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[Nparker]

On behalf of Canada, I apologize to the world for Justin's performance as Prime Minister.

[dasmo]

The ministry of truth is at work! They are looking at deleting the article on the NAZI. Look while you can do you too can experience it in real time.

https://en.m.wikiped.../Yaroslav_Hunka

[Mike K.]

When the atrocities happened, the sky was blue, the birds sang, people had dreams, they had aspirations... not much different from today.

 

Life is precious. Make friends, try to be nice, and guide those around you to making good decision for themselves, and in doing so, for their community. We are not that different, even though in the moment, faced with something unfamiliar, we might think we are.

 

[LJ]

I watched the documentary Ordinary Men the other day, eye-opening to say the least.

[dasmo]

When the atrocities happened, the sky was blue, the birds sang, people had dreams, they had aspirations... not much different from today.

 

Life is precious. Make friends, try to be nice, and guide those around you to making good decision for themselves, and in doing so, for their community. We are not that different, even though in the moment, faced with something unfamiliar, we might think we are.

 

Except for those in the camps.... But I fell ya. Life is beautiful. https://youtu.be/9lT...FEPo997ukso7KRI

[dasmo]

University of Alberta closes endowment fund named after Nazi veteran recognized in the House of Commons

https://x.com/ctvnew...QrcObpkhVXe97Jg

[Victoria Watcher]

The president of the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada is defending a Second World War veteran of a Nazi unit who was recently lauded as a hero in Canada’s Parliament.

 

Jurij Klufas has not met 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka but says the veteran is being treated unfairly. He says Hunka was fighting for Ukraine – not Germany – and that countries, including Canada, have cleared his division of war crimes.

 

“If you’re a soldier doesn’t mean you’re a member of a certain party from the country,” Klufas said Friday in a phone interview. “In this case, the senior gentleman here was a soldier, in his understanding, fighting for Ukraine.”

 

Hunka received a standing ovation in the House of Commons on Sept. 22 after being introduced by the Speaker as “a Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero’' during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Ottawa.

 

The incident drew widespread international criticism after it was revealed Hunka was a member of a mostly volunteer unit created by the Nazis to fight the Soviet Union. The revelation forced the resignation of Anthony Rota as Speaker and an apology on behalf of Parliament by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

 

Ivan Katchanovski, a Ukrainian-Canadian political science professor at the University of Ottawa, says the actions of Hunka’s Waffen-SS Galicia Division have been “whitewashed” in Canada.

 

He says supporters have tried to present the division as a patriotic Ukrainian force despite the fact it collaborated with Nazis and was involved in a variety of atrocities, including the killings of Jews, Ukrainians and Poles.

 

“They represent this division as fighting not for Nazi Germany, but fighting for Ukrainian independence, even though there was never any opportunity to fight for any Ukrainian independence,” he said. “They were fighting under German command until the end of World War II.”

 

He said the heroic interpretation is particularly prevalent in Canada, where many of the division's members immigrated under a controversial process that was opposed by Jewish groups.

 

 

 

https://www.theglobe...ought-for-unit/