No KGB in Canada
It may surprise you to know that there are old KGB members alive and well in Canada. Lubomyr Luciuk argues that they should all be expelled from Canada. Now.
Lubomyr Luciuk - March 15, 2009
They called themselves Chekists -- the sword and shield of the Soviet Union. They were proud of what they were.
Some served as concentration camp guards. Others were executioners. Many were just clerks or cooks or those ordinary guys who mop up the mess after the torturers are done.
Over the years they had different names -- Cheka, OGPU, NKVD, SMERSH and, most notoriously, KGB. Yet their job description didn’t change. They were killers. They murdered whomever their masters wanted dead. Their victims numbered in the many millions.
There were decades when they were more active, years when they were less so, but they were always there. Some of their leaders were sadists, like Nikolai Yezhov, a bisexual dwarf who told Nikita Khrushchev during a Kremlin meeting that his shirtsleeves were speckled because he had spent the night torturing an “enemy of the people.” Yezhov was later shot, at Stalin’s command. In Yalta, chatting with President Roosevelt, Stalin described Lavrentii Beria, Yezhov’s successor, as “our Himmler.” Beria was later executed, on Khruschev’s orders.
Those who live by the sword die by the sword is a sharp saying. Unfortunately, it’s not always true. Not only are some veterans of Stalin’s secret police alive but they are in Canada. One could be your neighbour.
Their presence among us is not news. It has been known for years. How many there are is not certain. Probably not hundreds. Yet even one is one too many.
Remarkably, they haven’t been hiding. A few have boasted publicly about what they did. One wrote a book, obligingly including a photograph posing in his NKVD lieutenant’s uniform. Another described her role in a SMERSH execution squad.
An intrepid journalist broke this story in a national Canadian newspaper in April 2005. Yet after that original exposé all follow-up stories were spiked. Even more intriguing is how the RCMP’s War Crimes Unit, asked to investigate allegations about Communist collaborators in Canada, responded with the rather limp finding that they had insufficient evidence upon which to act. That reply took over three years to draft. Apparently when a man admits he was in the NKVD and brags about the people he did in and provides his memoirs in English in a book available in libraries across the land the Mounties don’t define that as proof of any wrongdoing. Maybe they’re waiting for Hollywood to turn the manuscript into a movie.
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