The Office of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was the one that extended an invitation to Ukrainian Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka to appear before the country’s House of Commons (HoC) in September, the Russian Embassy in Ottawa said on Tuesday.
The Deschenes Commission was given a remit framed to ensure it would produce a whitewash. Ottawa would not tolerate the disruption of the close political relations it had developed over decades with the Nazis’ Ukrainian far-right collaborators.
The broad sweep of history often frowns upon recounting the horrors of Nazism, Fascism, xenophobia, and other extremist ideologies. Yet, these reprehensible tendencies are re-emerging in societies that once combated such aberrations. This begs the question: How can this issue be tackled?
The UCC has responded to the political firestorm triggered by the Canadian parliament’s standing ovation for the Nazi war criminal Hunka by forthrightly defending him and the “all-Ukrainian” Waffen-SS Galicia Division.
After the standing ovation for Nazi collaborator Yaroslav Hunka by the Canadian parliament, the Waffen SS Galicia division has been openly glorified on Ukrainian television.