Who Brought Him? Who Knew? Liberal Lies Unravelling Fast...
"... No one thought to ask Karina Gould if she had met with this guy and posted it to her gram prior to sending her out to communicate the government knew nothing about it..."
https://twitter.com/MichelleRempel/status/1706068559275684350
Owen Schalk: World War II Revisionism on Full Display in Nazi's Visit To Parliament
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/world-war-two-revisionism-on...
"...Hunka is unrepentant about the years he spent fighting for Hitler's Germany. He proudly posted photographs of himself in uniform on a blog for Ukrainian veterans of the [SS] division.
In another post, Hunka describes the period under Nazi occupation from 1941 to 1943 as 'the happiest years of my life.'
Now that the media is reporting on the Canadian government's celebration of a Nazi, politicians are rushing to assign blame.
Parliament's decision to honour a Nazi can be viewed as the latest stage in a national attempt to rewrite the history of the Second World War to serve contemporary political objectives. It is fitting that Hunka was introduced as someone who 'fought against the Russians.'
Which Russians he was fighting, which army he was serving and why, seem to be irrelevant to the House. The simple fact he fought Russia at some time, for any reason, is enough to merit a laudatory welcome.
Many of those who honoured Hunka are self-described liberals [or 'left progressives'] who claim to value democracy, human rights and the protection of the marginalized above all.
But the Canadian government's tendency to twist history to suit contemporary political aims - namely the demonization of all things Russian - has led them toward a startling kinship with an unrepentant Nazi.
Strange bedfellows? Hardly. Canadian leaders have long excused the crimes of Ukrainian Nazi collaborators, and long courted the support of far-right European diaspora communities.
Friday's appalling display in the House is the predictable culmination of decades of deliberate government policy."
Foreign Media Are Widely Reporting Canada's Parliament Gave A Standing Ovation To a Nazi Collaborator
https://twitter.com/dimitrilascaris/status/1706216784741675392
"...Meanwhile, Trudeau, Poilievre [,Singh] and other MPs point fingers at each other.
They are pathologically incapable of taking responsibility for their own disgraceful conduct."
It appears that this was the Speaker's screw up. I wouldn't even accuse PP of knowingly applauding a member of the waffen ss.
Anthony Rota should resign or be replaced. In Canada we should completely oppose authoritarianism, fascism, or Nazism.
David Doel has a pretty good run down on this case.
To be realistic, it's unlikely that many in parliament would have known the man they applauded was a Nazi.
Yet few, if any, would have cared at all except for that embarrassing exposure for their "virtue" signalling applause for NATO's proxy war with Russia.
Canada post-WWII brought in, deliberately, droves of Ukrainian Nazi's to suppress leftist Ukrainians and others and that has never been an issue for any subsequent Canadian Governments, where only votes and backers count, so it is hardly surprising that Hunka's past would never be scrutinized. Business as usual.
"....The Jewish News of North California reported that the Canadian government admitted more than 2,000 Ukrainian members of the Nazi 14th SS Division in the 1950s. This was done to crush the burgeoning leftist Ukrainian diaspora that was building up during the previous few years.
One way of getting into postwar Canada "was by showing the SS tattoo," Canadian historian Irving Abella told 60 Minutes interviewer Mike Wallace in 1997. "This proved that you were an anti-Communist." ...."
https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/ukcdnm
Were it not for Jewish groups being irritated, Hunka's past might have been labelled "Russian disinformation" just like Freeland did when her beloved Nazi grandfather became news.
House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota is apologizing for honouring a man who fought for a Nazi unit in the Second World War. Rota took full responsibility for the incident and said no other parliamentarians nor the Ukrainian delegation were aware of his intentions. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)
Speaker of the House Anthony Rota apologized Sunday for honouring a man who fought in a Nazi unit during the Second World War.
Rota was responding to condemnation from Jewish groups and others stemming from a moment during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to Parliament on Friday. During the visit, Rota said Yaroslav Hunka was "a Ukrainian hero, a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service."
Those gathered in the House responded with applause and a standing ovation.
"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.
Rota said he accepted "full responsibility" for his actions.
Hunka, 98, was part of the First Ukrainian Division, also known as the Waffen-SS Galicia Division or the SS 14th Waffen Division, a voluntary unit that was under the command of the Nazis.
CBC News has attempted to contact Hunka and his family for comment, but have not been successful.
"The independent Speaker of the House has apologized and accepted full responsibility for issuing the invitation and for the recognition in Parliament. This was the right thing to do," said a PMO spokesperson.
The event was broadcast internationally, including by CBC.
Government House Leader Karina Gould also said Sunday that the government did not know about Hunka's presence.
"The PM did not meet him. I am deeply troubled this happened. I urge MPs to avoid politicizing this incident," she said in a statement on social media.
Jewish groups and others had raised the alarm about Hunka's past actions.
