Posted on 09/25/2023 9:48:03 AM PDT by Kazan
The trip to Canada by Ukrainian President Zelensky was meant to divert from his lackluster United Nations and US Congress appearances, and give Kiev some semblance of a victorious Foreign Relations moment.
To do that, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau had his guest come to a special Parliament session, in which ‘he was interrupted by standing ovations seven times’ – as the MSM lore goes.
However, Zelensky and Trudeau have unwittingly detonated a PR bomb that is hurting both of their reputations, and exposed the horrible reality of the Nazi ties of the Ukrainian ‘banderite’ regime.
The unforced error was to bring 98-year-old Ukrainian immigrant Yaroslav Hunka, who fought for the First Ukrainian Division. That Nazi division was also known as the Waffen-SS Galicia Division.
Yes, all the parliament honored a Nazi with a stand-up ovation.
Fox News reported:
“Canadian Jewish organizations and social media critics are slamming the Canadian Parliament for giving a man who fought for the Nazis a standing ovation during an event featuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the country.
‘FSWC is appalled that Canada’s Parliament gave a standing ovation to a Ukrainian veteran who served in a Nazi military unit during the Second World War implicated in the mass murder of Jews and others. An apology and explanation is owed’, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Canadian nonprofit dedicated to educating people on the Holocaust, wrote on X, previously known as Twitter.”
Parliament erupted into cheers honoring Yaroslav Hunka, which fought for the Nazis as its paramilitary arm.
“‘The fact that a veteran who served in a Nazi military unit was invited to and given a standing ovation in Parliament is shocking. At a time of rising antisemitism and Holocaust distortion, it is incredibly disturbing to see Canada’s Parliament rise to applaud an individual who was a member of a unit in the Waffen-SS, a Nazi military branch responsible for the murder of Jews and others and that was declared a criminal organization during the Nuremberg Trials’, the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center continued in their statement.”
Social media erupted condemning the Canadian House for celebrating Hunka, who some called a ‘literal Nazi’ and ‘monster’.
Trudeau, guess what? Deflected and laid the blame elsewhere. In this case, with the Speaker of the House.
“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office said in a statement to Fox News Digital on Sunday that the ‘Speaker of the House has apologized and accepted full responsibility for issuing the invitation and for the recognition in Parliament’.”
But it’s too late: the cat is out of the bag, and everyone is getting to know about the reality of Nazis in Ukraine
Speaker of the House Anthony Rota apologized Sunday for honoring Hunka.
CBC reported:
“‘I have subsequently become aware of more information which causes me to regret my decision to [honour Hunka]. I wish to make clear that no one, including fellow parliamentarians and the Ukraine delegation, was aware of my intention or of my remarks before I delivered them’, Rota said.
‘I particularly want to extend my deepest apologies to Jewish communities in Canada and around the world’, he added.”
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused Trudeau of being responsible, and called for him to apologize.
Sputnik reported:
“Canadian opposition leader Pierre Poilievre demanded a personal apology from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for inviting and honoring Ukrainian Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka, who fought in the ranks of the 14th SS Division during the Second World War, to a parliamentary meeting on Friday.
[…] “No parliamentarians (other than Justin Trudeau) had the opportunity to vet this individual’s past before he was introduced and honoured on the floor of the House of Commons. Without warning or context, it was impossible for any parliamentarian in the room (other than Mr. Trudeau) to know of this dark past. Mr. Trudeau must personally apologize and avoid passing the blame to others as he always does,” Poilievre said on X, formerly known as Twitter.”
Wow!
I will never deny the commies were truly evil.
American Thinker must be the last blog in the world to figure out that this is Europe’s war for the Ukraine’s natural resources.
It is nothing more than the nascent Fourth Reich versus the resurgent Russian Empire — and has been from the very start.
bad reporting BS ... not surprising you rushed to post it
in fact, the Nazi was brought in by House Speaker Anthony Rota, Trudeau and Zelinsky knew nothing about it
now that Speaker is being asked to resign
if you want to make a charge, make sure you accuse the correct person
Pretty sure various ethnic groups in what is now the Ukraine were staging pogroms against Jews well before the rise of the Third Reich.
He has dressed up in blackface, wonder if he ever dressed up like a Nazi?
It would be better to just let it all alone. The dude was honored as a liberator, not a Jew murderer.
“And, how ridiculous has it been here for neocons to deny the obvious and well-documented ties between Ukraine and neo-Nazism?”
Projecting much? I don’t recall any of the pro-Soviet posters on here being honest about how much they love Soviet revanchism, the Red Star, the Red Banner, the Internationale, the State Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Red Army, or any of the other trappings of the USSR that Putin has dragged forth from the grave.
“NDP calls on Speaker Anthony Rota to resign for honouring man who fought for Nazis”
https://nationalpost.com/news/speaker-anthony-rota-nazi-controversy
Interesting about the "Trudeau and Zelinsky knew nothing about it" part. Have you a citation to detail that?
So a parliament standing on cue and cheering for some individual because some Liberal Party apparatchik orchestrates the mess is just because ultimately it's show business.
Maybe a Canadian conservative can straighten things out.
People don’t realize how they have been coerced by the media’s vilification of Russia and beatification of St Zelensky.
Perhaps you will be proven correct. Distrust of Liberals and liberals makes one very wary....
That all might be true, ask yourself, when someone says they were a “Freedom Fighter” from Ukraine who fought against the Russians in WW II, who exactly were they fight with ???
If they were fighting against the Russians, at the very least they were partisans fighting with the Nazis.
For any kind of astute politician, the obvious question would be, what kind of Freedom Fighter was this guy.
Yaroslav Hunka, 98, volunteered for the Waffen SS in 1943, he voluntarily posted information about himself and pictures of himself in training and in the field with his Waffen SS unit.
He wasn’t trying to hide who he was, a 5 minute google search could have uncovered this guy’s past.
His Waffen SS Unit was implicated in various war crimes.
If Trudeau and the Canadian House Speaker didn’t know who this guy was, IMO, Zelensky knew for sure who this guy was, the Ukrainian people know full well who the “Freedom Fighters” of WW II were and who they fought with.
They were all smiling and clapping for him. No excuses.
Except if you read up on this guy, his Waffen SS unit was implicated in multiple war crimes against Poles and Jews.
This is his Wikipedia page, the Simon Wiesenthal Center describes his unit’s actions are particularly interesting.
If you don’t believe Wikipedia, plenty of other sources are reporting the same thing.
Pierre was clapping like a seal for him too.
Check out all the Zeepers rushing to the defense of Justine Turdeau...
What a stupid comment. Trudeau is right up there in the front, with Zelensky clapping. Do you think ANY President, with foreign dignitaries in tow, just shows up for a highly-charged parliamentary political event, not knowing every details of the proceedings? Especially for a post-modern political image soy boy like Trudeau?
Your ridiculous political propaganda is showing through again
Fixed.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.