NAZIS & FASCISTS

RICHARD SANDERS—Why, PM Trudeau, are Canadians supposed to memorialize Nazis as the “victims of communism? And, why are we supposed to “stand with” these Nazis’ descendants if they have still not faced the truth about their forbears’ complicity in the Holocaust and in the Nazis’ mass murder of almost 30 million Soviets?? Shame on you Mr. Trudeau and shame on your Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland for your shared, Cold-War McCarthyism, for your virulent Russophobia and for your equation of Nazis and communists.

The official story is Russia hacked into U.S. “government networks, including in the Treasury and Commerce Departments,” as David Sanger of The New York Times reported. But plenty of things are uncertain. First, Sanger wrote last Sunday that “hackers have had free rein for much of the year, though it is not clear how many email and other systems they chose to enter.”

The motive of the hack is uncertain, as well what damage may have been done.

“The motive for the attack on the agency and the Treasury Department remains elusive, two people familiar with the matter said,” Sanger reported. “One government official said it was too soon to tell how damaging the attacks were and how much material was lost.”

V. PUTIN—Today, European politicians, and Polish leaders in particular, wish to sweep the Munich Betrayal under the carpet. Why? The fact that their countries once broke their commitments and supported the Munich Betrayal, with some of them even participating in divvying up the take, is not the only reason. Another is that it is kind of embarrassing to recall that during those dramatic days of 1938, the Soviet Union was the only one to stand up for Czechoslovakia. The Soviet Union, in accordance with its international obligations, including agreements with France and Czechoslovakia, tried to prevent the tragedy from happening. Meanwhile, Poland, in pursuit of its interests, was doing its utmost to hamper the establishment of a collective security system in Europe.