Helen Dale On Ukraine And Her Own Experience With Dishonest Fascism Allegations

Helen Dale's first novel 'The Hand That Signed The Paper' won critical acclaim and a variety of prestigious prizes like the Miles Franklin Award. Yet, what followed her heightened visibility in the public eye was not a privileged pathway to more success, but a decades-long cancel-culture witch-hunt. In her book she described the pressures on and the weaknesses of Ukrainians during WWII. Stalin committed a genocide against them only a few years earlier. The Nazis, at the time, looked like an opportunity to break free from Russian control. It is this historical dilemma Vladimir Putin weaponizes against Ukraine today. In those dark years a disproportionate number of Holocaust enablers emerged from this brutalised country. Cultures change. Ukrainians have made huge strides in the past. One very visible, and thus often repeated, example is that they voted for a president who is the descendant of survivors of both major genocides the country had seen, the Holocaust and the Holodomor.

The audio that I chopped up and rearranged into a somewhat coherent narration (while preserving Helen Dale's viewpoint integrity) was taken from two sources. The parts discussing Ukraine and its history was taken from an interview conducted by Neil Oliver. You find it following this link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXi5XWPveuk

The bulk of it comes from a conversation on the podcast 'Disaffected.' The show hosted by Joshua Slocum scrutinises the mass madness of our times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdTXUw80K8E


creative commons license images that I included:
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