The original Ukrainian-Canadian population (and their organizations) were by and large ardent socialist supporters, and played a huge role in the strengthening of organized labour and various socialist and communist organisations (such as the communist party of canada!). They supported the USSR and saw it as an inspiration. Most of them had left before 1917. The Association of United Ukrainian Canadians is an inheritence from this time and still controls a bunch of Ukrainian labour temples. They ARE quite small compared to the other ones, particularly the fascist / banderist UCC.
It gets much darker post WW2, when Canada brought in thousands of nazi collaborators (one of the qualifications for getting in was showing your nazi tattoo…). They then went in a frontal attack on progressive and socialist Ukrainian community orgs, with the Canadian government actively helping the then nascent UCC gain hegemony. Huge ties with the OUN fascists abound, and many nazi collaboration statues can be found across the country.
So basically; your comment is accurate in its depiction of post WW2 Ukrainian immigrants, but not accurate prior to that, and kind of erases the awesome and good folks of the AUUC trying their hardest to counteract the UCC today. Especially right now in their attempts to organize recent Ukrainian immigrants, many of which are not politicized and generally not particularly fascist or anything. The UCC leadership actually has huge contempt for them (after all they ran away from the “good fight”!), but are doing a lot of efforts to radicalize them on arrival.
That’s actually not very accurate.
The original Ukrainian-Canadian population (and their organizations) were by and large ardent socialist supporters, and played a huge role in the strengthening of organized labour and various socialist and communist organisations (such as the communist party of canada!). They supported the USSR and saw it as an inspiration. Most of them had left before 1917. The Association of United Ukrainian Canadians is an inheritence from this time and still controls a bunch of Ukrainian labour temples. They ARE quite small compared to the other ones, particularly the fascist / banderist UCC.
It gets much darker post WW2, when Canada brought in thousands of nazi collaborators (one of the qualifications for getting in was showing your nazi tattoo…). They then went in a frontal attack on progressive and socialist Ukrainian community orgs, with the Canadian government actively helping the then nascent UCC gain hegemony. Huge ties with the OUN fascists abound, and many nazi collaboration statues can be found across the country.
So basically; your comment is accurate in its depiction of post WW2 Ukrainian immigrants, but not accurate prior to that, and kind of erases the awesome and good folks of the AUUC trying their hardest to counteract the UCC today. Especially right now in their attempts to organize recent Ukrainian immigrants, many of which are not politicized and generally not particularly fascist or anything. The UCC leadership actually has huge contempt for them (after all they ran away from the “good fight”!), but are doing a lot of efforts to radicalize them on arrival.
Mandatory fuck Freeland she is a nazi.
Do you have some links about this? I have some Canadians I would like to poke