"The fact that this individual, and by proxy the organization he was a member of, was given a standing ovation in the House of Commons is deeply troubling," Dan Panneton, a director with the Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center, told CBC News on Sunday.
"I think association with this unit makes you a Nazi collaborator. To be part of this unit, you swore allegiance to Hitler and you were involved with the massacre of civilians. So it doesn't matter if you try and claim that you were defending against communism, you were still involved with the Nazi war machine. That makes you complicit," he said.
Panneton said he believes that solidarity with Ukraine in its fight against Russian invasion is incredibly important.
"However, solidarity cannot tolerate the distortion or outright celebration of Nazi collaboration or war crimes. So in future events, people have to be a lot more careful about who they're associating with when they're expressing support and solidarity for the very just cause of Ukraine," he said.
In a statement on Friday, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre accused the prime minister of being responsible for the incident and called for him to apologize. The Prime Minister's Office says it was Rota's office who was in charge of Hunka's invitation.
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh issued a statement Sunday saying his party shared the concerns of those condemning the incident and noting that the NDP was not aware of the man's background at the time of the visit.
'Obviously the optics are not good,' historian says
Dominique Arel, chair of Ukrainian studies at the University of Ottawa, told CBC News on Sunday that the division Hunka was part of had attracted thousands of Ukrainian volunteers, many joining with hopes they could achieve Ukrainian independence.
Only Germans from Germany itself were able to fight in the German army, Arel explained, so non-German volunteers who believed in Nazi aims or sought to use Nazi power for their own ends were organized into SS divisions.
"We have the issue of symbolism here, the optics of serving in a military unit whose logo is that of arguably the greatest criminal organization in the 20th century ... So obviously the optics are not good."
Arel said it was difficult to determine whether specific groups of a division had committed any atrocities, though he did say that by the time Hunka's division would have reached the Eastern Front in 1944 after training in Germany, Nazi operations related to the Holocaust in the area would have already concluded.
Arel said there was an extremely "complex, if not somewhat dark legacy" left by Ukrainian nationalist movements at the time of the Second World War that sometimes adhered to far-right ideologies and collaborated with the Nazis against the Soviet Union.
"For them, the ultimate evil was Moscow occupation," Arel said.
"They were ready to fight for what they believed to be their own independence. That's the take-away from between today and then. But the association with the SS and the constant use of symbolism to this day, that is highly problematic."
In 1985, then-prime minister Brian Mulroney called for a royal commission to examine whether Canada had become a haven for war criminals.
The Deschênes Commission found there were about 600 former members of the Waffen-SS Galicia Division living in Canada at the time. But Justice Jules Deschênes said membership in the division did not itself constitute a war crime.
Arel said the commission had found there was no evidence the division was implicated in atrocities specifically against Jews, though the division was implicated in later attacks on Polish civilians.
Shame on the Nazi apologists.
Harper's Deschene Commission (and the state-servile CBC now parroting it) is a whitewash.
Whitewashing The SS: The Attempt to Re-Write the History of Hitler’s Collaborators
October 30, 2020
By David Pugliese
"....
At the time critics labelled the commission’s report as a whitewash. The decades since have further reinforced that view as additional information about the 14th SS Division Galicia’s war crimes have emerged.
Deschênes either ignored or appeared to be unaware the Waffen SS – which the Galician Division was part of – had been declared a criminal organization by the International Military Tribunal during the Nuremberg Trials. This omission is particularly incredible as Canada participated as one of the allied nations in the prosecution of war criminals at the Nuremberg Trials and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King actually visited the court and attended some of the trials.
Even a cursory glance at SS Galicia reveals its links to the Nazi campaign of destruction against the Jews and murder of civilians. Its commander was Oberfuhrer Fritz Freitag, a fanatical Nazi, who was directly involved in the mass murder of Jews.
Among the commanding officers of SS Galicia was Ukrainian-born SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Heinrich Wiens, who served with the Einsatzgruppen D murder squad and personally took part in mass executions of Jews. Another division officer, SS Obersturm-bannfuhrer Franz Magall, was also a seasoned killer of Jews...."
http://espritdecorps.ca/history-feature/whitewashing-the-ss-the-attempt-...
Clearly, the government is embarrassed by this exposure and would not have had Hanuk up there if they had anticipated the result.
The gormless Rota takes the fall but I doubt he was given this heads up by Freeland, or anyone else in the know:
"Check the actual background of any Ukrainian figure from WWII because post-war Canada intentionally brought in thousands of Nazis." The hiding of Ukrainian Nazi culture in Canada goes right to the top of the political food chain.
Although there are public apologies and remedial actions for other criminal behaviour of past Canadian Governments, there are no apologies for the deliberate import of thousands of Nazis into Canada for political action, and certainly no remedial behaviour, not even a Government suggestion to remove SS monuments from Canadian soil. The proud Ukrainian descendent of one Nazi import will likely be the next Prime Minister.
