I would be just as concerned if Freeland's maternal grandfather was a Russian propagandist during the war.  Both sides relied on propaganda to spread lies and cover their heinous crimes.  What the Russians did in Poland, Ukraine, the Baltic States, Russia, Eastern Europe, can be compared to a large extent to any crime committed by the nazis.  The Putin propagandists are in no position to point fingers considering their grandparents were allies of the nazis for the first two years of the war.  They were committing ghastly crimes, unmatched by the nazis before the war in Ukraine and Belarus.