVUFBWBBRVVwcKWlRdUlFXXwRKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>* > *.* This unusual film was narrated by a great voice for peace and a > stalwart COAT mentor, *Marion Dewar > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhSU1RVAwEEABtbV1VTHlZSB1YVC1JRAhQCAQVTUQIADVpRVldKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>*. > She was Ottawa's mayor (1978-1985), an NDP MP (1986-1988), and became > Oxfam Canada's president in 1995. > ------------------------------ > > *COAT > <http://peaceaction.ca/lists/lt.php?tid=cUhTBgMDVQsFABsHBQYFHlZXU1AVCgcCARQGBAQBAQJbUVRRAlNKCl8MA1UDBwAeA1FVBhUGUgYNFAxQVgtPA1oCVwYDXQcHUwtVHwdcVwBQAVNSFVELVVIUAFUPV09UCA1WTwNdVFcEXgUCUVZQAg>* > *Magazine > 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