Posted on 09/26/2023 12:36:15 PM PDT by cotton1706
The leader of Canada's House of Commons resigned Tuesday for inviting to Parliament a man who fought for a Nazi military unit during World War II.
The invitation was to attend the speech given Friday by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The former Nazi soldier, 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka, received a standing ovation at the event, after being introduced by House Speaker Anthony Rota as a war hero who fought for the First Ukrainian Division, according to the Associated Press.
It was later learned the First Ukrainian Division also was known as the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, or the SS 14th Waffen Division, a voluntary unit that was under the command of the Nazis.
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They heard the word Ukrainian and everybody just clapped like seals.
They have lost the ability to independently think.
And they say that WE are in a cult!
Has anyone levied any specific criminal charges at this man or is he being charged as a member of a criminal organization (the SS)?
The wheels on the bus........
And “Russia”.
Didn’t bother asking what country he was fighting for.
Seriously.. WTH?
Did this Poli-Dufus not even consider the fact that Canada and Russia were on the SAME side during WWII?
Awww, those “nice” fascist Canadians.....
He has to step down to spare Trudeau’s sorry *ss.
On a Canadian newscast I viewed last night, they showed two different war memorials for veterans of that unit, one in Oakville Ontario and one in Edmonton. I wasn’t certain what was reported but it seems that some Canadians of Ukrainian origins already living in Canada in 1941 went over and participated in that group allied with the Germans, but with an intention of supporting an independent Ukraine if the Soviets could be driven out. The report gave reference to the famine caused by Stalin’s policies and I suppose the now disgraced speaker was not as familiar with the details of this episode of the war as he is now, but even so, one can sympathize with any desire to be free from the Soviet Union and this of course was a desire exploited in any ways by the Germans in the first part of the war in many different places. Should the speaker be forced to resign? I think it’s a bit harsh, it’s not like he knowingly endorsed Nazism, and then I would have to ask, have all of the Liberal cabinet rejected communism, if not, why is that any better?
He should have gave his resignation statement in blackface.
As I reported elsewhere, there has been a tedious eruption of virtue signalling in our political order over this, and yet nobody has actually demonstrated that the elderly war vet had any motivation beyond an understandable desire to see Stalin run out of Ukraine. Anyone who joined the Red Army would attract no criticism yet look what their record was during and after the war. (especially after) ... Justin would not criticize any of that and nor would the rest of the outraged parliament. It really annoys me to see a failure to equate Nazis and communists, equal in their destructive legacies.
Geez...The guy was probably only 17 or 18 or maybe an old man at 19 in 1945. He was just a kid forced into the Nazi army..they did that a lot at the end of the war...
No one seems to know the history of the Ukraine in the 30’s!
Have you read “American Betrayal” by Diana West?
There’s a sense in which your point is a good one, and I’d be slow to condemn him personally without knowing much more about his personal involvement, choices and actions. But this whole brouhaha isn’t really about passing judgment on him. It’s more about judging the political class (and supporting media) that jumped on the bandwagon to applaud him without knowing what it was really supporting by doing so. Or at least, we HOPE they didn’t know what they were doing. The deeper fear is they, or a good portion of them, did know and were still on board with it.
The Russians were originally on the Nazi side in WW2, with the idea of splitting Poland between them. The only reason they didn’t stay that way is Hitler broke his end of the deal.
The Nazis and Soviets had much more in common with one another than the Soviets ever had with us.
The Ukrainians first welcomed the Nazis as liberators, understandably as Stalin had pretty much tried to starve them all to death. And many were quite willing to fight on Germany’s side to keep the USSR from retaking Ukraine. Only German citizens were allowed to join the regular German army, so they joined or were drafted into the SS.
Not making a judgement on the old guy who likely had no good choices before him in those days. But SS units were very ideological and often pretty nasty. Being a veteran of such an organization should not be applauded by the Parliament of a nation who fought against them. (Neither should members of the Communist Party be applauded either—just saying.
The Speaker and the PM and the Members all should have known better.
Birds of a feather flock together.
The point is...the politician does not know history and is disqualied due to ignorance.
What a dummy....should be laughed to scorn publicly.
What do you think about the USA being allies with Stalinist Russia then?
True, people had to make hard choices....quislings, Vichy French, Marshall Petain...even anglo-hater Joe Kennedy hoped the Nazis would beat England...hard choices I tell ya’
When the mind doesn’t know what the heart will do next, the soul becomes the master and the road becomes what’s left.
We got ourselves some dumb politicians, don’t we?
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