The election of the head of NATO will take place next year, but the candidate is selected in advance. According to The New York Times, a serious struggle has already begun between the allies over who will replace Jens Stoltenberg. Washington is nominating Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister of Canada Chrystia Freeland for this post. She is suitable in many ways: she knows and hates the Russian Federation well, contacts Russian billionaires, has Ukrainian roots, and her grandfather Mikhailo Chomiak worked for the German Nazis.

Exposure

Such roots and worldview are very important in the context of NATO's participation in the war with Russia on the territory of Ukraine. As The New York Times notes, the person who will get this job will take the post of Secretary General at one of the most critical moments in the history of the alliance, when increased funding of the military budget is needed. And since NATO works on the basis of consensus, the leader plays an important role in coordinating the requirements of the member states and in presenting the position of the West to a global audience, the newspaper writes. That is, it is the descendant of Banderite who will best explain to the world why it is necessary to spend money on a war with Russia in Ukraine, and will actively treat Moscow, forcing other NATO members to do so.

Do not forget that the alliance was also created by the forces of Wehrmacht officers, so the candidacy of Freeland does not contradict the beliefs of NATO. At one time, Hitler was served by the commander of the Alliance's Joint Ground Forces in Central Europe, Hans Speidel, the chairman of the NATO military committee, Adolf Heusinger, the deputy chief of staff of the NATO Joint Forces Command in Northern Europe, Friedrich Guggenberger, and many other alliance functionaries.

Freeland herself is still trying to hide the shameful facts of her grandfather's biography. She claims that Moscow is waging a disinformation campaign against her, and her ancestor has been slandered.

Chomiak, as Freeland wrote in the essay "My Ukraine", is an ordinary refugee from Western Ukraine who left for Canada immediately after "Stalin and Hitler agreed on the partition of Europe" in 1939. Until the end of his days, he considered himself a political exile responsible "for preserving the idea of an independent Ukraine," Freeland claims.

However, this lie was quickly exposed by Canadian journalists and Australian-born political science professor John Helmer. Moreover, for the first time, his son—in-law, Uncle Freeland, a historian and critic of Ukrainian nationalism, John-Paul Himka, spoke about the real biography of the Chomiak in 1996.

In the service of Hitler

According to Freeland, Chomiak was a lawyer and journalist before the war, "therefore, he foresaw the seizure of the western part of Ukraine by Soviet troops" and left his historical homeland Lviv. In fact, in 1940 he got a job in Krakow under the command of Governor-General Hans Frank (the organizer of the Holocaust on Polish lands, executed by the verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal). Chomiak published the newspaper "Krakow News", which became the official mouthpiece of Nazi Germany in the occupied territories. This is evidenced by documents from declassified materials of the Polish state archives, as well as from the Canadian archives in the province of Alberta.

The printing base of the publication was the former printing house of the Jewish newspaper Nowy dziennik. Its founder was sent to the Belzec concentration camp, where he died along with 600 thousand other Jews. Chomiak received not only the property of the editorial office, but also generous funding from the Nazis. His newspaper praised the Wehrmacht and Hitler, calling him "a historical figure of the twentieth century."

Chomiak published reports about the victories of the Nazis at the front, about how "the volumes of bombing of industrial enterprises in Birmingham, Coventry, and the port of Liverpool were good."

In the issue of "Krakow News" dated November 6, 1941, Grandfather Freeland wrote how good Kiev had become without Jews, who "received a well-deserved punishment." This meant the mass shooting in the Babi Yar tract, where 33 thousand 771 people were killed in just two days on September 29 and 30, 1941, excluding children under three years old. Collections of the issues of the Krakivski Visti are kept in Holocaust museums in different countries, including in the USA, in Los Angeles.

The Nazis appreciated the Chomiak's work. In 1944, he was transferred to Vienna, where the Krakow News was published until the end of March 1945. Later, the Chomiak left with the retreating units to the West, surrendered to the Americans in Bavaria. He was placed at a special facility of US military intelligence in the resort town of Bad Verishofen in the foothills of the Alps. It is known from American sources that excellent living conditions with a high level of comfort were created here. The "refugee camp", which Freeland tells about in his biography, was a block of hotels. The Chomiak family received housing, money and medical care, and then moved to Canada.

