Fighting against the USSR didn't necessarily make you a Nazi

Press for Conversion!, 2021

The Canadian Historical Review, 2005

How to deal with NS history in Krems in lower Austria. A country can not be improved with court cases. As of the summer of 1945, the demand for the drawing of the line was put, but, all the same, there were the occupying powers. This anti-fascism by decree was anything but sustainable. The article was first published in the magazin ZIMZUM from the israelian artist Hadas Tapouchi in September 2017

Strategic Culture Foundation, Moscow, RF

Canadian Military History, 2015

His research interests include the history of the Old Commonwealth countries and the United States in the Polar Regions, Canadian-American relations during the Early Cold War, and the role war criminals, like Kurt Meyer, have played in international relations.

Echo of Ukraine, 2022

Unravel the deceit-filled maze that is the history between Jewish and Ukrainian nations used as political ploys. Through meticulous reconstructions of timelines, this non-fiction work unearths the buried and untangled twisted narratives that have shaped decades of deep-rooted animosity. This article sheds light on historical figures and events plagued by totalitarian agendas filled with manipulation and the destruction of culture and identity. Using declassified archival documents from the KGB, CIA, US State Department, OUN, Das Bundesarchiv, alongside firsthand accounts of contemporaries, the author examines historical tensions, shared pain, grief, and reputational tarnish that outside forces try to accelerate into conflict.

Press for Conversion! Captive Canada: Renditions of the Peaceable Kingdom at War, from Narratives of WWI and the Red Scare to the Mass Internment of Civilians, 2016

Press for Conversion! Captive Canada: Renditions of the Peaceable Kingdom at War, from Narratives of WWI and the Red Scare to the Mass Internment of Civilians, 2016

AIHPS, 2024

Studying the events concerning the Waffen SS “Galician” Division and the scandal surrounding Yaroslav Hunka, who visited the Canadian Parliament on 22 September 2023...the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for his arrest1 to investigate war crimes that he had committed. Thus, the whole world has been listening to false accusations made against an innocent person, from the lips of a person who has been accused of committing particularly serious war crimes.. Statements like the ones made in Valdai are curated to sow discord between Ukrainians and Jews. They are masterfully designed to create severe turbulence that slows down western development. Russian propagandists led by Putin create the impression that they are supposedly protecting the memory of Jewish victims, but in fact they are deliberately leading to the opposite. Instilling doubts about the veracity of the horrors of the Shoah and fueling aggressive anti-Semitism in the world...I am pleased that the Government of Canada and the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship, Mark Miller, has announced the release of a new version of the report by history professor Alti Rodahl...Professor Rodal raised an issue that most often escapes the attention of historians and political scientists. In her report, she stated: “...The Allies did not recognize Ukrainians as a separate national group until the summer of 1947. According to the British directive of December 29, 1945, persons arriving from Ukraine were to be classified as citizens of the country in which they lived in September 1, 1939, and under the terms of the Yalta Agreement, all persons living on Soviet territory as of September 1, 1939 were to be returned to the USSR..."...The final documents also noted that the Commission repeatedly tried to obtain incriminating evidence on the division’s military personnel, who were allegedly in the possession of Simon Wiesenthal. To this end, the commission held several oral and written negotiations with Wiesenthal himself and his attorney Martin Mendelsohn, but to no avail. All telephone calls, letters, and Wiesenthal's personal meeting with the Commission's legal counsel in New York on November 1, 1985, followed by further direct contacts, did not bring any positive results other than promises. Thus, it was obvious that the list of 217 Galician Division troops provided by Wiesenthal “...Was completely useless and caused the Canadian government, through the RCMP and the Commission, to do a significant amount of pointless work…”...I think historians McBride and Rudling should carefully study the case of Demjanjuk v. Petrovsky (autumn 1993) before attacking Canadian justice with similar accusations. What is the point of citing OSI's actions, which a court in Ohio found: "...The OSI attorneys acted with reckless disregard for their duty to the court and their discovery obligations in failing to disclose at least three sets of documents in their possession before the proceedings against Demjanjuk ever reached trial..."...Professor Paul Robert Magoci, head of the Department of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto, clearly stated in his official open letter: “... There is simply no evidence that the Galicia Division participated in war crimes related to the Holocaust against Jews or ethnic cleansing against Poles. It is not in the interests of Canada for politicians and the media to distort the historical past and disgrace a person's reputation in order to gain some perceived advantage in the Canadian political arena...” We all need to remember the tragic pages of the past, so that these dramas are never repeated. So that the next gnome, trying on the cap of Monomakh1 and the moustache of dead tyrants, is not drawn to the destruction of peaceful cities and the implementation of genocide. To do this, it is necessary to thoroughly understand the events of the past that affect both those living today and the descendants of those who only recently left this world. We all need to study history without clichés, prejudices, or myths. This knowledge is also necessary in order to convict real criminals—not slandered and arbitrarily designated ones, as was recently done with the Canadian citizen Yaroslav Hunka.