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Many historians will tell you that what we've witnessed over the last several days is history coming back to bite Canada — specifically over its refusal down the decades to acknowledge or own up to the decisions that allowed Yaroslav Hunka, who served with the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), to immigrate to Canada in the 1950s.
The sight of a former serviceman for a Nazi-commanded unit, consisting mostly of thousands of ethnic Ukrainians, being applauded in the House of Commons has created all sorts of rancour:
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It's also renewed focus on the fact that several hundred or more former members of this unit were welcomed into Canada with the government's blessing.
Zelensky is Jewish, and many of his relatives were killed by the Nazis. His government says it has excised extremist elements from its ranks, most notably within the Azov Battalion.But Russian President Vladimir Putin has used the 'denazification' of Ukraine as a pretext for his invasion, part of a long-standing propaganda effort to sow disinformation, delegitimize Ukrainian nationalism and distort history for his political purposes.
The sight of a former serviceman for a Nazi-commanded unit, consisting mostly of thousands of ethnic Ukrainians, being applauded in the House of Commons has created all sorts of rancour:
...
It's also renewed focus on the fact that several hundred or more former members of this unit were welcomed into Canada with the government's blessing.
Many historians will tell you that what we've witnessed over the last several days is history coming back to bite Canada — specifically over its refusal down the decades to acknowledge or own up to the decisions that allowed Yaroslav Hunka, who served with the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), to immigrate to Canada in the 1950s.
Zelensky is Jewish, and many of his relatives were killed by the Nazis. His government says it has excised extremist elements from its ranks, most notably within the Azov Battalion.But Russian President Vladimir Putin has used the 'denazification' of Ukraine as a pretext for his invasion, part of a long-standing propaganda effort to sow disinformation, delegitimize Ukrainian nationalism and distort history for his political purposes.
