Apparently Russki spooks have issued a missive to the effect that her grandfather was editor of a Nazi publication back in the Ukraine during WWII. No surprise there. Lots of people did things like that.
Josef Stalin's administration of the Ukraine during the '30s was so draconian that the Nazis were welcomed by many as liberators and really nice guys when, a decade later, they rolled their panzers through the Ukraine.
When Joe needed food to prove to the outside world how efficiently his communist system was working, he sent his apparatchiks on a trick-or-treat expedition throughout the Ukraine, stripping it of anything edible. This resulted in the Holodomor (famine) that killed millions, according to reliable sources.
Following the war, many of the Ukrainians who had found it expedient to work for the Nazis because it was necessary to survive during the occupation, looked for exit visas to other countries. They had to avoid being identified as Nazi collaborators.
Among them were butchers, bakers and candlestick makers and maybe even a few editors. They were quietly absorbed into the Ukrainian communities in the western world. To Canadians, they were just DPs--Displaced Persons who needed a new life. It was the least we could do.
The ones who settled in my home town evolved into good Canadian citizens, a credit to their communities. Unlike some of the more recent immigrants from the Gulf states, who also got elected to Justin Trudeau's Liberal government, they did not bring their political and religious baggage with them.
This may or may not shed some light on our Foreign Affairs Minister's saga.
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