What an absolute clown sh1t show!
@Nilgiri What are you saying
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recognize Yaroslav Hunka, who was in attendance and fought with the First Ukrainian Division in the Second World War before later immigrating to Canada, in the House of Commons on Friday.
Courageous, charismatic Volodymyr Zelenskyy cannot engineer Ukraine’s destiny on his own
The Ukraine president needs the U.S., Europe and NATO — and, yes, he needs Canada, writes Rosie Di Manno, to repel Russia’s unprovoked invasion.www.thestar.com
One can look up some of the details and references here:
14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Especially under:
1. Background, organisation, atrocities etc
2. Canadian deschenes commission
3. Legacy
There are uncomfortable things like this with many countries (Finland also comes to mind) with many organisations that cooperated with the Nazis during WW2 for set of objectives that were not congruent with the Nazi ones (w.r.t their war crimes and holocaust etc)....but rather to leverage Wehrmacht power dynamic at play on the field against a common opponent (USSR in most cases).
Of course I don't like the double standards in play (I would not applaud any group/individual that has participated in WW2 under or alongside the Nazis), but there are many in play in Canada even domestically.
All kind of elements linked to Quebec violent separatism have for example been rehabilitated now in Canada (so there is large precedent now to look the other way on such things established). But on other issues such kinds of groups are treated much more "collectively" and "permanently".
In end it depends how politically convenient this is w.r.t the populations that harbour political leverage within Canada and their perspective on such matters as its resides with them. Ukraine minority is very significant one in Canada.
Maybe folks like @UkroTurk and @Woland can offer more comment on what they think.
Honestly Ukrainians were not the only ones to collarborate with the Nazis.
Nazis had so many collarborators in Europe even extended to non Europeans like Africans, Turkish, Arabs, Indians, Caucasians and Central Asians.
And it's completely normal, I don't get why allying with (then) successful military forces like Germany is seen wrong to begin with. Any middle power wishing to share the power and grandeur of conquest would've realized that allying with Germany meant that you too could have a piece of the pie.
Nazi Germany is imo, vilified beyond belief in today's society.
Oh Canada, never stop sticking your foot in your mouth. Whenever Americans feel bad about the shit going down over here, we can look up north and feel just a bit better about ourselves that we're not quite as cucked as Canada.
Regardless of whether Nazi Germany is excessively vilified or not (I think they are vilified just enough), this dude is a former war criminal.
"But you don't know that!"
He served in the Waffen SS. What are the odds he didn't participate in their usual modus operandi of brutalizing every civilian they saw? I'd put it at 0.
Because Hitler lost. The Soviets won. If Hitler had won, the propaganda machine would have said the exact opposite. Those who say Hitler burned the Jews are probably ignoring the US's use of nuclear weapons. I'm sure there are even people in the USA who are proud of this. That crazy chief of staff almost used nuclear weapons on China. But China got off cheap. If Hitler had won, US genocides would definitely have been taught in textbooks in the regions where Germans dominated. I have no doubt about it.People applaud Soviet collaborators all the times, all in all Stalin killed more people than Hitler, why is one bad and the other good?
I think this was an exceptionally stupid move from Canada/Ukraine, it looks bad and is completely unnecessary.Courageous, charismatic Volodymyr Zelenskyy cannot engineer Ukraine’s destiny on his own
The Ukraine president needs the U.S., Europe and NATO — and, yes, he needs Canada, writes Rosie Di Manno, to repel Russia’s unprovoked invasion.www.thestar.com
One can look up some of the details and references here:
14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Especially under:
1. Background, organisation, atrocities etc
2. Canadian deschenes commission
3. Legacy
There are uncomfortable things like this with many countries (Finland also comes to mind) with many organisations that cooperated with the Nazis during WW2 for set of objectives that were not congruent with the Nazi ones (w.r.t their war crimes and holocaust etc)....but rather to leverage Wehrmacht power dynamic at play on the field against a common opponent (USSR in most cases).
Of course I don't like the double standards in play (I would not applaud any group/individual that has participated in WW2 under or alongside the Nazis), but there are many in play in Canada even domestically.
All kind of elements linked to Quebec violent separatism have for example been rehabilitated now in Canada (so there is large precedent now to look the other way on such things established). But on other issues such kinds of groups are treated much more "collectively" and "permanently".
In end it depends how politically convenient this is w.r.t the populations that harbour political leverage within Canada and their perspective on such matters as its resides with them. Ukraine minority is very significant one in Canada.
Maybe folks like @UkroTurk and @Woland can offer more comment on what they think.
Mao Tsetung was responsible of 45 mio dead people, and nobody cared.People applaud Soviet collaborators all the times, all in all Stalin killed more people than Hitler, why is one bad and the other good?
Mao Tsetung was responsible of 45 mio dead people, and nobody cared.
Like a lot...2 out of 3 industrial era biggest murderers are commies. In the case of Mao, most of them happened in only 4 years during the Great Leap Forward (1958-1962).Mao Tsetung was responsible of 45 mio dead people, and nobody cared.
Enver pashas bodycounty keeps increasing with each graph, we reached Armenians total population now, anyone who offers more?Like a lot...2 out of 3 industrial era biggest murderers are commies. In the case of Mao, most of them happened in only 4 years during the Great Leap Forward (1958-1962).
Yet today nations have diplomatic relations with the PRC, and respected its symbols and leaders.
Meanwhile Germany...