“They want us to forget our heritage, and to fill it with a vacuum of their choosing”

There was something unusually sinister about remembrance day this year.

Below, The Rebel’s video on how it went in Toronto. And below, that, a friend of VladTepesBlog sent in her own video from the Ottawa ceremony, where people were prevented from getting close to the Cenotaph with dump trucks and armed police.

Its difficult not to agree with the man quoted in the title. This feels like full on cultural and historical negation.

Here is a good article from CanadianCitizens.Org on how this is not the first attempt to negate Remembrance Day in Canada. 

Another Remembrance Day has come and gone with the now customary attempts by the usual suspects to both negate and denigrate it. Recall last year’s attempts in the form of the countervailing “white poppy” campaign and the frenetic response to Don Cherry’s rebuke of Canadians who failed to wear a poppy (a red one). The “white peace poppy” was floated as a substitute for the red one and called for the remembrance of civilian victims of war rather than those who fought for their rights and freedoms against tyranny. In a similar fashion, the Cherry kerfuffle saw Remembrance Day being stacked up against the overriding need to place diversity and inclusivity above traditions that new Canadians might find irrelevant – if not offensive. Cherry was ridiculed, called a racist and fired for the error of his ways.

Ottawa: November 11, 2020

Thanks to Gun Goddess for the video and the photos from yesterday’s negation event of Remembrance day, and to Hellequin GB for the following quote:

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was… The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

– Milan Kundera

 

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4 Replies to ““They want us to forget our heritage, and to fill it with a vacuum of their choosing””

  1. The Last of the Romanovs | Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna
    The Romanov Royal Martyrs – September 29, 2020

    The extraordinary story of Tsar Nicholas’ sister and her journey from the palaces of St. Petersburg to death in obscurity above a barbershop in Toronto. A life full of passion and love, set at the backdrop of an entire century. She was raised at the Gatchina Palace outside Saint Petersburg. Olga was her father’s favorite, but Tsar Alexander III died when she was only 12. After the Russian Revolution, Olga escaped to Denmark with her second husband and their two sons, in February 1920, where they lived as farmers. Finally, in 1948, she relocated with her immediate family to a farm in Campbellville, Ontario, Canada. At the end of her life and afterwards, Olga was widely labeled the last Grand Duchess of Imperial Russia.

    This video is produced as part of the project for the book “The Romanov Royal Martyrs”, which is an impressive 512-page book, featuring nearly 200 black & white photographs, and a 56-page photo insert of more than 80 high-quality images, colorized by the acclaimed Russian artist Olga Shirnina (Klimbim) and appearing here in print for the first time.

  2. WTF…… couldn’t they find some tanks and armoured vehicles to keep the peasants back from showing their love and respect. Isn’t it ironic that the very person that who has no respect for our military is the guy that thinks this is a time for a photo opportunity. Who are you waving to ??

  3. The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory.
    Destroy its books, its culture, its history.
    Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was…
    The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

    Milan Kundera