NDP, Bloc call on Rota to resign over invitation to man who fought for Nazis
https://www.ipolitics.ca/news/ndp-bloc-call-on-rota-to-resign-over-invit...
An interesting take from the British left is this video from Novara Media.
Rota said he accepted "full responsibility" for his actions.
Wow. He accepted responsibility for his own actions. How noble.
Our parliamentarians clap for Nazi's if they hate Russia and love activists from Khalistan and East Turkestan.
I think that maybe we need a political party in the House that has a better foreign affairs bureau. They all seem to get the same memos from the spooks and believe little else.
Ready Aye Ready to serve the empire.
Rota said he accepted "full responsibility" for his actions.Wow. He accepted responsibility for his own actions. How noble.
"The gormless Rota takes the fall, but I doubt he was given this heads up by Freeland, or anyone else in the know:
"Check the actual background of any Ukrainian figure from WWII because post-war Canada intentionally brought in thousands of Nazis." The hiding of Ukrainian Nazi culture in Canada goes right to the top of the political food chain."
If we had an independent major media it would welcome the oversight as a journalistic opportunity to dig into the ugly truth.
But I have to admit I prematurely and mistakenly said:
"Were it not for Jewish groups being irritated, Hunka's past might have been labelled "Russian disinformation" just like Freeland did when her beloved Nazi grandfather became news."
But no, it worked before so it will work again:
@KanekoaTheGreat
"NEW - Justin Trudeau blames Russian propaganda for Canadian Parliament honoring a Nazi.
"Obviously, it's extremely upsetting that this happened... this is something that is deeply embarrassing to the Parliament of Canada...
It's going to be really important that all of us push back against Russian propaganda, Russian disinformation, and continue our steadfast and unequivocal support for Ukraine.” [with Truedeau video]
What does Russian propaganda have to do with Trudeau honoring a Nazi in Canadian Parliament?"
https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1706391596869226981
Canadian Parliament and PM Give Standing Ovation to Ukrainian Nazi
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/25/lapr-s25.html
"...There is every reason to believe that at least some high level elements in the government and their allies in the Ukrainian Canadian Congress wanted to use Zelensky's visit to further their longstanding efforts to promote and publicly honor the far-right Ukrainian nationalists who collaborated with the Nazis.
No doubt they calculated that in this they would have allies in Zelensky and his entourage. After all, the Ukrainian regime openly celebrates Stepan Bandera, his OUN (B) and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UIA), which in their drive for an ethnically 'pure' Ukraine, participated in the Holocaust and Hitler's 'war of externals' against the USSR. And it has incorporated the Azov Battalion and his UIA into the Ukraine military and security services.
According to some reports, there were plans for Trudeau and Zelensky to meet with Hunka. The SS veteran did meet with the aforementioned Government House Leader Gould. If truth be told, there were many people in attendance, beginning with Zelensky and Deputy PM Freeland, who would have immediately known from Rota's description of him that Hunka was a fascist. That he was either a member of the Waffen SS or of Bandera's OUN B and its UIA.
The Canadian state, as the WSWS has extensively documented, has a three-quarter century association with the Ukrainian far-right. Following WWII, it provided safe haven to tens of thousands of Nazi collaborators from both factions of the OUN, helped them whitewash their crimes, and used them as tools of its Cold War policy, including against leftist influence within Canada's large Ukrainian community. Ottawa also allowed some 2,000 former members of the Galizien Division, Hunka included, to come to Canada.
The UCC has served for years as the nexus of a network of Ukrainian cultural organizations and academic study programs aimed at promoting a far-right, virulently anti-communist and anti-Russian Ukrainian nationalism.
Following the Stalinist bureaucracy's dissolution of the USSR, it played a major role, with Canadian government support, in reinjecting far-right nationalism into Ukraine, and has come to play an ever more important and provocative role in Canada's foreign policy.
It need by added that the UCC has long defended and advocated for the Waffen SS veterans. Hunka is himself active in the UCC, and an endowment fund has been set up in his name and that of his late wife at the University of Alberta's Canadian Institute for Ukrainian Studies.
The alliance between Canadian imperialism and the Ukrainian far-right is embodied in the current government's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland, who from an early age was enrolled in UCC youth groups. He maternal grandfather, Mikhalio Chomiak, was the editor of Krakivski Visti, the only Ukrainian newspaper allowed to appear under Nazi occupation. It published a constant stream of anti-Semitic incitement and campaigned for the creation of the Ukrainian-manned SS division.
The most fervent war-hawk in the government, Freeland has spoken frequently and lovingly of how her grandfather schooled her in Ukrainian culture and nationalism. When reports of her grandfather's role as a Nazi collaborator first surfaced, the political establishment and corporate media joined her in denouncing them as Russian 'disinformation'.
