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Canada parliament speaker resigns after calling Ukrainian Nazi veteran a ‘hero’
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2023
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Maybe it’s just me, but I found the article a bit confusing trying to figure out who this Yaroslav Hunka character is and his relationship to Zelensky/Ukraine.
He's a 98-year-old Ukrainian Canadian, who served in the Nazi SS Galizien formation during the Second World War
That’s gonna be a big YIKES from me, dawg… 😬
Honestly he's not related. Someone simply wanted an old Ukrainian (war vet preferred) for them to parade around when Zelensky came to visit to show they have been friends forever and take good care of Ukrainians in Canada.... but apparently people didn't do their homework very hard and their simple easy win that would be a 3 minute thing ended up being a lot bigger.
So stupid.
And honestly, they really did Zelensky a disservice here. Of course detractors are going to run with the headline "Zelensky salutes Waffen-SS Nazi". Grist for russian trolls' mills.
Oh absolutely!
It could be looked at as some great conspiracy to hurt Zelensky and give credit to the rumor that he is a Nazi, and all most likely cause some intern just typed in basic search terms when trying to find their photo op puppet....
It's insane to me nobody questioned this given the historical context and that no alarm bells went off in the whole process, the whole House just unanimously clapped after learning this guy fought for Ukraine in WW2. Like the absolute best case is basically that the person only cared about Ukrainian Independence against the Soviets and begrudgingly accepted Hitler's help, that's not something that deserves honor or recognition for obvious reasons, and that's the best case. These units committed atrocities and it shows how stupid our government is when they seem to be completely ignorant.
Ah, I see how my comment is worded as though I was potentially trying to tie this guy to Zelensky. I understood they weren’t “related“, but I didn’t understand the Ukrainian context of the old Nazi guy.
Zelenskyy visited Canada and was speaking to the House of Commons beside the Prime Minister while this old Nazi was recognized and honored by the entire house.
Oh, I totally got it now, but I appreciate the clarification all the same!