[Split Thread] Canadian Parliament Honours Former Nazi Fighter

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Posted By:Agatha

Whoops

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Speaker of Canada's House of Commons Anthony Rota on Sunday apologized for paying tribute to a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II. The bungle occurred shortly after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the House of Commons on Friday. Canadian lawmakers then gave 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka a standing ovation when Speaker Anthony Rota called attention to him. Rota introduced Hunka as a war hero who fought with the First Ukrainian Division. This division was also known as the SS 14th Waffen Division, a voluntary unit that was under the command of the Nazis.

https://www.dw.com/en/canada-house-s...ran/a-66912302

Part of a longer trend, which goes back well before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, of certain elements of the Canadian political establishment engaging in apologism and historical revisionism on behalf of the Ukrainian Waffen-SS division.

Canada (in concert with a broader British effort) famously offered refuge to some 2,000 members of the Ukrainian SS unit in the 1950s, who presumably were in fear of being rightly prosecuted as Nazi collaborators after the war by the USSR.

All SS units were declared criminal organizations in the Nuremberg trials.

Canadian MPs are tripping over themselves to distance themselves from the elderly Nazi they just honored.

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The Speaker has made it clear that he was responsible for inviting this individual to the House. The government played no role. It did not know he would be there. The PM did not meet him. I am deeply troubled this happened. I urge MPs to avoid politicizing this incident.

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