The Canadian elite, like that of its NATO allies, tries to hide the predatory strategic interests animating its ever-escalating war on Russia with claims it is defending Ukrainian 'democracy' and 'sovereignty.' The ultra-reactionary forces upon which it relies to ideologically and militarily wage this war - as underscored by Friday's standing ovations for a Nazi SS veteran and honored member of the pro-Banderite UCC-however, serve to illustrate its true character."
Hunka, Yaroslav
https://www.ucc.ca/donor/hunka-yaroslav
"Membership: Friends of UCC."
Chrystia Freeland Knew
https://twitter.com/c_l_g_c_a/status/1706120285173219340
"Chrystia Freeland knew. She's the darling of the UCC. SS Yaroslav is a member. She knew. She must make a statement.
We didn't press her on her grandfather (She said it was Russian misinformation to destabilize our 'democracy) and we didn't press her on holding the OUN flag (she said she didn't know what she was holding). We must press her on this."
Russia Will Ask Canada to Explain Decision to Honor Nazi
https://sputnikglobe.com/20230925/russian-ambassador-canadian-govt-honor...
Russia's Ambassador to Canada Oleg Stepanov told Sputnik that on Monday he would request explanations from the Canadian Foreign Ministry and the Prime Minister's office in connection with the invitation and honoring in the country's parliament of Ukrainian Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka.
At the same time, Stepanov noted that he has no illusions about the response of the Canadian government as it has become 'a nest for Nazi criminals.'
'We of course, will make the necessary demarche, but I have no illusions because it is impossible to do business with the current Trudeau cabinet, which is the personification of neo-liberal fascism,' Stepanov said.
I believe that this is not a mistake. This is simply a consequence of the impunity of former Nazi criminals, the impunity of the activities of the Canadian Ukrainian Congress..."
It's Just Preposterous, It's a Farce (and vid)
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1706433396287926537
"It is outrageous. Not only to the world but especially Canada's sons and daughters during the Second World War that liberated Europe from Nazis.
I can believe some members of the Parliament who applauded were ignorant of history, but I'm sure the top federal authorities of Canada, PM Trudeau and Madame Freeland were aware of who Mr Hunka was.
Especially appalling to me was seeing the Canadian Chief of National Defence, General Wayne Eyre applauding that guy practically right next to him.
To see the top brass of the Canadian Army - a member of the anti-Hitler coalition applauding a former SS henchman is just incomprehensible."
It shouldn't be...
https://twitter.com/herulerna/status/913468028741996545
Chrystia Knows...
https://twitter.com/StrikePoster/status/1706185887720104275
"Chrystia Freeland has a bachelor's degree in Russian history, a Master's in Slavonic Studies, and is unrepentant about her Nazi collaborator grandfather.
There's NO WAY she doesn't know what it means for someone to have 'fought against the Russians in WWII'...And yet..."
"MP Rachel Thomas says the guest list prior to Friday was known and vetted."
https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1706429009595445620
UN Censures Canada Over Celebration of Ukrainian WWII Nazi
https://www.rt.com/news/583552-un-canada-nazi-veteran-celebration/
"The UN has weighed in on the recent Nazi veteran celebration scandal in Canada. The spokesman for UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, Stephane Dujarric told journalists that, 'We of course stand against any honoring of people who actually took part in Nazi activities during the Second World War..."
Except Kurt Waldheim.
That's true.
Hard to believe that Freeland didn't know.
Russia Will Ask Canada to Explain Decision to Honor Nazi
Well isn't that cute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military_parade_in_B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo%E2%80%93NKVD_conferences
The people of Poland do not share in Canada's love for all things Ukrainian. He like other Ukrainian Nazi's before him will likely die before he is brought to justice.
Rota is a fall guy. How was he too know that an acclaimed member of the Ukrainian community considered a patriarch could also be a former SS member. It's not like Freeland would have told him.
"A Polish government minister has launched a bid to extradite Yaroslav Hunka, the 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian man who fought in a German-Nazi division during World War Two and last week received a standing ovation in Canada’s parliament.
“In view of the scandalous events in the Canadian parliament, which involved honouring, in the presence of President Zelensky, a member of the criminal Nazi SS Galizien formation, I have taken steps towards the possible extradition of this man to Poland,” announced education minister Przemysław Czarnek.
He published a copy of a letter he has sent to the head of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) – a state historical body that has prosecutorial powers – asking him to “urgently [establish] whether Yaroslav Hunka is wanted for crimes against the Polish nation or Poles of Jewish origin”.
“Such crimes constitute grounds for applying to Canada for his extradition,” added Czarnek in the letter."
https://notesfrompoland.com/2023/09/26/poland-may-seek-extradition-of-uk...
<p>The people of Poland do not share in Canada's love for all things Ukrainian.
Maybe not, but do you know who they really don't share a love for?
The people who showed up to the Katyn genocide site and demonstrated that they had the power to bulldoze it, but wouldn't because they are "good people".
