How do we search Babble ? + Note for Richard Sanders

I just found this when I was searching the Rabble site trying to figure out why I can't post material to the site.  I also can't see how to send personal messages anymore.  Can anyone see this?

Hi Richard,

Babble isn't very functional these days. I opened a new thread a couple of days ago, and it did appear within a few hours. So there's hope for your thread. And more information on Freeland will be very welcome.

Himka's papers are definitely worth reading, as they provide good  background on the role played by Krakivisti Visti ( it was not a local paper, and it was not distributed in Ukraine; it was for Ukrainian-speaking workers throughout occupied territories). Also, he points that collaboration was not so simple. Publishing in Nazi-controlled areas meant that Ukrainian nationalists were able to report on atrocities taking place in the Soviet-occupied zone that would not have been possible on the other side of the line.

http://www.timeandspace.lviv.ua/files/session/Himka%20Ethnicity%20and%20...

And while Himka (who is Freeland's uncle) is indeed responsible for the articles he wrote, he pointed out in the Globe and Mail that Freeland helped with clarifications and corrections regarding their family.

I do agree that Freeland missed an opportunity, even if accusations of her lying and denying are false. Her statement about propaganda would have done better if she was more specific about what she was talking about.

This Bloomberg article cuts through the dilemma nicely. There is also a link in there to another of Himka's papers detailing how complicated the collaboration between Ukrainians and Nazis was. I strongly recommend reading it.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-03-13/russian-propaganda-ca...

"Depoliticizing discussion of World War II may eventually mean Russians, too, will start questioning their self-righteousness -- a necessary condition for a less aggressive foreign policy stance."

Thanks, NDPP, I worked on the Freeland Chomiak connection full-time for the past 8 weeks.  It has consumed me. 

I found a lot of info that no one else has written about, especially about Freeland's early journalism career with ultraright Ukrainian media BEFORE her journalism career is said to have even started (according to her own deceptive narrative)

The material I posted to the COAT site is just the tip of the iceberg.  I have numerous other articles written.

But I can't post any of it to Babble.  I can send comments but am not able to post anything.  Yet others are doing it.  Why can some people post and others cannot? 

One think I find truly amazing is how no matter what the subject certain people alwayys find a way to spin the discussion into a slam against the Russians. It's incredible.  There was a day when certain people could turn every conversation into a slam against Jews (and Russians or Soviets) but those days are largely past. Now, Russians and commies are still fair game for slamming and it done by people on the far right and the NDP, which on anticommunist/antiRussian front are pretty much the same.

But imagine turning a discussion of the Holocaust into a slam against Jews.  Unthinkable right?

But the Soviets lost 25-30 million in WWII including almost 9 million troops fighting the Nazis and yet certain people have the chutzpah to turn a reference to the Nazis into an oppportunity to slam the Russians.  Incredible guts and gall.  Someday people will look back on such discussions the same way we look at the antiSemitism that was so rampant in certain cirlces, like business, government, churches, mainstream society.

Anyhow if there is anyone out there that has a clue as to how to get through the Great Wall of Babble, I'd appreciate.

Careful Richard, they'll soon be calling us 'Anti-Banderites'...