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|image_caption=Michael Chomiak and wife Alexandra, with their children in [[Canada]] in 1952. [[Chrystia Freeland]]’s mother Halyna is second left. | |image_caption=Michael Chomiak and wife Alexandra, with their children in [[Canada]] in 1952. [[Chrystia Freeland]]’s mother Halyna is second left. | ||
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| + | |description=Nazi Editor in Chief turned Canadian farmer | ||
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| − | '''Michael Chomiak''', maternal grandfather of Canadian Foreign Minister [[Chrystia Freeland]], volunteered to serve in the [[German]] invasion of [[Poland]] long before the German Army attacked the [[Soviet Union]] and invaded [[Ukraine]]. | + | '''Michael Chomiak''', maternal grandfather of [[Canadian Foreign Minister]] [[Chrystia Freeland]], volunteered to serve in the [[German]] invasion of [[Poland]] long before the German Army attacked the [[Soviet Union]] and invaded [[Ukraine]]. |
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Chomiak’s records show he was trained in Vienna for German espionage and propaganda operations, then promoted to run the German press machine for the Galician region of Ukraine and Poland during the 4-year occupation. So high-ranking and active in the [[Nazi]] cause was Chomiak that the Polish intelligence services were actively hunting for Chomiak until the 1980s – without knowing he had fled for safety to an Alberta farm in [[Canada]]. | Chomiak’s records show he was trained in Vienna for German espionage and propaganda operations, then promoted to run the German press machine for the Galician region of Ukraine and Poland during the 4-year occupation. So high-ranking and active in the [[Nazi]] cause was Chomiak that the Polish intelligence services were actively hunting for Chomiak until the 1980s – without knowing he had fled for safety to an Alberta farm in [[Canada]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 13:36, 12 August 2020
 Michael Chomiak  (Editor, farmer, soldier, spook) | |
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 Michael Chomiak and wife Alexandra, with their children in Canada in 1952. Chrystia Freeland’s mother Halyna is second left. | |
| Born | 12 August 1905 Lvov, Ukraine |
| Died | 1984 (Age 79) |
| Spouse | Alexandra |
Nazi Editor in Chief turned Canadian farmer | |
Michael Chomiak, maternal grandfather of Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, volunteered to serve in the German invasion of Poland long before the German Army attacked the Soviet Union and invaded Ukraine.
Career
Chomiak’s records show he was trained in Vienna for German espionage and propaganda operations, then promoted to run the German press machine for the Galician region of Ukraine and Poland during the 4-year occupation. So high-ranking and active in the Nazi cause was Chomiak that the Polish intelligence services were actively hunting for Chomiak until the 1980s – without knowing he had fled for safety to an Alberta farm in Canada.
The newly disclosed documents expose Chrystia Freeland’s repeated lying that Chomiak had been a victim of World War II; an unwilling journalist overpowered by German military force; compelled to write propaganda extolling the German Army’s successes, and advocating the destruction of the Jews, Poles and Russians. As for Freeland’s claim that Chomiak had secretly aided the Ukrainian resistance, sources in Warsaw believe Chomiak was trained by the Germans as a double-agent, penetrating Ukrainian groups and spying on them.
The Polish records also point to the likelihood that US Army, US intelligence and Canadian immigration records on Chomiak – concealed until now – can confirm in greater detail what Chomiak did during the war, as well as for years afterward, which made him a target for the Polish police until not long before his death in 1984.[1]