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1514897354364698626?lang=en
Sure Morasiwcki warned Zelensky this week to never make fun of Poles again, but he also knows who the real threat is.
Speaking of which, guess who put the brakes on Polish resentment at the time when it was not politically helpful.
Paweł Machcewicz from the Polish Institute of National Remembrance suggests two reasons why, up until the collapse of communism, censorship blocked the subject of the massacres of Poles in Volhynia and Eastern Galicia perpetrated by the OUN-UPA:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historiography_of_the_Volyn_tragedy
Now that the former East Bloc countries want fuck all to do with their former occupier it is a totally different story, and all of a sudden Russia is the uncompromising bulwark against Nazism.
Except when they were helping Hitler try to win the Second World War, that is.
"A Polish government minister has launched a bid to extradite Yaroslav Hunka, the 98-year-old Ukrainian-Canadian man who fought in a German-Nazi division during World War Two and last week received a standing ovation in Canada’s parliament.“In view of the scandalous events in the Canadian parliament, which involved honouring, in the presence of President Zelensky, a member of the criminal Nazi SS Galizien formation, I have taken steps towards the possible extradition of this man to Poland,” announced education minister Przemysław Czarnek.
He published a copy of a letter he has sent to the head of the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) – a state historical body that has prosecutorial powers – asking him to “urgently [establish] whether Yaroslav Hunka is wanted for crimes against the Polish nation or Poles of Jewish origin”.
“Such crimes constitute grounds for applying to Canada for his extradition,” added Czarnek in the letter."
Seems like a swell guy, this Czarnek. Proud to have him on the side of anti-fascists. Maybe he'll be the next to get a double standing ovation. /s
"Czarnek is a controversial figure in Poland, with a history of coming under fire for making anti LGBTQ comments. According to the English language Polish news website Notes From Poland, last year he had to retract a statement linking the LGBTQ rights movement with Nazism.Czarnek is a member of Poland's ruling Law and Justice party
, along with Poland's right-wing president Andrzej Duda, who was re-elected last year on a platform condemning LGBT "ideology".Czarnek also has been criticized for describing a memorial for Jews killed by Poles during the Holocaust as an "anti-Polish scandal" and calling for the removal of the memorial created by artist Dorota Nieznalska.
According to the Polish government website, Czarnek earned a PhD from the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin in 2006."
Rota resigns
Good news. This sets a great example of opposing authoritarianism and Nazism. The world is needing more such examples of governments opposing authoritarianism.
Is Chrystia Freeland A Fraud Or A Nazi Sympathizer?
https://www.readthemaple.com/is-chrystia-freeland-a-fraud-or-a-nazi-symp...
"...Meanwhile, many MPs from several political parties have tried to justify their applause for Hunka by pointing out that they assumed he'd been vetted by the government and didn't know he was a Nazi.
This argument is suspect because while Hunka was not introduced as a Nazi, the description given of him should have made it apparent.
Rota said that Hunka was 'a Ukrainian Canadian war veteran from the Second World War who fought for Ukrainian independence against the Russians.'
Anyone with a basic understanding of the Second World War, which should include MPs, would intuitively understand that this meant Hunka was working with the Soviet Union's mortal enemy: the Nazi regime.
But for argument's sake, let's take these MPs' claim at face value. Let's assume none of them had a primitive understanding of the war, or that it's not a problem that they're willing to clap for anything and anyone framed as being against the Soviets or Russians.
There's at least one MP, who has (to the best of my knowledge) yet to say anything on the issue, for whom this excuse can't apply: Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland.
Freeland is the most powerful Ukrainian nationalist in a country full of them...And yet, despite that, or perhaps because of it, Freeland joined the rest of the MPs offering a standing ovation for Hunkel, beaming as she did so.
I don't accept the excuse MPs have offered as to why they clapped, but no such excuse can even be attempted by Freeland..."
FIRE FREELAND!
“The Soviet Union's mortal enemy: the Nazi regime.”
Except for a nearly two year period.
“The Soviet Union's mortal enemy: the Nazi regime.”Except for a nearly two year period.
And about 45 years after the war when they didn't want anyone talking about the Galicia Battalion because keeping everything quiet in the Soviet family (and not talking about whose land it really was) was more important than Nazis.
What do they really care about genocide? Look at those bulldozers.
The Holodomor,[a] also known as the Great Ukrainian Famine,[b] was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.
All of them are in on it...
"...These same MPs support billions to Ukraine, support the Azov battalion and the whitewashing of Nazis in Ukraine and wouldn't have condemned Hunka's honouring if the Canadian people and international media didn't catch on to what they did..."
Aidan Jonah: The House of Anti-Communists and the Nazi Monster it Spawned
https://www.thecanadafiles.com/articles/the-house-of-anti-communists-and...
Fascism & Imperialist War - Why Canada's Parliament Saluted A Ukrainian Nazi SS Vet
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/09/26/lkoh-s26.html
"...In response to an outpouring of public condemnation, Canada's political establishment has rallied round a cover story.
