Speaker Pleads Ignorance After Leading Zelensky and Trudeau in Tribute to Nazi SS Soldier
Speaker Anthony Rota introduced 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka during a special session at Parliament Hill on Friday attended by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, describing “Ukrainian hero, Canadian hero” Hunka as one who had “fought [for] Ukrainian independence against the Russians” in the Second World War.Having done so, the chamber came to its feet — including Zelensky and Trudeau — and gave sustained applause with whooping cheers, twice.
Yet Hunka was quickly identified as a former member of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), a notorious paramilitary formation which the Polish ambassador to Canada said on Sunday was “responsible for murdering thousands of Poles & Jews”.
The Waffen-SS was a paramilitary fighting force of the NSDAP, which was led by the ideologically most devoted Nazis in the Second World War. As well as units manned by party-loyal ethnic Germans, it also created volunteer corps, divisions, brigades, and legions recruited from foreign nations and collaborationists. Some of these groups became notorious for being among the most brutal Nazi units and many were executed after the war.
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The Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan) were opposed by the Allied Powers (led by Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union). Five other nations joined the Axis during World War II: Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Croatia. The decline and fall of the Axis alliance began in 1943.
ReplyDeleteUkraine was invaded by Germany no Ukrainians went to Berlin of Munich to sign up to be Nazis it was war and it was the ugly. Communists were just as bad look at its history yet a couple thousand Ukrainians joined up after being invaded to fight the Soviet communists thinking they would eventually be free of the commies, well shame on them . The Japs killed many Americans but we forgave them, The Fasicst Italians killed many Alies but hey it’s ok we love pizza! Get real!
This is a perfect example of the fact that not all NAZI's were German.
ReplyDeleteMany Ukrainians were Nazi's and antisemitic.
Further, it demonstrates that Zelensky is an idiot!
@12:33--get "real" about what?
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