Alexandra Chyczij's remarks at an evening honouring Borys Wrzesnewskyj, MP, who was awarded the Estonian Canadian Medal of Merit for his outstanding contribution to Canadians of Estonian heritage, Estonian House, Toronto, Canada, 25 February 2011.
- 93rd anniversary of Estonian independence 0:16
- Pier 21 Halifax, Nova Scotia (Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21) 1:32
- Being asked if you had an "English name"; being scolded by teachers for not speaking English 1:40
- "Bloodlands" by Timothy Snyder; lands between Russia and Germany; killing fields of Europe 2:04
- 14 million civilians from Poland, Ukraine, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and Belarus were staved to death, beaten, shot, deported, or gassed by the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany 2:17
- The west is ignorant about the history of these people 2:38
- At the end of World War Two, the liberation armies saw the horrors of Nazi concentration camps, but they never reached the death factories, concentration camps, gulags, the starvation sites or mass graves because at the end of the war that fell behind the Iron Curtain 2:42
- Joseph Stalin (Иосиф Сталин) 3:18
- Politically incorrect to mention the Holodomor (Голодомор), The Great Terror (Большой террор), Katyn (zbrodnia katyńska) 3:30
- "Soviet Politics 201" class at the University of Toronto 3:41
- Displaced person (DP) camps in Austria 5:00
- Forced labour in a German munitions factory during World War Two; pension from German government; heavy metals; Parkinson's disease 5:19
- Genocidal famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine 5:52
- Family and neighbours taken away by the NKVD (НКВД - Народный комиссариат внутренних дел) 6:02
- Slave labour by the Nazis, OST-Arbeiter (Ostarbeiter - «східні робітники») 6:13
- Ashamed of the indignities they were subjected to; refusal to admit they were slave labourers; forgo German pensions 6:25
- In Yalta (Conference) (Ялтинська конференція) (Ялтинская конференция) the Allies betrayed the people who fled the bloodlands, bowing to Stalin 6:44
- Count Nikolai Tolstoy (Николай Дмитриевич Толстой) 6:56
- Suicide pacts; died by ingesting pure wood grain alcohol to avoid repatriation 7:20
- Crime against humanity 7:33
- Profound appreciation for Canada's safe refuge, democratic institutions governed by the rule of law, respect for human rights, Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, 7:57
- Stories of our parents and grandparents need to be told 8:20
- Stories must be told in Canada's Museum for Human Rights 8:30
- Report of the content advisory committee does not include the words Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Czech, Slovakia, communism. NKVD, etc. 8:53
- Canadian taxpayers paying $300 million up front plus $20 million per year 9:38
- Orwellian paradise 10:12
- James Moore, MP, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages; independent Crown corporation 10:59
- James Bezan, MP, Leon Benoit, MP, Tim Uppal, MP, Joy Smith, MP, Navdeep Bains, MP, Bonnie Crombie, MP, Gerard Kennedy, MP, Kevin Lamoureux, MP, Borys Wrzesnewskyj, MP 11:51
- To Canadian Minister Peter Van Loan, MP, "Don't make my mother come to your house" 13:53
Borys Wrzesnewskyj's remarks will be available on his video channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/BorysWrzesnewskyjMP
Estonian House
http://estohouse.com
Canadian Museum For Human Rights / Le Musée canadien des droits de la personne (MCDP)
http://humanrightsmuseum.ca
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Video by UkeTube - Ukrainian Video
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She tells the truth !!
LoveUkrainianMusic 11 months ago
Why would a museum have anything to say about East Europe when our schools do not?
edweb2006 11 months ago
Excellent.
Kobzatoronto 11 months ago
Superb talk ! A well-deserved standing ovation !
IreneLZB 11 months ago