The honoring of Hunka, we are now told, was an innocent mistake for which the House of Commons Speaker Anthony Rota was solely responsible.
The claim that Rota and Trudeau were not informed of Hunka's past is absurd...The Canadian parliament's standing ovation for a Nazi war criminal was a deliberate provocation.
Friday's events were the foul outcome of the decisions now being taken by Warshington and NATO to escalate the war.
The Canadian parliament's applauding of Hunka is just the most egregious example of the fact that the escalation of the war has been accompanied by a systematic effort to rehabilitate Ukrainian fascism...
Rota resigns
Good news. This sets a great example of opposing authoritarianism and Nazism. The world is needing more such examples of governments opposing authoritarianism.
What a shameless and laughable attempt to hide reality and provide cover for Canada's Nazis--scapegoating the clueless and uninformed Rota in order to hide the depth of Canada's decades long, and continuing, pro-Nazi policy.
As if if Rota was responsible for intentionally bringing thousands of Nazis into Canada, or is responsible for the current Government pretending monuments honouring the Ukrainian SS in Canada is "Russian disinformation".
Somewhat surprisingly, the National Post allowed an article that approached the truth.
Canada’s long history of soft-pedalling the Ukrainian Waffen-SS Galicia Division
Canada has spent decades overlooking and providing official cover for the Waffen-SS Galicia Division, an organization founded by the Nazis
Author of the article:
Tristin Hopper
Published Sep 25, 2023
If Canada was ever going to embarrass itself by having its Parliamentarians applaud the enthusiastic veteran of a Nazi combat unit, it’s almost inevitable that the unit would be the Waffen-SS Galicia Division.
Long before Galicia Division veteran Yaroslav Hunka ever scored an invite to Parliament Hill, Canada spent decades overlooking and even providing official cover for an organization that would later claim to be full of Ukrainian freedom-fighters, but was founded by Nazis, served under Nazi command and fought exclusively to serve Nazi aims.
There are monuments to the unit at cemeteries in both Alberta and Oakville, Ont....
Ukraine served as an initial “ground zero” for the Holocaust, with German and collaborationist death squads murdering more than a million Ukrainian Jews before the war’s end.
While Galicia Division recruits may have been attracted by the idea of eventually seeking a sovereign Ukraine through force, in joining the SS they had all sworn a personal oath of loyalty to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and had their actions directed by Nazi German commanders.
In 1944, members of the unit would even be personally addressed by SS head Heinrich Himmler, usually credited as the primary architect of the Holocaust.
“Your homeland has become more beautiful since you have lost — on our initiative, I must say — the residents who were so often a dirty blemish on Galicia’s good name — namely the Jews,” said Himmler, according to an account in the book Hitler’s Foreign Executioners."
https://nationalpost.com/opinion/canadas-soft-pedalling-ukraine-ss-galicia
These immigration statistics seem to indicate that Canada isn't a pro-Nazi country:
Statistics Canada: Immigration, place of birth, and citizenship – 2021 Census promotional material
https://www.statcan.gc.ca/en/census/census-engagement/community-supporte...
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Just over 1.3 million new immigrants settled permanently in Canada from 2016 to 2021, the highest number of recent immigrants recorded in a Canadian census.
For more info from the #2021Census:
bit.ly/3TFCeIP
Immigration policy in Canada has varied throughout the decades, from the exclusion of Chinese immigrants starting in the 1920s, to the detention of Japanese immigrants during World War II. In recent decades, the country has fostered a much more welcoming approach to foreign nationals.
In the 2023-2024 Departmental Plan, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) Sean Fraser detailed the Ministry’s intention to accept between 410,000 and 505,000 new permanent residents in 2023, an increase from the 2022 target of 431,000 [1]. Such lofty expectations do raise the question: where will all these immigrants come from?
As of the 2021 Census [2], immigrants made up more than one-fifth of the Canadian population – over 8 million of the 36,328,475 Canadians – and non-permanent residents added another near million. Of those more than 8 million immigrants, more than half (4.3 million) had immigrated from Asia, with India, the Philippines, and China leading the way. Nearly 2 million had immigrated from Europe (464,000 from the United Kingdom and 204,000 from Italy), more than a million from North and South America (256,000 from the United States and 145,000 from Jamaica), and over 800,000 from Africa (led by Morocco, Nigeria, and Algeria, all around 80,000). The Census also showed that the “recent immigrant population” (of over 1.3 million people) shows a trend towards more immigrants of Asian and African descents (823,000 from Asia, 206,000 from Africa), while immigration from the Americas (154,000) and Europe (134,000) has become less prevalent (immigration from Oceania lagged well behind, at just over 9,000 people).
