Hunka affair is another death rattle from a Liberal government with dimmest grasp of international affairs

“Ukraine is a Nazi nation. Thats where the Nazis and SS fled to after fall of Berlin.”

The Ukraine as it was called, was a Nazi collaborator state during World War Two and The Holocaust. But it was part of the Soviet Union both before and after the war, run by Khrushchev and overseen by Stalin and the Kremlin. The Red Army presence there was enormous.

>> But it was part of the Soviet Union both before and after
>> the war, run by Khrushchev and overseen by Stalin and the
>> Kremlin. The Red Army presence there was enormous.

The original poster needs to get their geography right. Any surviving SS/Nazis took flight as far away from the Soviet Union as possible. Some ended up in the Middle East, serving as advisors to Syria and Egypt against Israel. Some went to Latin America.

Not only the Red Army, but it was chock full of Stalins NKVD/MGB secret police, who carried on their brutal repression as well as hunting down any surviving Nazi collaborators.

The Ukraine did not exist as a sovereign state after 1920 or so, when it was absorbed into the USSR. The Western Ukraine was part of Poland and was annexed by the USSR in 1939 when they invaded Poland.

We like to see history as black and white, good guys vs. bad but it is not. The fact that USSR fought and hunted down Nazis does not excuse or whitewash the horrors and crimes of Stalinism and Communistm.

The fact that anti-Communist Ukrainians like OUN-UPA, or this Hunka guy fought the Soviets and were co-belligierents with the Nazis does not excuse or whitewash any role they may have played in the mass murder of Jews, Poles, etc.

>> That’s where numerous Ukrainian former Nazi supporters fled >> to after WWII. The family of Christia Freeland is a well >> known example. The Russian anti-Communists who fought for Hitler like RONA were repatriated to the USSR by the Allies after WWII and many of them were summarily executed. The Allies kept the Ukrainian Waffen SS probably due to the Cold War sensibilities. The British planned to use them to wage an insurgency against the Soviets in Ukraine. The OUN-UPA insurgency against the Soviets continued into the 1950's.

“Ukraine is a Nazi nation. Thats where the Nazis and SS fled to after fall of Berlin.”

This is such a stupid statement as to be laughable. You’re seriously saying that after Berlin fell the remaining Nazis ran into Soviet held territory. You do realize that almost no German prisoners made it home from Russia after the war, right?

Anyone even suspected of being a Nazi in Soviet territory was hunted down ruthlessly and exterminated.

“The Vatican” is fairly nebulous. Sort of like “Chicago.”

No doubt somepeople were aware of some individual Nazis, more were aware that there were some Naxis among the Germans, and even more would have thought it likely that there were Nazis among the Germans.

On the other hand, everyone was aware that there were Jews among the Jews.zi”
“Naxi” is also a rather flexible term. The particular “Naxi in question was a member of the SS but so far there is zero evidence for him committing any war crimes.

Pope Benedict was a member of the Hitler youth because every German boy was automatically enrolled at a certain age. Yes, in some peoples’ eyes that akes him a Nzzi.

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