There is an untold story about how Canada became a safe haven for Ukrainian WWII-era Nazis, and former Nazi criminals and their descendants have enjoyed impunity.
The controversy over the Canadian parliament’s decision to recognize Ukrainian Waffen SS soldier Yaroslav Hunka continues to rage, with demands for responsibility coming from Poland, Jewish organizations, Russia, the United Nations, and Canada’s opposition leader.
Last Friday, when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke before the House of Commons, Hunka, 98, was there. He was presented to the MPs as a combatant in the “struggle for Ukrainian independence against the Russians during the Second World War.” The lawmakers gave him a standing ovation.
It quickly became clear that the former soldier participated in the infamous 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the Nazi SS, also known as the 14th SS-Volunteer Division Galicia, during his “struggle for Ukrainian independence.”
SS Galicia Division’s Bloody Past
Formed in 1943 and made up mostly of ethnic Ukrainians, the Wehrmacht-subordinated fighting formation was recruited from among fascist radicals, and was responsible for the mass murder of anti-fascist and communist Ukrainians, Red Army troops, anti-fascist partisans, and Polish, Jewish, Russian and Slovak civilians.
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