In 2022, according to an IRCC release [3], Asia and Africa continued to be the top sources of immigrants to Canada. Ranked by population of permanent residents, the following 10 countries sent the most immigrants to Canada:
Those ten countries add up to 62% of the 436,000 permanent residents that came to Canada in 2022. While none of these countries are particularly surprising – China and India being the two highest populated countries in the world; Afghanistan, Iran, and Syria experiencing turmoil and destabilization; France’s connection with Quebec; and the United States’ proximity to Canada – the most surprising exemption may well be Ukraine, given the ongoing invasion by the Russian forces. However, although more than 82,000 Ukrainians arrived in Canada between January 2022 and November 2022, they arrived so as temporary residents under the special immigration measures [4].
'Why Did You Do It?' (and vid)
https://twitter.com/georgegalloway/status/1706043279530488172
"I want Canadians to demand of their MPs and part-time PM Trudeau, 'Why did you desecrate the war graves of our fathers and grandfathers..?"
Canadian Parliament Applauds Ukrainian Nazi (and vid)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vezCq5KcC5c
"...Then blames Russian propaganda."
This country becomes ever more disgusting. Good thing the world now knows it too. Perhaps it's time to wake up and instead of empty virtue-signalling build a broad-based social movement to begin to put things right.
This country becomes ever more disgusting. Good thing the world now knows it too. Perhaps it's time to wake up and instead of empty virtue-signalling build a broad-based social movement to begin to put things right.
How do you propose to put things right? Protests?
These immigration statistics seem to indicate that Canada isn't a pro-Nazi country:
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Obviously I never said Canada was a Nazi country with Nazi ideology.
Pro-Nazi policies for Canada's Nazis do not mean Canada is a Nazi country, any more than Canada arming Saudi Arabia in its war on Yemen means Canada is a Theocratic fascist country.
What pro-NAZI policies is Canada currently supporting?
“The Soviet Union's mortal enemy: the Nazi regime.”So if you were a Ukrainian in 1940's you would have fought for the SS not the Red Army. Amongst actual Ukrainians over 7 million fought in the Red Army and about 250,000 massacred on behalf of the SS machine.Except for a nearly two year period.
https://greece.mfa.gov.ua/en/news/22578-pres-reliz-ukrajina-u-drugij-svi...
"In the Red Army fought more than 7 million citizens of Ukraine. A significant part Ukrainians sat among the command staff and officers of the Red Army, were the front commanders, marshals and generals. For the bravery and courage, revealed in battles with the Nazi invaders, Ukrainian and inhabitants of Ukraine as a part of all Soviet fronts 2.5 million awarded orders and medals of the amount over 7 million prizes that were awarded to soldiers of the Soviet Armed Forces as a whole. Among the Heroes of the Soviet Union - the highest award of the USSR - Ukrainian constituted 18.2 % or 2072 persons. Of the 115 twice Heroes of the Soviet Union, awarded the title during the war - 32 were born in Ukraine or were Ukrainians, and Ivan Kozhedub was three times Hero of the Soviet Union. Among the 800,000 women who served in the Red Army at various fronts during the Second World War, there were 127 thousand representatives of Ukraine."
What does that have anything to do with what I wrote?
Margaret Kimberley: Canada, Ukraine and Nazism
https://www.blackagendareport.com/canada-ukraine-and-nazis
"...There is something especially satisfying when one's opponents help make a case for something they have denied. Recently the Canadian government did just that.
Their efforts to prop up the failing Ukraine proxy war instead instead exposed that country's Nazi past and present.
That history is well documented and is only denied by rank political cynicism which seeks to justify a proxy war which is trending in Russia's favor.
Unfortunately the US and its happy vassal allies, like Canada, are trying to keep up the charade as long as possible, no matter the cost to the people they claim to be helping.
Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky's recent visit to the US and Canada were replete with calls to never give up and to defeat Vladimir Putin and to give Ukraine an endless supply of weapons and money.
The Canadians were so eager to impress they revealed a truth they'd been denying.
Canada is happy to be a US partner in crime. If they're told to recognize a fake president of Venezuela they do it. If they're told to arrest the CFO of Huawei and create an international incident they will do that too.
As for honoring a Ukrainian who served the Nazis, they are more than willing because that is what they've been doing since 1945..."
Just in case you might be getting the intended impression former Harpo minister Pierre P and the CONs are not so far gone on the Nato-Nazi Ukraine proxy war as JT, Jagmeet et al, think again. Check and compare both fascist fomentations then and now:
Canada's Immigration Minister Delivers Pro-War Speech to Right-Wing Ukrainian Audience
https://newcoldwar.org/canadas-immigration-minister-delivers-pro-war-spe...
"Canada's minister of immigration and citizenship, Chris Alexander, was one of the featured speakers at a fundraising dinner in Toronto on February 22, 2015, organized by the extreme-right Ukrainian Canadian Congress.
