Putin's grandfather was a servant/cook for Lenin and then Stalin,  Putin's father was an NKVD man, and the son, of course, is a war criminal/ex-KBG man turned billionaire and president for life of the so-called 'Russian Federation.' That's a genealogy worth being concerned about. That Ms Freeland's grandfather served on the editorial board of a newspaper published during the Nazi occupation of Ukraine does not make him a "Nazi" (no Ukrainian ever could be a member of the NSDAP, as Ukrainians were considered to be untermenschen, i.e. subhumans) or even pro-Nazi. In fact there is some evidence to suggest the editors used their positions to help the Ukrainian nationalist resistance to the Nazi occupation (and later against the Soviet re-occupation of western Ukraine). To  imply Ms Freeland is questioning Russian imperialism because of who her grandfather may have been is sheer nonsense - the Government of Canada has taken a principled position against Russian aggression. Good for Canada!