Russia is not buying Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s attempt to dismiss his, and most of the Canadian Parliament, delivering two standing ovations in honor of a still-proud member of the Nazi Waffen SS Division as a war hero, as merely “deeply embarrassing” and the sole fault of the Speaker of the Parliament, Anthony Rota. Nor will Rota’s announcement today that he is resigning, effective Wednesday evening, silence international discussion of the long-known, but hushed-up history of the British and its Canadian Crown Colony protection of Nazis from the end of WWII until today.
We let the statement issued today by the Russian Foreign Ministry speak for itself:
“The public honoring of 98-year-old Bandera supporter Yaroslav Hunka, a member of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician), at the Canadian Parliament during Vladimir Zelensky’s visit, is the best possible way to characterize the regime of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has embraced unbridled Russophobia. It was the most cynical abuse of the memory of Nazism victims. The Ukrainian collaborators who served Nazis evaded accountability for the genocide on the occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Europe, to be given shelter in Canada after the Great Patriotic War.
“As much as certain members of the Canadian Parliament try to apologize retrospectively after receiving a storm of indignation from the Jewish community and even from Ottawa’s ally, Poland, the fact remains that the ultra-liberal ideology propagated in Canada and permeated with hatred for Russia, its culture, religious and traditional values, essentially has the same roots as Nazism. It is no coincidence that there are monuments to the leaders of Ukrainian nationalism in the country and the overwhelming majority of the Nazis who received asylum like Yaroslav Hunka are living out their days in safety, honored and cared for (in particular, by Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland) as `fighters against Russian Communism.’
“The hostile actions of the Canadian government, which has been trying to surpass the United States in its anti-Russia sanction rage by constantly extending the Russian stop list with more names of politicians, cultural figures and their family members, as well as entire education institutions, will certainly not be left without a response. We will not tolerate the fact that Canadian liberals are playing with Nazism and will take the necessary steps in the context of the Russia-Canada relations that are going through a crisis on an epochal scale through the [sic] official Ottawa’s fault.
“We expect that healthy forces in Canadian society will speak out against the Nazification of history and daily life encouraged by the country’s officials, along with aggressive Russophobia.”