The minister delivered a pro-war rant [to honour the visiting Ukrainian Nazi Andriy Parubiy of the Social-Nationalist Party - or vice versa] that could easily serve as dialogue in a film sequel to the 1966 nuclear doomsday film, 'Dr Strangelove..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKK7ore2Yuw
PMJT and Ukr Prez V Zelensky deliver remarks in Toronto. Deputy PM CF also makes remarks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTUbDdLB4E
"For as long as it takes and as much as it takes!!!" ('To the last Ukrainian with your money, Canucklheads!')
On a lighter note some entertainment, comedy and everything you didn't want to know about Vova Zelensky...
Given the fallout, it was most probably an accident selecting a Nazi out of the mass of post-WWII imported Ukrainians who fought against, then ally, Russia.
But as accidents go, it was akin to blindly reaching into a barrel of rats and, to great shock, pulling out --a rat!
Report on Nazis kept under wraps
Jewish advocacy group seeking release of secret 1986 document
DAVID PUGLIESE
A Jewish advocacy group is calling on the Liberal government to release a still-secret 40-year-old report and other documents containing details about alleged Nazi war criminals living in Canada. The federal government has withheld a second part of a 1986 government commission report about Nazis who settled in Canada. In addition, it has heavily censored another 1986 report examining how Nazis were able to get into Canada. More than 600 pages of that document, obtained by this newspaper and other organizations through the Access to Information law, have been censored....
https://epaper.calgaryherald.com/article/281517935748065
"One of the ways of getting into Canada during the postwar period “was by showing the SS tattoo,” Canadian historian Irving Abella told “60 Minutes” interviewer Mike Wallace. “This proved that you were an anti-Communist.”"
Watch Freeland's hand wringing evasion of the question asking if Canada will reveal how many Nazi's were brought into the country:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/freeland-asked-reopening-investigation-nazi-20...
'Russian propaganda' describes Ottawa's pro-Nazi present and past...
"Ottawa was uniquely unperturbed by Nazi mass murderers. 'Russian disinformation' they cry. But this time they got caught..."
https://www.rt.com/shows/news/583659-rtnews-september-28-09msk/
Anthony Rota Has Resigned. Now It's Justin Trudeau's Turn.
https://dimitrilascaris.org/2023/09/28/anthony-rota-has-resigned-now-its...
After NaziGate Justin Trudeau must resign.
And Trudeau's last act as Prime Minister should be to expel Chrystia Freeland from his cabinet.
Fire Freeland and Resign!
Maybe Putin should resign for leading Russia into an idiotic quagmire?
Canada's Honouring of Nazi Vet Expresses Ottawa's Longstanding Ukraine Policy
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/09/26/canadas-ukrainian-nazi-ottawas-policy/
"By celebrating a Waffen SS volunteer as a 'hero', Canada's Liberal Party highlighted a longstanding policy that has seen Ottawa train fascist militants in Ukraine while welcoming in thousands of post-war Nazi SS veterans.
Canada's second most powerful official, Chrystia Freeland, is the granddaughter of one of Nazi Germany's top Ukrainian propagandists..."
Perhaps Freeland should be asked to give her gifted menorah back?
Foreign Minister Reaffirms Canada's Support for Israel
https://thecjn.ca/news/canada/foreign-minister-reaffirms-canadas-support...
"Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland receives a menorah from World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder after her speech to WJC delegates in New York..."
After a veteran who fought alongside Nazis was honoured in parliament, Edmonton's Jewish community renews its call to have monuments glorifying his division removed
https://thecjn.ca/news/edmonton-monument/
"...The Edmonton community has asked numerous times that the monuments, one honouring members of the 14th Waffen SS, the division that Hunka joined, and the other a bust of Roman Shukhevyech, leader of a battalion that has been in mass shootings of Jews in 1941, be removed..."
What an obscenity! Why not, as was done by concerned citizens in the case of the Canadian genocider Sir John A Macdonald, just pull these disgusting Nazi monuments down today? Hello Edmonton...What are you waiting for?
Head of Canadian Ukrainian Group Defends Man Who Fought For Unit Created by Nazis
https://www.nationalnewswatch.com/2023/09/29/head-of-canadian-ukrainian-...
"The president of the Ukrainian National Federation of Canada is defending a Second World War veteran of a Nazi unit who was recently lauded as a hero in Canada's parliament.
Juriy Klufas has not met the 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka but says the treatment the veteran is getting is unfair.
Ivan Katchanovski, a Ukrainian-Canadian political science professor at the University of Ottawa says the actions of Hunka's Waffen-SS Galicia Division have been whitewashed in Canada..."
True. But now the Canadian House of Commons has demonstrated to all Canadians that, in toto, that either every member has an appalling ignorance of WWII, or even more appalling, that it supports the aims of fascists then and now, as was so succinctly put by FM Joly last year on the aims of NATO: 'our goal is to suffocate the Russian regime.' No doubt Hunka and the Nazi fuhrer he swore a blood oath to - felt much the same.