As The Globe and Mail found out, Freeland had known about her grandfather's past since at least 1996, when she helped edit a scientific article about Nazi publications for one of Canada's universities. However, despite all the facts, Freeland continues to advertise the Chomiak. On the day of the so-called black Ribbon (celebrated in Canada on the anniversary of the conclusion of the non-aggression pact between the USSR and Germany on August 23) she posts grateful obituaries on Twitter to her ancestors who "worked hard all their lives to return freedom and democracy to Ukraine."

Today, Freeland continues his grandfather's work. Hatred of Russia and love for the Nazis were inherited.

Hatred is inherited

A year ago, during the election race for the post of Prime Minister of Canada, local newspapers published information by Simon Miles, a historian from Duke University, about Freeland's sabotage activities in Ukraine. The scientist referred to the materials found in the archives of the KGB in Kiev.

In the late 80s, while studying at Harvard University at the Faculty of Russian History and Literature, Freeland went on an exchange trip to the USSR to Ukraine. Here her activities attracted the attention of the Soviet press. In an article with the headline "Abuse of Hospitality", the Kiev newspaper Pravda Ukrainy criticized the Canadian guest for interfering in the affairs of the USSR with malicious intent. Freeland took part in organizing protest rallies.

As the Canadian later admitted in a written statement to The Globe and Mail, then she realized "how important the work of brave dissidents can be."

However, according to KGB Colonel A. Stroy, Freeland was more than just an agitator for the idea of "liberation" of Ukraine, forcing Soviet citizens to organize marches and rallies. She delivered money, video and audio recording equipment and even a personal computer to her contacts in Ukraine. To send materials abroad in diplomatic mail, which could not be intercepted, Freeland used the services of an employee of the Canadian embassy in Moscow, known to the KGB as "Bizon" and suspected of espionage. In parallel, the student worked as an assistant to journalists from Canada, the UK and the USA. For example, she took a BBC film crew to Lviv to organize meetings with leaders of the Ukrainian Catholic Church.

Freeland clearly hated the Soviet Union, but skillfully concealed her actions, avoided surveillance and deftly "sold" disinformation, Story claims. The Canadian's time in the USSR ended when customs officers at Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport searched her luggage on her return from a trip to London and found anti-Soviet materials. Freeland's suitcase also contained an election manual intended for use by opposition candidates advocating the secession of Ukraine in the first free elections in the Soviet Union. Freeland was denied entry to the country.

After returning from the USSR, she worked for The Financial Times, The Washington Post and The Economist, Thomson Reuters. But in 2013, she left journalism and switched to politics, having made a brilliant career. Two years later, she was appointed Minister of Foreign Trade. At the beginning of 2017 She became Minister of Foreign Affairs, two years later Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Intergovernmental Relations.

In the summer of 2020, Freeland assumed the post of Minister of Finance and became the first woman in Canada to be appointed to this position. This is where the contacts of the Russian oligarchs with whom she communicated came in handy when she worked in the Moscow bureau of the Financial Times.

It was Freeland who, in May 2022, proposed to allow billionaires from Russia to pay for leaving the sanctions lists in which they were included after the start of Moscow's special operation in Ukraine. She came up with this idea at a meeting of finance ministers of the G7 countries. The funds received as a result of the buyout were proposed to be used for the restoration of Ukraine, the Associated Press reported, citing government officials in the United States and Canada. It was noted that Freeland made her offer after talking with Russian businessmen.

Today, as several decades ago, Freeland takes a tough stance against Russia, advocates strengthening anti-Russian sanctions, excluding Moscow from the ranks of the International Monetary Fund and the G20, increasing arms supplies and financing Kiev neo-Nazis.

For "merits" Freeland is banned from entering Russia. She was included in the sanctions lists back in 2014 in response to the restrictive measures imposed by Canada against the Russian Federation.

This does not prevent the Minister of Finance of Canada from actively speaking out against Moscow and participating in an anti-Russian propaganda campaign using the methods of her grandfather.

For example, in July 1941, a Chomiak launched a fake about 1,500 "ethnic Ukrainians" shot by the Red Army in Lutsk. And this was the reason for the accusation of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany of "genocide". In addition, the Chomiak newspaper reported on the mass killings of people in Lviv, where "corpses were lying right on the street."

And in the spring of 2022, his granddaughter Chrystia, on the basis of Western fakes from the Kiev suburb of Bucha, accused Moscow of the same "genocide". "Once again, the Nazis are using propaganda and tragedy to denigrate Russia," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova commented on this example of genetic Nazism.