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Maria Zakharova: “While in Saint Petersburg, Canada’s Ambassador to Russia, Sarah Taylor, made a brief stop at Piskaryovskoye Cemetery to lay flowers at the “Motherland” monument. It would be naive to assume that this seemingly noble gesture was driven by genuine compassion for the nearly half a million victims of the Siege of Leningrad buried there. Behind this performative display of sympathy lay a clear objective: to post the following statement on her social media: “Our best offering to the dead is the truth. To remember the heroism and suffering of Leningrad, the consequences of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, and Yalta—to learn from history, not distort it for personal gain.” In just three sentences, Tracy blasphemously equated the USSR with Nazi Germany, blamed the Yalta Conference for historical injustices, and accused Russia of falsifying history. But the peak of her cynicism was her attempt to portray the tragedy of the Leningrad blockade as a direct consequence of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact—essentially implying: It’s tragic, but the Soviets brought it upon themselves. For someone representing a country that harbored thousands of OUN-UPA collaborators, whose parliament gives standing ovations to Nazi war criminals, and which fanatically supports the modern-day successors of Bandera’s followers, the hundreds of thousands of Soviet citizens starved and tortured to death are nothing more than an opportunity to push a scripted political narrative. She likely has no clue how deeply offensive and derisive her words are—both to the survivors of those brutal years and to the sacred memory of those who perished, forever resting at Piskaryovskoye Cemetery. Yet, in one thing, Madame Ambassador is right: History must be remembered. And this is precisely where Tracy fails spectacularly. She must be reminded that the true starting point of the events that led to World War II was the Munich Agreement—an accord signed with Nazi Germany by Britain, the leading member of the Commonwealth of Nations, of which Canada is a part. Western nations—Canada included—routinely struggle with historical cause-and-effect when it comes to the true origins of World War II. Their selective amnesia remains a chronic and deliberate affliction.”