Cowardly Manchester newspaper censors report on 98-year-old Ukrainian hero after ‘anti-fascist’ bullying
Posted by admin978 on March 7, 2022 · Leave a Comment
On Monday March 7th the Manchester Evening News printed a remarkable report about a 98-year-old Ukrainian hero – Iwan Kluka – who defended his homeland against a previous generation of Moscow invaders.
Mr Kluka together with fellow Ukrainian nationalists – as explained in my recent article on this site – escaped Stalin’s Red Army and their murderous KGB henchmen, taking refuge in Glossop, near Manchester.
He still drinks regularly in Stockport’s Ukrainian club, where he told the Manchester Evening News reporter: “I live here, but in my heart I am Ukrainian – that’s my country. What Putin is doing is unbelievable. It’s inhumane.”
Mr Kluka’s nephew was fighting the latest Kremlin invaders, defending his home city of Kharkiv, but is now out of touch with his family who fear he has been killed.
Now adding insult to injury, the notorious thug Matthew Collins and his cowardly colleagues at Hope not Hate have bullied the Manchester Evening News into taking down the online version of their report on Mr Kluka and his fellow Ukrainian veterans. Mr Collins once boasted of poisoning schoolchildren’s pet fish while working ‘undercover’ as an ‘antifascist’.
His latest achievement is to censor a local newspaper’s interview with a 98-year-old war hero.
Meanwhile Mr Kluka’s fellow Ukrainians – including the Azov Regiment whose official video we posted this morning – bravely continue their remarkably successful defence against Moscow aggression.
Since Hope not Hate cannot censor us, we reproduce here the opening paragraphs of the censored report as it appeared in the Manchester Evening News:
Stockport’s Ukrainian Club is alive with activity – and concern. In one room, a child’s birthday party is well underway. Another room sees Ukrainians discussing the ongoing situation, each updating one another on how their families are doing. Another group is ferrying donations up and down the stairs.
Amidst all of this is Iwan Kluka. He’s surprisingly mobile for a 98-year-old and is keen to be involved with the discussions. If anyone knows the terrible costs of war in the region, it’s Iwan.
He fought against Stalin’s Red Army as it took the country in the Second World War. Iwan was one of the lucky ones, being given refuge by the British Army in Glossop shortly after the end of the war.
He tells the Manchester Evening News that 30,000 of his fellow volunteer soldiers were executed by the Soviets after the fall of Berlin.
And now, he says, Russia’s ‘inhumane’ invasion might have claimed the life of his nephew. “It’s terrible,” he says, pausing for thought.
“I live here, but in my heart I am Ukrainian – that’s my country.
“What Putin is doing is unbelievable. It’s inhumane. What I experienced [in the 1940s]… to see those atrocities… they just don’t have any feeling for the human being.”
For Iwan, the war is not just a distressing attack on his homeland which he fought for. It’s also an attack on his family.
“I had a nephew in Kharkiv,” he explains.
“It fell. He was fighting, I think I have lost him. I cannot get in touch with him. I don’t know [if he is alive].”
Iwan also does not know how his niece is doing. He adds: “She’s in southern Ukraine. She was alright when I rang her a week ago.
“I do not know how she is today. There’s no answer.
“I feel horrible.”
