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Governor-General Mary Simon apologizes for Waffen-SS veteran’s 1987 Order of Canada appointment

It just doesn't stop, does it?

"Mr. Savaryn was a leading Progressive Conservative in Alberta and prominent member of Edmonton’s Ukrainian community who championed multiculturalism and played a key role in establishing schools with Ukrainian-language instruction. He also set up the Edmonton branch of the Ukrainian scout group Plast, whose participants included Chrystia Freeland, now Deputy Prime Minister.

In a 2013 interview with the newspaper Ukrainian Weekly, Ms. Freeland recalled attending the youth group there. “Plast was a very important part of my life growing up,” she said. “I grew up in a Ukrainian community and was active in Plast.”"

One more damning connection of Freeland to her family's Nazi past.

Governor-General Mary Simon apologizes for Waffen-SS veteran’s 1987 Order of Canada appointmenthttps://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-governor-general-mary-simon-apologizes-for-waffen-ss-veterans-1987/Open linkView original on lemmygrad.ml
russian·Community for Russian language learners and mastersbyshroobinator

Good resources for learning at an odd level?

To preface this, I was born to a Russian (Soviet) immigrant mother and an English speaking father in Canada. So I was raised always exposed to Russian culture and the language to the point that I spoke Russian exclusively while I was getting the first grips of language as an infant.

For most of my life, I've only been able to use basic phrases and find it very difficult to hold a conversation, but I can get the gist of what the other person is talking about and I would often have to resort to responding in English.

I have a very good grasp at the alphabet, but have some difficulties pronouncing new words with many consonants in sequence.

This is a really long winded way to say that I feel overwhelmed with the amount of improvement that I need to make, and that I'm looking to be pointed in the right direction to start making progress.

Спасибо товарищ! 🫡

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